Aug 27 Introduction; X4-13C. Group Participation Guidelines; Guidelines for Listening; Racial Harrassment Policy; Sexual Harrassment Policy; journal and writing assignments; Questionnaires
Sept 1 American Journals 369--382
Sept 3 X41-52 British nature journals: Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Hopkins, etc. Who want me to call in their order?
Sept 8 X96-118J Jones, Life on Waller Creek; Meet at Waller Creek behind the Alumni Center.
Sept 10 Interchange on Waller Creek. Bring a page or so of writing in text-only (ASCII) format on a diskette.
Sept 15 Recollections of youth in nature: X53-63 Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood"; X Wordsworth's "Prelude" + X64-5 Thomas's "Fern Hill"
Sept 17 Assignment Due: X92-95 Road Map of Your Journey; Thoreau 413-419;
Sept 22 Assignment Due: Examples of Producing Essays and Web Sites About Nature: Abbey 253-264, Harris 296-301, Eiseley 565-570; and http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E379S/fall97/class.html
Sept 24 Kumin 421-425, Unity in the writer. X76-86 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind;
Sept 29; FIRST ESSAY DUE on diskette in text only mode and on paper as per instructions; Post First Story in MAIL and hand in polished hard copy in pocket folder with name on outside. Begin commenting on the stories of others.
Oct 1; Finish commenting on the essays of others.
Oct 6 Daniel 592-603; X14-40 "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing"
Oct 8 Interchange on "the Tree:" active vs. passive response to nature.
Oct 13, Otherness 3-4, 8-13, 20-40; X135 " The Sympathetic Imagination"; X137-154D. H. Lawrence, "Wild Common" Reptile and Fish poems
Oct 15, Birds and Beasts 93-133, 137-144, 160-167; X Hopkins: The Windhover
Oct 20 Meet at the Biology Ponds, north of the Tower.
Oct 22 Interchange on the Biology Ponds, Bring a page or so of writing in text-only (ASCII) format on a diskette.
Oct 27. REVISED ESSAY DUE . Nature and Mind: Lopez 570-573, Soto 583-587, Berry 477-484, Heat-Moon 496-502 + X87-88 Burch, The Whorf hypothesis
Oct 29 Unity Consciousness: the idea of unity in variety, how each medium communicates the idea of the whole which has no truly isolated or entirely individual parts, only local symptoms or manifestations. This idea has been variously described as a web of mutual interdependency, or a special harmonious unity, balance, or equilibrium achieved in an ecosystem not by leveling the forces of diversity but by promoting them. X88-91 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature" ; + X122-134. Alan Watts," The World is Your Body"; Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive
Nov 3 Meet at Waller Creek behind the Alumni Center. Focus on the unity in the variety, perhaps by imitating one of the writers we have read.
Nov 5 Interchange on Waller Creek
Nov 10 SECOND ESSAY DUE. Post Story in MAIL and hand in polished hard copy along with first essay and revised first essay (both with instructor comments on them) in pocket folder with name on outside. Begin commenting on the essays of others.
Nov 12 Finish commenting on the essays of others.
Nov 17 British sense of place: X Hopkins: Binsey Poplars; X Wordsworth's "Michael"; Dobie, A Texan in England; Review Clare, X43A-43J
Nov 19 American Sense of Place 455-457, 477-484, 496-502; : X Bedicheck, "The Wing of the Swallow" compare to Clare; "Cedar Cutter" compare to Wordsworth's
"Michael"
Nov 24 This day to be replaced by another day to be decided in class when we meet at the Japanese Gardens in Zilker park. They were built by Isamu Taniguchi, author of "The spirit of the garden": one unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature. X136 The Spirit of the Japanese Garden at Zilker Park
Dec 1 joy in nature: X Hopkins's "The Woodlark," "Spring,"
"Hurrahing in Harvest; X119 Wordsworth's "The Green Linnet," X Wordsworth's " Lines Written in Early Spring," X120 Wordsworth's "The Excursion lines 42-55"; X Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Dec 3 REVISED ESSAY DUE. Leavetaking: 41-53, 72-91, + X194-195, 199-200; X Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey + Immortality Ode