Week 2 1/20-23-- Early Natural History Writers: Defining the Place Called "America"
M. John Smith; William Wood; Alexander Wilson, 76-81-, Carolina parrot; John Jacob Audubon, 117-122, Carolina parrot
R. Standing Bear, 326-331, declaration; Bartram, 64-76;   Crevecoeur, 51-63.

Week 3 1/27-30--Mapping Your Place
M. Journaling in the present: Selections from Emerson's Journal, 144-151, Henry Thoreau's Journal. 211-220, Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac; Peattie, 416- . Write your own journal entry.
R. Paper (1) due on your special place in nature, past or present. Read and respond to papers in your Critique Group. The final revision should be submitted to me in a week for grading.

Week 4 2/3-6--Walden
M. Thoreau, Walden, "Economy" and "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" then read the study text of these chapters
R. Nature chapters of Walden with study notes for the webtext
Here's a brief lecture on WALDEN from me (audio file)  

Week 5  2/10-13 -- Emerson and His Legacy
M. R. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" with study hypertext. Read through Chapter IV, Language.
R. John Muir, 250-268; Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" with Web study text

Week 6 2/17-21
M. John Burroughs (244-249; Celia Thaxter, 239-243; Mabel Wright, 299-304. Paper 2 due [rereading of Nature or Walden]
F., 2/21--Hibbs 329; [In-class] midterm test and outside essay

Week 7 2/24-27Seeking the wild
M. Thoreau, 180-211, [webtexts: "Walking" "Ktaadn"] and David Rothenberg's article .
R. Poems by Robinson Jeffers. (474); Gary Snyder, from The Etiquette of Freedom, (also 14-16); Jack Turner, "The Abstract Wild" ; Wallace Stegner, 504-519 Student Essays on Snyder and Turner    Article on Jeffers [optional reading]

Week 8 3/3-6--Women and nature/wilderness
M. Terry Tempest Williams"The Bowl", "Undressing the Bear; Leslie Silko, 1003-1012; Annie Dillard, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and "Living Like Weasels" (876-879)
Student papers on Dillard and Williams, Criticism notes on Dillard
R. Anne Zwinger (577-),Ursula LeGuin, 651-7; Alison Deming, 937-943; Maxine Kingston (787-); Evelyn White (1062-1067), Rachel Carson (480-)
Notes from Vera Norwood's book on women writers, Made from this Earth

Week 9, 3/17, 20--Close Encounters with the Animal World
M. Seton (305-), McNulty (554-) McPhee (684-), Peacock (832-), Thomas (533-5)
R. Peterson, Kumin (573-),Ehrlich (944-), Hearne (1034), Dittmar (850-), Hogan (966-)

Week 10, 3/24, 27 --Hunting, Fishing & Gardening
M. McLean (457-); Pollan (1078-), Masumoto (1047-)
R. Leopold (381-2), Burroughs (819-), Nelson (797-), Gonzalez (1027-), Bass (1114-)

Week 11, 3/31, 4/3 ---Economy and Ecology
M. Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer  
R. Leopold (382-397), Stegner, House (767-), Sanders (924-)

Week 12, 4/7, 10  Land and Home
M. Berry (718-), Kittredge (706-. ), Dubos, (+ 453-), Daniel (983-) Kaufman
R. The Indian Way: Momaday (737-) , Bruchac (811-), Silko (1003-), Nabhan (1038-)

Week 13, 4/13, 17  --Journeying through Time
M. Abbey (614-), Wallace (930-), Horton
R. Eiseley, from The Immense Journey;  Gould, Thomas

Week 14, 4/21, 14--Looking to the future
M. Pyle, 971, Carson, McKibben (1120-), Thomas (536-)
R. Saner, "What Does "Nature" Name?  Abram (1101-)
Collect major project for grade (can be submitted earlier, of course!)

Week 15, 4/28  --Wrap-up Discussion
Final Exam, Friday, May 2, 2-4 PM