Note: For two weeks of your own choosing, students are allowed to skip writing a reaction paper.
| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DUE DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction Tracking environmental conflict: How far will ideas of the “Anthropocene” take us? |
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| 2 | Histories and Ideas of Nature | Reaction paper due |
| 3 | Ecologies: Differing Understandings from Human Ecology, Cultural Ecology, Political Ecology, Postindustrial Ecology and Ecological Science Frameworks | Reaction paper due |
| Field trip: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA | ||
| 4 |
Agencies What kind of actors are humans and non-humans? What are the “ontology in the Anthropocene” debates and why should we care? |
Reaction paper due |
| 5 | Species: Thinking Across Boundaries | Reaction paper due |
| 6 | Knowledges: How We Know and Whose Knowledge Counts? |
Final research paper topics due Reaction paper due |
| 7 |
Ethnographies Mapping the Politics of Conservation; Exploring Ethnographic Methods and the Meeting of Ethnography, Oral History, and Theory |
Reaction paper due |
| 8 |
Toxics (1) Occupational Health, Environmental Justice, and Postindustrial Ecologies: The Co-Production of Race, Class, and Toxicity |
In lieu of a reaction paper, analyze media articles in the Readings section relating to the lead poisoning crisis in Flint, MI. |
| 9 |
Toxics (2) From Endocrine Disruptors to Epigenetics: Rethinking Environmental Health |
Reaction paper due |
| 10 | Climate Change: Why it Takes More than Information to Change Minds |
Detailed outline of final research paper Reaction paper due |
| 11 |
Energy From “Fracking” to Citizen Science ScreeningGasLand. Directed by Josh Fox. Color, 107 min. 2010. |
Reaction paper due |
| 12 | Discussion of Final Papers | |
| 13 | Final Presentations and End of Semester Potluck | Final research paper due |
