ENGLISH 2Z03
READING ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
Winter 2024 · C01
Topics
- Class Introduction and Syllabus
- Read: Mary Annaïse Heglar, “To Build a Beautiful World, You First Have to Imagine It”
- Write: Reflection Assignment 1
- Read: “Declaration of Intent” by Rita Wong
- Read: “The Teachings of Grass” in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Write: Reflection Assignment 2
- Write: Reflection Assignment 3
- Read: “The Trouble with Wilderness” by William Cronon
- Write: Reflection Assignment 4
- Read: Selections from Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
- Write: Reflection Assignment 5
- Read: “Regrets” from Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
- Read: “The Fox is not a Pet” by Jacqueline L. Scott
- Read: Look at the “Wildlife” Page on the City of Hamilton’s website
- Write: Reflection Assignment 6
- Read: “Interlude: Tracking” by Anna Tsing
- Write: Reflection Assignment 8
- Read: “Land as Pedagogy”
Readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Winter 2026
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2024