Ben Fitzhugh
Office: 412 Condon
Phone: 206 543-9604
Email Ben
Steve Harrell
Office: 408 Condon
Phone: 206 755-0071
Email Steve
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Instructors: Ben Fitzhugh Office: 412 Condon Phone: 206 543-9604 Email Ben |
Steve Harrell Office: 408 Condon Phone: 206 755-0071 Email Steve |
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Format and RequirementsLearning Objectives: This class is designed to help you develop critical reading and thinking, collaborative learning, written and oral communication skills, understanding about the historical dimension of human interactions with environment and climate, and informed global stewardship. Mechanics This class is a seminar. The instructors' primary purpose is to facilitate and moderate discussion. Expect and be prepared to engage in active, creative, and critical discussion of each class's readings and general topics. To facilitate this process, for some topics and readings, students will be asked to take turns preparing insightful and provocative discussion questions. At other times, students will read different articles and come together to share what they learned with a small group of colleagues who read different but related pieces. For each class session, students will be required to submit or post comments on assigned readings on the class go-post site. Research Paper In addition to class discussions about readings and related topics, each student will research a historical ecological topic that addresses a contemporary human-environmental issue with insights drawn from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic cases. The last four class periods are reserved for presentation and discussion of these projects, and a paper (5000-7000 words or 15-25 pages, typed) will be due on Monday, December 14 at 5:00 p.m. At intervals throughout the quarter students will be required to submit title and abstract and then an expanded abstract as steps towards the preparation of the final presentation and term paper. More details about the paper assignment can be found here. Readings Required readings are mostly scholarly articles in journals and book chapters linked on individual days' web pages. There is no required text and no paper class reading packet. Grading Students will be evaluated on the basis of their class participation (discussion facilitation, discussion participation, and on-time posting of comments) and on the final paper:
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