Environmental Conservation 697CR - ST- The Conservation Canon

This graduate-level course will expose students to seminal books that have influenced the environmental paradigm in the United States including: Henry David Thoreau?s Walden, Aldo Leopold?s A Sand County Almanac, Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring, and Robin Kimmerer?s Braiding Sweetgrass. Discussion will focus on students? impressions of the readings, how the authors have influenced current thinking, the contexts in which the books were written, and comparisons across books.