‘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 (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats <, 1976, p.51 )

 

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E379S ASSIGNMENTS

all page nos. refer to the course anthology

 J= Journal Due; L=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project

Sept 2  J Why Are You Here? Origins and Purposes of the Liberal Arts and of the English major.

 J on your experience or lack of it of Discovery Learning, the Liberal Arts, and the Humanities . Journal to be graded for  writing feedback.

Read

191B-C           Newman and the Liberal Arts

192-3               Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”

194-5               Bump, “Logic of the Humanities”

196-201           Arnold, “Literature and Science’

202-205A        Pater  Conclusion to The Renaissance

205B               Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”

205C               Bump, Dualism

206                  U. T. English Mission Statement

226-234           English at Oxford

The New Reading and Writing: "Left vs. Right Side of the  Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism: internet

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html

           

review:

47-52               Journaling Instructions

web  Newman, The Idea of a University

 

182                  Boyer/Carnegie Research Univ. Report

183                  My Teaching Philosophy

184                   Map of Campus

185-6               U. T. Constitution and U. T.  Seal

187-8               Discovery Learning Project

189                  Discovery Learning

190                  The U. T. Moore Method

191                  The Amherst Baird Course

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