Discover the beauty and diversity of America?s natural heritage through the writings of naturalists, explorers, essayists, novelists, and poets. Read, in anthologies and complete works, the rich literature of Americans? encounters with nature from Roanoke colony through the present day. Learn about major writers and their intellectual and social contexts from lectures, films, and annotated bibliographies. Select, read, and report on works of particular interest. Study primary sources for two specialfoci of the class: writings about the mid-Atlantic region and women nature writers. There will be one Saturday morning field trip (11:30 a.m.) to the Museum of American Art. Field trip: March 26, 2011.