TEXTS AND ASSIGNMENTS
for English/Env Stds 243
REQUIRED TEXTS for English/Env Stds 243
Note : You need to purchase all of the books at the beginning of the semester because the bookstore will send them back after a few weeks.
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York : Ballantine, 1985.
Berry, Wendell. The Art of the Commonplace. Washington , D.C. : Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.
Berry, Wendell. The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982. San Francisco : North Point Press, 1987.
Payne, Daniel G. Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics. Hanover : University Press of New England , 1996.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert. New York : Vintage, 2002.
ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING
15% Class discussion, including group student panel
15% Reading journal: study questions, precis, rhetorical analyses
10% Test on American nature writing
20% Paper on Terry Tempest Williams
20% Paper on Edward Abbey
20% Paper on Wendell Berry
- Also required: attendance at the talk by Dr. Cronon on Tuesday evening 10/4. Write a one paragraph critical response.
Calculating Grades
At the end of the semester grades will be calculated as a percentage of the total, possible points:
> 92%: A; 88-92%: AB; 83-87%: B; 78-82%: BC; 73-77%: C; 68-72%: CD; 60-67%: D; < 60%: F.
ELECTRONIC CONTACT
We will be in contact throughout the semester via email. It is university policy that you establish and use your uwosh.edu email account. I will be sending you important messages from time to time through email, and you are responsible for them. So you should check your email at least once a day. If you have a personal email account (e.g., yahoo or hotmail), you can set it up to forward those messages to your uwosh.edu account. It is your responsibility to ensure that we are in email contact – let me know if you are not receiving emails from me. In addition, much of the class material is on the course website, and you are responsible for accessing that material.
COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
- Due dates : Yo u must submit assignments by the beginning of class on the due date. Do not miss class in order to work on your homework or papers. Any assignment not handed in will get 0 (zero) points (much worse than an “F”).
- Attendance : Both because of the difficult nature of the material and the importance of class discussion, regular attendance is crucial to all concerned. Students will be allowed two absences due to circumstances other than illness [bring note on the illness]. Each subsequent absence will result in a reduction of the final grade one mark, e.g. BC to C, per absence. More than six [6] absences for any reason will result in removal from the class. Absences on days when there is peer editing will count double. Classes missed on account of athletic contests or family emergencies do not count as absences due to illness – save your “free days” for such emergencies.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is committed to a standard of academic integrity for all students. The system guidelines state: “Students are responsible for the honest completion and representation of their work, for the appropriate citation of sources, and for respect of others’ academic endeavors.” (UWS 14.01, Wisconsin Administrative Code) Students are subject to disciplinary action for academic misconduct, which is defined in UWS 14.03, Wisconsin Administrative Code. Students at UW Oshkosh have been suspended form the University for academic misconduct. Students are encouraged to review the procedures to violations of academic honesty. The system guidelines and local procedures are printed in the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Student Discipline Code 2003-2004 and can be found on the Dean of Students website at www.uwosh.edu/dean/conduct.htm. For a website that gives a helpful discussion of plagiarism, see http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html.
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