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Octavia Butler
Reading List:
- Interview in Black Scholar & viewing of Devil Girl From Mars
- Wild Seed
- Mind of My Mind
- Clay’s Ark
- Patternmaster
- Kindred
- Bloodchild & Other Stories pt.1
- Dawn
- Adulthood Rites
- Imago
- Bloodchild & Other Stories pt.2
- The Parable of the Sower
- The Parable of the Talents
- Fledgling
English 202C
Spring 2008 Feedback
- Natural Sciences related assignments
- different book
- M,W only
- end of day assignments due
- job application pack at start of class
- library / research guide = drop
- MS Word tips!
- website design
- good mix of group / individual work
- extra credit
- more in class work / self-paced stuff
Focus class around the production of technical documents and the skills required to successful manufacture said documents on a computer.
Assignments:
- Letterhead (form a company, in a group, and design the letterhead for that company)
- Use graphics / word processing skills to compile the document
- Brochure
- Basic Page Design
- Product or Service Provided by company
- Resume / Cover Letter
- Advanced Page Design
- Corporate Web Page
- Designing For the Web
- Progress Report
- Busy Work (on status of web page)
- Usability Memo
- Evaluate Other Group’s web pages
English 15
English 15: Summer 2008 (Take 2)
- Week 1
- Introduction to Rhetoric (2 days)
- Aristotle, selections from On Rhetoric
- Something else
- Narrative
- William Gibson, “The Gernsback Continuum”
- Charles Cumming, “The 22 Steps”
- Week 2
- Narrative (cont)
- South Park (after Rough Draft Review)
- Definition
- Week 3
- Definition (cont)
- South Park (after Rough Draft Review)
- Causal
- Causal #1
- Causal #2
- Causal #3
- Week 4
- Causal (cont)
- “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow”
- Proposal
- Jonathan Swift, ””A Modest Proposal””:http://www.uoregon.edu/rbear/modest.html
- H.G. Wells, Illegal link (target contains a '.'): //sherlock.sims.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html
- Proposal #3
- Week 5
- Proposal (cont)
- Evaluation
- Evaluation #1
- Evaluation #2
- Evaluation #3
- Week 6
- Evaluation (cont)
- South Park
- Last Day of Class
English 15: Summer 2008
- Papers:
- Narrative
- Definition
- Process Description
- Proposal
- Evaluation
- Schedule
- Week 1: Introductions
- Week 2: Definitions
- Philip K. Dick, ””How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later””:http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
- Darko Suvin on SF
- Samuel Delany on Darko Suvin
- Week 3: Personal Narrative
- Wiliam Gibson, “The Gernsback Continuum”
- Octavia Butler, “Bloodchild”
- J.G. Ballard, “Chronopolis”
- Week 4: Process Descriptions
-
Rudy Rucker, Postsingular (Need something that doesn’t suck, here)
- Week 5: Proposals
- Jonathan Swift, ””A Modest Proposal””:http://www.uoregon.edu/rbear/modest.html
- Joanna Russ, ””When It Changed””:http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/russ/russ1.html
- H.G. Wells, Illegal link (target contains a '.'): //sherlock.sims.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html
- Week 6: Evaluation
Reading Ruby: Programming as Cultural Composition
Tools, Thoughts
Similar Courses
Text Books
This class might work best, initially, as a LEAP section with IST. Also, it may not be a bad idea to do some paper writing, as well. Possibly definition, narrative, and causal.
Summer2k5 Untitled Class about Agriculture
SummerSyllabus2006?
Readings:
- Mad Cow USA
- The Bedford Researcher (ISBN 0312404301)
- “The Question Concerning Technology” by Martin Heidegger
- ””Living Flesh””:http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/%7Ebroglio/3308_Sum05/Living Flesh_4Mosaic_4?.12.05.doc by Ron Broglio
- “Interspecies Reproduction: Xenogenic Desire and the Feminist Implications of Hybrids” by Susan Squier
– ””Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies””:http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/x/sxs62/articles/onogeny.ontology.phylogeny.htm by Catherine Waldby and Susan Squier
- Animality ed. by Ron Broglio
- The Companion Species Manifesto by Donna Haraway (ISBN 0971757585)
Blurb:—-
Talk here about living on the earth, eatting, animality, etc.
Viewings—-
Relations—-
- Narrative:
- Definition: What is organic? What is food? What is an animal?
- Analogy: Zombies (?)
- Causal: Diet for a Small Planet
- Proposal: Diet for a Small Planet
One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State: An Inquiry Into the Death of Discourse
Readings:—-
- ””The American Language by H.L. Mencken
- ISBN 0393326713 The 9/11 Commision Report
- ISBN 0816622949 “Contagious Allegories: George Romero” from The Cinematic Body by Steven Shaviro
- Lovins and Lovins, “Terrorism and Brittle Technology” in Technology and the Future (ISBN 0534604269)
Viewings:—-
Blurb:—-
Have we lost the ability to talk to one another? In the years following the destruction of the World Trade Center, is fear destroying sensible conversation in the political sphere and, if so, has this further infected our day to day lives? In attempting to answer these complicated questions, this class will analyze the complex rhetorical minefield of contemporary politics. From the causal construction of the 9/11 Commision Report to analogies of Terror at the multiplex, this course will attempt to provide students for a set of practices that can allow sucessful navigation of the world around them.
Relatitons:—-
- Narrative: Where were you on 9/11?
- Definition: Definition of discourse / Mencken
- Analogy: Zombies
- Causal: 9/11 Commision Report
- Evaluation:
- Proposal:
Futurology: The History of Tomorrow
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”—-
– Albert North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (ISBN 0684836394)
Readings:—-
- ””The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
- Merchant on Bacon in The Death of Nature.
- Something that defines the future (possibly selections from the Encyclopedia of SF)
- ISBN 0486419266 “R.U.R” by Karl Capek
- ””The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- Something by Gibson (a story or two from Burning Chrome)
- ””Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us by Bill Joy
- ISBN 1569710813 Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow (would this be better in a class on Singularity?)
- ISBN 0534604269 Technology and the Future (possible course reader. Lots of great stuff here.)
Viewing:—-
- ””Metropolis””:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0017136
- ””Blade Runner””:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083658
Blurb:—-
Where are we going? How do we get there? Everyday new technological discovers are radically altering the way in which we live. More and more, it seems that we are zooming into a world that seems ripped from the pages of science fiction. By exploring the ways in which we have, in the past, thought about the future, students in this class will begin to explore the ways in which technological issues shape their own futures. Through a detailed exploration of several past visions of the future, students will not only learn to construct sucessful rhetorical arguments but begin to learn how their own visions of the future are constantly at stake.
Relations:—-
- Narrative:
- Definition: What is the future?
- Causal: Karl Marx and creating a better tomorrow
- Analogy: Metropolis → Communism
- Evaluation: “The New Atlantis” and the repression of women
- Proposal: “The Future Doesn’t Need Us”
Other Classes
English 221: American Literature Survey
| Day |
Reading Discussed |
| Week 1: Early Classics |
| 1 |
Introduction / Wallace Stevens |
| 2 |
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3 |
“Billy Budd” by Herman Melville |
| Week 2: Transcendentalism |
| 4 |
Thoreau, essays |
| 5 |
Dickinson, poetry |
| 6 |
Emerson, essays |
| Week 3: American Humor / Pastoral |
| 7 |
Twain, Huck Finn |
| 8 |
Twain, Huck Finn |
| 9 |
Twain, Huck Finn |
| Week 4: Regional Fiction |
| 10 |
Ambrose Bierce |
| 11 |
Other American Short Stories (Cather?) |
| 12 |
“ |
| Week 5: High Modernism in America |
| 13 |
William Carlos Williams + Wallace Stevens |
| 14 |
Ezra Pound |
| 15 |
Midterm |
| Week 6: A New Paranoia, A New Desperation |
| 16 |
Dashiell Hammett, The Continental Op stories |
| 17 |
Dashiell Hammett + H.P. Lovecraft |
| 18 |
H.P. Lovecraft |
| Week 7: Black Migration |
| 19 |
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man |
| 20 |
Ralph Ellison, Invisilbe Man |
| 21 |
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man |
| Week 8: Against the Suburbs |
| 22 |
Allen Ginsberg |
| 23 |
Jack Kerouac |
| 24 |
Women’s SF |
| Week 9: Satire on the Edge of Sanity |
| 25 |
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch |
| 26 |
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch |
| 27 |
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch |
| Week 10: Communications Breakdown |
| 28 |
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 29 |
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 30 |
David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” |
| Week 11: Recounciling the Past |
| 31 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved |
| 32 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved |
| 33 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved |
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