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LE-EN1-SE12

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授業で使用する言語

日本語

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授業の概要

Nature and Society in the United States

American Romanticism is a source of inspiration behind the 20th century environmental movement in the United States. Some of the themes you'll be considering this semester: individualism, idealism, imagination, intuition, national identity, and a spiritual connection with nature. Several of the reading segments are about the Puritans and European Romanticism, which influenced American literature in the 19th century. In particular, we'll be thinking how the unique experience in a natural environment with moral enthusiasm lets us reconsider our identities in a relationship between nature and society. Most of class time will be spent discussing the main themes of Romanticism.

We will focus on specific challenges as well as successes from environmental movement in the United States, which began in 1945, considering in more detail how people in urban areas were affected by air pollution, deterioration of water quality, and overpopulation, with a special focus on writers and naturalists who were tackling environment issues such as resource depletion and pollution. We will consider national parks, in particular, in the American West. Students will learn more deeply about the following issues and topics: Native American rights, dam project, low quality of life, endangered species, disturbance of ecological balance, pollution, and wildfire.

Students will read different types of English used in the Bible, the 19th century novel, poetry, diary, articles, and documents so that they can get used to a variety of English. I hope the issues we consider in this class will enrich our understanding of people born in different generations in the United States. These issues can also be relevant for our everyday lives, many of which I believe are based on issues students are already studying and so reinforce important themes that all of us may be exposed to throughout our lives.

科目目的

The First Semester:

• To improve your range of vocabulary
• To help increase your reading ability
• To help increase your writing ability
• To help increase your ability to understand a plot outline and themes
• To focus on a paradigm shift in the 19th century America
• To consider the opinions of your classmates
• To give you practice in developing an opinion
• To give you practice expressing your opinion
• To give you practice summarizing a story
• To understand how the Puritans viewed wilderness

The second semester:

∙ To improve your range of vocabulary
∙ To help increase your reading ability
∙ To help increase your writing ability
∙ To focus on environmental challenges in the 20th century America
∙ To consider the opinions of your classmates
∙ To give you practice in developing an opinion
∙ To give you practice expressing your opinion
∙ To give you practice summarizing important information
∙ To provide a context to study an ecosystem more deeply
∙To understand Native American rights
∙ To consider the role of social protest in the assertion of human rights

到達目標

I hope students will achieve all the goals listed above and they focus on environmental issues and learn more about different perspectives on environmentalism.

授業計画と内容

Spring Semester:
American Romanticism –from collectivism to individualism–

Week 1: The Book of Genesis and The Stewardship of Creation
Week 2: Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, “The Great Chain of Being” (1936)
Week 3: William Bradford, “Of Plymouth Plantation” (1651): a hideous and desolate wilderness
Week 4: William Wordsworth, “Guide to the Lakes” (1810)
Week 5: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Grimm’s fairy Tales” (1812)
Week 6: Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Young Goodman Brown” (1835): witchcraft in the woods
Week 7: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836): self-reliance
Week 8: Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” (1851): the uncontrollable force of nature
Week 9: Henry David Thoreau, “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” (1854): a detailed observer of nature
Week 10: Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” (1855); the beauty of the individual
Week 11: Emily Dickinson, “I started Early – Took my Dog–” (1863): the power of imagination
Week 12: Albert Bierstadt, “Valley of the Yosemite” (1864): the American West as a new Eden
Week 13: John Muir, “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1869): Yosemite National Park
Week 14: Mark Twain, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884): nature represents freedom and happiness

Autumn Semester:
Environmentalism –a deeper connection with nature–

Week 1: National Wildlife Refuges for Hunting (1903-)
Week 2: Tribal Hunting, Fishing, and Gathering Rights
Week 3: Conservation vs. Preservation: Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (1913-)
Week 4: Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There” (1949)
Week 5: Clean Air Act (1963) and Clean Water Act (1972) for the Public
Week 6: Wilderness Act of 1964 for Social Equality
Week 7: Rachel Carson, “The Sense of Wonder” (1965)
Week 8: Edward Abby, “Desert Solitude: A Season in the Wilderness” (1968)
Week 9: Endangered Species Act of 1973
Week 10: Gary Snyder, “Turtle Island” (1974)
Week 11: Joy Harjo, “Remember” (1981)
Week 12: Wildfire Management: Yellowstone Fires of 1988
Week 13: Terry Tempest Williams, “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place” (1991)
Week 14: Wolf Reintroduction to Yellowstone for its Ecosystem (1995)

授業時間外の学修の内容

指定したテキストやレジュメを事前に読み込むこと／授業終了後の課題提出／その他

授業時間外の学修の内容（その他の内容等）

Every other class we will have a discussion (every two weeks). This is for you to develop your opinion and perhaps to debate or at least to compare opinions with other students in your group. Every other week you will discuss questions which you make based on your reading and my lectures.

Most of your work for the class will be done outside of class, to prepare for the class, especially for the discussions. I will provide every reading material through manaba, which you need to discuss in the class. Please read them before class starts and follow my instructions to write a term paper.

Plan to spend a half hour on the homework each week doing the homework.

授業時間外の学修に必要な時間数／週

・毎週１回の授業が半期（前期または後期）または通年で完結するもの。１週間あたり１時間の学修を基本とします。

成績評価の方法・基準

成績評価の方法・基準（備考）

Your evaluation will be from a term paper, 70%; Discussion Questions and Answers, 20%; Class participation, 10%.

課題や試験のフィードバック方法

授業時間内で講評・解説の時間を設ける／授業時間に限らず、manabaでフィードバックを行う／その他

課題や試験のフィードバック方法（その他の内容等）

I will try my best to provide extensive feed back on each of your assignments, to help in your continual improvement.

アクティブ・ラーニングの実施内容

ディスカッション、ディベート／グループワーク／その他

アクティブ・ラーニングの実施内容（その他の内容等）

Students will be engaging each week with novels, short stories, poetry, articles, and documents.

授業におけるICTの活用方法

実施しない

授業におけるICTの活用方法（その他の内容等）

実務経験のある教員による授業

いいえ

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テキスト・参考文献等

All materials will be provided by the instructor through manaba. Students may print these out or use a computer for access to manaba during class time.

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