The response papers are 1-2 double-spaced page written assignments that require you to engage with the course material to develop an argument of your own. Each paper should cover one week’s material and can cover any week before its due date and after the previous due date. This allows some element of choice in topic while also requiring steady progress and ensuring timely feedback.
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Sept. 7th Introduction and course logistics
Barnard, Anne, Corey Kilgannon, Jazmine Hughes, Emma Goldberg, and Stephanie Mei-Ling. 2022. “It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer. It Will Be Hotter If You’re Not Rich.” The New York Times, May 28. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/nyregion/heat-waves-climate-change-inequality.html
Mon., Sep. 12th
Readings Oreskes and Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). This very short work of speculative fiction, informed by current climate models, is available online from the Library at:
https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1702216~S4 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Two of the Following:
Stern, White nationalists’ extreme solution to the coming environmental apocalypse https://theconversation.com/white-nationalists-extreme-solution-to-the-coming environmental-apocalypse-121532 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Allison and Miller, Why science needs the humanities to solve climate change
https://theconversation.com/why-science-needs-the-humanities-to-solve-climate change-113832 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Palm and Bolsen, Climate scientists may not be the best communicators of climate threats https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-may-not-be-the-best-communicators-of-climate-threats-121901 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
David, Espange, and Marx, Inequality and climate change: the rich must step up https://theconversation.com/inequality-and-climate-change-the-rich-must-step-up-119074 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Franzen, What if we stopped pretending? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Sept. 14th
Read the introduction to Foster, J. Bellamy, Clark, B.,