Schedule of Topics & Classes

 

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Final Four Weeks: Case Studies and Comprehensive Exam (20% and 50% of Grade Respectively)
 

 

Session 1 Anthropocentrism and Environment

week of January 7 - 13           

Class Meets January 10

Reading Assignment: Edward Wimberley Nested Ecology, Preface, Chapter 1 & 2; Andrew Light, Environmental Values. Chapter 1.

Video Assignment: Failed Metaphors and a New Environmentalism for the 21st Century - Peter Kareiva; The Long Death of Environmentalism - Ted Nordhaus and Michael Sellenberger; Beyond Environmentalism: Towards a New Ecological Politics - Ted Nordhaus and Michael Sellenberger

 
 

Session 2 The Convergence Hypothesis and Anthropocentrism

Week of January 14-20           

Class Meets January 17

Reading Assignment: Andrew Light, Environmental Values, Chapters 2-5

Video Assignment: Environmentalism as Adaptive Management - Bryan G. Norton; European Anthropocentrism vs American Ecocentrism Clashing Values Regarding Wolves - Alex Simon

 
 

Session 3 Pragmatism and the Environment

Week of January 21-27          

Class Meets January 24

Reading Assignment: Ben Minteer, Refounding Environmental Ethics. Chapter 1-4

Video Assignment: John Dewey: America's philosopher of democracy and his importance to education - A.G. Rud; John Dewey: His Life and Work; What Would Dewey Do? - New School

 

 
 

Session 4 Ecopragmatics and William James 

Week of January 28 - February 3   

Class Meets January 31

Reading Assignment: Edward Wimberley and Scott Pellegrino, Ecopragmatics, Introduction & Chapter 1.

Video Assignment: William James: The Psychology of Possibility - John J. McDermott; Richard Rorty on William James (Pt. 1); Rorty on James Part Two; Rorty on James Part 3; William James: "Will You or Won't You Have it So?" - Robert D. Richardson.

 
 

Session 5  Economic Ethics: The Battle for the World Economy Part One

Week of February 4 - 10          

Class Meets February 7

Reading Assignment: Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations  p. 270-286; 307-311; 341-360

Video Assignment: Episode One The Commanding Heights, The Battle of Ideas; Free Market Environmentalism Part 1; Free Market Environmentalism Part 2;

 
 

Session 6 Economic Ethics: The Battle for the World Economy Part Two

Week of February 11 - 17        

Class Meets February 14

Reading Assignment: Frederic Bastiat (1850) "That Which Is Seen, And That Which Is Not Seen;" 

Video Assignment: The Commanding Heights Episode Two:  The Agony of Reform

 
 

Session 7 Economic Ethics: The Battle for the World Economy Part Three

Week of February 18 - 24

Class Meets February 21

Reading Assignment:  Etienne-Gabriel Morelly (1755) "Code of Nature," Frederic Engels (1880) "Utopian Socialism," "Dialectics" and "Historical Materialism" Karl Marx & Frederick Engels (1848) "The Communist Manifesto" p. 1-21

Video Assignment : The Commanding Heights Episode Three  The New Rules of the Game  

 
 

Session 8 Nested Ecology

Week of February 25 - March 3      

Class Meets February 28

Reading Assignment: Edward Wimberley, Nested Ecology, Chapter 2-5

Video Assignment: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; Ecological Systems Theory (animation); Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems (animation); Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory (Lifespan Theory); Resilient social-ecological systems: How? (Nobel Winner Elinor Ostrom)

 

March 4-10 Spring Break

 

Session 9 Dewey & Eco-Pragmatism: Piety, Pluralism, Contextualism & Natural Resources

Week of March 11 - 17  

Class Meets March 14

Reading Assignment:  Ben Minteer, Refounding Environmental Ethics, Chapters 5 & 7.

Video Assignment: Searching for Democracy - Pluralistic Society

 
 

Session 10 Ecological Pragmatism: Convergence, Conservation, Preservation & Householding

Week of March 18 - 24    

Class Meets March 21

Reading Assignment: Edward Wimberley Nested Ecology, Chapter 7; Andrew Light, Environmental Values, Chapter 15; Ben Minteer, Refounding Environmental Ethics, Chapter 9.

Video Assignment: A New Type of Conservation: Breaking Free of Two Myths About Nature - Peter Kareiva; Theodore Roosevelt: Conserving America's Future; New Age of Conservation; The Wildlife Trusts (UK); Gifford Pinchot: Conservation Hero; Gifford Pinchot - Chief of the U.S. Forest Service; Gifford Pinchot: America's Forester; John Muir and Hetch Hetchy (1)(2)(3) Biography of John Muir Part One; Part Two; Green Fire: The Life & Legacy of Aldo Leopold;

 
 

Session 11  Environmental Radicalism

Week of March 25 - March 31

Class Meets March 28

Reading Assignment: Bron Taylor - Radical Environmentalism; Zachary Fryer-Biggs & Malcolm Cecil-Cockwell -  The Radicals: How Extreme Environmentalists are Made

Video Assignment: Robert Zubrin: Radical Environmentalists and the Other Merchants of Despair;  Earth First: The Politics of Radical Environmentalism; The Failure and Future of Environmentalism - Lierre Keith; Radical Environmentalism - Flashpoint (Viemo)

 
 

Class Paper Due by Sunday at 5 pm - the Last Day of Session 13
 

Session 12 Wendell Berry: Agrarian Environmentalist

Week of April 1 - 7        

Class Meets April 3

Reading Assignments: "The Pleasures of Eating" from What Are People For? by Wendell Berry; Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits - Wendell Berry; The Agrarian Standard - Wendell Berry

Video Assignment: "It All Turns on Affection" - Wendell Berry; Wendell Berry Discusses Life.  

 
 

Comprehensive Exam Distributed During Session 13

 
 

Session 13  Finalize Your Final Class Paper Presentation

Week of April 8 - 14        

Class Meets November 15

 
 

Comprehensive Exam Due on Sunday at 5 pm - The Final Day of Session 14
 

Session 14 Student Paper Presentations Part Two

NWeek of April 15 - 24             

Class Meets November 29

 

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