Climate Change and Literature

By Prof. Sami Rafiq | Aligarh Muslim University

Learners enrolled: 822 | Exam registration: 167

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The course will help learners to understand climate change and its connection to literature. It would also acquaint the learners with knowledge of climate fiction and climate poetry at par with its international status.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: B.A./M.A

PREREQUISITES: 12^th

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	English
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	20 Jan 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	03 Feb 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	28 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	25 Apr 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Climate Change

Week 2: Climate Change: Theoretical and Philosophical Framework

Week 3: Movements

Week 4: Climate Non - Fiction

Week 5: Climate Poetry

Week 6: Climate Fiction

Week 7: Climate Drama and Films

Week 8: Science Fiction

Week 9: Short Stories, Folk Tales and Myths in Climate Change Literature

Week 10: Amitav Ghosh

Week 11: Arne Næss

Week 12: Climate Activism

Books and references

1.Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

2.Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About lt.Rodale Books, 2006.

3.Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. Simon & Schuster, 2014.

4.Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Instructor bio

Prof. Sami Rafiq

Aligarh Muslim University

Sami Rafiq is a professor in the Department of English at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India. She is also an author, poet and translator. Her stories, poems, and translations have been published in leading literary journals and magazines in India and overseas. Rafiq’s first collection of poems, _Woman in the Trees: Poems on Climate and Nature_ (2022), received rave reviews. _Songs of Aligarh: Poems on Nature and Culture_ (2024) is her second collection of poems, intensifying her quest to voice the syllables of the non-human in her city, Aligarh.

She is also the Founding and Editor-in-Chief of Cloverleaf, the journal of SHEN (Spiritual Heritage Education Network, Ontario, Canada).

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 25, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of INI and AMU .

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- INI team

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