English M01C Tentative Schedule

CSUN: English M01C 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 of PoO readings are due within one week of our class discussion for full credit. Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work.

Last revised 19 March 2017

Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 9 - 11
- Mon: Syllabus/ SWP
- Wed: in-class, timed writing
- Wed: set up interview partners
- Web: set up mahara accounts
Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Jan 16 - 18
- Mon: no class MLK JR
- Wed: Introductions
- Web: Set up profile
Week 3: (Education)
Jan 23 - 25
- Mon: "On Reading and Thinking Critically" POO (1-15).
- Mon: read for discussion intro to Education section POO (47-50)
- Wed: Discuss Newman
- Web: set up reading log journal
Week 4 (Education)
Jan 30 - Feb 2
- Mon: Discuss Rose (POO)
- Wed: Discuss student article choice
- Web: Set up progress report journal
Week 5 (Education)
Feb 6 - 8
- Mon: paper assignment heuristics
- Wed: First draft due for workshop
- Web: Progress report due on mahara / set up page for rough draft
Week 6 (revision)
Feb 13 -15
- Mon: Development /organization workshop paper #1
- Mon: Rubric / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- Wed: development workshop
- Web: Create a page for timed writing
Week 7 (Cultural Myths)
Feb 20 - 22
- Mon: Presidents' day holiday
- Wed: Editing workshop / review MLA format/ proofreading (ROT)
- Web: Education Collection due on mahara
Week 8 (Cultural Myths)
Feb 27 - Mar 1
- Mon: Nominate and choose articles (4) from Cultural Myth section
- Mon: Discuss Pinzon photo essay
- Wed: Finish Pinzon and Discuss:
  - 1C-A: Udovitch
  - 1C-B: Jefferson
- Web: Create a page for Pinzon photo essay assignment / PR due
Week 9 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 6 - 8
- Mon: Discuss:
  - 1C-A: Coontz
  - 1C-B: Douglass
- Wed: Discuss
  - 1C-A: Lemann
  - 1C-B: Finished Douglass
- Web: Pinzon and S&R due
Week 10 (Spring Break)
Mar 13 - 15
Week 11 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 20 - 22
- Mon: Discuss
  - 1C-A: Kingsolver
  - 1C-B: Atwood / Brooks
- Mon: review topics for research / assignment
- Wed: NO CLASS
- Web: S&R due on journal
Week 12 (Cultural Myths)
Mar 27 - 29
- Mon: short write - proposal
- Mon: Annotated bibliography assignment -- Branham
- Wed: workshop research proposal
- Wed: workshop one source for abib
Week 13 (Writing about Science and Literature)
Apr 3 - 5
- Mon: Workshop proposal and anno bib as needed
- Wed: assign This I Believe the original TIB invitation hosted by NPR.
  This I Believe: a Public Dialogue About Belief - One Essay at a Time for more examples.
- Wed: workshop a-bib / edit proposal
Week 14
Apr 10 - 12
- Mon: Discuss Introduction to Science and Technology in POO (281-284).
- Mon: Discuss Mayr (HO)
- Wed: Novel groups - discuss LeGuin (HO)
- Wed: Workshop sections of project as needed
- Web: S&Rs, Progress report
Week 15
Apr 17 - 19
- Mon: Discuss Bishop
- Mon: Copy of working anno bib to me.
- Wed: For the last science article choose Why Science Matters" or one of the other articles from the Science blog contributors on NPR. Summarize and respond.
  It might help to note how most of these writers seem to be doing what Bishop calls for: writing about science, in some cases demystifying science, and some addressing the difference between scientific process and the end product, technology.
- Wed: workshop
- Wed: Review publishing collection on mahara
Week 16
Apr 24 - 26
- Mon: The Matrix
- Wed: The Matrix
- Web: Research project due on mahara collection
Week 17
May 1 - 3
- Mon: In class essay on novel and The Matrix
- Mon: Paper assignment science / literature
- Wed: workshop topics and development
Week 18
May 8 - 10
- M: workshop dev and org
- W: final in0class essay
- W: final paper collection due on mahara. No late papers can be accepted.
NO FINAL EXAM