CSUN English 113-B: Spring 2015 Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

• Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker. 2010. aka SB

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

• Sustainability: a Reader for Writers. Ed. Carl Herndl. Oxford UP. New York. 2014. ISBN: 978-0-19-994750-8.

• 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 Web
  • Jill Walker Rettberg. Weblogs: Learning in Public"
  • Eli Pariser: Beware Online "Filter Bubbles." TedTalk
  • Amy Bruckman

• Project Text: critical analysis

  • Ship Breaker.
  • Le Guin, Ursula K. Science Fiction (HO)
  • Sixty Minutes: The Ship Breakers of Bangladesh
  • "The Gleaners and I." Varda. Video.

• Project Space: Trash and Sustainability

  Tentative readings and other materials- this list may change as class progresses.

  • Royte. Garbage Land: the Trail of Trash various excerpts retrieved in Mahara or as HO.

  • Carson, Rachel.: "The Obligation to Endure." Excerpt from Silent Spring (4 - 11)

  • David Suzuki. "The Sacred Balance." HO

  • Hardin, Garret. "Tragedy of the Commons." (28 - 46).

  • Diamond. "The World as a Polder." (15 - 27)

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

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

Last Revised Jan 2015