MTWRF 8:30-11:10 AM, room 52-A12 and elsewhere
Instructor:
Steven Marx phone: 756-241;
Office: 47-25E (Faculty Office Building)
smarx@calpoly.edu
or http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx
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Topic/activity location |
Primary reading* |
Reading in Schoenherr** |
Reading in Murray*** | Links |
Writing due book report |
| week I 7/16 |
The Web and the Walk: Cal Poly Land [http://polyland.lib.calpoly.edu] Ecolit Territory Poly Canyon | Thoreau's "Walking" part 1[on website] |
1-18 California's Natural Regions |
. | Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment[ASLE] | |
7/17 |
Thoreau: Journal and Essay Pastoral and Nature Writing | Thoreau 169-181; 188-207 | .
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Ch. 1 The Journal | . | |
| 7/18 |
Evolution and Ecology Arboretum |
Darwin 158-169 |
19-48 Basic Ecology |
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| 7/19 |
Tree Huggers and Photo Essays Business school fountain
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Fowles 657-670 | . |
Ch. 3 The Writing Process |
Berry, Selected Poems 1(Jacalyn) | |
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7/20 |
Santa Lucia mountains and front range Horse Canyon saddle Week 1 pics | Muir 279-298 (Rebecca) |
48-69 Basic Geology | . |
Journal readings to class | |
| week II 7/23 |
Spirit of the Valley conference schedule | Wilson 722-7(Jacalyn) Trautman, Spirit
of the Valley 8-34 (Pete) |
261-281--Geology and Biotic Zonation of the Coast Ranges |
. | 2 Walden(Rick)
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7/24 |
Summer heat Peterson ranch | Trautman,
Spirit of the Valley 35-68(Cynthia) |
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Ch.13 Research | 3 and 4 All the Little Live Things (Pete and Alene) | |
| 7/25 |
The Land Ethic: stewardship at Cal Poly |
Leopold 400-421(Kake) |
326-350 -Scrub Communities |
. | 5The Edge of the Sea (Rebecca) | |
| 7/26 |
Ecostyles |
Austin 350-356(Joy) |
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Ch.8 Character and Dialogue | 6 Land of Little Rain (Joy) | |
| 7/27 |
Wild things and pets |
Trautman, Spirit of the Valley 69-98(10)Sonya |
295-312; 361-387--Animals of the Coast Ranges and Scrub communities |
. | 7 Mountains and Rivers Without End (Cindy) | |
| week III 7/30 |
Hike--Stenner Canyon meet in Yosemite parking lot, 8:30 | none |
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Ecocritical essay due; Journal readings | |
| 7/31 |
Author's visit |
Trautman, Spirit of the Valley 99-124 |
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Ch.12 Revision |
8 Refuge(Sonya) | |
| 8/1 |
TBA | none | 9 The Solace of Open Spaces(Kake) | |||
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8/2 |
265 Albert Drive[including lunch]map Ecocritical essays returned | none |
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Personal Essay due (draft); Student essay and journal readings 10 Faith in a Seed(Harold) | |
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8/3 |
Nature and Agriculture Campus Farm Personal essays returned with comments | Berry
763-774 |
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Final drafts of personal essay; submit as email attachment in MSWord or as webpage |
*Primary
readings, unless noted otherwise, are in
Finch and Elder, The Norton Book of Nature Writing Writing Assignments [for suggestions]
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