Syllabus

WEEK		Themes	Readings/ Assignments
1	Aug 23	Environmental art Concept: Organism plus environment Humans/nature dilemma Altars/shrines	Assign Altar 1
2	Aug 30	Artistic practice Concept: Mapping relations/series Altar 1- critique and discuss Camera practice & Interviews Technical reviews	Read Scott, Mesa-Bains Bring your altar Writing due about altar Assign Altar 2
3	Sept 6	Storytelling Concept:Iteration/biodiversity Altar 2 – critique and discuss	Read LeGuin, String Bag and Wohleben, Secret Life of Trees Altar 2 due Assign series, iteration,
4	Sept 13	Water Concept: ecosystem View Burtynsky, Misrach, Abuelo Grillo	Read Water Natural History- Haraway, Sowing Writing due
5	Sept 20	Wetlands // challenge Cache River Canoe trip Bring: sunscreen, bag for camera,	Read Brown, The River Melt with US Read Clark, Enchantment
6	Sept 27	Climate change/ adaptation View project View Sun Come Up 2-meter project	Compass for Our Journey Margulis, Symbiosis Everywhere Writing due Iteration /series due Assign: Atmosphere
7	Oct 4	Opening of Seasonal Pulse Anthropocene	Scranton, Human Ecologies Rankin, Hurricane Katrina
October 5 and 6       Possible 2-day field trip to St Louis for Anthropocene Curriculum- TBD
8	Oct 11	Anthropocene/ chthulecene species Concept: habitat/ extinction Intolerable beauty- Chris Jordan Brian Ballangee, Brian Collier	The Last Snail Pallid Sturgeon
9	Oct 18	Indigenous Knowledge/law Rose Bird, Shimmer Rights of Nature/Positivistic Law	Braiding Sweetgrass Suparak, Trees Stoeve, “From Watersheds to Mountains, What If We Based Our Borders on Nature?”
10	Oct 25	Health/bodies/iatrogenic Class field trip- Koppers visit Environmental justice Jackie Ormes Civil Rights are green	Elements of Emergence Black Panther Party Service to the People Environmental justice reading
11	Nov 1	Food Decolonizing the diet	Simpson, “Land as Pedagogy”
12	Nov 8	Review of themes and Meetings for project development
13	Nov 15	Project development time Sarah in New Orleans
14	Nov 22	Projects and presentations	project drafts and sketches *****
Nov 29		HOLIDAY
15	Dec 6	Projects and presentations	****
FINALS WEEK		Projects and presentations