ENGLISH 22
(A.K.A. ECOCRITICISM 101)
WEEK #6 ASSIGNMENT
Readings:
Denham “Cooper’s Hill,” Philips “A Country Life,” Milton Paradise Lost, & Marvell Upon Appleton House & mower poems (all are in the Course Reader).
Lecture videos:
Please watch both Lecture #11 and Lecture #12 below.
If you will be out of Internet access, you can download these videos on Vimeo: Lecture #11, Lecture #12.
If YouTube is blocked in your country, the two lectures have also been uploaded to GauchoSpace (GauchoCast).
The Prezi for the lectures is also below for your reference.
PDFs are also available for the lecture notes (i.e. the Prezi material) for Lecture #11 and Lecture #12, as are PDFs of the transcripts for Lecture #11 and Lecture #12.
(If you are confused about the role of the Prezi or PDFs in the course, or how to use them, please watch the “Introduction, Format” lecture located on the Introduction page.)
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 very graphic film, even though it takes up 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. In this sense, 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.
Film assignment: after watching one of the above films, please watch Ken’s video on YouTube introducing them and comment on his video. Note 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.
Weekly Assignment/Assessment:
Please note that both the reading and lecture, as well as film, assignments need to be completed by 6 AM on Monday, November 16. GauchoSpace will close the lecture quizzes at that time and any film comment made on YouTube past that point will be considered late.
Reading and Lecture assignment:
After completing the weeks reading and watching each of the two lecture videos, please go to GauchoSpace and take the short quiz on that lecture, which is located in the weekly section.
Film assignment:
Please comment on YouTube on Ken’s video “Intro, Cowspiracy and Wasted.”
Please note, while you can watch this video on this page, you need to go to YouTube to comment in the YouTube comment section.
If YouTube is blocked in your country, Ken’s short talk will also be uploaded to GauchoSpace (GauchoCast) and a forum has been opened under this week on GauchoSpace for you to make your comment there (rather than on YouTube).
Also note that while Ken’s introduction covers both of the above films, you only need to comment on the film that you watched.
Lecture #11
Lecture #12
Weekly Documentary Introduction
Lecture Prezi