JDS 295LEC—Ecocriticism, Sustainability, and Jewish Environmental Ethics

This course explores ecological criticism and environmental sustainability through the resources of Jewish thought. Students will gain a thorough understanding of ecocritical problems, temporalities, grounds, lives, and traditions, as well as their attendant catastrophes, mourning, and possible hope. This course combines theory with practice through site visits to local community gardens and nature preserves and a capstone “Ecological Repair Project” in which students apply their learning to local environmental contexts.