English M01A Tentative Schedule Fall 17

CSUN: English M01A Tentative Schedule

The following tentative schedule includes readings from:

Sustainability AKA SUS
Norton Field 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 Nov '17

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 14 - 16
- Mon: Syllabus/ SWP
- Mon: set up interview partners
- Wed: in-class timed-writing
- Wed: review help files for account set-up (HO)
- Web: set up mahara accounts - profile page
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Aug 21 - 23
- Mon: Introductions
- Mon: review instructions for online work - troubleshooting problems
- Wed: read preface from SUS for discussion
- Wed: footprint assignment (HO)
- Web: Set up Journals (HO)
Week 3: (Sustainability)
Aug 28 - 30
- Mon: Watch and discuss "The Story of Stuff" video by Annie Leonard
- Review summary writing
- Wed: Discuss Rachel Carson's "Obligation to Endure" from Silent Spring. (SUS)
- Review response writing. HO for progress report assignment.
- Web: Progress report due.
- Web: Carson and Leonard S&R due on footprint page. assignment
Week 4 (Sustainability)
Sept 4 - 6
- Mon: labor day holiday
- Wed: Watch and discuss Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" (video)
- Web: Set up mahara page for publishing footprint assignment (HO)
Week 5 (Sustainability)
Sept 11 - 13
- Mon: Discuss Suzuki "The Sacred Balance" (HO available on mahara)
- Mon: peer revision workshop footprint
- Mon: Jared Diamond "The World as a Polder" (SUS)
- Wed: Rubric (HO) / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Web: Footprint assignment due
Week 6 (Sustainability)
Sept 18 - 20
- turn in timed writing with self-eval
- Mon: Discuss Hardin (SUS)
- Mon: Sign up for novel choice
- Wed: Discuss student choice article (SUS)
- Wed: review topics for research
- Wed: Assign annotated bibliography
  
  Web: progress report due
Week 7 (Sustainability: Research writing)
Sept 25 - 27
- 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
- Web: Set up research project collection and publish proposal in collection
Week 8 (Sustainability)
Oct 2 - 4 (Research writing)
- Mon: report writing / ethnography / interviews
- Mon: research planning and workshop as needed
- Wed: research paper assignment
- Wed: research planning and workshop as needed
- Web: progress report due
Week 9 (Science Fiction - Genre)
Oct 9 - 11
- Mon: Development /organization workshop paper
- Mon: research planning and workshop as needed
- Wed: Discuss Le Guin and genres Le Guin / genre features of science fiction
- Wed: research planning and workshop as needed
Week 10 (Science Fiction - Genre)
Oct 16 - 18
- Mon: The Matrix
- Wed: The Matrix
- Wed: Novel groups
Week 11 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Oct 23 - 25
- Class cancelled- today only
- Mon: group review and revision of research collection-workshop online
- Novel groups
- Wed: group review and revision of collection
- Web: Research Collection due Nov 1
Week 12 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Oct 30 - Nov 1
- Mon: In class essay on novel / The Matrix
- Mon: paper assignment heuristics science / literature
- Mon: editing for research collection
- Wed: workshop topic and development - draft sci-fi paper
- Wed: turn in self-evaluation sheet for research collection
- Web: PR due / set up collection for novel paper
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 6 - 8
- Mon: Workshop org/dev sci-fi paper
- Mon: bring 1st timed writing on social media
- Wed: Discuss Pariser- Watch video in class
- Wed: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
Week 14 (Social Networking)
Nov 13 - 15
- Mon: Discuss Rettberg Weblogs: Learning in Public Print out, read and bring to class.
- Wed: 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: discuss topics for analysis paper
- Wed: review presentation expectations
- Web: Progress report due. Set up last collection
- Web: Novel collection due
Week 15 (Thanksgiving week)
Nov 20 - 22
- Mon: No class
- Wed: No class
Week 16
Nov 27 - 29
- Mon: in-class writing on social networking
- Mon: paper assignment
- Wed: topic / dev workshop paper #3 workshop
- Wed: presentations of group research projects
Week 17
Dec 4 - 6
- Mon: presentations of group research projects
- Mon: Workshop org/dev paper #3
- Wed: Campus closed
- Web: publish final collection: rough, final draft, self evaluation. No late work can be accepted.
Final Exam day Dec 11 8-10.

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