ERS 402
Senior Honours Research Seminar
Winter 2021 · Senior Research Seminar
Topics
- Independent environmental research
- Historical context
- Critical reading
- Evaluating competing arguments
- Research design and presentation
Readings
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism2018; Beacon Press; key text for a debate topic.
- The Ecological Indian: Myth and History2000 as cited in the syllabus; topic-specific reading.
- Twilight of the Mammoths2005; University of California Press; topic-specific reading.
- Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian2006 as cited; University of Nebraska Press; topic-specific reading.
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus2006; topic-specific reading.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2021
- Archived syllabus. Draft Winter 2021 seminar. Books support different research/debate topics; they are not all required whole-course purchases.