Syllabus
| Date | Readings | Assignments |
| September | ||
| 7 Th | Course Introduction: Literature and Nature | |
| 12 T | Genesis 1.1-3.24; 5.28-11.9 Psalm 104 Job 38 |
Brief #1 |
| 14 Th | Native American Creation Myths (handout) Luther Standing Bear, "Nature" (LE 273) |
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| 19 T | The Green Man (handout) Green Man Power Point Presentation |
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| 21 Th | Nature in Seventeenth-Century Poetry Herbert: "Man," "Providence" (handout) Marvell: "The Garden," "Upon Appleton House" (handout) Milton. Excerpt from Paradise Lost |
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| 26 T | Emerson. "Nature" (handout) | Brief #2 |
| 28 Th | Emerson. "Nature" Chat Room Discussion-Session 3 |
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| October | ||
| 3 T | Thoreau. Walden: "Where I lived, and What I Lived For" | |
| 5 Th | Thoreau. Walden: "Solitude," "Spring," and class selection(s) | |
| 10 T | Berry. "An Entrance to the Woods" (handout) | |
| 12 Th | Bird. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains | Brief #3 |
| 17 T | Bird. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains | |
| 19 Th | Midterm Examination | |
| 20 F | College Study Day: No Classes | |
| 24 T | Romantic Nature Wordsworth. "The World Is Too Much with Us" (LE 355), "I wandered lonely as a cloud " (handout) Whitman. "I think I could turn and live with animals" (LE 66) |
Literature and the North Woods Project Proposals |
| 26 Th | Muir. "A Wind-Storm in the Forest" (LE 178) John Muir Power Point Presentation by Mary Ann Thompson |
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| 31 T | Leopold. "The Land Ethic" (handout) and "Thinking Like a Mountain" (LE 148) |
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| November | ||
| 2 Th | Abbey. Desert Solitaire | Paper Topics Distributed in Class |
| 7 T | Abbey. Desert Solitaire | Brief #4 |
| 9 Th | Abbey. Desert Solitaire Abbey. "Eco-Defense" (LE 344) Tempest Williams. "A Eulogy for Edward Abbey" (handout) |
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| 14 T | Tempest Williams. Refuge Utah Wilderness Powerpoint Presenation |
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| 16 Th | Tempest Williams. Refuge | Literature and the North Woods Working Drafts |
| 21 T | Tempest Williams. Refuge Tempest Williams. "The Erotic Landscape" (LE 28) |
Paper Working Draft Due for Peer Critique Exchange Brief #5 |
| 22-26 | Thanksgiving Vacation | |
| 28 T | Contemporary poems of Nature and the Environment Snyder. "Song of the Taste" (LE 16), "For All" (handout) Frost. "The GIft Outright" (LE 295), "A Brook in the City" (LE 422), "The Oven Bird" (handout) |
Peer Critiques Due in Class |
| 30 Th | McKibben. The End of Nature | |
| December | ||
| 5 T | McKibben. The End of Nature | Brief #6 |
| 7 Th | McKibben. The End of Nature McKibben. "Not So Fast" (LE 464) |
Final Version of Paper Due |
| 12 T | Joyce Carol Oates. "Against Nature" (handout) | |
| 18 M | Final Examination (1:30-4:30 P.M., 302 PMH) | Literature and the North Woods Projects |