August 25 – Introductions
September 1 – Environmental Humanities
Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities
cover, front matter, back matter
foreword, preface
Swearer, “Introduction”
Tucker, “Touching the Depths of Things: Cultivating Nature in East Asia”
Zimmerman, “Interiority Regained: Integral Ecology and Environmental Ethics”
Taylor, “From the Ground Up: Dark Green Religion and the Environmental Future”
September 8 – Environmental Humanities
Buell, “Literature as Environmental(ist) Thought Experiment”
Jackson, “Cultural Readings of the ‘Natural’ World”
White, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis” (The Ecocriticism Reader)
Jamieson, “Justice: The Heart of Environmentalism” (Environmental Justice and Environmentalism)
September 15 – Philosophy of Ecology
The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis
cover, front matter, back matter
preface, acknowledgments, afterword
Keller and Golley, “Introduction: Ecology as a Science of Synthesis”
Keller and Golley, “Entities and Process in Ecology”
Simberloff, “A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism”
Keller and Golley, “Community, Niche, Diversity, and Stability”
Patrick, “Biological Diversity in Ecology”
September 22 – Philosophy of Ecology
Keller and Golley, “Rationalism and Empiricism”
Popper, “The Bucket and the Searchlight: Two Theories of Knowledge”
Keller and Golley, “Reductionism and Holism”
Levins and Lewontin, “Dialectics and Reductionism in Ecology”
Keller and Golley, “Ecology and Evolution”
Loehle and Pechmann, “Evolution: The Missing Ingredient in Systems Ecology”
September 29 – Environmental History
Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History
cover, front matter, back matter
acknowledgments
Miller and Rothman, “Introduction,” “Ideas Matter,” “Place Settings,” “Green Politics,” “Urban Fields,” “Water Works,” and “Global Village”
Worster, “The Ecology of Order and Chaos”
Merchant, “The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions”
Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”
October 6 – Environmental History
Stilgoe, “Landschaft and Linearity: Two Archetypes of Landscape”
Smilor, “Personal Boundaries in the Urban Environment: The Legal Attack on Noise, 1865-1930″
Pisani, “Irrigation, Water Rights, and the Betrayal of Indian Allotment”
Dunlap, “Australian Nature, European Culture: Anglo Settlers in Australia”
October 13 – Research
October 18 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – PROPOSAL DUE
October 20 – Literary Ecocriticism
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology
cover, front matter, back matter
preface, acknowledgments
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”
October 27 – Literary Ecocriticism
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”
November 1 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
November 3 – Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
cover, front matter, back matter
acknowledgments, appendices
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?”
November 10 – Environmental Justice
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”
November 15 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – OUTLINE DUE
November 17 – Research
November 24 – Fall Break
November 29 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – REPORT DUE
December 1 – Presentations, HANDOUT DUE
December 8 – Presentations, HANDOUT DUE
December 15 – Conclusions, PAPER DUE
