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DL UniversityColloquium • Spring 2006 • CRN 10940 • Instructor: Newcomb-Jones

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Session 1: January 9 - 15
Introduction & Background
Sense of Place I - Your "Backyard" Field Trip

• Reading: John Dewey, Chapters 1,2,3,5,8
• Field Trip Summary 1: "Your "Backyard" (due January 16)
• Paper 1 Educational Autobiography (due January 23)

Session 2: January 16 22
Sense of Place II - The "Water Cycle" Field Trip

• Field Trip 2: The Water Cycle (due January 30)
  

Assignment: Field Trip 1, "Your Backyard" due January 16

Session 3: January 23 - 29
Sustainability I:  Introduction to Global Environmental Problems

• "State of the World 2005" -Forward, xvii - xviii, Preface, xix - xxi, State of the World: A Year in Review, xxiii - xxvii, then ONE chapter of your choice to base your paper on

Assignment: Paper One, "Educational Autobiography" due January 23

Session 4: January 30 - February 5 ruary 2 - 8
Sustainability II:  Global Environmental Problems & Solutions

• Continue in "State of the World 2005" -Forward, xvii - xviii, Preface, xix - xxi, State of the World: A Year in Review, xxiii - xxvii, then ONE chapter of your choice to base your paper on
• Internet reading, "Our Ecological Footprint"
• Paper 2: "Selected Environmental Problem" (due February 13)

Assignment: Field Trip summary 2,"The Water Cycle" due January 30

Session 5: February 6 - 12 February 9 - 15
Sense of Place III:  "A Question of Sustainability" Field Trip

• Field Trip 3- An Estuarine Encounter (due February 27)
• Continue in "State of the World 2004" review chapter 2-8 and choose only one chapter of interest to read (paper 2 is based on one chapter of your choosing)
• Finish up Internet reading from Session 4

Session 6: February 13 - 19 February 16 - 22
Sustainability III: Community & Individual Sustainability

• Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac Part I, "A Sand County Almanac", pp. 3-98

Assignment: Paper 2 " Selected Environmental Problem" due February 13

Session 7: February 20 - 26 February 23 - 29
Ecological Literacy I:  Ethics

• Reading: David Orr's Ecological Literacy Chapter I, pp. 3-21 and Chapter V, pp. 85-95; A Sand County Almanac, Part IV "The Land Ethic", pp. 237-264
• Paper 3: " Ethics & Economics" (due March 6)

Session 8: February 27 - March 5 arch 1 - 7
Ecological Literacy II: Ethics and Economics

• Reading:  Floridiana Book (due March 2)7
• Continue reading from Orr and Leopold / work on paper

Assignment: Field Trip Summary 3 "An Estuarine Encounter" due February 27

(Assignment: Paper 3 " Ethics and Economics" March 6 )

MARCH 6 - 12 SPRING BREAK!!

Session 9: March 13 - 19March 15 - 21
Sense of Place IV:  "Urban Sustainability" Field Trip

• Field Trip 4- Urban Sustainability (due March 20)
• Ecological Literacy II
• Reading: Floridiana Book

Session 10: March 20 - 26arch 22 - 28
Ecological Literacy III: Ethics and Economics

• Reading: Floridiana Book
• Paper 4:  Relationship between people & environment- Floridiana Reading (due March 27)
• Assignment: Field Trip summary 4 "Urban Sustainability" due March 20

Session 11: March 27 - April 2March 29 - April 4
Ecological Views of Indigeneous Peoples and Religious Perspectives

• Internet Reading
• Work on Final Project

Assignment: Paper 4 "Floridiana Book Summary" due March 27

Session 12: April 3 - 9April 5 - 11
Environmental Education I

• Reading: Earth Charter
• Work on Final Project

Session 13: April 10 - 16April 12 - 18
Environmental Education II

• Reading:  David Orr's Ecological Literacy Chapters VI, pp. 97-108, pp. 133-140, and Chapter X, pp. 141-148
• Paper 5:  "Education for Sustainability" (due April 17)

Session 14: April 17 - 23 April 19 - April 26
Environmental Education III:  Problems & Promise for Sustainability

• Work on Journal
• Work on Final Project
• Work on Paper 5: Education and Sustainability
• Paper 5 due Monday, April 17 "Education for Sustainability"

  FINAL PROJECTS DUE Week of April 17- Monday, April 24 (deadline to receive it)
  JOURNALS DUE Week of April 17- Monday, April 24 (deadline to receive it)