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OUR PLACE IN NATURE (Winter, 2004)
Faculty: Rob Smurr SEM 4167 ph: (360) 867-5056 smurrr@evergreen.edu
Steven Hendricks SEM 3156 ph: (360) 867-5745 hendrics@evergreen.edu
Writing Tutors: Emily Dilling
Kylin Larsson
Paul Whitney

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General Schedule: Day/Time/Place/Event

Monday

9:00-11:00 LH2 Lecture
12:00-2:00 LIB 2218 (Rob); 2219 (Steve) Seminar

Tuesday

9:00-12:00 LIB 3500 Workshop/PeerGroup & Meeting with Faculty
1:00-5:00 Studio Printmaking

Wednesday

9:00-12:00 LIB 2218 (Rob); 2219 (Steve) Seminar

Thursday

12:00-3:00 LH1 Film & Disc

The above schedule will be adjusted during weeks with fieldtrips (below). Faculty will advise students about revised meeting places and event foci during those weeks.

Overnight Field Trips

week3: Mt. Rainier

Jan. 21-22 Wed/Thurs.

Dep. Wednesday, 8:30AM Red Square Turnout

Ret. Thursday, 7:00PM

week5: LaPush/Hoh Rainforest

Feb. 10-12 Tu/Wed/Thu

Dep. 8:30AM Red Square Turnout

*2 overnights Ret. 6:00PM LaPush seashore

*optional 1 overnight Hoh rainforest

week8: Seattle

Feb. 25-26 Wed/Thurs.

Dep. 9:00AM Red Square Turnout

Ret. 6:00PM

Reading & Film Schedule
(Readings are to be completed before seminar. Attendance to all films is mandatory.)

Week 1: Re-grounding through Place and Art

~~Mon., Jan. 5: The Great Northwest: the search for regional identity (Wm. Robins) Read only "Regionalism and Regional Identity," and Epilogue (pp. 47-120 & 158 -182)~~

Wed., Jan. 7: The Reenchantment of Art (Suzi Gablik)
Film: Koyaanisqatsi

Week 2: A Philosophical Inquiry of Humans, Civilization, Nature, and Mortality

Mon., Jan. 12: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
(pp. 16-71)

Wed, Jan. 14: Civilization and its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)
Chaps 1-3 only (pp. 10-52)
Film: The Worship of Nature (from Sir Kenneth Clark’s Civilization series), and Winged Migration

Week 3: Strange Lands, Profound Nature RAINIER TRIP, Wed-Thu

Mon., Jan 19: Holiday

Wed., Jan 21: Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez)
Film: Everest and Close to Eden

Week 4: Strange Lands, Profound Nature (cont.)

Mon., Jan 26: Arabian Sands (Wilfred Thesiger)

Wed., Jan 28: Wind, Sand, and Stars (Anton Saint-Exupery)
Chaps 1-8 only (pp. 1-173)
Film: The Next Industrial Revolution, Lawrence of Arabia, Pt. I

Week 5: On Values and Loss

Mon., Feb. 2: Farewell to Matyora (Valentine Rasputin)

Wed., Feb 4: Spell of the Sensuous (David Abram)
Film: Against the Current, The Wood Goblin, and Dersu Uzala

Week 6: A Return to Wonder LA PUSH TRIP, Tues - Thurs

Mon., Feb 9: Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut)

Wed., Feb. 11: Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders (Lawrence Weschler)
Film: The Big Blue

Week 7: Of Mice, Men, Mountains, and Machines

Mon., Feb. 16: Holiday

Wed., Feb. 18: Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) 9-130; 157-214; 239-281; 354-375; 405-425
**THURSDAY, Feb. 19**: Third Annual Sustainable Living Conference, SYNERGY on campus
Film: Cane Toads and Microcosmos

Week 8: Humans, Societies, and Transformations of the Natural World SEATTLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (Wed. – Thurs.)

Mon., Feb 23: Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott) 1-52; 103-146; 223-345

Wed., Feb 25: What are People For? (Wendell Berry)
Film: Soylent Green

Week 9: Ecocide or Ecoscam?

Mon., Mar. 1: The End of Nature (Bill McKibben)

Wed, Mar. 3: Ecoscam (Ronald Bailey); Uncommon Ground re-read pp. 82-83; 182-185
Film: Silent Running

Week 10: Historical Perceptions of the "World Outside"

Mon, Mar. 8: Landscape and Memory (Simon Schama) 3-19; 61-100; 142-153; 179- 242; 362-374; 385-446; 526-538; 546-560; 571-578

Wed, Mar. 10: The Future of Life (Edward. O. Wilson)
Film: The Future of Life and 2001: A Space Odyssey