English M01A Tentative Schedule Fall 16

CSUN: English M01A Tentative Schedule

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Sustainability AKA SUS
Norton Filed Guide AKA NFG

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 NFG are given as background for that week's work. "Web" designations each week below indicate what work should be completed online.

Last revised Dec '16

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 17
- Wed Syllabus/ SWP
- Wed: review instructions for online work
- Web: set up mahara accounts - profile page (HO)
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Aug 22 - 24
- Mon: in-class timed-writing
- Mon: set up interview partners
- Mon: review instructions for online work - troubleshooting problems
- Wed: Introductions
- Wed: read preface from SUS
- Wed: footprint assignment (HO)
- Web: Set up Journals / progress report due (HO)
Week 3: (Sustainability)
Aug 29 - 31
- Mon: Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Wed: Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure" from Silent Spring. (SUS)
- Web: Set up mahara page for final footprint assignment (HO)
Week 4 (Sustainability)
Sept 5 - 7
- Mon: labor day holiday
- Wed: Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" (video)
- Web: publish footprint / progress report due
Week 5 (position paper)
Sept 12 - 14
- Mon: Class cancelled - today only
- Wed: Discuss Suzuki "The Sacred Balance" (HO available on mahara)
- Wed: workshop footprint
- 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 19 - 21
- Mon: Jared Diamond "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Mon: assign short write Varda video -
- Wed: Discuss Hardin (SUS)
- Wed: review topics for research / assignment
Week 7 ()
Sept 26 - 28
- Mon: workshop Varda assignment
- Mon: Assign annotated bibliography
- Mon: Choose novels
- Wed:
- Web: PR due/ Hardin and Diamond due / publish position paper assignment on footprint
Week 8
Oct 3 - 5
- 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 10 - 12
- 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 17 - 19
- Mon: Class Cancelled - today only
- Wed: Development /organization workshop paper
- Wed: assign presentations / group review and revision of collection
- Web: PR due
Week 11
Oct 24 - 26
- Mon: Discuss Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- Mon: The Matrix
- Wed: The Matrix
- Wed: Novel groups
Week 12 (Science and Literature)
Oct 31 - Nov 2
- Mon: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- Mon: paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- Wed Animatrix
- Web: PR due / set up collection for novel paper
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 7 - 9
- Mon: workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- Wed: Workshop org/dev
- Web: PR due
Week 14
Nov 14 - 16
- Mon: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- Mon: bring 1st timed writing on social media
- Mon: Discuss Pariser- Watch video in class
- Wed: Discuss Rhetberg Weblogs: Learning in Public Print out, read and bring to class.
- Web: Novel collection due
Week 15
Nov 21 - 23
- 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.
- Mon: discuss topics for analysis paper
- Wed: in-class writing
- Wed: review presenttion expectations
- Web: set up last collection
Week 16
Nov 28 - 30
- Mon: presentations of group research projects
- Mon workshop
- Wed: presentations of group research projects
- Wed: Workshop
- Web:
Week 17
Dec 5 - 7
- 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 12: 9-10

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