{"id":25839,"date":"2024-02-12T05:55:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/?page_id=25839&#038;preview_id=25839"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:28:08","slug":"an-alter-world-animals-humans-poetics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/first-year\/discovery-core\/spring-dcx\/an-alter-world-animals-humans-poetics","title":{"rendered":"An Alter-World: Animals, Humans, &amp; Poetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/animals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25840\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/animals.jpg 761w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/animals-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/animals-600x133.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">a Discovery Core Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This course may be taken as either <strong>BCORE 117 (Arts &amp; Humanities)<\/strong> or as <strong>BCORE 116 (Natural Sciences)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About This Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This course seeks to establish a creative learning community that resists conventional, human-centered perspectives and explores new ways to engage in the conversations on the environment. Reading animal-focused and environmental poetries written in diverse languages (English original and English translation) across the globe, students are provided with tools to<br> re-conceive their environment as global citizens from a cross-cultural and multi-species vantage point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To showcase each of their individual \u201calter-worlds,\u201d students will create a multimodal project that demonstrates an alternative version of the world where the co-inhabitation of humans and animals in an environment is portrayed via poetic and artistic lenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Should I Take This Course?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This course is for those who are interested in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exploring diversity and inclusion causes from zoological and eco-cultural viewpoints<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building knowledge of cross-cultural perspectives and practices on animal-focused and environmental poems and conversations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participating in creative, collaborative, and hands-on modes of learning and knowledge production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor Hsinmei (May) Lin (she\/her)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:26% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/may.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25024 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/may.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/may-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Professor Lin <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A.   National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A.    Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Email: <a href=\"mailto:hsinmei@uw.edu\">hsinmei@uw.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a Discovery Core Experience This course may be taken as either BCORE 117 (Arts &amp; Humanities) or as BCORE 116 (Natural Sciences). 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