ENGLISH 22
(A.K.A. ECOCRITICISM 101)
WEEK #6 ASSIGNMENT
Readings
Donne, Lanyer, Jonson, Shakespeare, Denham, and Philips (all are in the Course Reader).
Lectures
Lectures will be shown from 11:00am -12:15pm on Tuesday & Thursday in Campbell Hall. Lectures start promptly at 11:00am and run for the entire period. Attendance will be taken via iClicker.
The Prezi for both lectures is below for your reference.
Here are the PDFs of the lecture notes (i.e. the Prezi material) for Lecture #10 and Lecture #11.
Film
Please watch either the documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret or Wasted! The Story of Food Waste! according to these guidelines:
1) If you have not seen Cowspiracy, please watch it. It is available for viewing on GauchoSpace (GauchoCast). Please note that filmmaker Kip Andersen gets a few of his facts wrong. Animal products account for about 15% of total greenhouse gas emissions, not over 50%. Nonetheless, Cowspiracy is still a striking, though-provoking film. If you are not enrolled in the class, it currently streams from Netflix. A DVD can also be purchased from cowspiracy.com.
Trigger warning: Cowspiracy is not, generally speaking, a particularly graphic film, even though it takes up the beef and other meat industries. In fact, other documentaries that deal with the subject (such as the 2011 film Vegucated) actually take viewers inside of slaughterhouses. Hence, Cowspiracy seems to be attempting something of a genre shift. That said, there is one particularly disturbing scene in the film where a duck is slaughtered by a backyard farmer. It occurs from 1:10:16 – 1:12:23. If you think that you might find this scene unsettling, please scrub past it. In general, feel free to skip any scene that seems a little disturbing. None of them will appear on the exam.
2) If you have already seen Cowspiracy, please instead watch Wasted!. It is up on GauchoCast. If you are not enrolled in the class, it currently can be rented for a relatively modest fee from YouTube, Amazon, Google, etc.
3) Since we will be considering each in class, feel free to watch both videos. They are each interesting, though in different ways.
After watching one of the above films, please watch Ken’s video on YouTube introducing them and comment on his video. Note that, while you can watch this video on this page, you need to go to YouTube to comment in the YouTube comment section.
Note too that while Ken’s introduction covers both of the above films, you only need to comment on the film that you watched. However, if you have already watched Cowspiracy, please feel free to reference it in your comment.
Please note that your YouTube comments on Ken’s short lectures on the films need to be completed by 6 AM on Monday, November 13.
Lecture #10
Lecture #11
Weekly Documentary Introduction
Lecture Prezi