Outdoor Literature

Survey of Outdoor Education Literature - PE 4440
	Ron Watters, Professor Emeritus of Outdoor Education
	Outdoor Literature - Schedule Outdoor Literature: Schedule for 2011 Note: You'll need to have Into Thin Air read by the end of the Thanksgiving vacation. If you will be travelling, or won't have time during the holiday, you'll want to read the book sometime prior to Thanksgiving. Tue. Oct 11. Pre-course Introduction. Classroom attendance is optional. Outdoor History. Generations. Wilderness Concepts. All of the information is found here: Background Reading & Notes # 1 Thur. Oct 13. Pre-course Introduction. Classroom attendance is optional. Tue. Oct 18. First official day of class. Attendance required. Reading from Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper. Background Reading & Notes #2. Landscape painting concepts. Paintings by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran. Photographs by William Henry Jackson. Reading assignment: read Thoreau's Walden, first chapter in the Anthology (pp 3-20). If you do not have the Anthology yet, you can read it here: Thoreau The Thoreau reading must be done for Thursday's (Oct 20) class. Additionally, Background Reading (Notes #1 and Notes #2) must be done by Tue (Oct 25) class. Thur. Oct 20. Thoreau reading due. Discuss Thoreau: the concepts transcendentalism, his experiences at Walden Pond, metaphors and symbols found in his writing, and famous Thoreau passages. Reading assignment: Mark Twain, second chapter in the Anthology (pp. 21-29). If you do not have the Anthology yet, you can read it here: Twain. The Twain reading assignment is due by Tue (Oct 25th), along with Background Reading Notes #1 and Notes # 2. Tue. Oct 25. Twain reading due AND Background Reading Notes #1 and #2 due. Discuss Twain. Assignment: Edward Whymper, third chapter in the Anthology (pp. 30-46). If you do not have the Anthology yet, you can read it here: Whymper. (Be sure to pick up the Anthology at the bookstore. Because of copyright restrictions, no more reading assignments can be posted on-line.) Thur. Oct 27. Whymper reading due. Discuss the Whymper reading. Information on early mountaineering. Watch the first Half of a video on John Wesley Powell. Assignment: Wallace Stegner AND John Wesley Powell in the Anthology (pp. 47-71). Tue. Nov 1. Stegner AND Powell reading due. Powell discussion. Second half of Powell video. Assignment: Isabella Bird AND John Muir in the Anthology (pp. 72-88). Thur. Nov 3. Bird reading due. Isabella Bird discussion. John Muir discussion. No assignment. Tue. Nov 8. Mid Course Test. Assignment: Mary Kingsley in the Anthology (pp. 89-107) Thur. Nov 10. Kingsley reading due. Discuss Mary Kingsley. Discuss Jack London. Read: To Build a Fire. Discuss Robert Service. Read: The Cremation of Sam McGee. Assignment Robert Scott in the Anthology (pp. 108-118) Tue. Nov 15. Scott reading due. Lecture on the history of Arctic Exploration. Scott Discussion. Assignment: Ernest Shackleton in the Anthology (pp. 119-133) Thur. Nov 17. Shackleton reading due. Shackleton discussion. Video on Shackleton. Assignment: Read Into Thin Air. Nov 21-27. Thanksgiving Holliday - No Classes - Note: if you haven't already, be sure to complete the reading of Into Thin Air Tue. Nov 29. Into Thin Air reading due. Everest History. Mallory discussion. Mallory Movie. Into Thin Air Discussion. Assignment: Aldo Leopold AND Sigurd Olson in the Anthology (pp. 134-144) Thur. Dec. 1. Leopold AND Olson reading due. Conservation history lecture. Olson & Leopold Discussion. Assignment: Edward Abbey AND Colin Fletcher in the Anthology (pp. 145 - 156) Tue. Dec 6. Abbey AND Fletcher reading due. Abbey and Fletcher Discussion. Abbey Film. Assignment: Blackadar in the Anthology (pp157-169). Thur. Dec 8. Blackadar reading due. Blackadar Discussion. Blackadar Film. Contemporary Writers (Annie Dillard, David Hayes, Pam Houston, Ann Weiler Walka, Terry Tempest Williams, etc.). Best Reading Lists. December 12-16. Finals [End]