【課程目標】：一、以當代生態文評(ecocriticism)觀點探討文學與自然（物理環境）的關係。二、熟悉當代西方與台灣的自然書寫。三、練習學術報告寫作。
【主要議題】：一、文學如何想像與再現「自然」？ 二、「自然」的不同的意義如何演化？ 三、如何從自然環境（如故事中的時空背景）去瞭解文學中的人物？
【涵蓋範圍】：一、生態文評基本概念：地方與空間、田園與荒野、土地倫理、生物多樣性、城市與自然。二、西方現代自然書寫經典：梭羅、艾比、利奧波德、史耐德、威爾森。三、台灣當代自然書寫：陳冠學、凌拂、心岱、陳玉峰、徐仁修、劉克襄、王家祥、夏曼‧藍波安、廖鴻基、吳明益等。四、經典詩歌與小說中的自然：高行建、黃春明、王文興、鄭愁予、羅門、林泠、楊牧等。

[Course Objectives]: 1. Explore the relationship between literature and nature (physical environment) from the perspective of contemporary ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism). 2. Be familiar with contemporary Western and Taiwanese nature writing. 3. Practice academic report writing.
[Main topics]: 1. How does literature imagine and represent "nature"? 2. How do the different meanings of “nature” evolve? 3. How to understand the characters in literature from the natural environment (such as the time and space background in the story)?
[Scope of coverage]: 1. Basic concepts of ecological literary criticism: place and space, pastoralism and wilderness, land ethics, biodiversity, city and nature. 2. Modern Western nature writing classics: Thoreau, Abby, Leopold, Snyder, and Wilson. 3. Contemporary nature writing in Taiwan: Chen Guanxue, Ling Fu, Xin Dai, Chen Yufeng, Xu Renxiu, Liu Kexiang, Wang Jiaxiang, Charman Lanboan, Liao Hongji, Wu Mingyi, etc. 4. Nature in classic poetry and novels: Gao Xingjian, Huang Chunming, Wang Wenxing, Zheng Chouyu, Luo Men, Lin Ling, Yang Mu, etc.

吳明益：《台灣自然寫作選》（二魚，2003）
夏曼‧藍波安：《冷海情深》（聯合文學，1997）
廖鴻基：《後山鯨書》（聯合文學，2008）
羅門：《自然詩》（文史哲，1995）
段義孚《經驗透視中的空間和地方》（國立編譯館，1997）
梭羅：＜我生活的地方；我生活的目的＞《湖濱散記》（志文出版社，1999）
利奧波德：＜像山一樣思考＞＜土地倫理＞《沙郡年紀》（天下文化，1998）
威爾森＜亞瑪遜河的暴雨＞＜環境倫理＞《繽紛的生命》（天下文化，1997）
艾比：＜大美洲沙漠區＞《曠野旅人》（天下文化，2000）
Gary Snyder：The Practice of the Wild (Berkeley: North Point, 1990)
Greg Garrard：Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2004)
Melissa Walker ed.: Reading the Environment ((Norton&Company, 1994)

Wu Mingyi: "Selected Taiwan Nature Writing" (Eryu, 2003)
Charman Ramboan: "Love in the Cold Sea" (United Literature, 1997)
Liao Hongji: "Houshan Whale Book" (United Literature, 2008)
Luo Men: "Natural Poetry" (Literature, History and Philosophy, 1995)
Yi-Fu Tuan, "Space and Place in Empirical Perspective" (National Compilation and Translation Center, 1997)
Thoreau: ＜Where I Live; The Purpose of My Life＞ "Lakeside Essays" (Zhiwen Publishing House, 1999)
Leopold: ＜Thinking Like a Mountain＞＜Land Ethics＞《Shajun Years》(Tianxia Culture, 1998)
Wilson＜Heavy Rain on the Amazon＞＜Environmental Ethics＞Colorful Life (Tianxia Culture, 1997)
Abby: ＜Great American Desert＞"Wilderness Traveler" (Tianxia Culture, 2000)
Gary Snyder: The Practice of the Wild (Berkeley: North Point, 1990)
Greg Garrard: Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2004)
Melissa Walker ed.: Reading the Environment ((Norton&Company, 1994)