Western Civilization and the Environment
Lecture and Reading Schedule
Spring 2013
Mondays
/ Fridays 1:50
– 2:45 ~ 321 Bray
Wednesdays 2:55 – 3:50 ~ 321 Bray
Please note: this schedule is subject to change
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Session |
Topic |
Readings |
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Monday 1-14, 2013 |
Introduction |
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Wednesday, 1-16 |
Defining
Western Civilization & Introduction to Guns, Germs, and Steel |
Diamond:
Preface, Prologue, Ch 1 |
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Friday, 1-18 |
Collision
of Cultures |
Diamond:
Ch 2, 3 |
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Monday, 1-21 Last day to add is Tuesday, 1-22 |
No Classes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
suggestion: read ahead in Diamond text (see Friday 1-25) |
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Wednesday,
1-23 |
Guns,
Germs, Steel video |
suggestion: catch up with Diamond text Transcript from PBS |
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Friday,
1-25 |
Food
Production |
Diamond:
Ch 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
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Monday,
1-28 |
Animals,
Axes, & Germs |
Diamond:
Ch 9, 10, 11 |
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Wednesday,
1-30 |
Guns,
Germs, Steel video |
suggestion: catch up with Diamond text Transcript from PBS |
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Friday,
2-1 |
Exercise & Discussion 1 |
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Monday,
2-4 |
Writing
& Technology |
Diamond:
Ch 12, 13 |
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Wednesday,
2-6 |
Government
& Religion |
Diamond:
Ch 14 |
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Friday,
2-8 Last
day to drop is Friday 2-8 |
Class cancelled
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suggestion: start reading the Blaut
text |
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Monday,
2-11 |
Class cancelled
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suggestions: start research for project memo start reading the Blaut text |
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Wednesday,
2-13 |
Poster Project Administration Day
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suggestions: start research for project memo start reading the Blaut text |
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Friday, 2-15 |
Historiography
and A Critique of Diffusionism |
Blaut: 1; |
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Monday,
2-18 |
The
Myth of the European Miracle |
Blaut: 2 |
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Wednesday,
2-20 |
Blaut's Theory of the Rise of the West |
Blaut: 3, 4, 5 |
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Friday,
2-22 |
Exercise & Discussion 3 |
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Monday,
2-25 |
Contingency Session |
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Wednesday,
2-27 project memo due
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Review |
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Friday,
3-1 |
First Exam |
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Monday,
3-4
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Civilizations and Natural Resources: Easter Island, Mesopotamia, Rome |
Hughes, JD. 2003. "Easter Island:
Model for Environmental History?" Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
14(2): pp. 77-83. |
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Wednesday,
3-6
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Civilizations
and Natural Resources: Easter Island, Mesopotamia, Rome Intro to Exercise & Discussion 4 - Concept Map |
Charles,
Dan. 2012. “Farmers
Face Tough Choices on Ways to Fight Weeds.” National Public Radio. Morning Edition, March 11.
Davidson, Adam. 2012. “Meet
Claudia, the High Tech Cow.” National Public Radio. Morning
Edition, March 19.
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Friday,
3-8
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Exercise & Discussion 4 –
Concept Map
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Monday,
3-11 to
Friday 3-15 |
No
Classes, Enjoy
Spring Break |
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Monday,
3-18
deadline to sign up for reviewmeetings |
Poster Project Q & A Planning & Discussion |
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Wednesday,
3-20
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due date and exercise postponed until Friday |
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Friday,
3-22
draft posters due |
Draft Poster Peer Review Exercise & Discussion (substitute for #2) |
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Monday,
3-25
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Knowledge:
The Greek Legacy
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Thanos, CA. 1994. "Aristotle and Theophrastus on
plant-animal interactions." Chapter 1 in Plant-Animal Interactions in
Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Netherlands: Khwer Academic Publishers. pp. 3-11. |
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Wednesday,
3-27
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Christianity
and the Western World View
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White L. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic
Crisis." 1967. Science 155(3767): pp. 1203-1207. |
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Friday, 3-29
Good Friday |
Environmental
Ethics Continuum Exercise & Discussion 5
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Monday, 4-1
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Medieval
Times: Feudalism, Magna Carta & the Black Death
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Domesday Book |
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Wednesday,
4-3
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"Rousseau's
Revenge"
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Bromley,
DW. 1998. "Rousseau's Revenge: The Demise of the Freehold Estate."
In Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights. Ed. H. M.
Jacobs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp.
19-28. |
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Friday,
4-5
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Exercise & Discussion 6 |
be sure you've read Bromley's
essay (see above)
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Monday,
4-8 |
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Wednesday,
4-10
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Reformation
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Friday,
4-12
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Wars of the Roses & other Middle-Evils, Guest Lecture, Eric Stevens |
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Monday,
4-1
5
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Scientific
Revolution(s): |
Kuhn, Thomas S. 2009. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. http://www.brittanica.com/EBchecked/topic/324460/Thomas-S-Kuhn |
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Wednesday,4-17
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Scientific Revolution(s): the Cosmos and the Natural World |
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Friday,
4-19
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Enlightenment
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Rousseau,
Social Contract Locke, Two Treatises |
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Monday,
4-22
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Review
Session
Kim & Erica
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Wednesday,
4-24
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Review Session |
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Friday,
4-26
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Review
Session |
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Monday, 4-29 |
Cumulative Exam |
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