Schedule and Table of Contents
All required reading assignments are in Jenn’s
xeroxed anthology.
[G
= optional pages in Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins PR 4803 H44 Z597, PCL and UGL]
Jan 15. INTRODUCTION
to the course,
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Questionnaires to be distributed and collected.
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Class Contacts to be completed.
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IF computer account number required to logon to class
intranet. (New users may claim an IF account at the Student Microcomputer
Facility in the Flawn UGL by completing an IF account request form and
presenting it and a government-issued photo ID at the front desk.)
Introductory Course
Materials.
1-4 Course
Description
5-7 Reading
Schedule
8-11 Group
Participation Guidelines
12-14 Guidelines
for Listening
15 Racial
Harrassment Policy
16-17 Sexual
Harrassment Policy
--Writing Instructions--
18 The
Portfolio
19A-19K Effective
Visual Design
19L Spell
Checker
19M Polished
Writing Instructions
58-9 Suggestions
for Ways to Unify Your Essay
20 Web
Projects
21 Web
Site citation guidelines
22 Undergraduate
Writing Center resources for you
23-4 Learning
Skills Center resources for you
25-6 General
Grades Definition (see also course description)
27 Teaching
Philosophy
28 Nature
Websites
29-30 Course
Goals
31- 4
HTML Quick Reference
35-6
Learning Record Instructions
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see ACITS short
courses and HTML class schedules: http://www.utexas.edu/computer/classes/
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see self paced
tutorials: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training/handouts/tutorials.html#internet
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Review X1-61,
especially "Local Sites";
Nature Websites; HTML Basics;
HTML Quick Reference.
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Go to http://geocities.yahoo.com/ to start making your own home page.
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Journal
entry due on Discovery Learning and one or more of the following:
62-3 Discovery
Learning;
64-80 Bump, "Radical Changes"
81-4 Miller,
"Ex-Apple pioneer captures nature digitally"
web Bump,
" Left vs. Right Side of the
Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism" [tune your browser to
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html]
Review and be ready to ask questions about:
1-3 Course
Description
4-7 Reading
Schedule
8-11 Group
Participation Guidelines
12-14 Guidelines
for Listening
15 Racial
Harrassment Policy
16-17 Sexual
Harrassment Policy
--Writing Instructions--
18 The
Portfolio
19A-19K Effective
Visual Design
19L Spell
Checker
19M Polished
Writing Instructions
58-9 Suggestions
for Ways to Unify Your Essay
20 Web
Projects
21 Web
Site citation guidelines
22 Undergraduate
Writing Center resources for you
23-4 Learning
Skills Center resources for you
25-6
General Grades Definition (see also course description)
27 Teaching
Philosophy
28 Nature
Websites
29-30 Course
Goals
31- 4
HTML Quick Reference
35-6
Learning Record Instructions
JAN 22 WHY NATURE? AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RECOLLECTIONS OF YOUTH
IN NATURE. RECOVERY OF MYSTERY, INNOCENCE, WONDER, ENERGY, ETC.:
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Journal
entry due {2 copies} on one or
more of the following:
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[Items
in parentheses do not count]
(254-255 Wordsworth,
Introduction)
416-19 Wordsworth's
"Prelude": see especially note 3 on p. 417, love vs. fear, a
keynote of this course
420-30
Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood"
40-44 Mill,
“Autobiography”
35-6
Learning Record Instructions
(431 Thomas,
Introduction)
431-2 "The
Force That Through the Green Fuse"
433-5 Thomas's
"Fern Hill"
(443 Blake Introduction)
579 Blake
“Auguries of Innocence”
580 “The
Mystery”
JAN 24 ROAD MAP OF YOUR JOURNEY.
Assignment
Due: Bring to class a visual
representation of your encounters with nature over the course of your life.
Include fearful as well as positive memories of nature. Can be in the form of a
graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or …… For electronic examples, see web site.
Will become part of your portfolio.
436-9 Road Map of Your Journey
JAN
29 VERBAL AND VISUAL RESPONSES TO NATURE II: DRAWING, WRITING, AND
ARCHITECTURE: SYCAMORE VS. HRC.
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Weather
permitting, we will be going from the classroom to the sycamore in front
of the Humanities Research Center building. There we will spend about half our
time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will
be the contrast between the tree and the modern architecture of the building
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LR parts A1. A2. due. Initial interview etc. due 35-6
Learning Record Instructions
Journal entry due {2 copies} on 125-51 Bump, "Manual
Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing
Related materials that can also be included:
152-8 (introductions:
Hopkins, Ruskin)
203-210 “Drawing
on the Right Side of the Brain”
442 Barney,
“The Shape of Sound”
[G14-21, 25-30]
JAN 31 Unity Consciousness
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Up till now in the course we have often focused on various
details we have seen in nature. That approach is sometimes called stofftrieb. Now we will turn more consciously to formtrieb: the
idea of unity in the variety. We will consider how each medium communicates the
idea of the whole which has no truly isolated or entirely individual parts,
only local symptoms or
manifestations. This idea has been variously described as a web of mutual interdependency, or a special
harmonious unity, balance, or equilibrium achieved in an ecosystem not by leveling the forces of
diversity but by promoting them.
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Contribute two passages of your choice on this
subject to the Unity Forum, supplying complete bibliographical information. OR
Journal entry
due {2 copies} on one or more of
the following:
346 Bump,
"Dualism vs ....."
347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"
352-8
Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"
359-64 Gary
Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"
156-158 (Hopkins,
introduction)
401 Hopkins,
“As kingfishers”
398-399 Hopkins,
‘Pied Beauty,
37-39 Browning,
“Two in the Campagna”
187 Taniguchi,
"The spirit of the garden"
Feb.
5 MEET AT LITTLEFIELD HOUSE FRONT LAWN. 24th and Whitis [in case of
rain meet on porch]. Pine
vs. Littlefield House
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LR
Statement of YOUR course goals and Weekly Self Observation Due.
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Again, we will spend about half our time drawing and
half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast
between the Victorian architecture of the building and the tree.
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Review Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin,
and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21,
25-30]; Barney's “The Shape of Sound”; introductions: Hopkins,
Ruskin; “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”;
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Journal
entry due {2 copies} on one or
more of the following:
451-458
Harrigan's “The Soul of Treaty Oak”
159-60 Littlefield
House
Review
35-6
Learning Record Instructions
29-30 Course
Goals
581
Directions for Writing About Nature
FEB
7 PINE AND SYCAMORE WEB SITE CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS.
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Study “How
to Post Your Writing” carefully
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Scan drawings if possible.
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Include at least two citations of my article, Harrigan, Barney, etc. with page nos.
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Save responses on diskette.
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Decide on when we meet at the Japanese Garden in Zilker
park. The Japanese Garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi, father of a dean of the
school of architecture and author of "The spirit of the garden":
“one unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all
the elements of nature.’
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Read
187-202 on the garden and other sites in Zilker Park. Also, when we go to Zilker Park you might want to
check out Philosopher's Rock --the statues of Texas nature writers, Dobie,
Bedichek, and Webb, in front of the swimming pool -- and the Umlauf Sculpture
Garden and, if time, take a canoe ride out into the "lake."
582-5 How
to Post Your Writing
187 "The
Spirit of the Garden"
188-98 The
Mother Tree
199-200 maps
201-2 Umlauf
Sculpture Garden and Museum
215-15
Philosopher’s Rock
459
Form
for visit to the garden
Feb 12 FEAR
OF NATURE
Journal
Entries Due {2 copies} on one or more of the following
(412-413 Jeffers,
introduction)
413-414 "Hurt
Hawks"
415 “Vulture"
444-450 Harrigan
"The Tiger is God"
(443 Blake
introduction)
443A Blake,
“The Lamb” text only
443B Blake,
“The Tyger” text only
Blake "The Tyger" vs. Blake “The Lamb” multimedia: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E309K/blake.html
45-53
Dillard,
from Pilgrim
54-55 Darwin,
“The Struggle for Existence”
56-57 Tennyson,
from In Memoriam
203-10 Drawing on the Right Side
of the Brain;
211 Writing
the Natural Way;
212-3 Wild
Mind
&nbs