LAR-784P Botanical Landscapes

3 Credits

• LAR-784P-01

  Monday

  2:00 pm – 4:50 pm

  Higgins Hall South, 008

  • 

    Elliott Maltby

  • 

    Lucas Mertehikian

This course explores contemporary artistic, literary, and collecting practices across different disciplines that engage with plants as landscape-shaping agents as well as objects of scholarly and scientific inquiry. Students will be introduced to botanical art, narratives, and collections (including site visits to botanical gardens, herbaria, and museums) and to scholarly studies in the emerging field of Plant Humanities. Thus, in this course we will strive to reckon with plants as something else than the homogeneous background of aesthetic and scientific practices and instead consider how they shape and affect our own reading of landscape.