DOCST 256S · also GSF 256S
Climate, Culture and Identity
Saskia CC Cornes
Description from DukeHub
This course focuses on some of the transformations that climate change is bringing - not just to human livelihoods and to the non-human world, but to the very definition of the human. In an era defined by the overwhelming influence of homo sapiens on the planet, historic distinctions between nature and culture are starting to blur and fall apart. What role can feminist and queer theory play in helping us to understand these changes to human identity? What can gender studies contribute to techno-scientific understandings of a global warming? We'll take on these and many other questions through readings in literature and theory, and experiential learning with the Duke Campus Farm.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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