CSUN English 113-B: Spring 2012 Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

• Paulo Bacigalupi. Ship Breaker. New York: Little Brown, 2010. aka SB

  Norton Field Guide to Writing: with readings and Handbook. 2nd edition. Bullock, Goggin and Weinberg eds. Norton.New York, 2010.

• A college level dictionary.

Some of the readings for the class can be accessed at Course Reserve Services. You will be asked for the instructor's name, your student ID and PIN. You will also need the course password which I will give you in class. You should print out readings as needed. If you do not want to print from the electronic database, you may go to the fourth floor of Oviatt library and request the hard copy in order to make your own copy.

Refer to the class schedule for due dates.

• Project Text: critical analysis

  • Ursula K. Le Guin. "The Future and Science Fiction." HO

• Project Space

  Tentative readings and other materials- this list is TBA and will change as class progresses.

  • "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

  • Please choose one article from the following as your own choice article.
    • Rachel Carson: "The Obligation to Endure." Excerpt from Silent Spring

    • David Suzuki. "The Sacred Balance."

    • Ricard and Thuan "The Universe in a Grain of Sand"

  • Sample paper: "Rare Earth Elements: Economics of Waste and Recovery, "

• Project Web
  • Amy Bruckman
  • Howard Rheingold
  • Lawrence Lessig

Substitutions and changes will be announced in class as well as on the web.

Last Revised Dec '12.