Spring 2027

Green Screen: Environmental Perspectives Through Film

Examines how film shapes public and scientific understandings of nature, using American cinematic examples to explore environmental ideas and contested representations of race, class, and gender.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Gregg Mitman

TAs were described as tough graders, and students did not know their grades at any point during the semester, making it unsuitable for seeking an easy A.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Interpret film as a historical document and place it in a particular historical context.

  • Describe the changing historical contours of environmentalism and how the past continues to shape diverse perspectives relating to the meaning and representation of "the environment," particularly with respect to issues of class, gender, and race.

  • Identify major environmental issues and controversies of the past, present, and future in the United States and around the world.

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Prerequisites

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ENVIRST/HISTORY/HISTSCI 125

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

GREGG ALDEN MITMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Gregg Mitman

Students found the class entertaining but noted that lectures sometimes failed to connect effectively with the assigned movies and readings.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2017: 3.14 GPA, 44.0% A/AB (n=134 letter grades); Fall 2021: 3.51 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=144 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 86.3% A/AB (n=51 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Gregg Mitman

TAs were described as tough graders, and students did not know their grades at any point during the semester, making it unsuitable for seeking an easy A.

Past student reviews · Gregg Mitman

While the course was not considered horrible, one student found the lectures boring and expressed frustration with the lack of transparency regarding their grade status.

Topics

  • Cinema as a lens for understanding changing environmental ideas, beliefs, and cultural meanings in the United States.
  • Race, class, and gender in on-screen representations of nature and environmental debates.
  • Historical environmental visions and their real-world impacts on people and wildlife.
  • Using film as a historical document to analyze environmental history.

Skills

  • Interpret films as historical documents within specific historical contexts.
  • Analyze how environmentalism's historical development shapes current perspectives on the environment, including class, gender, and race.
  • Identify major environmental issues and controversies across time and geography.

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About this comparison

1286 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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