Via various topical approaches that address such issues as ecology, creation and evolution, wo/man and universe, poetic observation and scientific observation, subjectivity and science, nature in poetry and nature in science, genetics, astronomy, and medicine, in this course students are challenged to take an interdisciplinary approach to the mixing of science and verse. The course will introduce
poetry that is related to specific themes in nature and in the sciences, and essays by scientists that comment on the respective themes. In addition to lectures, discussions, and practicing writing some science-related poetry, this course has some out-of-classroom activities at the Science Museum, the World Wildlife Fund, and the HK Botanical and Zoological Gardens. This course will be co-taught by one faculty in the area of literature, and another in the sciences.
