ENGLxENVI 262 / Syllabus

LITERATURE AND
THE NATURAL WORLD

English x Environmental Studies 262 / Spring 2014

Information specific to this course

• Coordinates
• Description
• Booklist
• Your work
• Your final project
• Acknowledgments

General policies

• Attendance and Participation
• Response papers
• Decorum
• “Doing the reading”
• Accommodations

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Coordinates

• MEETINGS. This course meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1:10 – 2:10 p.m., in Art Commons 202.
• PROFESSOR. I’m Neil Chudgar, and I teach in the English department. My office is Old Main 202, and I schedule my office hours using Google Calendar (click here to make an appointment).
• CONTACT. My e-mail address is nchudgar@macalester.edu, and you can reach my office at campus extension 6641. To e-mail all your colleagues in the class—this is a very useful thing—write to ENGL-262-01@lists.macalester.edu and ENVI-262-01@lists.macalester.edu. (Clicking that link will open a new email to your colleagues.)

Booklist

No books are required; all readings will be provided as xeroxes (in class) or in pdf (by e-mail or linked from the course calendar).

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Your work

You’ll earn your grade for this course by collegial participation in our common discussion, in class and at other times; by writing a brief response paper every week (or as assigned); and by submitting a final project. Your grade will be determined according to the following rubric:

• 30 percent for participation,
• 30 percent for response papers,
• 10 percent for assigning reading one day, and
• 30 percent for your final project.

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Acknowledgments

This course has been improved by the advice and conversation of many, particularly Profs. Sandra Macpherson, Heather Keenleyside, Bill Brown, James Dawes, Daylanne English, Theresa Krier, and Dan Trudeau, and participants in events sponsored by the Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching. Our approach to certain texts and themes has been guided by audiences at meetings of the Modern Language Association and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. We will owe our thinking about “objects” to, among others, members of the Speculative Realism Reading Group, a project of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies collaborative at the University of Minnesota. This version of the course is being taught for the first time this semester.

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