The Whale Rider & "A Presentation of Whales"

Here is your second blog post topic. How did reading these literary works ('the experience of the exterior landscape') shape the 'interior landscape of your brains' as Barry Lopez puts it? Feel free to comment on any aspect that strikes you the most.

Updated Syllabus for Lit&Environment Class

Here is what we are going to do starting from April 15, 2015:

Week 9: April 15, 2015  “Local and Global”

Reading due:

            * Yamashita, Karen Tei. Through the Arc of  Rainforest

            * Heise, Ursula K. “Local rock and global plastic”

Week 10: April 22, 2015

            Mid-term

Week 11: April 29, 2015

* Yamashita, Karen Tei. Through the Arc of  Rainforest

Week 12: May 6, 2015

NO CLASS- CSS2015

Blog post due:4th^d blog post will about Through the Arc of  Rainforest. (300-400 words)

Week 12: May 13, 2015 “Environmentalism and Climate Change

Reading due:

            * Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. 2003

            * Carson, Rachel. “A Fable for Tomorrow.” Silent Spring.

Week 13: May 20, 2015

            * Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. 2003

Blog post due:5^th  blog post will about Oryx and Crake. (300-400 words)

Week 14: May 27, 2015

            * Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. 2003