"Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.” E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22
‘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
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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Literature, Architecture, Art
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E379S 05 SCHEDULE
subject to change
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J= Optional Journal; JR= Required Journal Due; L=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; P1A, P1B, P2A, P2B = Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G=Graded Discussion
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Formal Writing due dates
Sept. 8 LR A1 and A2
Sept. 22 LR Goals
Sept. 27 P1A posted on DB, responses to others required
Oct. 6 P1A hard copy
Oct. 20 P1B
Nov. 1 LR midterm
Nov. 3 P2A posted on DB, responses to others required
Nov. 10 P2A hard copy
Dec. 1 P2B
Dec 13 LR Final due in Par 132 1:30-3 if not before
Dec 16 Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier
Dec. 19 Portfolio returned 1-3 in Par 132 or earlier
REQUIRED JOURNALS
Sept. 13:College Life: Wordsworth and Wolfe
Oct. 18: Distractions of College Life, Zuleika pp. 268-313
Nov. 8: The Evolution Debate
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Oct . 13: Personal Road Map
Dec. 6 and 8: Art Presentations
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Oct. 16: Zilker nature sites
Nov 6: Downtown architecture
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Dec. 24 Official Graduation Date
Sept. 1: Questionnaires Due.Introduction, Journaling, etc.reading
Sept. 6: J Unity the goal; the New Reading and Writing the way + Questionnaires due reading
Sept. 8: LR: A1 + A2 DUE
"Who Are You? " said the Caterpillar (repeatedly). Are you an introvert or an extravert or .....? + Bring your calendars so that we can decide in class when we visit (1) the Driskill, St. Mary’s Cathedral, and the Capitol; and (2) the Japanese Garden in Zilker park; (3) and if and when we perform from the Alice books while rowing at Zilker Park; and (4) when we have our class party at my little ranch.
"Who Are You? " said the Caterpillar (repeatedly). What does it mean to answer, "I am a college student?"
+ J The Goals and Purposes of Universities reading
Sept. 13:JR COLLEGE LIFE: Compare your college experience with that of Wordsworth at Cambridge in 1787-1791 and Charlotte at "Dupont" in 2004; original quotes from each required
WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY?
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Sept. 20:JR Who Were You? What Were Your Expectations of College: JR College Idealism: Jude the Obscure part 1 reading _____________________________________________________________________________
Sept. 22. LR: Goals "'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind', said Alice" &
J Origin, Purpose, and Goals of Liberal Arts and the English major reading
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Sept. 27: P1A DUE. Meet at HRC 2nd floor.
P1A electronic : post on the Blackboard "Project One" Discussion Board before class
Who Are You? Are You Your Language?Are You An Instrument of the Ghosts of the "Collective Unconscious" ? Getting In Touch With The Genii Locii of Your Alma Mater and Your Linguistic Heritage.
+ I: Carroll, Beerbohm, Hardy, + rewriting:reading
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Sept. 27-30: R Collaborative Creativity
64-65 How to Respond to the Projects of Others*
How to Respond to Other Students' Projects
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Sept . 29: Meet at 2nd floor of HRC
J Compare your college experience with that of Hopkins at Oxford. reading
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Oct. 2 Class "Ranch" Party
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Oct. 4: Are You An Insider or Outsider Here?
JR Jude at Oxford and Beerbohm on Americans, esp. at Oxford reading
Oct. 6: P1A Hard Copy Due. Meet at Tower Garden
J Landscape Architecture: Natural Retreats / Recharge Zones
"and then -- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains." I reading
Extra Credit J: College Pastoral; "The Scholar Gypsy" (Wordsworth/Clough), and "Thyrsis" reading
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≈Oct. 11: JR Jude Part 6 :College Life and Ritual reading
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Oct . 13: C Road Map Due: The Power of Places in Your Life: How Your Places Have Made You Who You Are.
Assignment Due: Bring to class a visual representation of the most important "places" you have experienced over the course of your life. Can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or ...... For electronic examples, see web site, but all electronic examples but be "htm" rather than "ppt" files (save your ppt file as htm). This will become part of your portfolio.
Where Did You Come From? Where is Your Home? Why Are You Here? What Is Your Pilgrimage? Where Are You Going After Graduation?
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Oct. 16 I Zilker excursion: bring anthology and writing materials and meet at the Bamboo hut in the Taniguchi oriental garden at 3:30; 23 points to be earned, -23 points if you do not attend.
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Oct. 18: JR Zuleika as symbol of the Distractions of College Life reading
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Oct 20:P1B Due. Meet at Waller Creek at the statue of the mother holding the baby behind the Texes Exes building
J Campus landscape architecture: Waller Creek Retreat and Renewal reading
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Extra Credit: J compare Carroll's and Tenniel's illustrations reading
Extra Credit: J Compare Slick's interpretations of Alice to the originals reading
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Oct . 25: Test on the annotations in the Annotated Alice
The test will have questions like
"On what page is [name of a person] cited?"
"On what page is [topic] discussed?'
"On what page does [object] appear?"
The answers will often be found only in the notes:
others will be found in Dougill's account of Alice (pp. 395-401, 433-434 in our anthology);
as well as the Alice books themselves.
A few questions will ask you to make connections between the Alice books and Oxford's University Museum For a virtual tour of the museum click here
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Oct. 27: Your Childhood. Who Were You? What Have You Lost? Caterpillar: "So you think you're changed, do you?" Alice: "I'm afraid I am, Sir.... I can't remember things as I used -- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!"
J Place and Wonder: The importance of nature on the college campus. Recollections Of Youth In Nature. Recovery Of Mystery, Innocence, Wonder, Energy, Etc. reading
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Nov. 1 :LR Midterm + J Alice books as parodies of college life
395-401, 433-434 Alice’s Oxford
457-458 Oxford Allusions in Alice
INTERNET "READING"
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Nov. 3:P2A electronic post: Meet at Texas Memorial Museum
+ J Why Are You Here? What Are You? An Animal? An Angel? Both? Neither? What, Where Are You in Relation to Nature? Clues in the Campus Natural History Museum. reading
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Nov.4-6 R Collaborative Creativity
64-65 How to Respond to the Projects of Others*
How to Respond to Other Students' Projects
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Nov. 6 DOWNTOWN EXURSION: meet at northern entrance of the capitol at 4 P.M. 23 points to be earned, -23 points if you do not attend.
Nov. 8: JR What is Your Position? Darwinian Evolution vs. "Intelligent Design"? Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification? reading
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Nov. 10 P2Ahard copy Due: Meet at Story of Texas museum at Martin Luther King and Congress.
I Who Are You? A Texan? reading
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NOV. 15: Meet at Dobie's house 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school.
Who Are You? A Longhorn?
J The Dobie walk: literature, sculpture, art, and architecture. reading
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NOV. 17 J Meet at Littlefield house 24th and Whitis. Are You a Modernist or an Antimodernist? Both? Neither? A Romantic? A Goth? reading
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NOV. 22 . J Antimodernism II. Where Did the Griffins Come From? From Medieval Oxford? reading
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extra credit J Antimodernism and the Feminine
As you explore Gothic architecture try to recall symbols of the female on this campus you can compare to those in medieval art and architecture
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Nov. 29: J Antimodernism III. Hopkins's sacramental poems vs. the "disappearance" of God. reading
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Dec. 1 P2B Hard Copy of Project Due. Are You An Artist? J Antimodernism IV: Artists at College. reading
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Dec. 6 : meet at HRC second floor: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: Each student will have about 7 minutes to "present" (explain, tell more about, ....) a website/power point or handouts about a painting or related work of art by one of the Pre-Raphaelites, starting with the Pre-Raphaelite holdings of the HRC on Dec. 6 and going on to the murals in the Oxford student union on Dec. 8. -15 if no presentation is made when it is scheduled. reading
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DEC. 8 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
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Dec. 13: LR Final Due in Par 132: 1:30-3 REQUIRED -50 PTS. IF NOT DONE.
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Dec.
16: Portfolios Due in Par 132: 1-3 Portfolio
instructions. REQUIRED -100 PTS. IF NOT DONE.
Dec.
19 Parlin 132:2-3:30 Portfolios returned:
YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO; REQUIRED -100 PTS. IF NOT DONE.
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Look up architecture terms here
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