course

Course Credit:  3

How do environments influence our experience of the world? The spaces we occupy can be understood as characters in the stories of our lives. This course will examine the intersections between psychology, narratives, and environment. Environment is understood in its fullest sense, encompassing the built and natural world. encompassing intimate spaces, architecture and design, landscape, and the natural world. Students will read theory and research on environmental and narrative psychology, in connection with contextualizing material drawn from fiction, poetry and philosophy. A range of topics will be covered including: psychology of intimate versus public spaces, architecture and design, landscape, the natural world and the stories we tell to make sense of our relationship to it, and the psychology of climate change. As storytellers, students will gain deep insight into the ways in which the spaces we occupy, both in our lives and in our imaginations, shape the ways in which we make sense of our world.