FOR 493U/FOR 693C
TENTATIVE CLASS OUTLINE
Week 1, January 14-18
Reading Assignment:
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2000. Terrorism
in the United States: 1999 Report.
http://www2.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terroris.htm (Read
the parts pertaining to domestic terrorism.)
Oregonian series "Eco-terrorism
sweeps the American West". September 1999. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/09/st092620.html
Constitution of the United States
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt
Thoreau, Henry David.
Resistance to Civil Government. 1849.
http://literatureproject.com/civil-disobedience/civil-disobedience.htm
Discussion Topics:
Introduction
Lawful protest, civil disobedience, direct action and terrorism
Historical perspectives on civil disobedience in America
Discussion Leaders
: Dr. Armstrong & Dr. McNeel
Week
2, January 21-25
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 1-3. Arnold, Ronald.
EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World
of the Unabomber.
Discussion Topics
:
Sociological contexts
of terrorism (Guest Speaker: Dr. Larry Nichols, WVU Dept. of Sociology)
Historical perspectives
on civil disobedience in America
Discussion Leaders
: Dr. Armstrong & Dr. McNeel
Week
3, January 28 - February 1
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 4 & 5. Arnold, Ronald.
EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World
of the Unabomber.
Tentative
Discussion Topic:
Theodore
Kaczynski,
the Unabomber
Discussion
Leaders: Graduate Students:
Week
4, February 4-8
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 6 & 7. Arnold, Ronald.
EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World
of the Unabomber.
Tentative
Discussion Topics:
History
of eco-terror: Eco Raiders, Earth First, Earth Liberation Front, Animal
Liberation Front, The Wise Use movement
Discussion
Leaders: Graduate Students
Week
5, February 11-15
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 1-3. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
What got us to this point? - forests, logging, and how Americans view
the land
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
6, February 18-22
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 4-6. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
The seeds of conflict - capitalists, conservationists,
preservationists, and prophets of the apocalypse. Forest-related
legislation.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
7, February 25-March 1
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 7-9. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
Public policy - where science meets politics (the Endangered Species
Act). Changing views of humans in nature. Mathematical modeling of
ecosystems and the rise of the science of ecology. Nature in the
steady-state.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
8, March 4-8
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 10-13. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
The scientific and philosophical debates. Is disturbance rather than
stability the natural order of ecosystems? The concepts of biocentrism,
preservation of species, deep ecology, new forestry, ecosystem management, old growth,
and owls.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
9, March 11-15
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 14 & 15. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
Edward Abbey, Earth First, monkey wrenching, and ecotage. Earth First
finds the forest.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
10, March18-22
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 16-18. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
Clash
of values
between Wall
Street,
foresters
and
environmentalists;
guerilla
theater and
the media;
pranks turn
deadly.
The
pre-Columbian
forest.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
11, April 1-5
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 19-21. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
The ESA as a weapon. The evolution of Earth First toward non-violent
philosophy. Destruction of a way of life in the woods. Old growth and
species diversity.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
12, April 8-12
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 22-24. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
Escalating violence, accusations, counter-accusations, and the Judy
Bari bombing incident. Do companies have rights?
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
13, April 15-19
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 25-27. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
Violence against the greens, Redwood Summer, the impacts on communities.
Birth of the Wise Use movement. Tactics.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
14, April 22-29
Reading Assignment:
Chapters 28-30. Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths
of Nature.
Tentative Discussion Topics:
Guest Lecture: Richard Lewis, Forest Resources Association. "What
to do when they demonstrate"
Consequences of the fight over forests.
Discussion Leaders: Students
Week
15, April 29-May 3
Reading Assignment:
TBA
Tentative Discussion Topics:
The search for solutions.
Discussion Leaders: Students