Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary texts:

• Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature¡¯s Role in American History, Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition

• Bill McKibben, ed. American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, Library of America; First Printing edition 2008. Following excerpts:
• Thoreau, 1-8, 26-36
• Whitman, 59-70
• Marsh, 71-80
• Muir, 84-85, 104-112
• Olmsted, 120-125
• Pinchot, 172-180
• Dreiser, 186-191
• MacKaye, 209-223
• Jeffers, 251-253
• Guthrie, 258-259
• Douglass, 260-264
• Leopold, 265-294
• Nearing, 318-322
• Eiseley, 337-347
• Jacobs, 359-364
• Carson, 365-376
• Zahniser, 392-394
• Boulding, 399-404
• Abbey, 413-433
• Ehrlich, 434-437
• Mitcell & Gaye, 489-491
• Berry, 504-516
• Crumb, 590-594
• Jackson, 595-608
• Cronon, 632-658
• Durning, 770-780
• Solnit, 971-976

• Lawrence Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination, Wiley-Blackwell 2005. Following excerpts:1-28, 62-96

• Robert J. Brulle, Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective, The MIT Press; 1st edition, 2000.Following excerpts: 115-131, 269-282

• John M. Meyer ¡°Does Environmentalism Have a Future?¡± Dissent (2005) on Classfronter

• Charles Olson, from Letters for Origin (10 pp.) on Classfronter