January 19 – Introductions
January 26 – Philosophy of Ecology
The Philosophy of Ecology: From Science to Synthesis
“Introduction: Ecology as a Science of Synthesis” (1-19)
“Part One. Entities and Process in Ecology” (21-33)
“Part Two. Community, Niche, Diversity, and Stability” (101-110)
“Part Three. Rationalism and Empiricism” (133-140)
“Part Four. Reductionism and Holism” (171-179)
“Part Five. Ecology and Evolution” (233-245)
February 2 – Environmental History
Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History
Merchant, “The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions”
Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”
MacCameron, “Environmental Change in Colonial New Mexico”
February 9 – Literary Ecocriticism
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology
Glotfelty, “Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis”
White, “The Historical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis”
Manes, “Nature and Silence”
February 16 – Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
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?”
February 23 – Research
February 28 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – PROPOSAL DUE
March 2 – Environmental History (cont.)
Simmons, “The Earliest Cultural Landscapes of England”
Gottlieb, “Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots”
Smilor, “Personal Boundaries in the Urban Environment: The Legal Attack on Noise, 1865-1930″
March 9 – Environmental History (cont.)
Stewart, “Rice, Water, and Power: Landscapes of Domination and Resistance in the Lowcountry, 1790-1880″
Pyne, “Nataraja: India’s Cycle of Fire”
Collins, “Evolutionary Ecology and the Use of Natural Selection in Ecological Theory” (The Philosophy of Ecology)
March 14 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
March 16 – Literary Ecocriticism (cont.)
Campbell, “The Land and Language of Desire: Where Deep Ecology and Post-Structuralism Meet”
Le Guin, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”
Popper, “The Bucket and the Searchlight: Two Theories of Knowledge” (The Philosophy of Ecology)
March 23 – Spring Break
March 30 – Literary Ecocriticism (cont.)
Slovic, “Nature Writing and Environmental Psychology: The Interiority of Outdoor Experience”
Evernden, “Beyond Ecology: Self, Place, and the Pathetic Fallacy”
Simberloff, “A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism to Probabilism” (The Philosophy of Ecology)
April 4 (Monday 8:00 a.m.) – OUTLINE DUE
April 6 – Environmental Justice (cont.)
Faber, “A More ‘Productive’ Environmental Justice Politics: Movement Alliances in Massachusetts for Clean Production and Regional Equity”
Roberts, “Globalizing Environmental Justice”
Patrick, “Biological Diversity in Ecology” (The Philosophy of Ecology)
April 13 – Presentations, HANDOUT DUE
April 20 – Presentations, HANDOUT DUE
April 27 – Research
May 4 – Conclusions, PAPER DUE
