CSUN: English 305OL Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Reading the World: Ideas That Matter AKA IDEAS
- Norton Field Guide AKA NFG
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 NFG 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 Aug '19
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Aug 26 - Sept 1
- Syllabus/ various introductory assignments in canvas
- in-class essay
- skim preface materials in IDEAS (xv-xxviii).
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Sept 2 - 8
- Discuss "Learning to Read." Douglass (IDEAS)
- Completed Intros / Set up Mahara account
- Week 3: (Education)
Sept 9 - 15
- 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 16 - 22
- Discuss student article choice (IDEAS)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics / assign paper #1
- Week 5 (revision)
Sept 23 - 29
- 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)
Sept 30 - Oct 6
- Editing workshop / review MLA format (ROT)
- Pinzon photo essay discussion list
- review Annotated bibliography assignment - actual assignment follows next week
- Choose novel - indicate choice on novel forum. Finish reading novel
by
week 10. The list is linked from the class webpages - the reading list.
- Read Pinzon photo essay (URL) - discuss on list
- Education paper collection due on mahara Oct 7.
- Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 7 - 13
- Discuss TBD (IDEAS)
- Discuss TBD (IDEAS)
- Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Oct 14 - 20
- Discuss TBD (IDEAS)
- Discuss TBD (IDEAS)
- individual choice article (optional)
- Week 9
Oct 21 - 27
- myth timed - writing
- Workshop proposal
- assign Research paper and anno bib
- workshop section I (short write, revised, developed)
- Week 10
Oct 28 - Nov 3
- Workshop annotated bibliography
- "This I Believe." shortwrite assignment
- Week 11
Nov 4 - 10
- Workshop research as needed
- Discuss Mayr handout
- Discuss LeGuin handout
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- Week 12
Nov 11 - 17
- Discuss article TBD
- novel groups
- Workshop myth paper
- Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Nov 18 - 24
- Myth collection due
- Watch The Matrix 0r District 9 or Avatar
- Form groups for last paper (science)
- Week 14
Nov 25 - Dec 1
- Timed essay on novel / one of the movies
- Paper assignment science / literature
- Week 15
Dec 2 - 10
- Final Day is Dec 10
- paper #3 due - last timed writing essay