CSUN English 113-B: Spring 2014 Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

• Hume. Garbology. New York: Little Brown, 2010. aka Garb

• Norton Field Guide to Writing: with Readings and Handbook. 3nd edition. Bullock, Goggin and Weinberg eds. Norton.New York, 2013.

• 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 moodle. You should print out readings as needed.

Refer to the moodle for the class schedule and due dates.

• Project Text: critical analysis

  • Hume. Garbology

• 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 Jan 2014