English M01A Tentative Schedule

CSUN: English M01A Tentative Schedule

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Sustainability AKA SUS
Rules of Thumb AKA ROT

Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and responses of SUS readings are due online within one week of our class discussion for full credit. Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work. "Web" designations each week below indicate what work should be completed online.

Last revised Nov '15

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 17 - 19
- Mon: Syllabus/ SWP
- Mon: set up interview partners
- Wed: in-class timed-writing
- Wed: review instructions for online work
- Web: set up mahara accounts - profile page (HO)
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Aug 24 - 26
- Mon: Introductions
- Wed: preface from Sus
- Wed: footprint assignment (HO)
- Web: Set up Journals / progress report due (HO)
Week 3: (Sustainability)
Aug 31 - Sept 2
- Mon: Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" (video)
- Wed: Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Web: Set up mahara page for final footprint assignment (HO)
Week 4 (Sustainability)
Sept 7 - 9
- Mon: labor day holiday
- Wed: Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure" from Silent Spring. (SUS)
- Wed: workshop footprint
- Web: publish footprint / progress report due
Week 5 (position paper)
Sept 14 - 16
- Mon: Discuss Hardin (SUS)
- Wed: Discuss Suzuki "The Sacred Balance" (HO available on mahara)
- Wed: Rubric (HO) / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Web: Carson S&R due / set up mahara page for Varda assignment
Week 6 (revision)
Sept 21 - 23
- Mon: Jared Diamond "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Mon: assign short write Varda video -
- Wed: review topics for research / assignment
- Wed: workshop Varda assignment
- Web: PR due/ Hardin and Suzuki due / publish Varda assignment
Week 7 ()
Sept 28 - 30
- Mon: Assign annotated bibliography
- Mon: Choose novels
- CLASS CANCELLED - today only
- Web: Diamond due /
Week 8
Oct 5 - 7
- Mon: in-class writing - proposal
- Mon: planning groups
- Mon: workshop abib
- Wed: planning group
- Wed: workshop research proposal / turn in timed writing with self-eval for credit
- Web: PR due / set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Week 9
Oct 12 - 14
- Mon: report writing / group
- Mon: research planning and workshop as needed
- Wed: research paper assignment
- Wed: research planning and workshop as needed
- Web:
Week 10
Oct 19 - 21
- Mon: Development /organization workshop paper
- Mon: Presentations or group review and revision of collection
- Wed: Discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- Wed: NPR science blog - tentative
- Web: PR due
Week 11
Oct 26 - 28
- Mon: The Matrix
- Wed: The Matrix
- Wed: Novel groups
Week 12 (Science and Literature)
Nov 2 - 4
- Mon: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- Mon: paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- Wed: workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- Web: PR due / set up collection for novel paper
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 9 - 11
- Mon: Veteran's day holiday
- Wed: workshop org and dev
- Web:
Week 14
Nov 16 - 18
- Mon: Class cancelled - revised schedule below
- Wed: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- Wed: Discuss Pariser- Watch video in class
- Web: Novel collection due/ PR due
Week 15
Nov 23 - 25
- Mon: Discuss Rhetberg Weblogs: Learning in Public Print out, read and bring to class.
- Mon: Discuss Bruckman The Next Bison: Social Computing and Culture Choose one of the blog posts that focuses on technology and culture; print out, read, and bring to class.
- Wed: in-class writing
- Web: set up last collection
Week 16
Nov 30 - Dec 2
- Mon: presentations of group research projects
- Mon workshop
- Wed: presentations of group research projects
- Wed: Workshop
- Web:
Week 17
Dec 7 - 9
- Mon: presentations of group research projects
- Mon: Final edit for paper #3
- Wed: presentations of group research projects
- Web: publish final collection: rough, final draft, self evaluation. No late work can be accepted.
Final Exam day Dec

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