Place & Perspective will feature readings on the subject of our environments, whether physical spaces or digital, and from a wide range of diverse perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to write original works synthesizing current academic and popular conversations, while offering new views on what it means to live here in this world, to have a place in an ecosystem, a classroom, and a community. We will foreground diversity in both our in-class conversations as well as through the writing we share, from issues of inequality to concerns of access, from explorations of the self to our responsibilities as citizens. Possible topics may include global migration, urban and suburban spaces, nature writing, gender and sexuality studies, or a focus on our St. Louis surroundings.