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FIRST SEMESTER SYLLABUS
Fourth Year Honors Seminar
Everglades Option
(IDH 4007) FALL 2006

REQUIRED BOOKS:

Grunwald, Michael. 2006. The Swamp. The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise. New York: Simon & Schuster.
ISBN 0-7432-5105-9

Thomas E Lodge. 2004. The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem. 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
ISBN 1-56670-614-9BRING THIS BOOK TO FIRST CLASS

David Allen Sibley. 2003. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN 067945120XBRING THIS BOOK TO SECOND CLASS

Hugh L. Willoughby. 1898. Across the Everglades. Port Salerno, FL: Florida Classics Library.
ISBN 0-912451-46-7
[Not in FIU bookstore, but available at ENP bookstore on Sept. 15]

Zora Neale Hurston. 1937. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper & Row.
ISBN 0060838671

Peter Matthiessen. 1990. Killing Mr. Watson. New York: Random House /Vintage Books.
ISBN 0-679-73405-8

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

Peter Alden et al. 1998. National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida. New York: Knopf/Chanticleer Press.
ISBN 0-679-44677-X

 

 

FIRST SEMESTER SYLLABUS (IDH 4007) - Fall 2006

September 1: First meeting at FIU and airboat tour

Bring to class: The Everglades Handbook

FIU (9:00 - 11:30) PC 245
Introductions; course overview; how to dress; what to bring Everglades habitats; Contemporary Field Guides, General Textbooks on the Florida Everglades (Dr. Devon Graham)

Airboat Tour 1:00 - 2:00
Coopertown Air Boat rides (11 miles west of FL Turnpike on U.S. 41/Tamiami Trail)

Class discussion: 2:30 - 3:30
Miccosukee Hotel & Gaming Resort (U.S. 41 and Krome Ave.)

Sept.8: journal entry #1 due

 

September 15:Birding at Taylor Slough

Readings:The Everglades Handbook: the two introductions (pp. xxix-xxxiv), chap 1,2,3 (pp. 3-41), chap 6, (pp. 63-66) and chap 12 (pp. 127-133); The Swamp (excerpts); Bring to class: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America and binoculars.

9:30 - 10:15 Everglades Visitor Center
Everglades early history

10:30 - 12:00 Anhinga Trail and Gumbo Limbo Trail (Wet Season)
Introduction to wildlife, bring binoculars, Florida bird book and lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Pa-hay-okee Overlook: class discussion/ survey assignment

Sept.22: SURVEY due

Sept. 29: Canoeing through Sawgrass Prairies and dense Mangrove Forests

Readings:Hugh L. Willoughby. Across the Everglades.
The Everglades Handbook: chap. 4,8,17 and 19 and chap 21 (pages 217-221 only)

9:00 - 2:00 Nine Mile Pond Canoe Trail bring binoculars, Florida bird book,WATER,HAT, Willoughby, sun block and lunch

Oct.6:journal entry #2 due

October 9: HONORS COLLEGE CONVOCATION 1:00 - 4:00 P.M. EXTRA CREDIT!!!

October 13: Sawgrass Prairies, Alligator Holes and Cypress Domes/Everglades Slough Slog

Readings:Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God The Everglades Handbook: chap 9 and following photos; The Swamp (excerpts) Selected poems of Anne McCrary Sullivan

9:00 - 10:00 ENP Artist in Residence Program: Poet Anne McCrary Sullivan www.versedaily.org/aboutamccrarysullivansr.shtml

10:00 - 2:00 Everglades Slough Slog
bring binoculars, bird book, WATER, HAT, sun block and lunch

Oct.20:journal entry #3 due

October 27 : Big Cypress Swamp/Everglades as inspiration

Readings:The Everglades Handbook: chap. 5, 7, 13, 18
Peter Matthiessen. Killing Mr. Watson (p. 1-147); The Swamp (excerpts)

10:00 - 12:00 Big Cypress Gallery 52388 Tamiami Trail (Ochopee)
Clyde Butcher, photographer www.clydebutcher.com/

1:30 - 3:30 Big Cypress Visitor Center: Class discussion, personal ad assignment, project proposal suggestion. Bring binoculars, lunch and Watson.

Nov.3: Everglades "personal Ad" due

November 10: Mangrove Estuaries and Cultural History / The 10,000 Islands (FL West Coast)

Reading:Peter Matthiessen. Killing Mr. Watson (Finish)
The Everglades Handbook: chap. 10; The Swamp (excerpts)

10:00 - 12:00 The Historic Smallwood Store Museum in Chokoloskee(meet inside museum)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch on shore

1:30 - 4:00 Canoe to Sandfly Island bring binoculars and bird book

Nov.17:journal entry #4 due(if you already submitted 3 journal entries, this one is optional)
This journal should relate to discussion of Killing Mr. Watson

December 1: Florida Bay: Flamingo Canoe Trip / Final Quiz / 2nd Semester Project Proposal Due

9:30 - 3:00 Meet at Flamingo Visitor Center
bring binoculars, bird book, something to write with and clipboard, lunch,water,hat and sun block.