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 may be 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 here and in the moodle. This is a general outline of what work to expect
over
the course of the semester. The moodle schedule is the most up to date
schedule.
Last revised Aug '14
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 24 - 30
- Syllabus/ various introductory assignments in moodle
- in-class essay
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Aug 31 - Sept 6
- Completed Intros / Set up Mahara account
- skim preface materials in POO (xxv-43).
- Discuss "The Idea of a University." Newman (POO)
- Week 3: (Education)
Sept 7 - 13
- Discuss "Lives on the Boundary." Rose
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- Week 4 (Education)
Sept 14 - 20
- Discuss student article choice (POO)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics / assign paper #1
- Week 5 (revision)
Sept 21 - 27
- 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 28 - Oct 4
- 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 5 - 11
- Frederick Douglass. "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" discussion list
- 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 12 - 18
- Discuss TBA "
- Discuss TBA
- Choose novel - indicate choice in moodle. Finish reading novel by .
- Week 9
Oct 19 - 25
- Form groups for paper #2 - group chat session - info on group workshop expectations
- Discuss TBA
- "This I Believe." shortwrite assignment
- Week 10
Oct 26 - Nov 1
- myth short- write
- assign Research paper and 2nd anno bib
- workshop section I (short write, revised, developed)
- Week 11
Nov 2 - 8
- Discuss Mayr handout
- Discuss LeGuin handout
- draft of 2nd annobib due
- "Science O Brave New World" chat session
- Week 12
Nov 9 - Nov 15
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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 16 - 22
- Myth paper due
- Watch The Matrix 0r District 9
- Form groups for last paper (science)
- Week 14
Nov 23 - 29
- Timed essay on novel / one of the movies
- Paper assignment science / literature
- Week 15
Nov 30 - Dec 1 - 6
- Final day of class
Dec 8
- paper #3 due - last timed writing essay