Syllabus
Spring Pearson | ||
ENVS 091
| Professor Mark Wallace
Office ph. | |
OverviewThis course will be a student-centered, workshop-style study GoalThe course objective is to understand the relationship Précis1 -- Weekly one page papers: class members write analyses of and 2 -- Student class leadership: class members lead initial discussion 3 -- End-of-term project: class members’ projects that combine public · Class presentations of projects in class · Wordpress summaries of projects for public dissemination · Public poster sessions about projects · Individual research papers | Required TextsAlley: Earth: The Coll: Private Empire: Wilber: Under the Surface: Silko: Ceremony Black Elk/Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks Note: Extra weekly |
Schedule
1 – Jan. 23 Introduction and Organization
2 – Jan. 30 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 1-2
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 1-3
Abram, Spell of the Sensuous, pps 1-29
3 – Feb. 6 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 3-5
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 4-7
Krech III, Ecological Indian, pps 1-40
4 – Feb. 13 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 7-10
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 8, 11
Private Empire, chap 1
Peterson, “Talking the Walk,” in Ecospirit,
ed. Kearns and Keller, pps 45-62
5 – Feb. 20 Black Elk Speaks, chap 11
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 12, 14
Private Empire, chap 2-3
6 – Feb. 27 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 12-13
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 15-16
Private Empire, chap 4
7 – March 6 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 17-19
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 17-18
Private Empire, chap 5
Spring Break
8 – March 20 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 20-21
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 19-20
Private Empire, chaps 6-7
9 – March 27 Black Elk Speaks, chaps 24-26
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 21-22
Under the Surface, chaps 1-2
10 – April 3 Ceremony, pps xi-57
Earth: Operators’ Manual, chaps 23-24
Private Empire, chaps 8-9
Under the Surface, chap 3
11 – April 10 Ceremony, pps 58-120
Private Empire, chaps 13, 15, 18
Under the Surface, chap 4
12 – April 17 Ceremony, pps 121-186
Private Empire, chap 20
Under the Surface, chaps 5-6
13 – April 24 Ceremony, pps 187-243
Private Empire, chaps 27-28
Under the Surface, chap 7
14 – May 1 Conclusion, Presentations, Planning