English 1A Spring 2014 Tentative Reading List
Required Texts
- Sustainability: a Reader for Writers. Ed. Carl Herndl. Oxford
UP. New York. 2014. ISBN: 978-0-19-994750-8.
Highly recommended Texts
- Rules of Thumb. Weinberg et al.
- A college level dictionary.
Tentative readings and other materials- this list is TBA and will change as class
progresses.
Online Communities - tentative - links to follow
Research Project
- "The Gleaners and I." Varda. Video.
- Royte. Garbage Land: the Trail of Trash various excerpts
retrieved in Mahara or as HO.
- Conover. "The Flesh Underneath" Book review of ethnography (HO)
- Rachel Carson: "The Obligation to Endure." Excerpt from Silent
Spring
- David Suzuki. "The Sacred Balance."
- Leopold. "Thinking Like a Mountain."
- Diamond. "The World as a Polder: What Does it Mean to us Today?"
- Hardin. "Tragedy of the Commons."
Sample paper: "Rare Earth Elements: Economics of Waste and Recovery, "
Textual analysis
- Le Guin (HO)
- novel
- NPR Science Blog
Substitutions and changes will be announced in class as well as on the
web.
Last revised Aug 2014