August | 2023 | Dr. Shannon Finck

ENGL 1102: Writing Climate Futures

Course Description In his 2016 book, The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh claims that the climate crisis is not only an environmental or geopolitical problem; it is also “a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” This course begins there, not with climate science or with policy, but with climate writing, both fiction and non,…

HON 1103: Labor Histories & the Future of Work

Course Description As new college students, you begin your educational journeys in a climate of uncertainty about the future of labor. You set schedules, choose majors, and prepare to enter the workforce in the wake of pandemic rhetoric about “essential and inessential workers” and against a backdrop of news and magazine headlines about the rise…

Poem in Salt Hill

Read my poem in Issue 49 of Salt Hill, then check out the rest of the issue, which is exquisite, here.

HON 3280: Service-Learning Blog

Read HON 3280 students’ accounts of their service-learning journeys and see some of their public-facing projects here: https://sites.gsu.edu/hon3280/ This blog is an ongoing and evolving record of the course, so there will be even more to see here soon!