| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Discussion of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle | |
| 3 | Discussion of Session Readings | |
| 4 | Discussion of Pielou's After the Ice Age and Mithen's After the Ice | Paper proposals due |
| 5 | Discussion of Richards's Unending Frontier | |
| 6 | Discussion of Grove's Green Imperialism | |
| 7 | Discussion of Melville's Plague of Sheep and Anderson's Creatures of Empire | |
| 8 | Discussion of Drayton's Nature's Government | |
| 9 | Discussion of Session Readings | Paper progress reports due |
| 10 | Discussion of Watt's Epidemics and History and Curtin's Disease and Empire | |
| 11 | Discussion of MacKenzie's Empire of Nature and Ritvo's Animal Estate | |
| 12 | Discussion of MacLeod's Science and the Colonial Enterprise | |
| 13-14 | Final Presentations | Final paper due on session 14 |