CSUN: English 305OL Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Reading the World: Ideas That Matter AKA IDEAS
- Rules of Thumb AKA ROT
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and
responses (journal) of IDEAS readings are due on canvas 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 canvas.
This schedule will be updated here and on canvas. This is a general
outline of what work to expect
over
the course of the semester.
Last revised Oct '18
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 27 - Sept 2
- Syllabus/ various introductory assignments in canvas
- in-class essay
- skim preface materials in IDEAS (xv-xxviii).
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Sept 3 - 9
- Discuss "Learning to Read." Douglass (IDEAS)
- Completed Intros / Set up Mahara account
- Week 3: (Education)
Sept 10 - 16
- Discuss "Knowledge Its Own End." Newman (IDEAS)
- Discuss "Education for Profit, Education for Democracy." Nussbaum,
Martha. (IDEAS)
- Select own choice article from education section (IDEAS)
- Week 4 (Education)
Sept 17 - 23
- Discuss student article choice (IDEAS)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics / assign paper #1
- Week 5 (revision)
Sept 24 - 30
- Development /organization workshop paper #1
- Nominate and choose articles (4) from one section chosen by class
- Q&A chat session for paper assignment
- Week 6 (revision)
Oct 1 - 7
- Editing workshop / review MLA format (ROT)
- Pinzon photo essay discussion list
- review Annotated bibliography assignment - actual assignment follows next week
- Read Pinzon photo essay (URL) - discuss on list
- Education paper collection due on mahara Oct 7.
partners.
- Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 8 - 14
- Discussion Lange's image "Migrant Mother" (IDEAS)
- Discuss Paz. "The Day of the Dead." (IDEAS)
- Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 15 - 21
- Discuss Gandhi "Economic and Moral Progress" 561 - 567
- Discuss Stiglitz. "Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal
Society." 594 - 601.
- individual choice article (optional)
- Choose novel - indicate choice on novel forum. Finish reading novel
by
Nov 15. The list is linked from the class webpages - the reading list.
Under revision
- Week 9
Oct 22 - 28
- myth timed - writing
- Workshop proposal
- assign Research paper and anno bib
- workshop section I (short write, revised, developed)
- Week 10
Oct 29 - Nov 4
- Workshop annotated bibliography
- "This I Believe." shortwrite assignment
- Week 11
Nov 5 - 11
- Workshop research as needed
- Discuss Mayr handout
- Discuss LeGuin handout
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- Week 12
Nov 12 - 18
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- Discuss article TBD
- novel groups
- Workshop myth paper
- Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 19 - 21
- Myth collection due
- Watch The Matrix 0r District 9 or Avatar
- Form groups for last paper (science)
- Week 14
Nov 26 - Dec 2
- Timed essay on novel / one of the movies
- Paper assignment science / literature
- Week 15
Dec 3 - 11
- Final Day is Dec 11
- paper #3 due - last timed writing essay