• Course Description
  • Course Schedule
    • Region and Identity
  • Course Goals
  • Assignments and Grading Scheme
    • Blog #1
    • Blog 2: Overlay landscapes
    • Final Project
  • Readings
  • Additional Resources
  • Student Blog Sites

Susquehanna Country

UNIV 241, ENGL 225, ENST 225, HUMN 290

Course Schedule

Week One: Traumatic Change and Love of Place–Welcome to the Susquehanna Country

Wed. Jan. 20 Confluence/Northumberland Historical Society.  Meet in Coleman 020.

Fri. Jan. 22 readings. Radical Hope (1-41), Lear questions Scruton questions

PDF Scruton on oikophilia or love of place, pp. 253-291.

Blog due Sunday by midnight.

Week Two: Overlay Landscape

Mon. Jan. 25 readings: John Mohawk selection pdf, Shamokin Diaries selection

Deerslayer Chaps. 1 and 2, “The Source of the Susquehanna.”

Explore the Omeka/Neatline SSV digital collection.

Wed. Jan. 27

Route 15 outlook 2.30/NPC Office  2.50pm/Williamsport Taber Museum 3.20pm /Canfield Island/Ostonwakin 4pm

Friday, Jan. 29 Discussion

Reading Blog due Sunday midnight

Week Three: Native Cultures of the Susquehanna

Mon, Feb. 1 readings, Deerslayer focus chapters from 3-11.

Wed. Feb. 3–Guest speakers: Sid Jamieson, John Grim, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force

Friday, Feb 5. Discussion

Feb. 7 by midnight DH assignment 1 submission, Omeka/Neatline.

Week Four: Native and Settler Myths

Mon, Feb. 8 readings, Deerslayer focus chapters from 11-19.

February 10–Digital day; video training with Brianna Derr; podcasting Deb Balducci

Friday, Feb. 12 Discussion

Draft script/storyboard  due Sunday midnight

Week Five: Region and Identity–Utopian Dreams

Mon. Feb. 15 readings, Deerslayer focus chapters from 20-27,  and  Faull article on Women, Migration, and Mission.

February 17–Priestley House/Utopian Dreams video; Priestley readings

Friday, Feb. 19 Deerslayer, Faull, Lear, pp. 103-123; peer review of recordings

Reading Blog due midnight

Week Six: The American Wilderness Myth and the Susquehanna Valley

Mon. Feb. 22 readings. Deerslayer focus chapters from 27-32. DeTocqueville PDF.

February 24–Last of the Mohicans film; selection from Ken Burns’ National Park series; Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, for viewing or reading

Friday, Feb. 26 Reading discussion; peer review of projects; de Tocqueville

Feb 28 by midnight assignment #2 Video essay/podcast…Save the podcast file to this folder

Place, seeing and not seeing, cultural landscape

Week Seven: The Valley a Garden–American Arcadianism and Susan Fenimore Cooper

Mon. Feb 29  Readings, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Rural Hours, “Spring.”

Wed. March 2–Digital day; textual analysis

Friday, March 4- Siewers, “Cooper’s Green World”

Reading Blog due Sunday midnight.

Week Eight: “Native Settlers” in Susquehanna Country?

Mon. March 7 readings, Scruton on homeland as habitat, pp. 209-250 PDF. The Last Days of Shamokin

Mapping Terror on the Landscape

March 9– Tall Timbers and Settler culture. Wendell Berry

Fri. March 11–Rochelle Johnson (Susan Cooper)

Spring Break

March 20 midnight assignment #3 digital edition Rural Hours

Week Nine: Hiding and Revealing–Ethics of Shaping a Digital Region

Mon. March 21 readings on DH ethics and hiddenness/disclosure of cultural landscapes; Kimberly Christen

March 23–  Grow local/Eat local — guest speakers: Prof. Philippe Dubois and Bucknell alum/Penn State graduate student Lexie Orr.

Friday March 25–Berry article on land-grant education and agriculture. Final project workshop/design studio

Reading blog Due Sunday midnight

Week Ten: Coal Towns and Regional Resilience

Mon. March 28 readings. Ben Marsh article on coal towns. Coal Dust on Your Feet selections, Janet McGaffey. Wendell Berry.

March 30– Mount Carmel trip

Friday April 1 Discussions and Final project workshop (Mapping Coal Country)

Blog due Sunday midnight

Week Eleven: Amish, Mennonites, and Agrarianism

Mon. April 4 readings. Greaves chapter on the Amish in Pa. Wendell Berry.

Wednesday, April 6. Visit to Mennonite Orchard, Winfield (Profs. GC Waldrep and Kathryn Nottis)

Friday, April 8 Discussion and workshop

Reading journal due Sunday Midnight

Week Twelve: Regional Preservation

Mon. April 11 readings on large landscape preservation, Wendell Berry.

April 13 Dave Buck re landscape interpretation, James Levitt large landscape conservation, Mike Slattery with Fish and Wildlife Service

Friday, April 15 Snap Talks

Reading blog due Sunday at midnight.

Week Thirteen: Region as Ecosemiosphere

Mon. April 18 Siewers, “Song, Tree, and Spring.”

April 20 digital day–work on projects

Friday April 22–projects

Reading blog due Sunday at midnight

Week Fourteen: Character as Region

Mon. April 25 readings, Wendell Berry on character, Faull “The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self”

April 27 Kayak trip or hiking

Friday, April 29 Presentations

May 2 Final class–Presentations

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  • Assignments and Grading Scheme
    • Blog #1
    • Blog 2: Overlay landscapes
    • Final Project
  • Course Description
  • Course Goals
  • Course Schedule
    • Region and Identity
  • Readings
  • Student Blog Sites

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