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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 1203 LSU – Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Spring 2019 Charles Fryling, Jr. (225) 933-2069

VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE 1a. Catalog description: 1203 Views of the American Landscape (3) Concepts, patterns, and themes that shape human attitudes and activities concerning the American landscape; natural systems as links between managed landscapes and built environments; environmental and conservation ethics. General course description: Landscape Architecture 1203 surveys different concepts, patterns, and themes in human attitudes and activities concerning the American landscape. It analyses how the changes and modifications to the physical environment affect endeavors to exploit the land’s resources for welfare and profit. The course explores natural systems as links among natural, managed and built components of the environment. The course presents an overview of environmental and conservation ethics. Lectures will demonstrate how environmental views have influenced the management and use of our nation’s natural resources, the formulation of environmental policies, and the patterns of land development for human use. This course focuses on human relationships with the American landscape while highlighting two of America’s major “gifts” (ideas) to the world: preservation of nature and equality/dignity of all people. Format: Landscape Architecture 1203 is a lecture / reading course utilizing slides and other visual and audio aids where appropriate. Discussion on course topics is encouraged when appropriate. Purpose: The course seeks to develop within each student a personal awareness of himself or herself as an interactive, responsible dweller on a finite earth. This awareness is basic to the wise building, management, and stewardship of the landscape. It will show the student many different ways of viewing and understanding the importance of the American landscape from historic and contemporary perspectives. Required Equipment: Each student should have a “Clicker” for the course. These can be purchased at the LSU Bookstore or checked out for the semester from the library. The library has only a limited number of “Clickers” and are checked out on a first come bases. You need to make sure that your “Clicker” has good batteries for all classes. Attendance: Each student is expected to comply with the Louisiana State University regulations on attendance by being present at all classes. More than three unexcused absences may constitute grounds for placement on attendance probation. Excused absences will be for medical conditions or family responsibility but must be a part of an emergency situation. Normal medical and family events should be scheduled so that they do not conflict with your class attendance. Absences for extra curricular activities will also be allowed but they must be scheduled and approved in advance of the class you

will be missing. Those students with approved in advance class absences will get full credit for any “clicker” quiz missed. Court or work conflicts are normally not excused. Lecture Room Etiquette: Please turn off cell phones and other devices that might make a disturbance during the lecture. No computers or other electronic devices are allowed in the classroom. Put your cell phones away, not in your lap. You will find class notes on Moodle. If you feel that you need to use a computer for taking notes you must get permission to use the computer and you must sit in the front of the class where directed when you get permission. You should be looking at the projected slides while in class. Remember that food and drink are not allowed in the lecture room. University regulations prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the use of any illegal substance in University buildings at any time. I will try to complete the lecture exactly at the end of the class. Please wait tell this time before you start organizing your belongings to go to your next class. Do not talk to or disturb the people next to you during the class. 1b. Title of text and course reading materials: Text: David Harmon, Editor, Mirror of America: Literary Encounters With the National Parks, National Park Foundation, Roberts Rinehart, Inc., Boulder, 1989. Readings from text: John Muir: A Meeting in the Valley Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Shot Heard Round the World Henry James: Reflected Distinction Owen Wister: Old Yellowstone Days Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address Mary Roberts Rinehart: Ride the Rockies and Save Your Soul Rudyard Kipling: On Tour Through the Yellowstone John Burroughs: Divine Abyss Harriet Monroe: Two Yosemite Poems Carl Sandburg: Scrapers of the Deep Winds Thomas Wolfe: Gulping the Great West George Catlin: A Nation's Park Frederick Law Olmsted: Preservation for All James Bryce: Should Cars be Allowed in Yosemite? Charles Dickens: The Factories of Lowell Bayard Taylor: A Second World Mark Twain: The Hawaii Volcanoes Wallace Stegner: The Marks of Human Passage Bernard De Voto: Footloose in Democracy Readings from other sources: Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Chapter 11, Section II Stalking Ralph Waldo Emerson: From Nature (1836) Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac, February – Good Oak John McPhee: The Control of Nature, Atchafalaya John Wesley Powell: Canyons of the Colorado, June 8 to August 25, 1869 All reading materials can be found on the class Moodle site.

1c. General Education in the Humanities: This class provides General Education credits in the Humanities. Material in this course addresses students’ achievement of this General Education Competency: LSU graduates will demonstrate an understanding of historical, cultural, and philosophical complexity that supports sophisticated discourse. After successfully completing this course a student should be able to: 1. have an understanding of America’s role in land conservation and preservation 2. have insight into the ethical issues relating to human uses of the land 3. have knowledge of some of the historical trends and movements that have taken place over time in human relationship to the land.

1d. Assessment of Student Grades: The final course grade will be based on the degree of accomplishment of a variety of course requirements. You will have both a midterm and a final exam. Each exam will have two parts one testing your class reading assignment and the other on knowledge gained from class lectures. You will find your readings in file folders on the class Moodle site. One folder contains class readings for the midterm exam and the other folder contains readings for the final exam. Read these assignments in any order but have the readings completed before the appropriate midterm or final exams. Readings are listed above with the names of the authors. A computer designed term poster emphasizing historical, cultural, philosophical concerns relating to the topics and people presented in the class. The specific requirements for the term poster change each semester that the class is offered. Directions for the term poster are presented on Moodle in the course documents entitled Term Poster and in this document. Unannounced “clicker” quizzes will be given throughout the semester. Generally each “clicker” question will be worth 2 points (one point for the correct answer and one point for participation). Class point distribution is shown below. “Clicker” Quizzes Midterm Reading Midterm Lecture Exam Term Poster Final Reading Final Lecture Exam TOTAL POINTS

80 – 120 50 100 200 50 100

points points points points points points

580 – 620

Letter grades will be on a percentage of points earned against total points possible. The assignment of letter grades will be as follows: A+ 98 to 100%; A 93 to 97%; A- 90 to 92% with the same brake down of + to – with 80s for B, 70s for C, 60s for D, 50s and below for F.

Exception to Grading Scale Students should have only one “Clicker” in the classroom and it should be the clicker that is registered on PAWS for that student. Any student found with more than one clicker in the classroom will have the clickers confiscated from them and the owners of all the

clickers taken will receive one letter grade reduction from their finial class average. Having more than one clicker in the classroom is considered cheating and is subject to expulsion from the University.

Exams: Midterm Exam is after 9:30 PM on March. 6, 2019 till close of the testing lab on Friday, March. 8, 2019. Final Exam is April. 29, 2019 till close of the testing lab on Friday, May. 3, 2019.

Term Poster Requirements Objective: To understand more fully the ethical issues people face when making decisions on the use of land. Your poster should focus on an ethical/moral issue(s) relating to human use of the land. Choose a named or unnamed (title) of person discussed in the lectures or class readings and a significant ethical issue made by that person with a moral context of right and wrong. This person and his/her ethical decision is the subject of your poster. Include the issue, the name of the person (or title), and the word ethic (ethical, moral, morality) in the title of the poster. Most people have convictions about what is right and wrong based on religious beliefs, cultural roots, family background, personal experiences, laws, organizational values, professional norms or political habits. These are not necessarily the best values to make ethical decisions — not because they are unimportant, but because they are not universal. In practice, ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality, by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime. Emphasize universal standards in your poster discussion. You can use Aldo Leopold’s definition of land ethics or any other appropriate definition. Leopold called for a new ethic dealing with human’s relation to land and to the various components that are included in the land. In The Sand County Almanac published one year after Aldo Leopold’s death he argued that the next step within the expansion of ethics was to include nonhuman members of the earth and the land upon which they lived as elements with a moral context of ethics. Leopold’s basic principle of his land ethic was that, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” Described by him in a different way: “The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.” Divide your poster into four sections each with a subtitle. The first section should list the ethical issue, the person making the decision and a brief setting and background. This is the smallest of the four sections (You might think of this as an extended title). In the second section you need to expand the setting, background, and issue. The third section describes the ethical decision made by the person and why he/she made that decision. The forth section is your position on the decision and why you think it was correct or wrong. Your poster needs illustrations (maps, photos, diagrams, etc. each with captions and references) Text also needs references if the information is not generally known.

Format: 20 x 30 inch print of your poster. The poster should be in a portrait or vertical orientation. If I keep your poster, you will be required to bring me copies of the files used for the poster: one file in the format used to produce the poster and a PDF format file together with all the files used in the creation of the poster such as text files, photos, graphics, etc. Title Block Information: Name and class information should be in a block 5 ½ “ wide by 2 “ tall and located ½ “ from the edge of the poster in the bottom right corner of the sheet. The information within the block should be the course number and section (14 pt. text), the title of the course (26 pt. text), my name (14 pt. text), the date and your name (Summer 2018 and your name 26 pt. text – this text size may have to be reduced if you have a long name). The title block should have a line around it or shown with a change in color. The date should be the date that your poster is accepted for class submission.

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Fri. March. 29, 2019 – +15 pts. Extra Credit - 9:45 AM on the light table outside of room 305 in the Art and Design Building. Mon.. April 1, 2019 – +10 pts. Extra Credit - 9:45 AM on the light table outside of room 305 in the Art and Design Building. Wed. April 3, 2019 – +5 pts. Extra Credit – 9:45 AM on the light table outside of room 305 in the Art and Design Building. Fri. April 5, 2019 No Extra Credit points – 9:45 AM on the light table outside of room 305 in the Art and Design Building. - Minus 10 Points for every date late. If your poster is late slide your poster under my door with a note attached with your name, time, and date that you slide the poster under the door. (Room 305 Art and Design Bldg.)

Course Bibliography The following books may be of interest to students in the course wanting additional readings and references. Some of these books have been sources for lectures in the class. 1. Baron, Robert CV. & Junkin, Elizabeth Darby. Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology of American Writers and the American Land: Golden Colorado, Fulcrum, Inc., 1986.

2. Brinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. New York City: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. 3. Brinkley, Douglas. Rightful heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America. New York City: Harper Collins Publishers, 2016t 4. Burroughs, John & Muir, John , et al., Alaska: The Harriman Expedition, 1899. New Your City; Dover Publications, Inc. 1986. 5. Carr, Ethan. Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 6. Clay, Escott, Ore, & Stuart. Land of the South. Birmingham: Oxmoor House, Inc. 1989. 7. Duncan, Dayton & Burns, Ken. The National Parks: America’s Best Idea: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 8. Egan, Timothy, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company, 2009 9. Garreau, Joel. The Nine Nations of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. 10. Shimer, John A. Field Guide To Landforms In The United States. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. 11. Kostof, Spiro. America By Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 12. Lyon, Thomas J. ed. This Incomperable Lande: A Book of American Nature Writing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. 13. Mathur, Anuradha /Dilip da Cunha, Mississippi Floods: Designing A Shifting Landscape, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 14. Nash, Roderick Frazier, The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 15. Peck, Robert McCracken, Land Of The Eagle: A Natural History Of North America. New York: Summit Books, 1990. 16. Ronald, Ann, Editor, Words for the Wild: The Sierra Club Trailside Reader, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1987. 17. Strong, Douglas H., Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

Additional Bibliographic References can be found on the class Moodle site. 1e. Class Outline of topics: No. Topic 1. Introduction, methods, concepts, tools for understanding land. 2. Geologic base, continental drift, change, designs with land & man. 3. Physiographic areas of America – similarities, differences, public lands, human response, culture, history, land ethics – Coastal I, Coastal II, New England. 4. Piedmont, Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian Plateau. 5. Adirondacks, Superior Uplands-Canadian Shield 6. Interior Low Plateaus, Interior Highlands, Central Lowlands, Great Plains 7. Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range. 8. Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau. 9. Alaska.

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Alaska: The Arctic Refuge: America’s Last Great Wilderness. Hawaii. Yellowstone N. P. Grand Teton N. P., Acadia N. P. Grand Canyon. Music Midterm Review: Reading – Lecture Term Poster Native Americans Thomas Jefferson Lewis & Clark John & William Bartram John J. Audubon Henry David Thoreau George Catlin Hudson River School of Art. John Muir William Henry Jackson, Ansel Adams Theodore Roosevelt National land use agencies – National Park Service, National Forest Service U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, COE, TVA. Values of wilderness Wild by Law Atchafalaya Review for final exam: Lecture – Reading

Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri. 9:30 to 10:00 AM in my office, Room 305 Art & Design Building. If you need other times please make an appointment in person or by phone.

Charles Fryling, Jr. (Rm. 305 New College of Art and Design Bldg.) Cell: (225) 933-2069* * Best way to contact me

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