Course syllabus

 

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LECTURE SCHEDULE

WEEK 1            WELCOME TO THE ANTHROPOCENE

WEEK 2            ECOCRITICISM: LAYING GROUNDWORK

WEEK 3            VISUALISING CLIMATE ADVOCACY

WEEK 4            CLIMATE FICTION AND ECOTRAUMA

WEEK 5            ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND SLOW VIOLENCE

WEEK 6            UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICISM 

     

MID-SEMESTER BREAK

 

WEEK 7            MAN’S INHUMANITY TO NATURE: NATURE’S INHUMANITY TO MAN

WEEK 8            WILDLIFE ON TV

WEEK 9            ENVIROTOONS

WEEK 10          WASTE

WEEK 11          TOXICITY

WEEK 12          UNSUSTAINABILITY       

 

ASSESSMENTS

 

1. Tutorial Preparation & Participation: 10%
2. Reading/Viewing Quizzes: 20%
3. Response Paper 10%
4. Creative Project 10%
5. Research Essay 50%

          a)  Trigger assignment 5%

          b)  Annotated Bibliography 10%

          c)  Essay 35%

 

1. Tutorial Preparation & Participation:

Deadline: each tutorial beginning March 13 and ending May 29

This assessment consists of 10 weekly tasks in preparation for and participation in weekly tutorials. Each task/tutorial combination is worth 1 mark. Tasks will vary over the course of the semester. Some may involve preparation while others will take place during the tutorial. Tasks may include sourcing images and bringing them for discussion, preparing for and participating in a debate, playing an online game and sharing your experience, making short oral presentations and/or free and formal writing exercises. In order to receive a full mark for each of the 10 tutorials students will need to come in prepared and to participate in the workshop. No partial marks will be awarded. The tutorial tasks will be posted under ‘Assignments’ in CANVAS.

If you are ill or need to miss a tutorial, please advise me in writing via email as soon as you are able. Consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances when course results are finalized. 

 

2. Reading/Viewing Quizzes:

Deadline: Midnight the same day as the lecture for which the readings/viewings were assigned.

For each of the topics from Week 2 to Week 11 you will be required to complete an online quiz based on the required readings and essential viewing. For the readings and viewing please see “Reading List or Modules” in CANVAS.  The quizzes will be online and available under “Quizzes” in Canvas. Each quiz is worth 2 points. The number of questions in each quiz may vary.

  

3. Response Paper 1 Andrew Ross’ “The Ecology of Images” from The Chicago Gangster’s Theory of Life [see MODULE Week 2]

Deadline: Aprll 5 midnight to CANVAS

Length: 750-1000 words

 

4. Creative Exercise:

Deadline: May 10 midnight to CANVAS

Details will be available on CANVAS under Assignments from Week 4

 

5. Research Essay:    

a)   Trigger Assignment:

       Length: 500 words max

       Deadline: May 15  (midnight CANVAS)

       Template will be circulated on CANVAS under Quizzes.

 

b)    Annotated Bibliography

       Length: 750-1000 words max

       Deadline: May 24 (midnight CANVAS)

       Instructions will be circulated on CANVAS under ASSIGNMENTS

 

c)     Research Essay

        Length: 2500-3000 words

        Deadline: June 12 (midnight CANVAS)

        Instructions will be circulated on CANVAS under ASSIGNMENTS