Sociology 332 - Spring 2005

Texts & Films

Required Texts

Creighton, Sarah H.  1999.  Greening the Ivory Tower:  Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Macpherson, C. B., ed. 1978. Property: Mainstream & Critical Positions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Worster, Donald. 1992. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, & the Growth of the American West. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press

Gottlieb, Robert. 1994. Forcing the Spring: the Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press

Tri-City Herald, daily & Sunday subscription

Recommended Texts

Dickens, Peter.  2004.  Society and Nature:  Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves.  NY:  Polity Press.

Duany, Andres, et al.  2001.  Suburban Nation:  The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.  Northpoint Press. 

Loeb, Paul R.  1999.  Soul of a Citizen:  Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time.  NY:  St. Martin's Press. 

Pellow, David and Lisa Park.  2003.  The Silicon Valley of Dreams:  Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy.  NY:  NYU Press. 

Films

Feb. 22: 

• National Audubon Society. 1991. The New Range Wars

March 22, selections from: 

• KTEH. 1997. Cadillac Desert

April 19: 

• WGBH. 1994. Toxic Racism

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