Natural Resources 220, “People, Values, and Natural Resources”

Spring 2005

 

Syllabus

 

List of lectures organized by date and title

 

Week 1

lecture 1 Monday january 24, 2005

Introduction to the course

lecture 2 Wednesday january 26, 2005

On the Search for a Root Cause

lecture 3 Friday january 28, 2005

Whose Nature? The Contested Moral Terrain of Ancient Forests

 

Week 2

lecture 4 Monday january 31, 2005

Pan’s Travail

lecture 5 Wednesday february 2, 2005

Primitivism, Then and Now

Class 6 Friday february 4, 2005

The True Story of the Roman Arena

 

Week 3

lecture 7 Monday february 7, 2005

Gladiators, Hughes, and Introduction to Manning’s Hunters and Poachers

lecture 8 february 9, 2005

Medieval hunting and the game laws, or“Headless Hunters, Damsels in Distress, and Robin Hood and his Merry Men”

lecture 9 outline february 11, 2005

Medieval hunting and the game laws, continued

 

Week 4

lecture 10 Monday february 14, 2005

The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Emergence of Romanticism

lecture 11 Wednesday february 16, 2005

Romanticism: The “Problem Child” of the Enlightenment

lecture 12 Friday february 18, 2005

Romanticism/Bambi/Thoreau/Hudson River

 

Week 5

lecture 13 Monday february 21, 2005

The Hudson River School; and Popular Romanticism Today

lecture 14 Wednesday february 23, 2005

Popular Romanticism and Krech/Ecological Indian

lecture 15 Friday february 25, 2005

Hudson River School “luminous” style paintings; Krech class discussion

 

Week 6

lecture 16 Monday february 28, 2005

Commentary on William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

lecture 17 Wednesday march 2, 2005

Railroads in Art and Image

lecture 18 march 4, 2005

Railroads and the Humane Movement

 

Week 7

lecture 19 march 7, 2005

Railroads, the National Parks, and Material Culture

lecture 20 Wednesday march 9, 2005

Railroads, Anthracite, and the Molly Maguires

lecture 21 Friday march 11, 2005

Railroads, Anthracite, and the Molly Maguires (continued)

 

Week 8

lecture 22 Monday march 14, 2005

Anthracite (continued), then film and photography

Class 23 Wednesday march 16, 2005

mid-term exam, in-class component

Class 24 Friday march 18, 2005

Film: Dead River Rough Cut

 

Week 9

lecture 25 Monday march 28, 2005

Art, Literature, the Sublime, and Tragic Fear

lecture 26 Wednesday march 30, 2005

Art, Literature, the Sublime, and Tragic Fear (continued)

lecture 27 Friday april 1, 2005

Art, Literature, the Sublime, and Tragic Fear (conclusion)

 

Week 10

lecture 28 Monday april 4, 2005

Olmsted and Environmental Restoration

lecture 29 Wednesday april 6, 2005

Olmsted and Environmental Restoration, continued

lecture 30 Friday april 8, 2005

The Origins of American Conservation

 

Week 11

lecture 31 Monday april 11, 2005

The Rise of Scientific Conservation

lecture 32 Wed april 13, 2005

The Progressive Era and Ecological Science

lecture 33 Fri. april 15, 2005

What Else Was Happening in the Progressive Era?

 

Week 12

lecture 34 Mon. april 18, 2005

Relevance of films: 1960s Environmental Activism

lecture 35 Wednesday april 20, 2005

What Else Was Happening in the Progressive Era? Conclusion: Film

lecture 36 Friday april 22, 2005

The Progressive Era: A Darker Side

 

Week 13

lecture 37 Monday april 25, 2005

The Progressive Era: A Darker Side (conclusion)

lecture 38 Wednesday april 27, 2005

Do Mountains Exist? Ontology and other Pesky Philosophical Problems

lecture 39 Friday april 29, 2005

Ecological Restoration at Walden Pond

 

Week 14

lecture 40 Monday may 2, 2005

How the Tail Wags the Dog: Feral Cats and Wildlife

lecture 41 Wednesday may 4, 2005

Wrapping up the course

lecture 42 Friday may 6, 2005

Conclusions and Apologetics: “If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower”

 

 

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