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"Only connect!  That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect  the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”  E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22

 

"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset — we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected. The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'”

Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml

image of a hammer    image of a hammer    image of a hammer

‘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, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )

*hammer images "Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good. It seems particularly appropriate in these troubled times" (http://www.ragweedforge.com/ThorsHammer.html). See especially http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html

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The importance of READING DIRECTIONS in this course.

In terms of your future success even more important than reading literature with care is the ability to read directions carefully and follow them fully and faithfully. Employers regard that as a key asset, and of course see weakness in this area as a serious liability. You can not expect an employer to hold your hand throughout an assignment the way you may have expected your parents or previous school teachers to do so. Now that you are in college you must make the transition clearly stated in the traditional address to Freshmen at Amherst College. On the other hand, instructions and schedules often have ambiguities and sometimes even obvious errors. So, if after reading the directions carefully, you still have questions, you are strongly encouraged to ask questions in class, email the instructor, or come to see him in his office hours. I look forward to getting to know you and helping you in any way that I can. I want you to succeed here!

E-mail:bump@mail.utexas.edu

Office: Parlin 132

office hours: Tues and Thurs 9:45-10:45 and 1:15-1:45 and by appointment

Office Phone 512-471-8747

Formal Writing due dates

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

first sentence, David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

P1, P2, P3 = Role Model Essay

(P4, P5, P6 = Leadership Vision 2nd semester)

Project 1

Project 2

2nd Life Avatars

10/3 8 PM: P1 + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD

10/4 bring to class hard copies of Project 1 + self-evaluation

10/11 Discussion with role-model avatars in class

transform your 2nd Life avatar

10/12 8 PM: complete reviews of others on SWORD

10/16 bring to class hard copies of reviews of others and of your project

10/19 8 PM: Project 2+ self-evaluation submitted to SWORD

10/23 bring to class hard copies of Project 2 + self-evaluation

10/27 First feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

10/30 bring to class hard copies of feedback to reviewers

11/12 8 P.M. complete reviews of others' second projects on SWORD

11/13 bring to class hard copies of reviews of others and of your project

11/19 8 PM: Second feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

11/20: turn in P3 in website format on CD and hard copy along with hard copies of 2nd feedback to reviewers

WHY MUST THIS ESSAY BE IN WEBSITE FORMAT?

Dec. 17: Electronic Portfolio due in Par 132 10-12 noon or earlier

 

Informal Writing due dates

REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARDS

 

REQUIRED CLASS PRESENTATIONS

Road Maps: Sept. 18 & 20

REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

September 10

"Documenting Social Justice: Girl Scouts with Mothers Behind Bars"Erwin Center from 6:00 to 7:30 P.M.THINK ABOUT IT: The University Lecture Series Social Work scholar Darlene Grant and filmmaker Ellen Spiro have won awards for their work focusing on the children of women who are in prison. This lecture will include clips from Professor Spiro’s film, Troop 1500.

This REQUIRED lecture will be the subject of two classes, Sept. 11 and 13

OTHER REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

Oct. 13 Diversity and Landscape Architecture: Taniguchi gardens

OPTIONAL EXCURSION: RANCH PARTY OCT. 21

EXTRA CREDIT EXCURSION:

Dec. 2: Diversity and Sacred Architecture: Chinese Buddhist Temple

 

OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE

8/30 intro

9/4 new reading and writing

9/6 U. T. heroes/leadership ideals

9/11 Grant, citizenship discussion

9/13 Grant, Childhood wonder

9/18-20 road maps

9/25 Unity/ college writing

9/27 EXPLORE U. T. the Tower

10/2 the idea of the university: building character

10/4 2nd life in class: Playing with avatars

10/9 Liberal Arts and Plan II

10/11 2nd life in class: avatar chat

10/16 Alice I: //s to U.T.

10/18 College Idealism, Great Expectations

10/23 EXPLORE U. T. Bob Bullock museum

10/25 Dobie walk

10/30  Alice II. HRC. Ghosts. Halloween.

11/1  LBJ Library

11/6 Tower Garden/ Arcadia/ Eden/ the Golden Age

11/8 EXPLORE the Tower, fourth floor

11/13 Ramayana I.

11/15_ Ramayana II. //As You Like It_

11/20 UT's Spanish heritage

11/27 Ramayana III. //As You Like It II

11/29 campus landscape arch. II (Waller creek)?

12/4 Alice III

12/6 Alice IV

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  religious holidays this semester

University Interfaith Council

 

Austin Area Interreligious Ministries

EXTRA CREDIT SCAVENGER HUNTS

SHELLS

HAMMERS

IMAGES OF THE FEMALE

SPANISH INFLUENCES

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EXTRA CREDIT ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE RANCH PARTY

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E603A SCHEDULE

 RDB= Required Contribution to Discussion Board Due; ODB= Optional Contribution to Discussion Board; C = Class Presentation Due; P1, P2, P3 = Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G=Graded Discussion

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ADD/DROP PERIOD AUGUST 29- AUGUST 31

ADD-DROP BY PERMISSION ONLY SEPT. 5- SEPT. 14

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

    42                     Five Characteristics of a Good Student

62-69                        Leadership and EQ

70-77                        Your Personal Vision

78-88A            Lee, Discovering the Leader in You

REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSION

September 10

"Documenting Social Justice: Girl Scouts with Mothers Behind Bars"

Erwin Center from 6:00 to 7:30 P.M. I will be wearing my Mad Hatter's hat until the program begins. If you make yourself known to me then or afterwards you will get credit for attendance. If you don't, you will need to provide some proof of attendance, perhaps a photo of you there, by the time class begins on Tuesday. The best place to put such a photo is our Facebook site, of course. (Facebook is also the site of our optional Discussion Board for Tuesday: the deadline for being on time will be midnight rather than 8 P.M.)

start walking now: the ERWIN CENTER (A.K.A. THE SUPER DRUM) IS SOUTH OF MLK BETWEEN I-35 AND RED RIVER

THINK ABOUT IT: The University Lecture Series

Social Work scholar Darlene Grant and filmmaker Ellen Spiro have won awards for their work focusing on the children of women who are in prison. This lecture will include clips from Professor Spiro’s film, Troop 1500.

   Press Release            Troop 1500 documentary

This REQUIRED lecture will be the subject of two classes, Sept. 11 and 13

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VIDEOS OF LECTURES AVAILABLE HERE

subsequent lectures in this series may be reported on for extra credit:

September 12.
International Challenges for the United States
Admiral Bobby Inman had a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy, during which he served as director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He will speak on national security issues.
September 19.
The Death Penalty in America: A Fading Practice?
Historian David Oshinsky won the Pulitzer Prize for his book on the campaign to wipe out the most feared childhood disease of the 1950s—polio. He will speak on his current project, the history of capital punishment in the U.S.
October 2.
 What is Science Worth?
Physicist Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in 1979 for his work on what is called the weak force in particle physics. A prolific writer, he is well known for his ability to explain scientific issues to the general public. He will address priorities for public spending in research.

  • Assignment Due: Bring to class a CD with an electronic account of the various "places" you have experienced over the course of your life that can be accessed directly from a website.* You may think of your life not in terms of places but in terms of people or whatever. However, remember that the goal of this exercise is to raise your consciousness of the power of places in your life: houses, schools, churches, playgrounds, places in nature, etc. To earn maxiumum credit, keep the focus on the power of places and spaces in your life. To get a sense of the power of such places as houses, schools, churches, and places in nature, see the readings below and the link sense of place .
  • The emphasis is primarily on combining visual and verbal rhetoric so as to "save" verbal rhetoric for your generation. (To see what is meant by visual rhetoric see the readings below.) In other words, the goal is to use digital literacy to preserve print literacy. Hence it is essential that you have plenty of words actually in the visual presentation, not just the words added by you in the brief accompanying speech. However, there should be a balance between words and pictures and neither should obscure the other.
  • The actual oral presentation of the Road Map is simply a very brief summary, lasting only five minutes. You will be timed and when the timer goes off you must stop talking. So practice a timed, five-minute summary.
  • Because students will have only those five minutes to see a little of your Road Map in class, it is essential to have an electronic version of your Road Map that we can put on our website. *All you have to do is "Save as Website" or make it into a movie when you finish your Power Point or Keynote or iMovie presentation or .... and then transfer the files to a CD. In the case of a Power Point presentation, you must transfer the htm and all related pictures files in their directory to the CD. Also transfer to the CD a copy of the original Power Point, if that is where you started, so that you can use that in class if the website versions don't work the way you expect. IF YOU HAVE A P.C.  (rather than a Mac) DO NOT USE THE ROXIO DIRECT CD METHOD WHICH ENABLES YOU TO DRAG AND DROP FILES ONTO THE BLANK CD. Ironically, this imitation of the Mac prevents the CD from being read in a Mac! INSTEAD, USE THE WINDOWS EXPLORER BROWSER TO BURN THE CD.
  • You all start off with -50 for your road map. If you do a presentation with at least a Power Point version working behind you as you do speak, and provide a CD that works on a Mac with at least that Power Point, the grade will become at least -10. If you provide a version that works better with the internet (htm or mov, for example), the grade becomes at least 0. On the positive side, you get up to +10 for the oral presentation and up to +25 for the electronic version, not counting extra credit for quotes and dynamic word use.
  • For electronic examples, see Brian(ppt), Brian(mov), Charlotte, Julie C., Margaret (html/mov), Wiley, and Will. Also check out the older ones below, but these are rather brief and do not have enough words in the road map itself.
  • This will become part of your portfolio.
  • Remember, you must put your movie or website on a CD and turn the CD in to the instructor for transfer to our website. The CD should be tested before the presentation on a Mac (such as those on the third floor of the FAC). Because of these requirements consider the amount of time your movie might take to "download." Compare, for example, the amount of time it takes for Will's movie (22 Meg.) vs. Wiley's (328 Meg.).
  • Also, consider using shells to mark the stations of your pilgrimage, see  "Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T" (pp. 576-577 and scallop shell stone carvings at U. T. )
  • Extra credit will be given for brilliant citation and placement of up to five quotes from five different readings below.

254-258           Terms for sense of place: genius loci, querencia, inscape, instress

260                   Lopez, an introduction

261-265          Lopez, “A Literature of Place”

YOUR PLACES IN NATURE

266                 Wordsworth,  “Michael, A Pastoral Poem”

YOUR HOME PLACES

267                 Pater, introduction

268-270          Pater, “The Child in the House”

YOUR SCHOOL PLACES

271                 Dickens, introduction

272-274          Dickens, from Hard Times

275                                    on the Mystery

276-279          Shideler, “The Classroom’s Sense of Place”

280-283        Pink Floyd, “The Wall”

284-287            College as Place: the Freshman Experience

 

What is Your Purpose? (L. F.)

Meet at Bob Bullock Story of Texas museum at Martin Luther King Blvd. and Congress/Speedway.

Who Are You? A Texan?

I   Bring writing materials and $6.50, or $10.50 if you are 19 or older.

In-class writing. What role models or leadership aspects of role models in this museum do you want to include and/or not include in your own character composition.

YOU MUST include the "Star of Destiny" show in your final analysis.

BRING TO CLASS (at Dobie's house) YOUR WRITING, WITH TICKET STUB FROM THE "STAR OF DESTINY" attached, or post to TEXAS DB and submit signed ticket stub to instructor

 

344A                  Map of Campus

809-811            The Bob Bullock Story of Texas Museum

10/27 First feedback to reviewers of your essay due on SWORD

(Tulsidas Ramcharitmanas)
A ballet of spiritual and cultural extravaganza
Life story of Rama, a paragon of exemplary values, from birth to coronation
Stellar Multinational cast (30+) from India, Indonesia, U.S.A, and Malayasia
Soul stirring music with a musical ensemble (9)

led by Laksmi Shankar of
Oscar winning Gandhi movie
Mellifluous integration of Hindusthani & Carnatic music
Elaborate sets and costumes specially made for the ballet
Produced by Shakthi dance company of Los Angeles
Date: Sunday, October 28, 2007
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Travis High School 1211 Oltorf (I-35 and Oltorf)
Tickets: $100 (V.I.P); $50 (reserved); $25 (general);
IFA members free (no memberships at the door)

20 PTS. FOR ATTENDANCE, MORE FOR DB ENTRY

Lewis Carroll at the HRC

Daily Texan connects campus Diwali to Ramayana: see photo gallery

  • NOV. 13: EXTRA POINTS: DIVERSITY MOVIE AND DISCUSSION

    "A Question of Color"

    The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement hosts a roundtable discussion of how white, European-American standards of attractiveness have affected how skin color, hair texture and facial features are regarded in communities of color in the U.S. The film "A Question of Color" will also be screened.
    Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
    Location: Jester West Human Development Center

    UP TO 15 PTS. IF UPLOADED TO  " "ODB 1 Grant, Spiro":  ONE QUOTE REQUIRED FROM DISCUSSION, ONE FROM THE MOVIE

Nov. 15

bring to class hard copies of the reviews of your 2nd project

LOOKING AHEAD: P3 INSTRUCTIONS   BE PREPARED TO ASK QUESTIONS

       

RDB OR PERFORMANCE*: Ramayana II. //As You Like It

*PERFORMANCE= instead of doing an RDB a group of students may perform a significant selection from the reading. THIS PERFORMANCE MAY BE LIVE OR A MOVIE TO BE PLAYED IN CLASS.

In the case of the Ramayana which exists in so many versions, including a ballet which some of us have seen, students may have more freedom in interpretation and acting.

In the case of all other texts, including As You Like It, students must have all lines memorized: no reading from scripts.

In all cases, someone must explain the context and significance of the selection in a prologue.

Such a performance will replace -12 in the gradebook and may earn up to 15 points for each student.

To qualify for this option students must get permission from the instructor at least 14 hours before the class meets.

1078-1093            AS YOU LIKE IT, excerpts

review, connect, hammer into unity:

723-741

1004A-F            HINDU GODDESSES

1004G-1077      THE RAMAYANA, abridged, with modern frame: the story of Swallow is the modern frame. It was not part of the original RAMAYANA.

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      9/11 EXTRA CREDIT DIVERSITY EXCURSION

    November 16

  • African Students' Association hosts

  • Fest Africa 2007
    Time: 6-10 p.m.
    Description: The African Students' Association will host their annual Fest-Africa, a showcase of Africa's diversity and beauty through fashion shows, dance performances and a live musical concert.

    The theme this year is "Africa: The Cradle of All Civilization" and will consist of various activities including dance performances from other cultural organizations on campus, a presentation of historic African tribes and an exclusive fashion show featuring pieces from Houston designer Sato.

    Members of the university community and Austin at large will have a taste of authentic African cuisine and can purchase African arts and crafts during the festival.

    Fest Africa is not just a cultural soiree, it serves the purpose of enlightening students about the continent and its many diverse cultures.
    Location: Main Mall

AND Bring to class hard copies of your feedbacks to the reviewers

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  • Nov. 27
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  • RDB OR PERFORMANCE: Ramayana III. //As You Like It
  • RDB must include one quote from the Ramayana (1004G-1077) not cited earlier in the DB OR IN THE PREVIOUS TWO DBs and one quote from As You Like It not cited earlier in the DB OR IN THE PREVIOUS DB.
  • review, connect, hammer into unity:
  • 723-741
  • REMEMBER: the story of Swallow is the modern frame. It was not part of the original RAMAYANA.

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  • NOV 29:
  • RDB campus landscape arch. II Meet at Waller Creek: at the statue of woman holding a baby behind the Texes Exes Alumni Center; "and then -- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains." Retreat and Renewal

    314- 317       Newman, The Site of a University, (Waller Creek vs. Oxford's Binsey (Thames, or Isis), and the Cherwell)            614-617            the experience of place at college            618-623             Hopkins’s “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”             633-635                  Hopkins’s Oxford, II: “Binsey Poplars”763               Monet’s Poplars (poor reproduction)

    742                 Waller Creek, introduction

    743                 Jones, introduction744-751            Jones, from Life on Waller Creek (1982)

    752-757          Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot," Battle of Waller Creek

    758                  "Committed 'til Death"

    Discovery learning question for Gypsy Chain reading: what would you be willing to die for?759                        Recent example at Cornell

    760-762         Oliphant, “San Jacinto”

    internet reading
    Nature on Campus

    nature at Oxford

    Oxford, Christ Church: rivers, meadow

    Oxford, Binsey: river, meadow

    Cambridge

    American colleges
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    • DEC. 1   9/11 EXTRA CREDIT DIVERSITY EXCURSION:
      The 17th Annual Non-Greek Stepshow
      December 1, 2007
      Doors open at 6:00PM
      Show starts at 7:06PM
      Hogg Memorial Auditorium

      Tickets on sale now!

      $15 Presale
      $20 At the Show

      Tickets available at: Hogg Auditorium, Bass Concert Hall, TexasBoxOffice.com (click on PAC Events on the left side), and from the UT Alphas.

      Link: For more info: contact Shun Smith at nongreekxvii@gmail.com

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