Syllabus

Date	Readings	Assignments
September
4 Th	Course Introduction: Literature and Nature
9 T	Genesis 1.1-3.24; 5.28-11.9 Psalm 104 Job 38
11 TH	Native American Creation Myths (handout) Luther Standing Bear, "Nature" (LE 273)
16 T	The Green Man (handout) Green Man Power Point Presentation	Topic for Paper 1 Distributed in Class
18 TH	Nature in Seventeenth-Century Poetry The New World (2005), film excerpt Herbert: "Man," "Providence" (handout) Marvell: "The Garden," "Upon Appleton House" (handout) Milton. Excerpt from Paradise Lost Bryson, A Walk in the Woods, chapter 10 (handout)
23 T	Emerson. "Nature" (handout) Van Hook. Treasure in the North Woods: Preface and Chapter 1	Literature and the North Woods Project Snapshot #1
25 TH	Emerson. "Nature"
30 T	No EN 229 class meeting: Rosh HaShannah
October
2 TH	Thoreau. Walden: "Where I lived, and What I Lived For" Walden (2004), film.	Literature and the Environment Blog Part 1
7 T	Thoreau. Walden: "Solitude" and "Spring" Berry. "An Entrance to the Woods" (handout)
9 TH	Yom Kippur: No Classes
14 T	Bird. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
16 TH	Bird. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains	Paper 1 Due in Class
21 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) Van Hook. Treasure in the North Woods: Chapters 3 and 4	Literature and the North Woods Project Snapshot #2
23 TH	Romantic Nature Poetry Continued
24 F	College Study Day: No Classes
28 T	Muir. "A Wind-Storm in the Forest" (LE 178) Leopold. "The Land Ethic" (handout) and "Thinking Like a Mountain" (LE 148)
30 TH	London, "To Build a Fire" (LE 31) Robert Frost. "Fire and Ice" Gary Snyder. "Lifetimes with Fire" "Fire School: Fighting Fire With Fire"
November
4 T	Abbey. Desert Solitaire	Paper Topics Distributed in Class Literature and the Environment Blog Part 2
6 TH	Abbey. Desert Solitaire Tempest Williams. "A Eulogy for Edward Abbey" (handout)
11 T	Tempest Williams. Refuge Utah Wilderness Power point Presenation Van Hook. Treasure in the North Woods: Chapters 5 and 6	Literature and the North Woods Project Snapshot #3
13 TH	Tempest Williams. Refuge
18 T	Tempest Williams. Refuge Tempest Williams. "The Erotic Landscape" (LE 28)
20 TH	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)	Paper Working Draft Due for Peer Critique Exchange
25 T	Kingsolver. Prodigal Summer Radio Lab. "Emergence." (audio podcast)	Peer Critiques Due in Class
26-30	Thanksgiving Vacation
December
2 T	Kingsolver. Prodigal Summer Bryson, A Walk in the Woods, chapter 10 revisited (handout)
4 TH	Kingsolver. Prodigal Summer	Final Version of Paper Due
9 T	Joyce Carol Oates. "Against Nature" (handout) Course Evaluations	Literature and the Environment Blog Part 3
16 T	Final Examination (1:30-4:30, 302 PMH)	Literature and the North Woods Projects Presentation