[always a different all-day
adventure: daytrips, challenge courses, & overnights]
READINGS
&
FILMS 
Week 1 – Defining Nature
Enviro Dis & Prac:
Intro & chap. I (1-26)
Chap IV (60-76)
Chap 9 (156-173)
Uncommon Ground
Cronon: Intro (23-68)
Cronon: The Trouble w/Wilderness (69-90)
Spirn: Constructing Nature (91-113)
Olwig: Reinventing Common Nature (379-408)
Harrison: Toward a Philosophy of Nature (426-446)
All: Toward a Conclusion (447-460)
Film: The Idea of Wilderness I (Muir/Pinchot)
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
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Week 2 – The Nexus of Place,
Locality, and Nature
Monday
Lure of the Local: Section 1
Wednesday
Wintergreen
pp. 1-66; 133-207; 243-305
Uncommon Ground
White: "Are You an Environmentalist or do you work for a living?"
(171-185)
Proctor:Whose Nature? The Contested Moral Terrain of Ancient Forests
(269-297)
Film: Gaia
Home Place 1, 2
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Week 3 – Environment, History,
and Change
Monday: The Organic Machine
Handouts: Joseph Taylor – Salmon /
Wednesday:
Handouts
Worster: Doing Environmental History (Ends of the Earth)
Cronon: The Uses of Enviro History (EHR fall ’93)
Diverse: A Round Table: Enviro
History (on JSTOR)
Film: A River Runs Through It
PBS Columbia documentary
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Week 4 – Speaking for the Land
monday
Topophilia
Chaps 1-3, 5-8, 10 + articles from last week
(begin Sand County Almanac)
wednesday
Sand County Almanac +
Enviro Dis & Prac (pp. 78-80) + begin previous selections
Intro & chap. I (1-26)
Chap IV (60-76)
Chap 9 (156-173)
Film: Wild by Law (Leopold/Marshall)
Cadillac Desert I (Mulholland/LA/Owens Valley)
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Week 5 – Nature and Technology
The Machine in the Garden
Chaps I, III, IV, & pp. 325-385
Film: Mosquito Coast
Cadillac Desert II (An American Nile – has Colorado & Grand
Coulee)
Technics and Civilization: excerpts
Chap 1: all but 3,7,9 & 11
Chap 2: 5-8
Chap 3: 4-6
4: 1-3, 5-9, 12
5: 3, 6-7, 10-12
6: 1-4, 6, 8, 11
7: 1, 5-7
8: 1-2, 11-13
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Week 6 – Belonging
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
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Week 7 – Altering and Adapting
to our Environment
Land Use, Environment, & Social Change in Island County
Topophilia, (pp. 113-120)
Film: Never Cry wolf
The Blue Bear
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Week 8 – Art and Activism in
the Service of Nature and Place
New Land Marks
Lure of the Local, Parts II & V (pp. 83-122 & 261-292)
for wednesday:
Enviro Dis & Prac (pp. 80-89 & chaps 6-8 & 10)
Film: Rachel Carson
Crossing Stones (Arne Naess)
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Thanksgiving Break (bring the Idea
of Wilderness with you!)
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Week 9 – What is Wilderness,
what is not?
The Idea of Wilderness
Uncommon Ground
Price: Looking for Nature at the Mall (pp. 186-203)
Topophilia, chaps 11-14 (pp. 150-244)
Enviro Dis and Prac (chap. 11 & Postscript, pp. 196-212)
Lure of the Local, Part IV (193-260)
Film: This is Nowhere
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Week 10 – Geography, "the
West," and the Power of Place
Brave New World
Topophilia, pp. 70- 74
Lure of the Local, Part III (123-192)
Film: Dead Man
