UWP Lecturers Text Selections for ELWR next year

[John Stamp]

How about _Collapse_ by Jared Diamond?

And maybe _The Road_?  It's sort of about trying to sustain something in
spite of the whole world dying.

John Stamp

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:45:09PM -0700, lstrahan at ucr.edu wrote:
> Tentative Text Selection for English 4 (fall 2011)
> 
> The CHASS theme for the next academic year is SUSTAINABILITY.  Our
> goal is to select texts that provide a context for discussion of
> issues related to a loose interpretation of the term “sustainability”
> (think - the planet, the human race, institutions, and even
> relationships) and allow for rich discussion of a variety of topics
> without presenting a single debatable argument.  We are also
> interested in offering a balanced list. We suspect that there is an
> appropriate text on the topic by a Native-American author and would
> appreciate your suggestions for a text in this category as well as any
> other comments, additions, eliminations you might want to make.
> 
> Blithedale Romance	 Nathanial Hawthorne
> Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest 	Willaim Shakespeare
> Walden	H. D. Thoreau
> Utopia		Thomas Moore
> The Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
> The Dispossessed	Ursula LeGuin
> The Handmaid’s Tale	 Margaret Atwood
> Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro
> 
> I appreciate all of your input on this important aspect of our
> program.
> 
> Linda
> 
> 
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