Home Page: www.env.drake.edu/courard-hauri/dch.html Email: david.courard-hauri@drake.edu Phone: 515-271-3812

FYS: Sustainable Communities Fall 2004 Office: Olin 132 Office Hours: W: 9-10, 2-3; R: 1-3; F: 11-12, or by app't

Class Time: MW 12:30-1:45

Readings: Readings should be completed by the lecture marked. Required texts are:

Ishmael; Quinn
Home From Nowhere; Kunstler
A Reasonable Life; Mate

Lecture Notes: An outline of class (and on a good day some lecture notes) will be posted on the web by 5:00 on the evening before a lecture. On discussion days, discussion questions will be posted. The class website can be found at: http://www.env.drake.edu/courard-hauri/FYS/fall_04/index.html.

Grading: Final grades will be based upon class participation (100 pts), ecological footprint (20 pts), reading questions (100 pts), quizzes (110 pts), an average of all papers weighted by length of assignment (370 pts), and the class presentation (100 pts). Students are encouraged to correct and revise four of the eight assignments. Because revision is expected to aid in the writing process, students are especially encouraged to work on papers early in the semester. Therefore, only two resubmissions will be accepted after October 21 (Week 10) and only one after November 11 (Week 13). No papers may be resubmitted after December 13.

Class participation Students will be expected to take part in class discussions through thoughtful dialogue. If you say anything that is mildly thought-provoking, I will put a check next to your name. You are expected to have something interesting to say about once a week or more. Your class participation grade will begin as 100%, and decline by 5 points for every week that goes by without you making a useful contribution. I will be the judge of what is a useful contribution, and I will not accept little jokes (unless I judge them to be deep and meaningful) or restatements of what someone else has said. Mostly here I am looking for a serious effort to take part in class. I will count absences the same as days when you do not participate, except in the case when you are excused from an entire week due to extreme circumstances, which I will treat on a case-by-case basis.

Please visit the First Year Seminar Home page at: www.drake.edu/artsci/PolSci/fysstudentpage.html for information about the Writing Workshop, an FAQ, etc.

Academic dishonesty Please pay careful attention to the plagiarism statement on the FYS home page, as plagiarism of any kind will be dealt with severely in this class. The most likely punishment for plagiarism is automatic failure for the entire course, though extreme extenuating circumstances might result only in failure on the paper in question. Be aware that students will not be given the benefit of the doubt on this question, i.e. if the professor concludes that plagiarism has evidently taken place, it will be the student's responsibility to demonstrate that it has not, or to appeal the decision. Notice also that professors are required to report all cases of suspected plagiarism to the Dean. Dr. Courard-Hauri routinely checks papers against old papers and information on the World Wide Web, and has access to numerous web sites which distribute student papers. Use of such web sites will result in automatic failure in this course regardless of circumstances. The way to avoid plagiarism is to cite all ideas and statements which are not originally yours, and to indicate clearly (through the use of quotation marks or indentation) anything that is being directly quoted.

Week One (8/23-8/27): Introduction
M: Administrivia/Writing
W: What is Sustainability? Begin climate case study

Week Two (8/30-9/3): What is Sustainability? Read: Handout
M: Climate II. Download ecological footprint spreadsheet.
W: Sustainability II: Ecological Issues. Handout Reading Questions Due. Quiz 1.

Week Three (9/6-9/10): Sustainability II.
M: Population and technology.
W: Wealth and sustainability. Ecological Footprint due. Quiz 2.

Week Four (9/13-9/17): Ecology and Ethics. Read: Quinn, pp. 1-46
M: Ishmael I. Quinn Reading Questions #1 Due
W: Annual FYS Seminar: Jennifer McCrikerd, Sheslow Auditorium. Draft Due: Childhood Memory
F/S: Required Camping Trip to Jester Park

Week Five (9/20-9/24): Ecology and Ethics II. Read: Quinn, pp. 49-148
M: "Sunflowers" Discussion.
W: Ishmael II Quinn Reading Questions #2 due; Writing Due: Childhood Memory (2 pages). Quiz 3.

Week Six (9/27-10/1): What Is Our Story? Read: Quinn, pp. 151-263
M: Ishmael III Quinn Reading Questions #3 Due
W: Ishmael IV. Quiz 4

Week Seven (10/4-10/8): Where We Live.
M: Walking tour of Drake Neighborhood
W: Trends in Social Engagement Quiz 5. Draft Due: What is our Destiny? (4 pages)

Week Nine (10/11-10/15): Social Capital. Read: Kunstler 1.
M: Time, TV, and Distance.
W: Why do we need social capital? Writing Due: What is our Destiny? (4 pages) Quiz 6.

Week Ten (10/18-10/22): Nowhere? Read: Kunstler 2, 3.
M: No Class: Fall Break.
W: Kunstler I Kunstler Reading Questions #1 due

Week Eleven (10/25-10/29): Nowhere II. Read: Kunstler 4, 5, 12
M: Kunstler II Kunstler Reading Questions #2 due
W: Kunstler III Kunstler Reading Questions #3 due; Draft Due: Pro and Con Quiz 7.

Week Twelve (11/1-11/5): Community Models
M: New Urbanism: But we didn't seem to like Old Urbanism.
W: Dorms and Cohousing. Quiz 8. Writing Due: Pro and Con (6 pages).

Week Thirteen (11/8-11/12): Student Presentations. Read Mate 1-5.
M: Cohousing and Ecovillages. Mate Reading Questions #1 due
W: Presentations. Quiz 9

Week Fourteen (11/15-11/19): Student Presentations. Read Mate 6-10.
M: Presentations. Writing Due: Community Study (4 pages)
W: Presentations. Mate Reading Questions #2 due Quiz 10

Week Fifteen (11/22-11/26): Student Presentations. Read Mate 11-15
M: Presentations Mate Reading Questions #3 due
W: No Class: Thanksgiving

Week Sixteen (11/29/-12/3): What is Reasonable? Read Mate 16-18, Epilogue.
M: Presentations. Mate Reading Questions #4 due
W: What is Reasonable? Quiz 11. Draft Due: What is a Reasonable Life?

Week Seventeen (12/6-12/10): What is Baby and What is Bathwater?
M: What is Realistic?
W: Wrap-Up. Quiz 12 Writing Due: What is a Reasonable Life? (5 pages)

Dr. David Courard-Hauri Environmental Science and Policy Program Drake University Phone: 515-271-3812 Fax: 515-271-3702 Email: david.couard-hauri@drake.edu