DATE	TOPIC	ACTIVITIES	ASSIGNMENTS
Aug. 29	CALIFORNIA: its landscape, natural history and destiny	Introduction to course; Forming Regional Groups; Mulholland's Dream	Read Handouts
Sept. 5	Module A: The Desert Province	Quiz #1 Response Paper #1 due Basic Ecology: Is California an Island? Land of Little Rain	Fradkin: Preface, The Approach, & I. Deserts Muir: The Wild Sheep (print & read!) FREE MP3 file of the Wild Sheep: Austin: Land of Little Rain (download: print & read!)
Sept. 12	Deserts (continued)	DiscussionIs there an ecology of fear? California's Desert Provinces; Land of the Joshua Tree A Walk in the SSU Native Plants Garden	Gilbar: Gary Nabhan's The Palms in Our Hands, p. 219-234 Austin: The Basket Maker (print & read!) Mosley: Begin your reading of Little Scarlet
Sept. 19	Module B: The Mountains of California The Sierra Nevada	Quiz #2 Response Paper #2 due Discussion Dregs of the Earth: Ecological Effects of Hydraulic Mining in the Sierra Field Trip to Petaluma Adobe Meet in Classroom first.	Fradkin: II. The Sierra See Sierra Slides on web Gilbar: Mark Twain's Lake Tahoe, p. 32-39 Muir: The Sierra Nevada (print & read!) Free MP3 file of the Sierra Nevada
Sept. 26	Integrating History, Literature and the Natural World	Quiz #3 Response Paper #3 due Jack London & Jack Kerouac	Fradkin: II. The Sierra (continued) Gilbar:: Jack Kerouac's Climbing Matterhorn Peak, p. 40-51 Muir: The Glaciers (print & read! FREE MP3 file of The Glaciers
Oct. 3	Module C: Mountaintops: Ecological Islands (of Relicts & Endemics)	Midterm Exam #1 (in class part) Discussion Sierra, Klamath, Cascades, Coast Ranges, Transverse and Peninsular: Distinct Features Hand out Midterm Exam Essay # 1	Muir: The Snow (print & read!) FREE MP3 file of The Snow Jack London The Story of an Eyewitness (download, print and read) Gilbar: M.F.K. Fisher's Spirits of the Valley, p. 129-134
Oct. 10	Closer to Home Rachel Carson, Pollution and the Landscape Cl ear Lake's Legacy	Midterm Exam #1 Due Rachel Carson; other related activities Field Trip to SSU Special Collections	Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (go online:print & read!) Gilbar: Robert Louis Stevenson's The Sea Fogs, p. 101-107
Oct. 17	Module D: Land of Fire, the Cascades & the Modoc Plateau	How did the Cascades form? Cultures of the Land of Fire Field Trip to Armstrong Redwoods	Fradkin: III. Land of Fire Gilbar: John Steinbeck's Flight, p. 116-128
Oct. 24	Module E: The California Coast and Estuaries	Quiz #4 Response Paper #4 due Discussion Bodega Head and the Demise of the Nuclear Energy Industry	Fradkin: IV. Land of Water Gilbar: Jack London's On Sonoma Mountain, p. 108-115
Oct. 31	The San Andreas Fault Bodega Head and Bodega Bay; Our Endangered Coastal Province	Field Trip to the Bodega Bay (Intertidal; Mudflats; & Bodega Head) Vanishing Wetlands Hand out Midterm Exam #2	Fradkin: VI. The Fractured Province (central coast) Gilbar: John McPhee's The San Andreas Discrepancy, p.305-315
Nov. 7	Module F: The Great Central Valley of California: Disappearance of Vegetation due to farming	The most endangered of the States of California. Midterm Exam #2 Due	Fradkin: V. The Great Valley Gilbar: Wm. H. Brewer's Into the Valley, p. 93-100 Muir: The Bee Pastures (print & read!) FREE MP3 file of the Bee Pastures
Nov. 14	Module G: The Profligate Province	Los Angeles: landscape and cultures in the region	You have FINISHED reading Mosley's Little Scarlet! Make an OUTLINE of the plot and characters! Fradkin: VII. The Profligate Province (south coast)
Nov. 21	WORK ON YOUR RESEARCH PROJECTS	NO CLASS	Muir: The River Floods (print & read!) FREE MP3 file of The River Floods
Nov. 28	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY	NO CLASS
Dec. 5	Los Angeles area	I. Little Scarlet analysis II. Discussion: Social Justice; what is it? Environmental implications will be explored. Student Research Presentations	Gilbar: Joan Dideon's The Santa Ana Gilbar: Gary Snyder's Afterward: Coming into the Watershed, p. 355-367
Dec. 12	Seven States of California Revisited Looking into the Future: The Cultural Faces of California	Student Research Presentations Handout Takehome Final Exam
Dec. 19	Final Examination	Due @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m in the classroom	Early submissions? There will be instructions on the Final Exam.

Please Note: Any changes to this Schedule will be announced in class.