Tues || 11.1: In-class meeting
□ Dolphins, Seals and Penguins: The Squee Factor and the Cute and the Cudlly
□ Killer Whales and Whale Sharks: Artificial Oceans and Captive Creatures

Week 11 Reading
□ your own choice of source materials from the web for your visual essay on sharks and other marine creatures
□ SeaWorld
□ March of the Penguins -- viewer comments

suggested sources:
□ "Dolphins in Popular Literature and the Media"
□ "Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs"
□ google "sea world" + commercials
□ "The Killer in the Pool"
□ Blackfish Film website
□ "Inside the Mind of a Killer Whale" interview with a neuroscientist from Blackfish
□ Georgia Aquarium here, here, and here
□ Ethical Debate: Captive Whale Sharks

□ NOVA documentary "The Private Lives of Dolphins"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7AlinxwVAg&ab_channel=XXSASSTERXX1

□ "March of the Penguins" 2005 (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7tWNwhSocE&ab_channel=Movieclips

□ "March of the Emperors" (French commercial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZ9HCr3M3g&ab_channel=KennethJohnson
□ Penguins of Madagascar 2014 (trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlOh1T93oY&ab_channel=MovieclipsComingSoon

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Online lab session assignment

upload your tackk blog post by midnight on Tuesday 11.8

This week, you'll be thinking about what it means to experience "the wild" through popular culture sites like the SeaWorld marine park (similar sites are aquariums and zoos) and in movie theaters or on television (with nature documentaries).

Questions you might write about on your blog post are:

1) What ideas about "the wild", "wilderness", "wild animals", "wild nature", etc. do you think that visitors/viewers encounter at places like SeaWorld or the Georgia Aquarium and in a documentary such as March of the Penguins or on dolphins?

2) What do Shamu and the Penguins have in common? What is different between them?

3) What does a site like SeaWorld or the Georgia Aquarium or the issues about orcas in particular tell us about the relationship between humans and nature in the 21st century?

[ note: your visual essay will be due by midnight on Monday 11.14 ]