SC 430 Environmental Advocacy and Leadership

General Information:

Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus & Schedule

 

Class Outline

Week 1- Oct 1: Introduction. Why Study Advocacy?

Class Notes: Introduction

Week 2 Oct 6,8: The Origins of Advocacy: Philosophical and Ideological Foundations

      1. Grass Roots. Introduction and Chapter. 1 pp. 1-58.
      2. Enough is Enough. Introduction and Chapter 1,2. Pp. 1-28.
      3. Video: Culture Clash. The Hegins Pigeon Shoot.
      4. "Determined Opposition: The Wise Use Movement Challenges Environmentalism." Phil Brick. Environment. 1995. Vol. 37, No. 8 pp. 17-42.
      5. Chapter 1, "Getting Trashed," by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb. In Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America, 1994 (2nd Edition). Bellevue, WA: Free Enterprise Press.
      6. Monkeywrench Gang. Pp. 1-66

Class Notes: Notes from "Getting Trashed"

 

Week 3 Oct 13,15: Tools of Information Access

      1. Freedom of Information Act
        1. Reading: Freedom of Information Act Handbook, Dept. of Interior

          2. http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/handbook.htm

        2. Reading: U.S. DOJ Regulations for Implementing FOIA

          3. http://www.usdoj.gov/foia/foia0601.htm

        3. Reading: Reference Guide to the Freedom of Information Act

http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/04_3.html
      1. State Public Disclosure Laws
      2. Case Study. "Phantom Forests" - using the FOIA to access information about the forest planning process.
      3. Monkeywrench Gang. Pp. 67-128

Assignment #1. Preparation of FOIA request.

 

Week 4 Oct 20,22: Public Hearing Strategies and Procedures

      1. Public Hearings Procedures and Strategies. Jean Mater. Chapters 4-8 pp. 47-217.

Assignment #2. Preparation of a Fact Sheet.

Class notes: Public Hearings and Advocacy Strategies

 

 Week 5 Oct 27,29: Grass Roots Tactics, Ballot Initiatives, Campaigns

      1. Grass Roots, Chapter 2, pp. 59-121.
      2. Enough is Enough, Chapter 3, pp. 29-85.
      3. Video: Caught in a Trap.
      4. Monkeywrench Gang. Pp. 129-197

Assignment #3. Public Hearing Analysis

 

Week 6 Nov 3,5: Interest Groups and Advocacy Participants

      1. Insider's Guide to Environmental Negotiation. Dale M. Gorczynski, pp. 29-92.
      2. Inside the Environmental Movement. Edited by Donald Snow. Executive Summary and Chapter 1, pp. 1-32.
      3. Chapter 1 "The Rediscovery of Interest Group Politics," by Mark P. Petracca. In The Politics of Interests, Mark P. Petracca, eds. 1992. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
      4. Chapter 17, "The Paradox of Interest Groups in Washington: More Groups, Less Clout," pp. 339-364. In Interests and Institutions: Substance and Structure in American Politics. 1992. Robert Salisbury. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
      5. Monkeywrench Gang. Pp. 198-275

  Class notes: Interest Groups

Week 7 Nov 10,12: Non-violence/Civil Disobediance

      1. Chapter 7, "The Gandhian Conception of Nonviolence," pp. 97-123. In The Strategy of Nonviolent Defense. 1996. Robert J. Burrowes. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
      2. Issue of "No Compromise" Newsmagazine
      3. Video: Call to Direct Action
      4. Monkeywrench Gang. Pp. 276-387.

  Class notes: Gandhian Nonviolence

Week 8 Nov 17,19: The Media

      1. Enough is Enough, Chapter 6, pp. 175-281.
      2. Grass Roots, Chapter 4, pp. 179-219.
      3. Video: YES/NO Campaign Adds Oregon Measure 18
      4. Guest Speaker

Class notes: Media, Part 1

Class notes: Media, Part 2

Class notes: Media, Part 3

Assignment #4 Preparing a News Release

Week 9 Nov 24: Lobbying and Constituent Communications 

      1. Enough is Enough, Chapter 7, pp. 282-340.
      2. Write Your Congressman: Constituent Communications and Representation. Stephen Frantzich.

Class notes: Constituent Communications

Assignment #5 Political communication--written

Assignment #6 Lobbying--Oral communication

 

Week 10 Dec 1,3: Appeals and Litigation

 

      1. Grass Roots, pp. 108-113, 276-277.
      2. Overview of Federal Court System (http://www.uscourts.gov/)
      3. Video: The Southern Poverty Law Center

Assignment #7 HCN Advocacy Issue Analysis

 

Week 11 Dec 8,10: Building an Organization and Fund Raising

1. Enough is Enough. Chap. 4 pp. 86-101

      1. Grass Roots, Chapter 5, pp. 220-267.
      2. Enough is Enough. Chap. 5, pp. 103-168.

Handouts: Sample Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws

Class notes: Building an Organization

 

Dec 15,17 Misc. Topics: Professionalism and Environmental Advocacy

Advocacy through Curriculum Development & EE

 

 

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