CSUN: English 305OL Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Presence of Others AKA POO
- Rules of Thumb AKA ROT
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and
responses (journal) of POO readings are due in the moodle as indicated.
Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work. Additional readings and/or
substitutions announced on class webpage and on the moodle.
This schedule will be updated for the online class and likely migrated to
the class webspace. This is a general outline of what work to expect over
the course of the semester.
Last revised Jul '10
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 25 - 27
- T: Syllabus/ Meet in moodle for FAQs /other assignments in moodle
- TH: in-class essay
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Sept 1 - 7
- Intros
- skim preface materials in POO (xxv-43).
- Discuss "Lives on the Boundary." Rose
- Week 3: (Education)
Sept 8 - 14
- Discuss "Learning in the Key of Life." Spayde (POO)
- Rose and Spayde chat session
- Week 4 (Education)
Sept 15 - 21
- Discuss student article choice (POO)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics / assign paper #1
- Week 5 (revision)
Sept 22 - 28
- paper assignment
- Development /organization workshop paper #1
- Nominate and choose articles (4) from Cultural Myth section
- Q&A chat session for paper assignment
- Week 6 (revision)
Sept 29 - Oct 5
- Editing workshop / review MLA format (ROT)
- Pinzon photo essay discussion list
- review Annotated bibliography assignment - actual assignment follows next week
- Read Pinzon photo essay (POO) - discuss on list
- Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 6 - 12
- Frederick Douglass. "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" discussion list
- Oct 8: Paper #1 Final draft due online with working drafts and workshop feedback from
partners
- "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." chat session
- First Annotated bibliography assignment
- Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 13 - 19
- Margaret Atwood "A Letter to America"
- David Brooks "One Nation, Slightly Divisible"
- Choose novel - indicate choice in moodle. Finish reading novel by Nov 24.
- Week 9
Oct 20 - 26
- Form groups for paper #2 - group chat session - info on group workshop expectations
- Stephanie Coontz "The Way We Wish We Were"
- "This I Believe." shortwrite assignment
- Week 10
Oct Oct 27 - Nov 2
- myth short- write
- assign Research paper and 2nd anno bib
- workshop section I (short write, typed, developed)
- Week 11
Nov 3 - 9
- Discuss Mayr handout
- Discuss LeGuin handout
- draft of 2nd annobib due
- "Science O Brave New World" chat session
- Week 12
Nov 10 - 16
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- Discuss Bishop. "Enemies of Promise."
- novel groups
- Workshop section II of myth paper
- science article - tba
- Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 17 - 23
- Myth paper due
- Watch The Matrix 0r District 9
- Form groups for last paper (science)
- Week 14
Nov 24 - 25
- Timed essay on novel / one of the movies
- Paper assignment science / literature
- Thanksgiving holiday
- Week 15
Dec 1 - 7
- Final day of class
Dec 8
- paper #3 due - last timed writing essay