Index for PHIL-3180
Ethics and the Environment
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Course Syllabus
Syllabus 3180 Spring 2012
Final Projects
Option I: Individual Term Paper
Option
Sample Student Papers
OR
Option II: Small Group: Two
Options
A. Earth Day Information Booths
Sample
Portfolios will be
brought to class
B. Short Film
Final
Project form: short film
Some
Helpful Hints on Video Editing
Sample
Student Videos
The Epic Adventures of Gang
Green (stealthy ninjas making things green)
A
Nature Carol (Scrooge as college student who needs an eco-lesson)
Project and Presentation Assignments
Group
Assignments (all three Units)
Santas Philosophy
Guidelines (suggestions for reading, writing, oral reports, and group work)
Watersheds Cases Assignment (for
Unit I)
Debate
Assignment (for Unit II)
Community
Outreach Assignment (for Unit III)
Sample Student Work
180 South Paper
(film response)
Biodiversity
Paper (Newton, Chapter 10)
Presentation Schedules
For Unit I Watersheds Cases Reports
For Unit II Taking Sides Debates
For Unit III
Community
Outreach Projects
Online Student Evaluations
Instructions for
Online Student Evaluations
Supplementary Notes and Papers
Study Notes
Notes
on 4th Wave Environmentalism
Trinkets
and Beads Study Questions
Santas Published Essays on Environmental Philosophy
Taking Care of
Things (on mechanism, ownership, and the desacralization of nature)
Dualism and
Degradation (on separation from nature as an intellectual construct of the
early moderns)
Mead’s
Cosmology (on a contemporary pragmatist cosmology that reestablished
connection to nature)
Pragmatic
Intrinsic Value (on intrinsic value of nature as multi-functionality of
eco-systems)
Videos and Other Online Materials
General
11th
Hour feature film at freedocumentaries.org
Daniel Quinn Ishmael Community website
Climate
Change
Acid Test (NRDC video on
Ocean Acidification; 21.5 min)
Global
Climate Change Denial Industry (Guardian
UK story, 2006)
Global Warming (see the
Earth blow up-- shock therapy for the deniers; 3.5 min)
Genetic
Modification
The
Corporation, 16: Advancing the Front (2005 documentary film, patenting
life; 5.5 min)
Bad Seed (Fritjof Capra,
Paul Hawken, et al speak against GM foods; 6.5 min)
Genetic
engineering: The world's greatest scam? (Greenpeace video; 3.5 min)
GM Foods
and You (overview of concerns about GM foods and differing standards; 5.5
min)
Onion
News Giant Crab Report (Satirical treatment of the GMO debate; 2.5 min)
Fisheries
Dr. Melanie Stiassny on Endangered Fish (2:21 min.)
Bycatch Problem (WWF
video 2:20 min.)
Toxins and
Pollution
Oil
Interests in the Amazon (video links and companion notes to Trinkets and Beads)
Video on PVC Poison Plastic (pvcfree.org, 2006; 3.5 min)
Food
Production
The Meatrix (take-off on the Matrix that discusses factory farming;
3.5 min)
Mark
Bittman Video (What's Wrong with What We Eat; 20 min)
Consumption
and Stuff
Affluenza Video (PBS show
on consumerism; 56 min)
Story of Stuff Video (Allegheny College
sponsored video; 20 min)
Eco Activism
and Environmental Justice
Vandana
Shiva clips (on GMF's, organic farming,
and deep democracy)
If a Tree Falls (PBS show on
the Earth Liberation Front)
Robert Bullard on Genesis of Environmental
Justice Movement (interview from Fierce Green Fire; 3 min)
Chester Environmental Justice
(community organizers against environmental racism and classism; 9 min)
Robert Bullard on
Environmental Justice (2009 UCSB lecture; 58 min)
Final Projects
Option I: Individual Term Paper
Option
Sample Student Papers
OR
Option II: Small Group: Two
Options
C. Earth Day Information Booths
Sample
Portfolios will be
brought to class
D. Short Film
Final
Project form: short film
Some
Helpful Hints on Video Editing
Sample
Student Videos
The Epic Adventures of Gang
Green (stealthy ninjas making things green)
The
Beast (final project from 2010 class with environmental theme)
Online Student Evaluations
Instructions for
Online Student Evaluations