last updated: 12/10/07

 

"Only connect!  That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect  the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”  E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22

"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset — we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected. The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'”

Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml

image of a hammer    image of a hammer    image of a hammer

‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer* your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]”* William Butler Yeats, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )

*hammer images "Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good. It seems particularly appropriate in these troubled times" (http://www.ragweedforge.com/ThorsHammer.html). See especially http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html

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The importance of READING DIRECTIONS in this course.

In terms of your future success even more important than reading literature with care is the ability to read directions carefully and follow them fully and faithfully. Employers regard that as a key asset, and of course see weakness in this area as a serious liability. You can not expect an employer to hold your hand throughout an assignment the way you may have expected your parents or previous school teachers to do so. Now that you are in college you must make the transition clearly stated in the traditional address to Freshmen at Amherst College, words that your instructor heard on his first day of college. On the other hand, ifinstructions and schedules often have ambiguities and sometimes even obvious errors. So, if after reading the directions carefully, you still have questions, you are strongly encouraged to ask questions in class, email the instructor, or come to see him in his office hours. I look forward to getting to know you and helping you in any way that I can. I want you to succeed here!

E-mail:bump@mail.utexas.edu

Office: Parlin 132

office hours: Tues and Thurs 9:45-10:45 and 1:15-1:45 and by appointment

Office Phone 512-471-8747

 

Formal Writing due dates

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

first sentence, David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

P1, P2, P3 = Role Model Essays

10/10 8 PM: P1 + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD

10/11 bring to class hard copies of Project 1 + self-evaluation

10/17 8 PM: complete reviews of others on SWORD

10/18 bring to class hard copies of reviews of others and of your project

10/22 8 PM: Project 2 + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD

10/23 bring to class hard copies of Project 2 + self-evaluation

10/29 First feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

11/6 bring to class hard copies of feedback to reviewers

11/12 8 P.M. complete reviews of others' second projects on SWORD

11/13 bring to class hard copies of reviews of others and of your project

11/19 8 PM: Second feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

11/20 bring to class hard copies of feedback to reviewers

11/29: turn in P3 in website format on CD and hard copy

WHY MUST THIS ESSAY BE IN WEBSITE FORMAT?

May X: Electronic Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier

 

Informal Writing due dates

REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARDS

 

REQUIRED CLASS PRESENTATIONS

Road Maps: Sept. 18 & 20

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REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

September 10

"Documenting Social Justice: Girl Scouts with Mothers Behind Bars"Erwin Center from 6:00 to 7:30 P.M.THINK ABOUT IT: The University Lecture Series Social Work scholar Darlene Grant and filmmaker Ellen Spiro have won awards for their work focusing on the children of women who are in prison. This lecture will include clips from Professor Spiro’s film, Troop 1500.

This REQUIRED lecture will be the subject of two classes, Sept. 11 and 13

OTHER REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

Oct. 13 Diversity and Landscape Architecture: Taniguchi gardens

  • NOVEMBER 18 REQUIRED EXCURSION DOWNTOWN ARCHITECTURE AND
  •  9/11 DIVERSITY EXPERIENCE:
  • SPANISH MASS AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL

OPTIONAL EXCURSION: RANCH PARTY OCT. 21

EXTRA CREDIT EXCURSION:

Dec. 2: Diversity and Sacred Architecture: Chinese Buddhist Temple

 

OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE

8/30 intro

9/4 new reading and writing

9/6 U. T. heroes/leadership ideals

9/11 Grant, citizenship discussion

9/13 Grant, childhood discussion

9/18-20 road maps

9/25 the idea of the university: building character

9/27 EXPLORE U.T. : THE TOWER

10/2 college writing

10/4 2nd life: Playing with avatars in class

10/9 Diversity student experiences

10/11 2nd life in class: avatar chat

10/16 College idealism, expectations

10/18 Dobie walk

10/23 EXPLORE U.T.: SPANISH HERITAGE

10/25 Waller creek

10/30 Alice Books. HRC. Ghosts. Halloween.

11/1 LBJ Library

11/6 Writing as leadership.

11/8 Tower Garden/ Arcadia/ Eden/ the Golden Age

11/13 EXPLORE U. T.: Bullock museum, Texas heroes

11/15 Alice II: //s to U.T.

11/20 focus groups

11/27 Unity in writing, thinking

11/29 EXPLORE U.T.: THE BLANTON

12/4 Alice III

12/6 Alice IV

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religious holidays this semester

 

University Interfaith Council

 

Austin Area Interreligious Ministries

EXTRA CREDIT SCAVENGER HUNTS

SHELLS

HAMMERS

IMAGES OF THE FEMALE

SPANISH INFLUENCES

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EXTRA CREDIT ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE RANCH PARTY

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FS 301 SCHEDULE

 RDB= Required Contribution to Discussion Board Due; ODB= Optional Contribution to Discussion Board; C = Class Presentation Due; P1, P2, P3= Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G=Graded Discussion

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ADD/DROP PERIOD AUGUST 29- AUGUST 31

ADD-DROP BY PERMISSION ONLY SEPT. 5- SEPT. 14

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     114         Concentration vs. “multitasking”

170-171           Stress

172-173          Motivation

174-177          Overcoming Procrastination

178                   Goal Setting

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62-69                        Leadership and EQ

70-77                        Your Personal Vision

78-88A            Lee, Discovering the Leader in You

Leadership
    • Assignment Due: Bring to class a CD with an electronic account of the various "places" you have experienced over the course of your life that can be accessed directly from a website.* You may think of your life not in terms of places but in terms of people or whatever. However, remember that the goal of this exercise is to raise your consciousness of the power of places in your life: houses, schools, churches, playgrounds, places in nature, etc. To earn maxiumum credit, keep the focus on the power of places and spaces in your life. To get a sense of the power of such places as houses, schools, churches, and places in nature, see the readings below and the link sense of place .
    • The emphasis is primarily on combining visual and verbal rhetoric so as to "save" verbal rhetoric for your generation. (To see what is meant by visual rhetoric see the readings below.) In other words, the goal is to use digital literacy to preserve print literacy. Hence it is essential that you have plenty of words actually in the visual presentation, not just the words added by you in the brief accompanying speech. However, there should be a balance between words and pictures and neither should obscure the other.
    • The actual oral presentation of the Road Map is simply a very brief summary, lasting only five minutes. You will be timed and when the timer goes off you must stop talking. So practice a timed, five-minute summary.
    • Because students will have only those five minutes to see a little of your Road Map in class, it is essential to have an electronic version of your Road Map that we can put on our website. *All you have to do is "Save as Website" or make it into a movie when you finish your Power Point or Keynote or iMovie presentation or .... and then transfer the files to a CD.** In the case of a Power Point presentation, you must transfer the htm and all related pictures files in their directory to the CD. Also transfer to the CD a copy of the original Power Point, if that is where you started, so that you can use that in class if the website versions don't work the way you expect. IF YOU HAVE A P.C.  (rather than a Mac) DO NOT USE THE ROXIO DIRECT CD METHOD WHICH ENABLES YOU TO DRAG AND DROP FILES ONTO THE BLANK CD. Ironically, this imitation of the Mac prevents the CD from being read in a Mac! INSTEAD, USE THE WINDOWS EXPLORER BROWSER TO BURN THE CD.
    • You all start off with -50 for your road map. If you do a presentation with at least a Power Point version working behind you as you do speak, and provide a CD that works on a Mac with at least that Power Point, the grade will become at least -10. If you provide a version that works better with the internet (htm or mov, for example), the grade becomes at least 0. On the positive side, you get up to +10 for the oral presentation and up to +25 for the electronic version, not counting extra credit for quotes and dynamic word use.
    • For electronic examples, see Amanda (ppt) and Clayton (htm), and from the other freshman class, Brian(ppt), Brian(mov), Charlotte, Julie C., Margaret (html/mov), Wiley, and Will. Also check out the older ones below, but these are rather brief and do not have enough words in the road map itself.
    • This will become part of your portfolio.
    • Remember, you must put your movie or website on a CD and turn the CD in to the instructor for transfer to our website. The CD should be tested before the presentation on a Mac (such as those on the third floor of the FAC). Because of these requirements consider the amount of time your movie might take to "download." Compare, for example, the amount of time it takes for Will's movie (22 Meg.) vs. Wiley's (328 Meg.).
    • Also, consider using shells to mark the stations of your pilgrimage, see  "Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T" (pp. 571-572 and scallop shell stone carvings at U. T. )
    • Extra credit will be given for brilliant citation and placement of up to five quotes from five different readings below.

    • Extra credit will be given for creative, dynamic ways to present words in the Road Map. (See, for example, "animation effects" and "word art" toolbars in Power Point and, especially, the Titles options in iMovie.)

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    VISUAL AS WELL AS VERBAL RHETORIC