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Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1-2 Introduction  
3-4 The Disease Environment  
5-6 The Columbian Exchange Paper 1 due in class on session 5
7-8 Wilderness and Garden  
9-10 Science and Nature  
11 Field Trip to Burndy Library Paper 2 due in class on session 11
12-14 Landscape and Agriculture Paper 3 proposals due in class on session 14
15-16 Industry and Demography  
17-18 Conservation and Preservation  
19   Individual conferences on paper 3
20-21 Poisoning and Environmentalism  
22-23 Current Events  
24-25 Oral Presentation of Final Projects

Paper 3 due in class on session 25

Revisions due in class on session 25