This fall, C406 is designed to focus on the moments in U.S. history
when public advocacy has intersected with environmental social
movements.  This means we will not only be outlining the histories of
U.S. environmental movements, but we will also be developing our
skills as advocates and critics of issues related to the environment.

Though many disciplines inform our backgrounds and this course, our
goal is to focus on the relationship between the environment and how
we communicate with, about, and in it.  Specifically, we will
emphasize what have been the constraints-both the limitations and the
possibilities-of persuading U.S. publics about environmental concerns.

Our readings reflect the vast range of issues that the course
objectives entail, from wilderness preservation to environmental
justice to environmental backlash.  We will consider a variety of
advocacy practices, including travel, slide shows, boycotts, civil
disobedience, and media campaigns.



Required Readings:

Nash, Roderick. (1982, third edition).  Wilderness and the American
Mind.  New Haven:
Yale UP.  ISBN: 0-300-02910-1

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the
Environmental Justice
Movement.  (2001).  Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster (Eds.).  New
York, NY: NY UP.  ISBN: 0-8147-1537-0

Helvarg, David. (1997).  The War Against the Greens: The 'Wise-Use"
Movement, The
New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violence.  San Francisco: Sierra
Club.
	ISBN: 0-87156-907-8