Week 1: introductions
Tuesday1/18
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Introduction to the course |
Thursday1/20 |
Lecture/Discussion – Irrational Landscape: The Great Plains and its towns. |
| Questions that drive investigations into landscapes.
Why did settlers choose this location? What are the means of transportation What is the basis of the economy? What is the relationship to other spaces? What resources are available? Which are not? How does this landscape reflect or express a mode of production and consumption? Resources: |
Week 2: The commodification of the natural world
Tuesday1/25 |
Lecture – Humans and Nature and Capitalism |
Thursday1/26 |
Workshop – Reading Wooster and Wayne County |
Week 3: wilderness and the american mind
Tuesday2/1 |
Lecture – American Wilderness |
Thursday2/3 |
Workshop – Academic Arguments
Short (15 minute) Midterm Review Session Resources:Environmental History. Volume 1. Issue One (on Teams) |
TBD |
Longer Review Session with Longville and Randolph
Resources:Jacobs, “The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre” (You will be asked to write your essay on one aspect of this article.) |
Week 4: Despoblado
Tuesday2/8 |
Midterm One |
Thursday2/10 |
Lecture – The Agricultural Wonderland |
| Reading: Donald Worster, The Dust Bowl |
Week 5: mother earth laid bare
Tuesday2/15 |
10-minute research paper – Hogue
Lecture/Discussion, The Plow that Broke the Plains |
Thursday2/17 |
Workshop – Understanding Historiography and the Historical Argument Reading: Cronon, “A Place for Stories” Annotated Version |
Friday-Monday |
Research paper consultations with Longville, Randolph, or Roche |
Week 6: The new Deal
Tuesday2/22 |
Lecture/Discussion – The Ropesville Project
Reading: “Level of Living on the Ropesville Project” |
Thursday2/24 |
Workshop – The Five Paragraph Research Paper |
Sunday2/27 |
Research Paper due 5:00 p.m. |
Week 7: Forests and freaky landscapes
Tuesday3/1 |
Lecture/Discussion, “The Horrors of the New England Wilderness”
Reading: Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind Selections Merchant, “The New England Wilderness Transformed” |
Thursday3/3 |
Workshop – Tearing Down a First Draft |
Week 8: Conservation and PReservation
Tuesday3/8 |
Lecture/Discussion, National Parks, National Forests, and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism
Reading: Hays, “From Conservation to Environment” |
Thursday3/10 |
Workshop – The Creation of the Wilderness Act |
Week 9: The Environmental Movement
Tuesday3/29 |
Lecture/Discussion, “The Environmental Movement and the Sixties”
Read: Rome, “Give Earth a Chance” Short (10 Minute) Review Session |
TBD |
Longer Review Session with Longville and Randolph |
Thursday3/31 |
Midterm Two |
Week 10: Environmental Racism
Tuesday4/5 |
Lectures: Majora Carter, “Greening the Ghetto”
Newkirk II, Environmental Racism is the New Jim Crow |
Thursday4/7 |
Ten Examples of Environmental Racism |
Week 11: Research Workshops
Tuesday4/12 |
Reading: Torres, “Understanding Environmental Racism”
Pulido, “Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism” Due at the End of Class – subject for Poster Project |
Thursday4/14 |
Research Workshop for Poster Project |
Week 12:
Tuesday4/19 |
Poster Presentation Session |
Thursday4/21 |
Project Workshops Introduction |
Week 13: Project Workshops
Tuesday4/26 |
Project Workshops |
Thursday4/28 |
Project Workshops |
Week 14: Project Workshops
Tuesday5/3 |
The Environmental Racism Postcard Project: Presentation + Material + Digital
On PFAs: The Dangerous Chemicals You Encounter Every Day: Presentation The Economic E-Waste Model and Its Environmental Impact: Presentation Death of the Streetcar: Podcast “Built Up”: Short reading |
Thursday5/5 |
Climate Induced Hybridization: The Case of the Nanulak: Poster Presentation
Nexus of Waste: The Refrigerator in Modern Life: Documentary Film Death of the New England Fisheries: Slide Show Western U.S. Wildfires and Climate Change 1972-2022: Presentation |