LANG 250 Andes, Amazon, and Galápagos: Representations and Debates

With opportunities to develop relevant theoretical lenses, this course explores via those tools a selection of literary, cinematic, and journalistic representations of the Andes, the Amazon region, and the Galápagos. Three basic criteria determine the course selections: 1) texts that could be classified as eco-literature and that treat Andean, Amazonian, or Galapagoan environmental themes; 2) from Andean, Amazonian, and Galapagoan texts that are not necessarily classifiable as eco-literature, fragments that are centered on environmental issues; and 3) in both previous criteria, special effort is made to select fiction, poetry, essays, media, and cultural products that represent themes and debates students encounter in the two environmental studies courses of the Global Environmental Challenges in Ecuador program.