Syllabus
Each course day in WCC focuses on a specific topic or skill set. Click the link for an introduction, as well as the relevant readings, media, and reflection questions.
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Welcome to Climate Change
Aug 23 -
How this Class Works
Aug 25 -
Close Reading
Aug 28 -
Annihilation and Climate Change
Aug 30 -
Pattern Recognition
Sep 01 -
What is Nature?
Sep 04 -
What Is Ecology?
Sep 06 -
Writing About Reading
Sep 08 -
Place-Based Nature Writing
Sep 11 -
Listening to the Earth
Sep 13 -
What Is Workshop and How to Do It / Small Group Workshop Paper 1
Sep 15 -
Small Group Workshop, Paper 1
Sep 18 -
Environmental Justice and Migration
Sep 20 -
What Do We Owe Nature?
Sep 22 -
Speaker Prof. Jason McLachlan
The Disruption of the Human Ecological Niche
Sep 27 -
Disaster Stories
Sep 29 -
Mitigation, Adaptation, Denial?
Oct 02 -
Speaker Prof. Jen Tank and Prof. Luke Kemp
Climate Science in Public
Oct 04 -
Will God Forgive Us?
Oct 06 -
Confession
Oct 09 -
Speaker Prof. Matt Ashley
Laudauto Si'
Oct 11 -
Pitching
Oct 13 -
Pitch Workshop, Session 1
Oct 23 -
Speaker Prof. Parker Ladwig and Prof. Dan Johnson
Research Session With Librarian
Oct 25 -
Pitch Workshop, Session 2
Oct 27 -
Individual Discussions / Writing Session 1
Oct 30 -
Argumentative Structure v. Narrative Structure
Nov 01 -
Individual Discussions / Writing Session 2
Nov 03 -
Outline Workshop
Nov 06 -
Citation and Plagiarism
Nov 08 -
Transitions, Inversions, Variation
Nov 10 -
Word Salad
Nov 13 -
Syntax as Style
Nov 15 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 1
Nov 17 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 2
Nov 20 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 3
Nov 27 -
Cohesion
Nov 29 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 4
Dec 01 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 5
Dec 04 -
Presentations
Dec 06