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Course Syllabus HCOL 185: SU: Sustainability: A Cultural History MWF 2:20-3:10; F 3:30-4:20 * University Heights North, The University of Vermont, Fall 2018; Instructor: Professor M. D. Usher; Office: Department of Classics, 481 Main Street, Room 303;Contact: 656-4431; home: 897-2822; e-mail: [email protected] Course Description: “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” —Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene II “Look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, And to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.” —Isaiah 51:1 Proponents of sustainability tend to present their ideas and prescriptions as new and innovative and argue that sustainable living is a defining concern of our time. Sustainable living is indeed an urgent, pressing issue for today’s world, but students in this course will learn that many of the fundamental tenets of the modern sustainability movement are also hallmarks of ancient Greek culture and thought. This course, a foray into the genealogy of ideas, traces the trajectory of modern notions of ecological and socio-economic sustainability back through time. Through selected readings spanning over two thousand years, students will see old ideas and precepts cropping up again and again over the course of history, up to and including the present day. They will grapple with conceptual and philosophical aspects of sustainability and with sustainable living itself (and the inevitable trade-offs and contradictions therein) experientially via a field trip to the small, diversified farm my wife and I built from scratch as an experiment in sustainable living, where we raise sheep, tend a large garden, and manage a maple sugarbush. (For more information visit www.worksanddaysfarm.com.) Course Requirements and Grading: Class sessions will be fully participatory and discussion- based, punctuated occasionally by mini-lectures and spontaneous excursuses by the instructor. There will be short quizzes on the content of the assigned readings at the beginning of every class period (simple identification and short-answer). The point of this is to give you an incentive (and reward) for keeping up on the reading, and to ensure that you are prepared for class. These quizzes will comprise 30% of your grade. The other components of your grade are as follows: three 3-4-page essays: 30%; class attendance and course participation (= preparedness and discussion in class, including one small group presentation and the quality of your involvement in the course’s experiential component): 30%; one “soundbite” final assignment: 10%. NOTE: Quizzes missed due to an unexcused absence cannot be made up. An unexcused absence is one for which I have not received prior notification. 1 Books to Buy (*= available for purchase at the UVM Bookstore): *Hesiod, Works and Days and Theogony. Translated by M. L. West. Oxford. ISBN: 019953831X; $11.95 *The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora by Mabel Lang, revised by John McK. Camp II. American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN: 9780876616420; $4.95; PDF for free at www.agathe.gr/Icons/pdfs/AgoraPicBk-4.pdf; also www.agathe.gr/democracy/democracy.html *Plato, Republic. Translated by G.M.A. Grube, revised by C.D.C. Reeve. Hackett. ISBN: 0872201368; $12.00 *John Ruskin, Unto This Last [1862] and Other Writings. Edited by Clive Wilmer. Penguin. ISBN: 0140432116; $16.00 Scott and Helen Nearing, Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World [1970]. Any edition: many used copies available from $3.04 . E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered [1973], with a new foreword by Bill McKibben. Harper Perennial. ISBN: 0061997765; $15.99; or any edition: many used copies available from $3.43 . Other Materials (PDFs to be distributed): Articles/Book Chapters/Selections: Raymond Williams, “Ideas of Nature,” from Problems in Materialism and Culture (London: Verso, 1980) Henry David Thoreau, “Reading” from Walden [1854]; annotated edition of the whole book online at http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html Thucydides, “Pericles’ Funeral Oration” (= History of the Peloponnesian War 2.35-46) in Woodruff, trans. On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Hackett, 1993. Amartya Sen, “Development as Capability Expansion,” Journal of Development Planning 19 (1989): 41–58 M. D. Usher, “A City for Pigs,” “Cynics and Stoics,” “Mutual Coercion, Mutually Agreed Upon,” manuscript draft of Chapters 4, 5 and 6 of Cosmos to Commons: Systems and Sustainability in Classical Life and Thought (forthcoming, SUNY 2019) 2 Elinor Ostrom (1990). Selections from Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, 1990 Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, New Series, Vol. 162, No. 3859 (Dec. 13, 1968), pp. 1243-1248 Selections from Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes, With Other Popular Moralists. Translated by Robin Hard. Oxford University Press. Nick Paumgarten, “The Scold” (about Mr. Money Mustache, aka Peter Adeney), The New Yorker (February 29, 2016), pp. 22-27 Audio Lecture: Henry David Thoreau, Walking [1862]. Downloadable audiobook from audible.com (Simply Magazine, 1997) [Listening Length: 1 hour and 28 minutes]; $1.95. Also available in print from CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010; ISBN: 1451529791 [38 pages]; $5.36. Children’s Book: M. D. Usher, Diogenes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) Films: The Corporation (Big Picture Media Corporation, 2005), a documentary film by Joel Bakan, based on his book of the same name. Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. Runtime: 2 hours 25 minutes. Manufactured Landscapes (Zeitgeist Films, 2007), a documentary film about the wasteland photography of Edward Byrtynsky. Directed by Jennifer Baichwal. Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes. No Impact Man (Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2010), a documentary film about Manhattan resident Colin Beavan’s experiment in sustainable living. Directed by Laura Gabbertand and Justin Schein. Runtime: 90 minutes. Journey of the Universe: An Epic Story of Cosmic, Earth, and Human Transformation (Shelter Island, 2013). Filmed on the Greek island of Samos, birthplace of Pythagoras, this documentary, narrated by ecological philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme, presents a systems view of Life over the course of one day, from dawn to dusk. Directed by Patsy Northcutt and David Kennard (director of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos). Runtime: 57 minutes. 3 “The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts,” from All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (BBC, 2011), a 3-part documentary critique of systems theory and computer culture by Adam Curtis. Runtime: 52 minutes. Grizzly Man (Lions Gate, 2005), a film about the tragic fate of naïve wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell. Directed by Werner Herzog. Runtime: 103 minutes. Schedule: 8/27 (M) INTRO/ORIENTATION 8/29 (W) [Discussion] Henry David Thoreau, “Reading,” from Walden [1854] 8/31 (F) [Discussion] Hesiod, Works & Days, West pp. 37-61 9/3 (M) LABOR DAY - NO CLASS 9/5 (W) [Discussion] Hesiod cont. and Thucydides, “Funeral Oration” 9/7 (F) [Discussion] Plato, Republic, Reeve pp. 1-20 9/10 (M) [Discussion] Republic, Reeve pp 21-49 9/12 (W) [Discussion] Usher, “City of Pigs” and Republic, Reeve pp. 50-59 9/14 (F) [Film] Journey of the Universe (57 minutes); 9/17 (M) [Workshop/Discussion] Draft of 1st Paragraph of 1st Essay Due Republic, Reeve pp. 122-149 9/19 (W) [Discussion] Republic, Reeve pp. 178-189 9/21 (F) [Farm Overnight] 9/24 (M) [Discussion]: Usher, Diogenes and Diogenes, Sayings, Hard pp. as on PDF handout; Usher, “Cynics and Stoics” FIRST ESSAY DUE 9/26 (W) [Discussion] Paumgarten, “The Scold” 9/28 (F) [Film] No Impact Man (90 minutes) 10/1 (M) [Discussion] Williams, “Ideas of Nature” 10/3 (W) [Workshop/Discussion] Thoreau, “Walking” (audio); Draft of Second Essay due 10/5 (F) [Film] Grizzly Man (103 minutes) 10/8 (M) FALL RECESS - SECOND ESSAY DUE 10/10 (W) [Discussion] Ruskin, Unto This Last, “The Roots of Honour” (pp. 167-179) 10 /12 (F) [Film] Manufactured Landscapes (1 hour 27 minutes) 10/15 (M) [Discussion] Ruskin, “The Veins of Wealth” (pp. 180-189) 4 10/17 (W) [Discussion] Ruskin, “Qui Judicatis Terram” (pp. 190-203) 10/19 (F) [Discussion] Ruskin, “Ad Valorem” (pp. 204-228) 10/22 (M) [Discussion] Sen, “Capabilities Approach” 10/24 (W) [Discussion] SYSTEMS READING, TBA 10/26 (F) [Film] “Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts” (52 minutes) 10/29 (M) [Discussion] Hardin, “Tragedy of the Commons” 10/31 (W) [Discussion] Usher, “Mutual Coercion, Mutually Agreed Upon” 11/2 (F) [Film] The Corporation (2 hours 25 minutes) 11/5 (M) [Discussion] Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, pp. TBA 11/7 (W) [Discussion] Schumacher, pp. TBA 11/9 (F) NO CLASS - THIRD ESSAY DUE 11/12 (M) NO CLASS - Nearings, The Good Life, pp. TBA 11/14 (W) NO CLASS - Nearings, The Good Life, pp. TBA 11/16 (F) [Discussion] Nearings, The Good Life, pp. TBA 11/19 (M) - 11/23 (F) THANKSGIVING RECESS - NO CLASS 11/26 (M) [Presentations] 11/28 (W) [Presentations] 11/30 (F) [Presentations] 12/3 (M) [Presentations] 12/5 (W) [Presentations] 12/7 (F) LAST DAY OF CLASSES - SOUNDBITE ASSISGNMENT DUE according to Exam Matrix 5 .
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