21W.775 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues

Readings

Required Texts

Worster, Donald. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521468343.

Duane, Daniel. Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast. New York, NY: North Point Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780865475090.

Wilson, Edward, and Stephen Kellert, eds. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995. ISBN: 9781559631471.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York, NY: Bloomsbury U.S.A., 2006. ISBN: 9781596911307.

Sullivan, Robert. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants. Reprint ed. New York, NY: Bloomsbury U.S.A., 2005. ISBN: 9781582344775.

Films

Grizzly Man. Directed and written by Werner Herzog, 2005.

Nausicaä. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 1984.

Readings and Films by Session

SES # READINGS AND FILMS
2-5

Nature’s Economy

Film: Grizzly Man

8-10 Caught Inside
13-14 Rats
15-16 The Biophilia Hypothesis
17-18

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

19-21 Film: Nausicaä
22-23

The Book of Revelation (from the Bible)

Course Info

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Fall 2006
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