A Freshman Signature Course, Fall 09
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
BASICS
8-27 Course Intro 1. Course policies, schedule, etc.
9-1 Course Intro 2. Signature, flag courses. Psychological issues.
9-3 Positive Attitude, Listening.
9-8 Time Management.
WHO ARE YOU?
9-10 Type psychology; Right brain, Left brain.
9-15 ROAD MAPS ROAD MAP INSTRUCTIONS
9-17 ROAD MAPS
LEADERSHIP
FIRST ESSAY: LEADERSHIP VISION
9-22 CLASS MEETS AT 7 P.M. for Woodruff lecture on leadership TYPE SHORT ESSAY DUE.
9-24 Covey and Woodruff on Leadership
9-30 Leadersip and The Idea of a University
10-1 ALICE BOOKS TEST
10-6 Alice as leader
10-8 Leadership Vision Writing Instruction
10-13 P1 LEADERSHIP VISION DUE ON BLACKBOARD
10-15 P1 Revision Writing instruction
10-20 P1 REVISED LEADERSHIP VISION HARD COPY DUE
ETHICS
10-22 Covey on Ethics and the Sympathetic Imagination
10-27 Animal Ethics in the Alice books
10-29 Earthlings
11-3 Holocaust Comparisons
11-5 Slavery Comparisons
11-10 Compassion West and East
11-12 Ethics Essay Writing Instruction
11-17 P2 ETHICS ESSAY DUE ON BLACKBOARD
11-19 P2 Revision Writing instruction
11-24 P2 REVISED ETHICS ESSAY HARD COPY DUE
12-1 Totem Animals at UT
12-3 The Dobie Walk
12-14 Portfolio Due 10-1