The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:

• The course will highlight the urgency of environmental crisis, making Students conscious and aware of the role each one of us plays.
• Students will be trained into environmental sensitivity and responsible Ecological behavior.
• Students will be encouraged to respond to incidents of habitat destruction deforestation, etc. and realize the need for our urgent intervention

UNIT- I Negotiating environmental issues creatively (5 Weeks)

• William Wordsworth: 'In April beneath the scented thorn'
• Rabindranath Tagore: 'The Waterfall'
• Gieve Patel: 'On Killing a Tree'

UNIT- II Ecocritical literary representations (5 Weeks)

• Mary Oliver: 'Sleeping in the Forest'
• 2.AK Ramanujan: 'A Flowering Tree'
• 3.Mamang Dai: 'Small Towns and the River'

UNIT- III Empathetic exploration and imaginative re-enactments (5 Weeks)

• RAmitav Ghosh's 'Part I: Stories' from The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.
• Thangjamlbopishak: 'Volcano, You cannot erupt' from Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India
• Thangjamlbopishak: 'Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, 'colour of Wind' from Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India

• Students would undertake field visits to a school or a slum in the neighborhood or the play area of residential complexes to share, narrate stories, poems and articulate the ideas engaged with in the classroom lectures.
• They shall apply imaginative and creative ways of presenting socially responsible ecological behavior through _re-tellings of the texts they have studied in the class.
• Creative re-enactment of key ideas studied by students in the form of a play, to be done individually and/or in a group to create awareness regarding environmental consciousness.
• They can also collectively organize a tree plantation drive in and around the college campus and adopt a sapling each in the college premises and in their neighborhood to take care of.
• Any other Practical/Practice as decided from time to time

• Akhter, Tawhida, and Ahmad Bhat, Tariq. Literature and Nature. United Kingdom, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.
• Shiva, Vandana. 'Development, Ecology and Women', Staying Alive: Women Ecology and Development. India: Zed Books, 1988. pp 1-14
• Carl, Safina. Prologue & Chapter 1, Beyond Words : What animals think and feel. Souvenir Press, 2015.
• Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2011.
• Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World. India: Penguin Books Limited, 2016.