COURSE CALENDAR

INTRODUCTION: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY’S PERSPECTIVE

Wednesday, September 8: Course Introduction
Friday, September 10: King and McCarthy, Introduction and Reading 3
Wednesday, September 15: Myers—“Debating the Precautionary Principle”—online at: http://www.sehn.org/ppdebate.html; Carolan—Questioning the Precautionary Principle (PDF)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Friday, September 17: King and McCarthy, Reading 19
Wednesday, September 22: King and McCarthy, Readings 5 and 6
Friday, September 24: Smith—Postindustrial Detroit (PDF)
Wednesday, September 29: Saha & Mohai—Michigan TSDFs (PDF)

Friday, October 1: First Paper Due; service-learning groups check-in

SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTING NATURE

Wednesday, October 6: Greider and Garkovich—Landscapes (PDF)
Friday, October 8: King and McCarthy, Readings 7 and 8
Wednesday, October 13: Burnigham and Cooper—Being Constructive (PDF)

THE SOCIOLOGY OF OIL

Friday, October 15: Marshall, Picou, Bevc—Ecological Disaster (PDF); Picou interview—online at:
 http://www.alexandracousteau.org/field/expedition-blog/expedition-voices-dr-steven-picou-forecasts-fracture-gulf-coast-communities
Wednesday, October 20: Widener—Ecuador (PDF); service-learning groups check-in

Friday, October 22: No Classes—Study Day
 
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: MARX AND DURKHEIM

Wednesday, October 27: Picou—Theoretical Trends (PDF); Rosa—On Durkheim (PDF)
Friday, October 29: Salleh—Metabolic Value (PDF)

Wednesday, November 3: Second Paper Due

GLOBALIZATION

Friday, November 5: King and McCarthy, Reading 11
Wednesday, November 10: King and McCarthy, Reading 12

THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

Friday, November 12: Kuzmiak—American Env. History (PDF)
Wednesday, November 17: Scarce—Radical Environmentalism (PDF)
Friday, November 19: FitzGerald (PDF); Goodstein (PDF); Parks (PDF); also see: http://www.creationcare.org/

Wednesday, November 24: No Classes--Thanksgiving
Friday, November 26: No Classes—Thanksgiving

DOING SOMETHING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Wednesday, December 1: King and McCarthy, Reading 22
Friday, December 3: King and McCarthy, Reading 25

Wednesday, December 8: Final Service-Learning Presentations

Friday, December 10: Third Paper Due

FINAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT JOURNALS DUE BY E-MAIL TIME STAMPED NO LATER THAN MONDAY, DECEMBER, 20 AT 5 P.M.\

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