This may not be quite what you have in mind, but one recent documentary I highly recommend is "Darwin's Nightmare" by Hubert Sauper. Not straightforward in terms of basic ecology, and may not be easy to watch - but it is one of the most powerful films I have seen in recent years about some of the devastating ecological and human costs of globalization. I'll be showing it to my Human Ecology class this semester, and think anyone interested in the fate of the earth and our own species ought to see this film.
Madhu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madhusudan Katti Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Biology Department of Biology, M/S SB73 California State University, Fresno 2555 E. San Ramon Ave. Fresno, CA 93740-8034 559.278.2460 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~mkatti http://reconciliationecology.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I support ignorance. That is my philosophy. I have the tranquility of ignorance and faith in science. Other persons cannot live without faith, without belief, without theology. Me, I pass these by. I sleep on the pillow of ignorance. I don't know. I will never know. I accept it without tormenting myself. I wait. I do not fall because of this into nihilism, I try to recognise the connections" --Claude Bernard On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Dr. Gary Grossman wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > At some point in my career I'd like to teach a moderately, large > non-majors > oriented course, delineating basic concepts in ecology and resource > management, via film, art and literature. One idea would be to > have the > film, etc. illustrate the point which could then be reinforced via > a book > chapter or edited journal article so that they would be > understandable by > non-majors. Does anyone teach a course like this? If you do, > would you > mind sharing your materials? If you don't but have ideas about > specific > films, short stories, paintings, sculptures, etc. please let me > know and > please also tell us why you would chose that work (i.e. what > concept it > illustrates). I have a pretty good background in the visual arts, > so help > with literature and film would be appreciated. As an example of > what I'm > looking for, I would use the film Dersu Uzala by Kurasawa to > illustrate the > role of humans relationship to nature. Thanks for your help. g2 > > -- > Gary D. Grossman > > Distinguished Research Professor - Animal Ecology > Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources > University of Georgia > Athens, GA, USA 30602 > > http://www.arches.uga.edu/~grossman > > Board of Editors - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation > Editorial Board - Freshwater Biology > Editorial Board - Ecology Freshwater Fish
