rhetorics of sustainability:
discourse, science, and culture

engl 597 & hort 503 fall 2006
preston k. andrews
patricia freitag ericsson

 

 

This schedule may change as the course progresses. Any updates will be made on this schedule and no paper copies will be handed out after the first day of class.

Week 1	August 24	Introduction to course: definitions of sustainability; Sustainability by Derek Owens; discussion of definitions of sustainability
Week 2	Aug. 31	Introduction to rhetoric: Lindeman on rhetoric, Ericsson on kairos and decorum; **** on ethos, pathos, logos, Rhetoric of Science from Gross; Rhetoric of Science from Harris
Week 3	Sept. 7	Principles of Sustainability by Simon Dresner
Week 4	Sept. 14	Guest Speaker: John Reganold Regents Professor of Soil Science Research Article by John Swales; Ecospeak Chapter 3 by Killingsworth and Palmer ; Nature article by Reganold/Andrews; Historical Perspectives by John Pesek
Week 5	Sept. 21	Guest speaker: Tom J. Bartuska Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture and Construction Management The economies of sustainability by John Ikerd Ecospeak Chapter 2 and Chapter 7 by Killingsworth and Palmer
Week 6	Sept. 28	Our Common Future, The Brundtland Report
Week 7	Oct. 5	Tracking the Rhetorical Jeremiad by Opie and Elliot; assigned presentations
Week 8	Oct. 12	Technology and Sustainability by Aidan Davison
Week 9	Oct. 19	Technology and Sustainability by Aidan Davison
Week 10	Oct. 26	WSU Sustainability Conference
Week 11	Nov. 2	Green Culture by Carl Herndl and Stuart Brown; assigned presentations
Week 12	Nov. 9	Green Culture by Carl Herndl and Stuart Brown; assigned presentations
Week 13	Nov. 16	Donald Worster Shake Grounds of Sustainability
Week 14	Nov. 30	Mindwalk
Week 15	Dec. 7	Final presentations

 

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