TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

1-3 Course Description

4-7 Reading Schedule

 

Jan 18. Reading Assignment:

8-11 Group Participation Guidelines

12-14 Guidelines for Listening

15 Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17 Sexual Harrassment Policy

Project Instructions

18 Portfolio

19 Polished Writing Instructions

20 Web Projects

21 Web Site guidelines

22 Undergraduate Writing Center

23-4 Learning Skills Center

25-6 Grades Definition

27 "Local Sites"

28 Nature Websites

29-30 ACITS short courses;

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

35-61 "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"

 

Jan 20 Journal Entries Due on:

62-3 Discovery Learning;

64-80 Bump, "Radical Changes"

81-4 Miller, "Ex-Apple pioneer captures nature digitally"

[Bump, " Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism" tune your browser to www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/]

 

 

Review

8-11 Group Participation Guidelines

12-14 Guidelines for Listening

15 Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17 Sexual Harrassment Policy

Project Instructions

18 Portfolio

19 Polished Writing Instructions

20 Web Projects

21 Web Site guidelines

22 Undergraduate Writing Center

23-4 Learning Skills Center

25-6 Grades Definition

27 "Local Sites"

28 Nature Websites

29-30 ACITS short courses;

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

35-61 "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"

 

Jan. 25 Journal Entries Due on

[Otherness: Slovic 3-5, 8-13, 20-40]

85 The Sympathetic Imagination"

86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

104-8 introductions: Stevens, Lawrence

109-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems

 

Jan 27 Journal Entries Due on on 2 of the following:[Daniel Slovic 592-603]

125-51 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing";

[G14-21, 25-30]

152-8 introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin

 

Feb. 1

159-60 Littlefield House;

Review [Daniel Slovic 592-603]; X Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30];

 

Feb. 3 Review Littlefield House; [Daniel Slovic 592-603]; X Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30];

 

Feb. 8. Reading Assignment: Essay instructions.

Journal Entries Due on

161 Jones, introduction,

162-9 Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86 "Committed 'til Death"

 

Feb. 10 Be ready to cite Jones and one other author

 

Feb. 15 Be ready to cite Jones and one other author

Reading Assignment:

187 "The Spirit of the Garden"

188-98 The Mother Tree

199-200 maps

201-2 Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum

 

Feb 17 FIRST PROJECT DUE

For help with ideas for your project see

Unity in the writer:

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

211 Writing the Natural Way;

212-3 Wild Mind

[Kumin 421-425,]

 

Feb 22 Review

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

211 Writing the Natural Way;

212-3 Wild Mind

[Kumin 421-425,]

 

Feb 24 Journal Entries Due on

[American Sense of Place Slovic 455-457]

214-5 Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs

216 Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web

217-8 Local Writing

219 Bedicheck, introduction

220-2 Bedicheck, "The Wing of the Swallow"

223-30 "Cedar Cutter";

231-48 Graves, "Texas Hill Country"

249-52 "Carved in Stone"

 

Feb 29. Journal Entries Due on

253 Hopkins: Binsey Poplars, [G156-7];

254-5 Wordsworth, introduction

256-61 Wordsworth's "Michael" compare to "Cedar Cutter": how are these two accounts of old men who are close to nature similar and different? ;

262 Dobie, introduction

263-7 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot" (on Dobie etc.)

268-79 Dobie, "A Texan in England": how are the English and the Texan

views of nature similar and different?

 

Mar. 2 Journal Entries Due on

280-297 Dobie, "The Longhorns"

298-337 Dobie, "The Mustangs"

Review Dobie, introduction; Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot" (on Dobie etc.); Dobie, "A Texan in England,"

 

Mar. 7 Revised Essay due. Meet at Biology Ponds Journal at ponds incorporating 1 citation from Darwin, X152-156 [and one from Birds and Beasts Slovic 93-133, 137-144, 160-167].

338 Darwin, introduction

339-43 Darwin, The Origin of Species

 

Mar. 9 Dobie and Biology Ponds web contributions. Incorporate two Dobie quotes in Dobie contribution: For Biology Ponds contribution remember 1 citation from Darwin, X152-156 [and one from Birds and Beasts Slovic 93-133, 137-144, 160-167]. Turn in Midsemester evaluation X...

339-43 Darwin, The Origin of Species

344-5 Midsemester evaluation [tear out and turn in without name]

 

Mar 21 Journal Entries Due on two of the following:

346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

365 "Musical Responses to Nature"

 

Mar 23 2 citations due from

346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

 

Mar 28, 2 citations due from

346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

 

Mar 30 Journal Entries Due on two of the following:

[Matthiessen Slovic 110-120, Thoreau Slovic 189-192, Ehrlich Slovic 301-306, Bird Slovic 309-321]

 

365-83 Miller, "The Disappearance of God"

384-5 "The Worship of Nature"

 

Apr 4 Journal Entries Due on

386-7 Forster, introduction

388-93 Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"

 

[and one or more of the following in Slovic: Muir 321-328, 376-382, Cisneros 419-421 vs. Dillard 53-63; Anaya 525-539]

 

Apr 6 1 Citation from Forster required and 1 citation from readings for Mar 21 or Mar 30 or April 4 or Darwin.

 

Apr 11 Citation from Forster required and 1 citation from readings for Mar 21 or Mar 30 or April 4 or Darwin.

 

April 13. PROJECT 2 due on course web page

 

Apr 18 Hand in polished copy of project 2

 

Apr 20 Journal Entries Due on two of the following

 

394 Wordsworth, "The Excursion"

395 Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely"

396 Wordsworth, "Lines written in early spring"

397-403 Hopkins’s Poetry, incl.

404 "As kingfishers catch fire"

 

Apr 25 Journal Entries Due on two of the following

[Slovic 41-53, 72-91]

405-7 Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"

408-11 Wordsworth, the Immortality Ode

412-13 Jeffers, introduction

413-4 Jeffers, "Hurt Hawks"

415 Jeffers, "Vulture"

 

 

Apr 27 Journal Entries Due on two of the following

416-19 Wordsworth, The Prelude

420-30 Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood"

431-2 Thomas, introduction,

431-2 Thomas, "The Force That Through the Green Fuse"

433-5 Thomas's "Fern Hill"

 

 

May 2 . Assignment Due: Road Map of Your Journey; [Thoreau Slovic 413-419];

 

436-9 Road Map of Your Journey

 

440 Map to "Pied Beauty" Ranch

 

 

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