Fwd: HU3519 Writing Nature, Summer 2019, Track A, Online

[Erin Burkett]

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From: M. Bartley Seigel <mbse...@mtu.edu>
Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:19 PM
Subject: PLEASE SHARE: HU3519 Writing Nature, Summer 2019, Track A, Online
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Hello! I’m piloting HU3519 Writing Nature this summer, track A, as an online class, and trying to get the word out to students for whom this course may be of particular interest: Foresters, ecologists, biologists, environmental engineers, geologists, outdoor enthusiasts, budding naturalists, lovers of outdoor literature, the list goes on… Please help me find these folks. 

Ostensibly a creative writing class, Writing Nature focuses on the craft of environmental and nature writing. In conjunction with creative writing exercise and peer review, students will analyze a variety of exemplary texts within the genre, culminating in the production of a research-driven manuscript in either poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. 

The class will help hone student’s creative and critical thinking skills, improve their writing process and craft (applicable to everything from poems to grants), teach them how to better communicate their passion and interest in nature and the environment to both public and professional audiences, and at the risk of tooting my own horn, it’ll be fun. This is also an online class, so it’s perfect for students on co-op, internship, otherwise traveling away from campus over the summer, or for anyone who might benefit from the added flexibility an online class offers.

If you or your students have questions, you can contact me directly at mbse...@mtu.edu.

Thank you for your time.

-Matt

M. Bartley Seigel
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Department of Humanities

Michigan Technological University
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M. Bartley Seigel is the author of This Is What They Say (Typecast Publishing); founding editor and publisher emeritus of PANK Magazine; and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan Technological University. His poetry regularly appears in journals such as DIAGRAM, The Fourth River, Michigan Quarterly Review, Split Rock Review, Thrush, and Words Without Borders, among others, and was most recently anthologized in And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, published by Michigan State University Press. He lives in Houghton, Michigan.

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Michigan Technological University is located within Ojibwa (Chippewa) homelands and ceded-territory established by the Treaty of 1842, the territory of Native American nations in Gakiiwe’onaning (Keweenaw Bay), Gete-gitgaaning (Lac Vieux Desert), Mashkii-ziibing (Bad River), Odaawaa-zaaga’iganing (Lac Courte Oreilles), Waaswaaganing (Lac Du Flambeau), Miskwaabikong (Red Cliff), Wezaawaagami-ziibiing (St. Croix), and Zaka’aaganing (Sokaogon Mole Lake).

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Michigan Technological University is located within Ojibwa (Chippewa) homelands and ceded-territory established by the Treaty of 1842, the territory of Native American nations in Gakiiwe’onaning (Keweenaw Bay), Gete-gitgaaning (Lac Vieux Desert), Mashkii-ziibing (Bad River), Odaawaa-zaaga’iganing (Lac Courte Oreilles), Waaswaaganing (Lac Du Flambeau), Miskwaabikong (Red Cliff), Wezaawaagami-ziibiing (St. Croix), and Zaka’aaganing (Sokaogon Mole Lake).

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Erin Burkett

pronouns: she/her/hers

PhD Candidate | Environmental and Energy Policy

Department of Social Sciences | Michigan Technological University