13. Costs of Production
• Water Use
• Fossil Fuels
• Continued carbon emissions contributing to global warming
• Continued dependence on petrochemicals
15. How is this related to our class
• Shows how humans have impacted environmental
change
• These impacts are political: they are motivated by
economic, social, cultural, and psychological factors
• Resistance to Change…
16. Writing Intensive and
LASC/DC 10
• Dragon Core/LASC 10:
Humans and the
Environment
• Writing Intensive
17. Lessons
• Twenty-one “class
sessions”
• Lectures
• Section One: What is Environmental History?
• Section Two: A short history of the
Environment
• Section Three: Commodities
• Section Four: 20th century enviro. problems
• Readings
• Articles on Moodle
• Login through a VPN
• Course Packet
• Optional: all readings are free online
• Discussion on Moodle
19. The Paper
• Twelve-page paper on environmental history of anything
between 1500-2000
• List of possible topics on Moodle
• Research based
• Intelligent use of the internet
• Written in steps (see syllabus for deadlines)
• Contact me for individual meetings in the next two weeks.
• nwclarke on google talk, skype, facebook, yahoo, msn, twitter, and
ichat.
• Office hours
20. Short Papers and Exam
• Film Analysis: Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Book Analysis: based on your research topic.
• Exam: covering the entire semester
21. Extra Credit
• Films, talks, books, or activities.
• 300-word essay: one paragraph of what the film or
experience was and one paragraph on how it related to
the class.
23. Submitting Papers
• Please submit on Moodle in the appropriate assignment
• Submit as a pdf file
• Put the class number and MSUM email address in the
file name
o
Example: 379S1.clarke.electriccar.pdf
24. Activities to be done this week
• One-page introduction: what do you hope to
learn in this class?
• Introductory forum post
• Lessons Two to Four
• Start thinking of paper topics!
