UHON 121-003 The Legacy of Exploration: Exploration of Mountains

Fall 2008

Professor Troy Lovata, Ph.D.

University Honors Program, The University of New Mexico

Tues/Thur 2:00-3:15, SHC Room 9

 

SCHEDULE

 

August

25

First Day of Class

Introduction to class requirements and procedures, review of the syllabus

 

27

An introduction to the Explorers and Mountains

Read: Muir’s “Snow Storm on Mount Shasta” p.634-648 and “Chronology” p. 835-849

 

September

1-4

Classic Ideas of Exploration

Read: Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierras p.153-309

 

8-10

Muir cont’d

Read: Muir’s “God’’s First Temples”, “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park”, “The American Forests”, and “The Wild Parks and Forests of the West” p.629-633, 687-743

 

12/13

Saturday/Sunday Field Trip to Sandia Crest (required attendance)

Read: Muir’s Stickeen p. 549-571

 

15

No Class, Field Trip Assessment

 

17

When Things Aren’t So Majestic

Read: Introduction to Dunn by Hoagland (e-reserves)

 

22-24

When Things Aren’t So Majestic cont’d

Read: Dunn’s The Shameless Diary of an Explorer (e-reserves)

Assignment 1 Due September 22nd NOTE DATE!

 

 

29

When Things Aren’t So Majestic cont’d

 

Oct 1-6

Men, Women and Mountains

Read: Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rockies

Assignment 2 Due October 1st

 

8-13

Men, Women and Mountains cont’d

 

15

Fall Break (No Classes Thursday or Friday)

 

20-23

Mountain Explorers Today, The Meaning of Mountains Then

Read: Reinhard’s Ice Maiden

Assignment 3 Due October 20th

 

27

Mountain Explorers Today, The Meaning of Mountains Then cont’d

Read: Reinhard’s Ice Maiden

 

29

No Class

 

November

1

Tentative Field Trip to TWA Canyon (optional attendance)

 

3

Mountain Explorers Today, The Meaning of Mountains Then cont’d

Read: Reinhard’s Ice Maiden

 

5

Exotic Mountains, Escape to Mountains

Read: Hilton’s Lost Horizon and Afterword to Hilton (e-reserves)

Assignment 4 Due on December 5th

 

10-12

Exotic Mountains, Escape to Mountains cont’d

Read: Hilton’s Lost Horizon

 

17

Exotic Mountains, Escape to Mountains cont’d


19

Contemporary Exploration, Contemporary Mountains

Read: Krakauer’s Into Thin Air

 

24-26

Thanksgiving Break, No Class

 

December

1

Contemporary Exploration, Contemporary Mountains cont’d

Read: Krakauer’s Into Thin Air

Assignment 5 due on December 1st

 

3

Contemporary Exploration, Contemporary Mountains cont’d

Read: Krakauer’s Into Thin Air

 

9

Contemporary Exploration, Contemporary Mountains cont’d

Watch: Touching the Void

 

10

Last Day of Class

Course Evaluations (attendance required) and Class Wrap-Up

Watch: Touching the Void

 

13

Assignment 6 is due via email by 10pm on Sunday, December 13th

 

                                                                                                            -TRL 8/09