Paper – Written results of research project:
at least three thousand (3,000) words of polished prose [at least five thousand (5,000) words of polished prose if enrolled for four hours credit], with citations and bibliography in an appropriate style, typed and double-spaced with an original and fitting title.

Presentation – Oral synopsis of research project:
eight to ten (8-10) minutes of extemporaneous comments summarizing your findings, supported by a one-page handout bearing your name and project title.

Fall Break

Focus on your research project.

Outline – Tentative organization of research paper:
at least one (1) full page specifying main points and subpoints, typed and double-spaced with an original and fitting title.

Read the following selections in Environmental Justice and Environmentalism; come prepared to present each article:

Peterson and others, “Moving Toward Sustainability: Integrating Social Practice and Material Process”

De Chiro, “Indigenous Peoples and Biocolonialism: Defining the ‘Science of Environmental Justice’ in the Century of the Gene”

Pezzullo and Sandler, “Conclusion: Working Together and Working Apart”

Preview Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement; come prepared to introduce the text:

skim cover, front matter, back matter

read acknowledgments, appendices

Read the following selections in Environmental Justice and Environmentalism; come prepared to present each article:

Pezzullo and Sandler, “Introduction: Revisiting the Environmental Justice Challenge to Environmentalism”

DeLuca, “A Wilderness Environmentalism Manifesto: Contesting the Infinite Self-Absorption of Humans”

Wenz, “Does Environmentalism Promote Injustice for the Poor?”

Bibliography – Penultimate list of research sources:
at least ten (10) relevant books, articles, and websites you have studied, cited in an appropriate bibliographic style, typed and double-spaced with an original and fitting title.

Read the following selections in The Ecocriticism Reader; come prepared to present each article:

Deitering, “The Postnatural Novel: Toxic Consciousness in Fiction of the 1980s”

Love, “Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism”

Silko, “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination”

Slovic, “Nature Writing and Environmental Psychology: The Interiority of Outdoor Experience”

Preview The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology; come prepared to introduce the text:

skim cover, front matter, back matter

read preface, acknowledgments

Read the following selections in The Ecocriticism Reader; come prepared to present each article:

Glotfelty, “Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis”

Manes, “Nature and Silence”

Evernden, “Beyond Ecology: Self, Place, and the Pathetic Fallacy”

Mazel, “American Literary Environmentalism as Domestic Orientalism”