Environmental Action on Global Warming

9/27

Program Introduction

Activities:

• Introductions
• Orientation
• Workshop on Reading and Writing for Seminar

Work Due: Questionnaire, Signed Covenant

9/30

Project Work and Writing

Activities:

• Guest Speaker: Paul Horton, Climate Solutions
• Web Crossing Training with Beth Stinson, Computer Classroom
• Workshop on Peer Editing
• Seminar

Work Due: Current Library Card, Project Selection

10/4

Democracy and Political Theory

Activities:

• Lecture (Stephen): "An Overview of Political Philosophy"
• Seminar on Dahl

Reading: Dahl, On Democracy, chapters 1-7.

Work Due: Brief Response Paper (on Web Crossing)

10/11

Democracy in Practice

Activities:

• Seminar on Dahl

Reading: Dahl, On Democracy, chapters 8-15.

Work Due: Expanded Response Paper (on Web Crossing)

10/14

The Current State of the Environment

Activities:

• Lecture (Nancy): "Measuring What Matters"
• Workshop on the Science of Global Warming
• Seminar on This Place on Earth
• Lecture (Stephen): "Varieties of Democracy "

Reading: This Place on Earth

Work Due: First Response Essay (to Seminar Leader)

10/18

The Physical Science of Global Warming

Activities:

• Guest Lecture: Rob Cole
• Seminar on School Curriculum

Work Due:

Bring in material on K-12 Curricular materials on Global Warming

Update on project plan and report on community contacts; Brief response (on Web Crossing)

10/25

Foundations of Democracy, and

Deliberative Democracy

Activities:

• Lecture (Stephen): "Public and Private Autonomy, and Deliberative Democracy "
• Seminar on Locke, Rousseau, and Benhabib

Reading: Selections from Locke, Second Treatise of Government Chapters I-V (but particularly Chapter II, Chapter IV,and Chapter V), Chapter VII, sections 87-94, and Chapter VIII, sections 95-97; Rousseau, The Social Contract Book I, all; pay special attention to Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.

Seyla Benhabib, "Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy," in Democracy and Difference

Work Due: Expanded response paper (on Web Crossing)

10/28

The Culture of Consumption

Activities:

• Guest Lecture: Karen Hogan on the ecological effects of global warming
• Workshop (Nancy): "Your Ecological Footprint "
• Seminar on Ecological Footprint
• Film: "Earth on Edge" (Bill Moyers)

Reading: Juliet Schor, "Towards a New Politics of Consumption" (handout), EarthAware Software on the Ecological Footprint (please perform your calculation), the Slate Green Challenge article, and read through the "Footprint of Nations" website.

11/1

Public Policy

Activities:

• Lecture (Nancy): "Effective Public Policy "
• Seminar on Goodenough

Reading: Environmental Citizenship: the Goodenough primer

Work Due: Second Response Essay (to seminar leader)

11/8

Democracy and Pluralism

Activities:

• Workshop (Stephen): "Social Justice and Environmentalism "
• Seminar on Kassiola and Bowersox

Reading: Joel Kassiola , "Why Environmental Thoughts and Action Must Include Considerations of Social Justice," and Joe Bowersox, "Environmental Justice: Private Preference or Public Necessity?" (handouts)

Work Due: Brief response paper (on Web Crossing)

11/11

Democracy and Difference

Activities:

• Workshop: "Communicating Across Differences "
• Seminar on Phillips and Young

Reading: Anne Phillips , "Dealing With Difference," and Iris Marion Young, "Communication and the Other" in Democracy and Difference

11/15

"An Inconvenient Truth"

Activities:

• Film, "An Inconvenient Truth"
• Seminar

Work Due: Expanded response paper (on Web Crossing)

11/22

NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING BREAK

11/29

Multiculturalism

Activities:

• Lecture (Stephen): "Multicultural Democracy "
• Seminar on Dallmayr and Forment

Reading: Fred Dallmayr , "Democracy and Multiculturalism,"and Carlos Forment, "Peripheral Peoples and Narrative Identities," in Democracy and Difference

Work Due: Third Response Essay (to seminar leader)

12/2

Presentations

Activities:

• Group Presentations
• Self-Evaluation Workshop

Work Due: Expanded response paper (on Web Crossing)

12/6

Reflection and Celebration

Activities:

• Peer Editing of Self-Evaluations
• Program Potluck

Work Due: Portfolio, Penultimate Draft of Self-Evaluation

12/11 - 15

Evaluation Conferences