Date

Topic

Readings

Assignments

INTRODUCTION

1/4

Overview

1/5

Ethical extension

Nash, RN, Prologue & Ch. 1

1/7

Environmental ethics

Nash, RN, Ch. 2; Leopold

3 commentaries

APPLICATIONS & ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

1/10

Animals

de Leeuw; Chipeniuk; List; de Leeuw

Optional: NashAE #36 (Snyder), 38 (Douglas), 48 (Wilson)

1/11

Discussion #1

1/12

Species

Rolston

1/14

Ecosystems

Booth

3 commentaries

1/17

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1/18

Discussion #2

1/19

Ecological Restoration

Higgs; Gould

1/21

Technology

Shrader-Frechette

3 commentaries

HISTORY, ETHICS & WORLDVIEW IN THE WEST

1/24

Environmental historiography

Cronon; Worster

1/25

Discussion #3

1/26

Ancient views of nature

La Freniere

1/28

Christianity

White; Nash, RN, Ch. 4; Optional: Nash, AE, #42 (Berry)

3 commentaries

1/31

Scientific revolution

Opie

2/1

Discussion #4

2/2

Ecology

Callicott ; Botkin; Nash, RN, Ch. 3

AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

2/4

Colonial period

Nash, AE pp. 1-11, # 2 (Cronon), #3 (Jacobs); Optional: #1 (Black Elk)

3 commentaries

1^st take-home exam

2/7

Early concern

Nash, AE #4 (Catlin), 5 (Thoreau), 6 (Marsh), 7 (Olmsted), 8 (Reiger)

2/8

Discussion #5

2/9

Aesthetic/literary perspectives

Nash, AE #9 (Schurz), 10 (Powell), 11 (Pinchot), (McGee), 13 (T. Roosevelt)

2/11

Conservation movement

Nash, AE #14 (Johnson), 15 (Muir), 16 (Bates), 17 (Hays), 18 (Nash)

3 commentaries

2/14

The Wilderness Idea

Nash, AE #19 (Swain), 20 (Lilienthal), 21 (Bennett), 22 (Roosevelt & Fechner)

2/15

Discussion #6

2/16

Urban Progressivism

Rothman, Ch. 1 & 2

2/18

1920'S & New Deal

Nash AE #23 (Hays), 25 (Marshall), 26 (Vogt), 28 (Stegner) 31 (Pres. Sci. Ad. Comm.)

3 commentaries

2/21

Presidents' Day

2/22

Wild by Law (no discussion)

Rothman, Ch. 3 & 4

2/23

WWII to Silent Spring

Nash, AE #30 (Carson), 32 (Ehrlich), 33 (Commoner)

2/25

Environmental crisis & response

Nash, AE #35 (Nadar), 36 (Hardin), 39 (Brower)

2/28

1980's & 1990's

Rothman, Ch. 5, 7 & 8; Optional: Nash, AE #40, 41, 44, 49-51

3 commentaries

2/29

Discussion #7

ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES

3/1

Deep ecology

Nash, RN, Ch. 5; Nash, AE #47 (Devall & Sessions)

3/3

Ecofeminism

Warren

3/6

Social ecol

Bookchin; Nash, AE #45 (Bookchin)

Major paper

3/7

Discussion #8

3/8

Environmental justice

Rothman, Ch. 6; Bullard

3/10

Responses to radical philosophies

Nash, RN, Ch. 6; Guha; Optional: Nash, AE #44 (Sale) & #46 (Abbey)

3 commentaries

3/14

by 5pm

2^rd take-home exam