{"id":2374,"date":"2014-08-08T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2374"},"modified":"2014-08-11T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:04:43","slug":"qualifying-exam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=2374","title":{"rendered":"Qualifying Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"

English PhD Qualifying Exam<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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UCSB is one of the few\u00a0U.S. universities that offers\u00a0PhD students a comprehensive overview of the field of ecocriticism. All candidates for the PhD in English at UCSB must successfully pass two oral qualifying exams, both of which may be vectored toward literature and the environment.<\/p>\n

As the Department notes on its website, “[t]he first qualifying exam is designed to test the student\u2019s familiarity with a range of literature at once various enough to encourage breadth of learning and focused enough to allow for the demonstration of intellectual grasp. Students are expected to complement their knowledge of individual works with a sense of broader historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts as well as with the ability to apply the kinds of critical tools used by professional scholars today.\u00a0For the purposes of the exam, the spectrum of literature written in English is broken up into thirteen fields.” One of these\u00a0thirteen fields is “Literature and the Environment.” In order to prepare the for exam, students are required to read and prepare all three parts of the below\u00a0list.<\/p>\n

The second qualifying exam involves students sitting down with “their dissertation committee for a ninety-minute conference on the dissertation project based on a four-to-five-page prospectus and a bibliography of at least fifty works to be constructed by the candidate in consultation with her\/his committee…The prospectus should define the dissertation topic, its initial critical questions, and its relationship to existing scholarship and may also describe likely chapter divisions. The readings lists will include works most immediately germane to the dissertation but will also represent the wider professional area within which the dissertation is likely to be received or in which it seeks to make an intervention.”<\/p>\n

The first qualifying exam in\u00a0Literature and the Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part 1. The Emergence of Environmental Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bible,\u00a0Genesis<\/em>\u00a0I-IV<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Virgil,\u00a0Eclogues\u00a0<\/em>I, IV, & V;\u00a0Georgics\u00a0<\/em>I<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francis Bacon,\u00a0New Atlantis\u00a0<\/em>(1624)<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alexander Pope,\u00a0Windsor Forest\u00a0<\/em>(1713)<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jean Jacques Rousseau, from\u00a0A Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind<\/em>\u00a0(1755)<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oliver Goldsmith, \u201cThe Deserted Village\u201d (1770)<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Immanuel Kant, 71-74, from\u00a0The Third Critique<\/em>\u00a0(of judgment) (1790)<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Clare, from\u00a0The Village Minstrel and Other Poems\u00a0<\/em>(1821)<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Wordsworth, selections from\u00a0The Prelude\u00a0<\/em>(1850)<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Henry David Thoreau, \u201cEconomy,\u201d \u201cThe Pond in Winter,\u201d from\u00a0Walden\u00a0<\/em>(1854)<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 Charles Darwin, Chapter IV, \u201cNatural Selection,\u201d from\u00a0The Origin of Species\u00a0<\/em>(1859)<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0 George P. Marsh, Chapter 1, \u201cIntroducing,\u201d from\u00a0The Earth as Modified by Human Action\u00a0<\/em>(1874)<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0 Martin Heidegger, \u201cThe Question Concerning Technology,\u201d from\u00a0The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays\u00a0<\/em>(1949, trans. William Lovitt, 1977), and \u201cBuilding, Dwelling, Thinking,\u201d from\u00a0Poetry, Language, Thought\u00a0<\/em>(trans. Albert Hofstadter, 1971)<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0 Hannah Arendt, \u201cLabor, Work, Action,\u201d (1964, from\u00a0The Portable Hannah Arendt\u00a0<\/em>2000)<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0 Leo Marx, \u201cSleepy Hollow, 1844,\u201d from\u00a0The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America\u00a0<\/em>(1964)<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0 Raymond Williams, Chapters 1-5, from\u00a0The Country and the City\u00a0<\/em>(1973); \u201cNature\u201d and \u201cCulture,\u201d from\u00a0Keywords\u00a0<\/em>(1976)<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0 Jonathan Bate, Chapter 2, \u201cThe Economy of Nature,\u201d from\u00a0Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition\u00a0<\/em>(1991)<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0 Terry Gifford, \u201cThree Kinds of Pastoral,\u201d from\u00a0Pastoral\u00a0<\/em>(1999)<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0 Robert N. Watson, Introduction and Chapter 3, from\u00a0Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0(2007)<\/p>\n

Part 2. Ecocriticism and Modern Environmentalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

20.\u00a0 Aldo Leopold, \u201cThinking Like a Mountain,\u201d \u201cThe Conservation Aesthetic,\u201d \u201cThe Land Ethic,\u201d from\u00a0A Sand County Almanac<\/em>\u00a0(1949)<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0 Rachel Carson,\u00a0Silent Spring<\/em>\u00a0(1962)<\/p>\n

22.\u00a0 Lynn White, Jr., \u201cThe Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,\u201d from\u00a0Science\u00a0<\/em>(1967)<\/p>\n

23.\u00a0 Ed Abbey, \u201cIndustrial Tourism and the National Parks,\u201d from\u00a0Desert Solitaire\u00a0<\/em>(1968)<\/p>\n

24.\u00a0 Yi-Fu Tuan, Chapter 8, \u201cTopophilia and Environment,\u201d from\u00a0Topophilia<\/em>\u00a0(1974)<\/p>\n

25.\u00a0 Carolyn Merchant, \u201cNature as Female,\u201d from\u00a0The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution\u00a0<\/em>(1980)<\/p>\n

26.\u00a0 Bill McKibben, \u201cThe End of Nature,\u201d from\u00a0The End of Nature<\/em>\u00a0(1989)<\/p>\n

27.\u00a0 Arne Naess, \u201cThe Deep Ecological Movement,\u201d from\u00a0Philosophical Inquiry<\/em>\u00a0(1986) and \u201cThe Deep Ecology \u2018Eight Points\u2019 Revisited,\u201d from\u00a0Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century<\/em>\u00a0(1995)<\/p>\n

28.\u00a0 Leslie Marmon Silko, \u201cLandscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination,\u201d from\u00a0The Ecocriticism Reader\u00a0<\/em>(1996)<\/p>\n

29.\u00a0 Cheryll Glotfelty, \u201cLiterary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis,\u201d from\u00a0The Ecocriticism Reader\u00a0<\/em>(1996)<\/p>\n

30.\u00a0 Richard Kerridge, \u201cEnvironmentalism and Ecocriticism,\u201d in\u00a0The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism<\/em>\u00a0(2006)<\/p>\n

31.\u00a0 Lawrence Buell, Introduction and Chapter 3, \u201cRepresenting the Environment,\u201d from\u00a0The Environmental Imagination\u00a0<\/em>(1995); \u201cToxic Discourse,\u201d from\u00a0Critical Inquiry<\/em>(1999)<\/p>\n

32.\u00a0 William Cronon, \u201cThe Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,\u201d from\u00a0Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature<\/em>\u00a0(1995)<\/p>\n

33.\u00a0 Ursula K. LeGuin, \u201cThe Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction\u201d (1986), from\u00a0The Ecocriticism Reader\u00a0<\/em>(1996)<\/p>\n

34.\u00a0 Michael Pollan, \u201cWeeds,\u201d from\u00a0Second Nature: A Gardener\u2019s Education\u00a0<\/em>(1991);\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe Feedlot: Making Meat,\u201d from\u00a0Omnivore’s Dilemma<\/em>\u00a0(2006)<\/p>\n

35.\u00a0 E. O. Wilson, \u201cBernhardsdorp,\u201d from\u00a0Biophilia \u00a0<\/em>(1984)<\/p>\n

36.\u00a0 Robert Bullard, Chapter 2, \u201cRace, Class, and the Politics of Place,\u201d from\u00a0Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality<\/em>\u00a0(1990)<\/p>\n

37.\u00a0 Dana Philips, \u201cExpostulations and Replies,\u201d from\u00a0The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America<\/em>\u00a0(2003)<\/p>\n

Part 3. Futures: Posthumanism, Risk, and Global Environmental Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n

38.\u00a0 Donna Haraway,\u00a0 \u201cA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth-Century,\u201d from\u00a0Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature<\/em>\u00a0(1991); \u201cCyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience,\u201d from\u00a0Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality<\/em>\u00a0(2003)<\/p>\n

39.\u00a0 N. Katherine Hayles, Chapters 1 and 11, from\u00a0How We Became Posthuman:<\/em>\u00a0Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1999)<\/p>\n

40.\u00a0 Giorgio Agamben, Part III from\u00a0Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life<\/em>\u00a0(1998)<\/p>\n

41.\u00a0 Temple Grandin, \u201cAnimal Feelings,\u201d from\u00a0Animals in Translation<\/em>\u00a0(2004)<\/p>\n

42.\u00a0 Carey Wolfe, \u201cLearning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject,\u201d from\u00a0What is Posthumanism?\u00a0<\/em>(2009)<\/p>\n

43.\u00a0 Vandana Shiva, Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2, from\u00a0Biopiracy<\/em>\u00a0(1999)<\/p>\n

44.\u00a0 Dipesh Chakrabarty, \u201cThe Climate of History: Four Theses,\u201d from\u00a0Critical Inquiry<\/em>\u00a0(2009)<\/p>\n

45.\u00a0 Greg Garrard, \u201cHow Queer Is Green?,\u201d from\u00a0Configurations<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(2010)<\/p>\n

46.\u00a0 David Harvey, \u201cNotes Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development,\u201d from\u00a0Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development<\/em>(2006)<\/p>\n

47.\u00a0 Ursula Heise, \u201cIntroduction\u201d and \u201cFrom the Blue Planet to Google Earth,\u201d from\u00a0Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global<\/em>(2008)<\/p>\n

48.\u00a0 Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley, \u201cIntroduction: Towards an Aesthetics of the Earth,\u201d from\u00a0Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment<\/em>(2011)<\/p>\n

49.\u00a0 Paul Outka, \u201cIntroduction: The Sublime and the Traumatic,\u201d from\u00a0Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance\u00a0<\/em>(2008)<\/p>\n

50.\u00a0 Bruno Latour, Part I: \u201cCrisis\u201d and Part II: \u201cConstitution,\u201d from\u00a0We Have Never Been Modern<\/em><\/p>\n

51.\u00a0 Ramachandra Guha, \u201cRadical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique,\u201d from\u00a0Environmental Ethics<\/em>\u00a0(1989)<\/p>\n

52.\u00a0 Joan Martinez-Alier, \u201cCurrents of Environmentalism,\u201d from\u00a0The Environmentalism of the Poor\u00a0<\/em>(2002)<\/p>\n

53.\u00a0 Timothy Morton, \u201cThinking Ecology: The Mesh, the Strange Stranger, and the Beautiful Soul,\u201d from\u00a0Collapse\u00a0<\/em>(2010); \u201cQueer Ecology,\u201d from\u00a0PMLA<\/em>\u00a0(2010)<\/p>\n

54.\u00a0 Rob Nixon, Introduction, from\u00a0Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor\u00a0<\/em>(2011)<\/p>\n

55.\u00a0 Anna Tsing, \u201cUnruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species,\u201d from\u00a0Party Writing for Donna Haraway!<\/em><\/p>\n

56.\u00a0 Michael Ziser and Julie Sze, \u201cClimate Change, Environmental Aesthetics, and Global Environmental Justice Cultural Studies,\u201d from\u00a0Discourse<\/em>\u00a0(2007)<\/p>\n

57.\u00a0 Ulrich Beck, Chapters 1 and 2, from\u00a0Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity<\/em>\u00a0(1986; trans. 1992)<\/p>\n

58.\u00a0 Rebecca Solnit, \u201cDiary\u201d on the BP Blowout, from\u00a0London Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0(2010)<\/p>\n

59.\u00a0 Peter Van Wyck, \u201cWaste,\u201d from\u00a0Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and the Nuclear Threat\u00a0<\/em>(2005)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>

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English Overview<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate<\/span><\/p>\n

General<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Specialization<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Honors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate<\/span><\/p>\n

General<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Colloquium<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Qualifying Exam<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

FAQs<\/span><\/p>\n

What is ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is 1st- and 2nd-wave ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is the environmental justice movement?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Which works qualify as ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is ecocriticism new?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Do ecocritics only work with modern texts?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is anthropocentricism and ecocentrism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is ecocriticism\u00a0a form of activism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is the future of ecocriticism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2374\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}