Daniel J. Philippon

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Teaching Interests

I teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses that concern the human dimensions of environmental issues. These have included a large, introductory lecture course on environmental science, policy, and management; several smaller lecture and discussion courses on environmental communication, the history of the idea of nature, American environmental history and literature, and the relationship of science and religion; and a variety of interdisciplinary graduate seminars. Many of my courses include field experiences and involve colleagues in the Twin Cities environmental community. I also frequently give guest lectures on a wide range of environmental subjects.

Undergraduate Courses

ENGW 5106: Advanced Literary Nonfiction Writing (Fall 2010)
SUST 3003: Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet (Spring 2010)
ENGL 3090: The Environmental Imagination in 19th-Century America (Spring 2010)
ENGL 3501: Public Discourse: Coming to Terms With the Environment (Fall 2009)
ENGL 3027W: The Essay (Spring 2009)
ENGL 1905: Writing from Plow to Plate: Sustainable Food Narratives in the U.S. (Fall 2008)
WRIT 3302: Science, Religion, and the Search for Human Nature (Spring 2008)
ESPM 1011: Issues in the Environment (Fall 2006)
RHET 1315: The Land in American Experience (Fall 2005)
RHET 3383: In Search of Nature (Fall 2004)

Graduate Courses

ENGL 5150: The Environmental Imagination in 19th-Century America (Spring 2010)
ENGL 8090: Whose Nature? The Environment in Humanistic Inquiry (Fall 2009)
ENGW 8130: Writing of Literary Nonfiction (Spring 2009)
ENGL 8200: Ecocriticism and American Literature (Spring 2008)
RHET 8520: Narrative, Values, and the Urban Environment (Fall 2006)
RHET 8012: Ecocriticism (Fall 2005)
RHET 8520: The Rhetoric of Biodiversity (Fall 2003)
RHET 8520: Worldviews and Ecology (Fall 2000)
RHET 8520: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Environment (Fall 1999)
RHET 8520: Environmental Rhetoric (Winter 1999)

Teaching Honors and Awards

Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, 2001

Science and Religion Course Award, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1999