UGS 302

Instructor: Jerome Bump; <mailto:bump@mail.utexas.edu>; Office: PAR 132 Office phone: 471-8747

Tues/Thurs 2-3:30 PM PAR 6; office hours: Tu. Th 9:45-10:45, 1:15-1:45 PM; and by appointment.

Writing Flag + Leadership and Ethics Flag

BASIC COURSE POLICY UPDATES: go to website

MAKE SURE TO “REFRESH” THE SCREEN EACH TIME YOU VISIT THE WEBSITE SO THAT YOU ARE READING THE LATEST VERSION OF THE PAGE:

go to http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/30209/

for latest Schedule of Readings and Assignments, Class Participation, Presentations, Leadership, etc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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BASICS

* check website for updates

1-2                   Map of Campus

3-9                   Table of Contents

10-13               Course Description*

14-18               Course Goals*

19                    Schedule Overview*

20                    Class Participation

21                    Class Discussion

22                    Listening

23                    Have You Tried Listening?

24-25               Leading Class Discussion

26-31               Discussion Board Instructions*

32-33               Road Map Directions

34-37               Road Map of Your Journey;

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38                    Racial Harassment Policy;

39-40               Sexual Harassment Policy;

41-2                 Drug + Alcohol Policy;

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43-54               Schedule, first draft

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55-95 numbers not used

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96                    Undergrad. Writing Center;

97-98                Learning Skills Center ;

99-100             Counseling Center ;

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101-102           The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

103-105A        Flunking out of College

105B               Student Grade Expectations

106-108           What Professors hear when students make excuses;

109A               Five Characteristics of a Good Student

109B               Positive Attitude

110                  “Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College before I Started”

111                    Concentration vs. “multitasking”

112                      Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking

113-114           Stress

115-116          Motivation

117-118          Overcoming Procrastination

119-120           Design Your Own Procrastination Plan

121                    Goal Setting

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WHO ARE YOU?

                TYPE PSYCHOLOGY AND WRITING

122-135           Kiersey, Please Understand Me

136-137           Meyers Briggs Business Uses

138-140           Teaching/Learning Styles

141-146           Instructor/Class Typology

147-155           Writing Styles

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ROAD MAP RATIONALE: USING BOTH SIDES OF YOUR BRAIN

156                    PC vs. MAC

157-160           Revenge of the Right Brain

161-162            "Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia”

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WHY ARE YOU HERE?

THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

163-164        Flawn, Address to the University, 1984

165-170        Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7

171-173        Giametti, Yale Freshman Address

YOUR ALMA MATER: THE TOWER

174                Texas Constitution : “for the promotion of literature”

175                  U. T.  Seal

176-179           The Main Building and The Tower

180                 The Tower exterior words, letters

181-182          Tower interior: Hall of Noble Words

183A-B                 U. T. Core Values

U. T. TEACHING PHILOSOPHIES

184                  Experiential Learning

185              Discovery Learning Project +The U. T. Moore Method

186-187       Discovery Learning in Freshman English at Amherst College

188               My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

U.T. ARCHITECTURAL DIVERSITY

Spanish Traditional Architecture

189                  Battle Hall

190A-B           Sutton Hall + “Spanish Plateresque Architecture”

191-192         Scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.

193-194           Spanish heritage of Texas

The Harry Ransom Center

195-197           Key to HRC ghost windows: a gallery of leaders

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IS YOUR EXPERIENCE HERE LIKE ALICE’S AT OXFORD?

198                  “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum

199-205           Dougill on Dodgson’s Oxford

206-207           Oxford references in the Alice books

208                   Alice as hero: student in-class essay

209-210           Alice’s pilgrimage: student in-class essay

211-212           U.T. students and the Alice books

213-216           “Jabberwocky” in French, Spanish, German, Italian

217                   Alice and subatomic physics

218                  White Rabbit, by Grace Slick

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LEADERSHIP

219-226   Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership

            220       Service Orientation, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand

            221        Focusing on that which is greater than the ego

            222-4    Conscience, Character, …..

            225-6    Left Brain/Right Brain

227-242   Covey, The 8^th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

            228-9    Personal Planning System

            230-6    The Whole-Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence

            237       Compassion and Conscience

            238-9    Ethos, Pathos, Logos

            240       Character

            241-2    Communication: listening (+reading, writing, speaking)

243-246D   Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain

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YOUR FIRST PROJECT, YOUR LEADERSHIP VISION

247-251           General Instructions

252-253F        Personal Vision Rationale, Multimedia, Quotations

254-264           Lee, Discovering the Leader in You: Personal Vision and Role Models that set up your Leadership Vision

265-273            Dass, “The Witness”: How to deal with multiple answers, selves

274A               How to Respond to the Projects of Others*

ETHICS

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274B-D           Ethics essay instructions

DEFINITIONS

274E-F            Animal

274G-I                        Human

274J-K                        Compassion

274L                Empathy

274M-N          Sympathy

274O-              Sympathetic Imagination

EMPATHY ESSENTIAL TO ETHICS

275A-B           “The Man Without Feelings”

275C-D           “The Roots of Empathy”

275E-F            Molesters and Sociopaths

ANIMALS AND THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION

276A-310         Earthlings screenplay

311A-G           Quotations

312-313           Bentham

314-316C        Alice Walker, “Am I Blue?”

317-337           Dreaded Comparison

338-345           Compassion in the West to 1800

346- 368          Ritvo, Compassion and the SPCA

369-371           Animal Ethics in World Religions      

371-374              Jain Animal Ethics

375-378           The Hindu Sacred Cow

PRACTICAL ETHICS IN ACTION:

379A               The Starfish Story

Political and Legal Actions

379B-381A     California Ballot Measure

381A               Hog Farming Prosecution

381A-D-         Iowa Slaughterhouse Case

Examples From P.E.T.A

382-384           Creating a Group

385-386           Overview: Ten Actions

387-388           Respect Animals

389-397           Not Eating Animals

398-402           Protect Entertainment Animals

403-404           Protest Hunting and Fishing

405-414           Protect Companion Animals

415-419           Protect Laboratory Animals

420-425           Not Wearing Animals

426-427           Stop School Vivisection

428-432           Protect Wildlife

TEXAS TOTEM ANIMALS

433                        Dobie introduction

434                   Longhorns Our Totem Animal?

435-452              J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns

453-458            Longhorns at U.T.

459-478          J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs

                        470-471              querencia

479-481            Mustangs at U.T. 

482-483           The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry         

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WRITING

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484-485           High School to College Writing: Making the Transition

486-487           Researching

488-489           Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

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WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

490                  Writing Well is Thinking Well:

491-492           Rhetorical Fallacies

493                Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”

494-5             Forster, “Only Connect”

496-497           Creating a Strong Thesis

498                  Structure of a Professional Research Paper

499                  “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of

500                  Introductions and Conclusions

501-502           Flow and Transitions;

503-504           COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper

505                  Focusing on Transitions

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WORD CHOICE

506-507          THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND    OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE

508-509           Verbs that Take Prepositions

510                  Rough Guide to Prepositions

PUNCTUATION:

511-521           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas,

 semicolons

522-523           Quick Guide to Commas

CHICAGO STYLE FOOTNOTES

524-525           CMS: Formatting Your Paper

REVISING, PERFECTING:

526                  Rewriting as Discovery Learning

527                 Hemingway on Rewriting

528                  Revisions Checklist

529-530           Saying What You Mean

531-532           Diction and Conciseness

533-534           Eliminating Wordiness

535                  Readability and Clarity

536          Tips for Improving Readability

537-539          Proofreading

540                  Why spell checkers are not enough

YOUR PORTFOLIO

541                  Employers and Digital Literacy

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numbers 542-888 not used

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U. T. LEADERS

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889                  Texas, our Texas

890-895           Cousins,”Memories of an English Major”

896-898           Cooley, “The Best of Times”

899-901           Jones, “Between the Wars”

902-907           Oliver, “Some Blues for a Trio”

908-911           Dick, “A Gallant and Beautiful Spirit”

912-916           Flowers, “’The Times They Were a Changing’”

917-920           Whittier, “The Last Bastion”

921-924           Schwartz, “The Web of Campus Life”

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TxTell: UT Stories

925-926           Alan Bean

926-930           Barbara Conrad

931-932           Denton Cooley

932-933           Catherine Crier

933-934           Edwin Dorn

934-935           Lee Jamail

935                  Luis Jimenez

935-936           Alejandro Junco de la Vega

936-937           Red McCombs

937-940           Bill Moyers

940-942           Americo Paredes

942-945           George W. Pierce

945-946           Weldon Smith

946-948           Ben Streetman

948-951           Heman Marion Sweatt