"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 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, 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!
Formal Writing due dates
P1 = College Architecture; P2 = Personal Vision; P3 = Role Model, Leadership Research Paper; P4 = Leadership Vision,
A = Electronic B = hard copy
Oct 3: P1A electronic
post on Blackboard Discussion Board
Oct. 12: P1A hard copy
Oct 26: P1B
[related dates: Oct. 31 teams meet to select five campus master plans, Nov. 30 & Dec. 5 team presentations of campus master plans Dec. 7 vote on best campus master plan]
Nov. 9: P2A post
Nov. 21: P2A hard copy
Dec. 7 P2B
Dec. 14: Portfolio due in Par 132 2-3:30 or earlier
Feb. 8: P3A posted on DB, responses to others required
Feb. 20: P3A hard copy
Mar. 8 : P3B due.
Mar 27 : P4A posted on DB, responses to others required
April 10 . P4A hard copy
April 26: P4B hard copy.
May
9. LR
FINAL [150 PTS.]
May ?: Portfolio of both semesters due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier
May ?: Portfolio picked up in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier
Informal Writing due dates
Sept. 7 Psychological Type Essay
REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARDS
Sept. 5Hypermedia
Sept. 19: Collegiate Architecture and the Power of Place
Sept. 21 DBR Gothic
Sept. 28 DBR Modernism
Oct. 5 Universities
Oct. 17 the Grotesque
Nov. 7 College Idealism
Nov. 16 Unity
Nov. 28 Place, Childhood, Wonder
Road Maps: Sept. 12 & 14
Campus Master Plans: Nov. 30, Dec. 5
Downtown architecture
Landscape Architecture: Tanigtuchi gardens
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E603A SCHEDULE
DBR= Required Contribution to Discussion Board Due; DB= Optional Contribution to Discussion Board; 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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VERY TENTATIVE E603B 07 SCHEDULE: CHANGES MAY BE MADE BY CLASS
Jan. 9-15? LEADERSHAPE 100 pts. extra credit awarded for second semester if attended
Jan. 16 Class #1. Hammer Ceremony. Portfolios returned. Heroes
TEST on Joseph Campbell, 84 pp., Emerson 3 pp.
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Jan. 18. Class # 2. Religion at a state university
reading: Yudof, ......
review, connect, hammer into unity: Sacred space, Joseph Campbell, 84 pp., Emerson 3 pp
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Barsana Dham excursion
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Jan. 23. Class #3. Moses 17 pp., Socrates (Plato) 4 pp. Carlyle bio [3] 1 p.
Carlyle, Mahomet: Islam [3] 3 pp.
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Jan. 25. Class #4. Jesus and Ahimsa, 42 pp.
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Jan. 30. King, Gandhi and Ahimsa; UT stories 27 pp.
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Feb. 1. Class # 6. Gawain as hero
DBR GAWAIN:
read all of Gawain + 137-141
137 The Middle Ages
138 Augustine, Entering Into Joy
139-141 Gawain and the Green Knight misc.
What is the meaning of the phrase "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense”?
What is its relevance to Gawain and the Green Knight?
What is its relevance to you?
How does the poem relate to our other readings and our explorations of art and architecture this semester and last?
How does it relate to the Undercliff?
to Arthur's Round Table:
A green man looks down on the Christians at Christ Church cathedral, Oxford
the Cathedral of the Gothic North: the York Minster:
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Feb. 6. Class #7: U. T. Heroes 27 pp. Texas, our Texas 35 pp.
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Feb. 8. Class #8 P3A posted
RESPONSES TO AT LEAST NINE OTHER STUDENTS REQUIRED WITHIN THREE DAYS.
MEET AT WALLER CREEK WITH [lunch]
nature as sacred space?
MEET AT WALLER CREEK. Nature and sacred space. Wordsworth, The Prelude, A374-6, 379-81, 383-4, especially 385-7, 513-518; Blake, 521-2; Hopkins A467-468, 503-505
review, connect, hammer into unity:
Review role of nature in Fowles, Jude, Alice; sections on nature in A260-275; A314-317; A373-387; A417-419; A447-448; A471-496; A503-537; A638-697; A913-914; A844-847; B24-B77; B205-232; B322-323.________________________________________________________________________________
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Feb. 13. Class #9U. T. students as heros: Willie and Cecilia Morris 47+9 pp.
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Feb. 15 Class # 10. An Oxford student as hero: Hopkins
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Feb. 20. Class #11 P3A Hard Copy due. Meet at HRC: writers as heroes
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Feb. 22. Class #12.
THE ISOLATED EGO VS. THE HIGHER CAUSE
B78-79 Matthew Arnold “Isolation. To Marguerite’
B80 Matthew Arnold “To Marguerite.Continued”s
B81 Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach”
B82-94 Buckley, "The Pattern of Conversion"
Bob Dylan songs
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Feb. 27 . Class #13.
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LEADERSHIP VISION "'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind', said Alice"
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Mar. 1 . Class #14. scientists and poets as heroes
Meet at Texas Memorial Museum DB 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 Museums.
OPTIONAL Discussion Board
B15 “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum
B16 “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum
B17-18 Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum
B19-23 Texas Memorial Museum guide to ghosts
B24 Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time
B25-28 “Genesis”
B29 Evolution, introduction
B30-33 Charles Darwin, introduction
B34-39 Darwin, from The Origin of Species (1859)
B37-38 “The Great Tree”
B40 “The Tree of Life”
B41 Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts
B42-47 Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”
B48-51 Evolutionary and Geological Timelines
SPIRITUAL APPROACHES TO NATURE
A373-87 Wordsworth at CAMBRIDGE
A374-6, 383-4 retreat to nature on campus
A379-81 retreat to nature during the summer
A385-7 retreat to nature: the Alps
A467-468 Hopkins, introduction
A469-470 Ruskin, introduction
A471-496 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing"
A503 Hopkins “Spring”; “God’s Grandeur”; “Starlight Night”
A503-504 “In the Valley of the Elwy”; “Windhover”; “Sea + Skylark”
A505 “Pied Beauty”; “Hurrahing in Harvest”
A513-514 W. Wordsworth, introduction
A515-518 Wordsworth, The Prelude
A519-520 W. Blake, introduction
A521 W. Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”
OTHER RELEVANT READINGS:
A153-161 Dass, “The Witness,” ; A178 Think for Yourself; A185 Keats: Shakespeare’s Negative Capability; A186 “The Mystery”; A214 Bump, Dualism and Creativity; A215 Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities;A216-229 Rico, Two Modes of Knowing; A265 Term for sense of place: genius loci ; A527-537 Edith Cobb, “Ecology of Imagination in Childhood”; A640 Definition of “garden”; “Arcadian golden age”; A682A Taniguchi, "The Spirit of the Garden"; A682C-E “NeoConfucian Manifesto”; A899-907 Miller, from The Disappearance of God. ; A913-914 Hopkins, “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire”; A920-923 God and Freshmen; A844 Hopkins, “As kingfishers”; A846-847 Browning, “Two in the Campagna”
INTERNET "READING"
Oxford University Museum virtual tour
Oxford University Museum images
illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University Museum
McKinney Falls Rock Shelter (just east of Austin)
review, connect, hammer into unity:
Representation of nature in Jude and the Alice books
Evolution vs. Spiritual Approach to Nature; Are Darwin and Wordsworth incompatible? "Intelligent Design"? Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification
THE VICTORIAN LITERARY DEBATE ABOUT EVOLUTION
B52-53 Tennyson, introduction
B54-58 Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)
B59 Browning and evolution
THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE
B60-61 “Darwin Under Attack”
B62-65 Studebaker, “Using God’s Design to Communicate Faith”
B66-68 Olasky and Perry: Monkey Business
B69-71 R. C. Changing Position on Darwin?
B72-74 "Bush Remarks Roil Debate"
B75 Klugman, “Design for Confusion”
B76-77 Bump, “Science, Religion, and Personification”
1] Read Tennyson's #123 (from (In Memoriam), which focuses on the firmament of time. This is the poem quoted on the south side of the Hogg building, referring to the time when this part of Texas was at the bottom of the sea. Relate to the quote from Eiseley's Firmament of Time.
[2] Read "Evolution" on the debate between Darwinism and the literal interpretation of the Bible. Basically, the problem was the belief that fossils and multiple strata in the crust of the earth (more than seven) meant that Genesis could not be scientifically true if taken literally. This was not necessarily a problem for a Rabbi or a Jesuit priest, but fundamentalists, then and now, who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible were and are troubled by this.
[3] In that context read poem #56 (In Memoriam), written by Tennyson when speculated on the meaning of fossils in "scarped cliff and quarried stone." In this poem "type" means "species." As you can see, to him, fossils provide that species could become extinct, and thus according to the Darwinian interpretation, homo sapiens also could become extinct. If this is true, he feared, churches and organized religion based on the Bible could become meaningless and "love thy neighbor as thyself" reverts to the war among dinosaurs and other "dragons of the prime." Eventually he solved the problem in the same series of poems (In Memoriam), but this is a famous statement of the predicament.
[4] Read our Darwin selections to see for yourself what Darwin said.
illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University Museum
review, connect, hammer into unity:
Flowers, the Moral Imagination,
Browning discussion questions
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Mar. 6. Class #15. REQUIRED Discussion Board DB Meet at Waller Creek with COPY OF YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE REQUIRED DB What is Your Position? Evolution vs. Spiritual Approach to Nature; Are Darwin and Wordsworth incompatible? "Intelligent Design"? Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Mar. 8. P3B DUE. Class #16.
Egoism vs. Sympathetic Imagination:
Browning, "Porphyria's Lover"
Browning, "My Last Duchess"
parody, “My Last Professor”
definition of dramatic monologue,
Sympathetic Imagination,
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March 12-17 Monday-Saturday. Spring break.
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Mar. 20. Class #17. Alice's evolution into a queen
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/carroll/
Dodgson in MAPPA MUNDI
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Mar. 22; Class #18. Alice's evolution into a queen II
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Mar. 27. class #19. Meet at HRC. P4A posted on DB, RESPONSES TO AT LEAST NINE* OTHER STUDENTS REQUIRED WITHIN THREE DAYS. (*THIS TIME INCLUDING ALL STUDENTS YOU DID NOT REPLY TO FOR PROJECT P1A). Alice III
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Mar 29. Class #20. MEET IN PAR 104.
Alice IV
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Apr. 3 Class # 21. Jane Eyre I
OPTIONAL Discussion Board DB
DBR JANE EYRE
read 277-287 CH. 1-13
278-287 Bump “Teaching Jane Eyre
review
The challenge of the Gothic North: Gawain vs. the Green Knight
read
B193 Romanticism
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
B377 Definition of the Gothic novel
B378-381 Heilman, “Charlotte Bronte’s ‘New’ Gothic”
B388-392 Bump “Teaching Jane Eyre"
B393 Reading and Discussion Questions for Jane Eyre
The challenge of the Gothic North: Gawain vs. the Green Knight
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Apr 5. Class #22. Jane II
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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April 10 Class #23. Meet at HRC Second Floor at 11
OPTIONAL Discussion Board DB
COLLABORATION +CREATIVITY: the Brontes
read
B382-385 HRC Bronte Family collection
B386-387 Brief History of the Bronte Juvenilia
Some reading and discussion questions concerning the HRC Bronte family documents: What do they reveal about the relation between collaboration, competition, and creativity? What do they reveal about the relation between childhood creativity and adult creativity? What do they reveal about the Brontes and Romanticism? What do they reveal about the Brontes and Gothic?
review, connect, hammer into unity:
B193 Romanticism
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
B377 Definition of the Gothic novel
B378-381 Heilman, “Charlotte Bronte’s ‘New’ Gothic”
The challenge of the Gothic North: Gawain vs. the Green Knight
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April 13 . Class #24. Jane Eyre III
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Apr. 17 Class # 25.Jane Eyre IV
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Apr. 19, Class # 26.GROTESQUES
OPTIONAL Discussion Board focusing on Christina Rossetti
read
B349 Christina Rossetti, introduction
B350-364 Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market
B365-376 Jerome Bump, “Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”
ANDIMODERNISM: THE GROTESQUE
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B394-395 Definition of the Grotesque
B396-398 Walter Bagehot, the Grotesque in Victorian Poetry
handout for Jan. 24:
handout Robert Browning, Introduction
handout Criteria of Dramatic Monologues
handout “My Last Duchess”
handout “Porphyria’s Lover”
handout Browning discussion questions
handout The Sympathetic Imagination
handout Betty Sue Flowers, Literature and Morality
handout “My Last Professor”
B399 Victor Hugo, Introduction
B400-405 Notre Dame de Paris, a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
403-405 the human grotesque
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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Apr. 24. Class #27. Gargoyles.
MEET IN PAR 104 JANE EYRE 28-38 +
review, connect, hammer into unity:
B82-94 Buckley, "The Pattern of Conversion"
The challenge of the Gothic North: Gawain vs. the Green Knight
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Apr. 26. Class #28. P4B due. Meet at the Blanton.. Images of Females/ Grotesques?
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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May 1. Class #29. the Creative Process DB Are You A Separate Individual: Have You Learned to Think for Yourself? Creativity 101:
(80-1 from Wild Mind)
82A “Flow:” key to creativity
(82B from Writing the Natural Way)
116F Stages of the Creative Process
116G Blocks to Creativity: Pride
603B71-72 Blocks to Creativity: Premature Judgment
116H Keats’s Negative Capability
(683 “The Mystery” )
116J Inspiration
116K Reading as Inspiration
603B75-88 Rico, Two Modes of Knowing
116L Bump, Dualism and Creativity
116M Dickens, Tale of Two Cities WITH ADDITION
603B90 Reading as Inspiration: Keats, “Chapman’s Homer”
603B91-2 Poetry and Metaphor
603B93-97 Rico, Metaphor and Creativity
Jung Collective Unconscious
(672-682 Edith Cobb, “Ecology of Imagination in Childhood”)
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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May 3. Class # 30. MEET AT
Waller Creek
for the Award Ceremony: Presentation of the Hammers of Unity and the Scallop Shells of Pilgrimage
OPTIONAL Discussion Board UNITY : Use "Nature" as your touchstone. WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE?
A843 Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”
A844 Hopkins, “As kingfishers”
A846-847 Browning, “Two in the Campagna”
A848 Forster, “Only Connect”
B513 Alan Watts, Introduction
B514-520 Alan Watts, “The World is Your Body”
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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May ?:LR FINAL [150 PTS.] hard copy and htm CD due by 3 PM in Par 132
May ?. All extra credit due by 3 PM.
EXTRA CREDIT: Shell Sightings on Campus and their Significance
EXTRA CREDIT: Female Sightings on Campus and their Significance
EXTRA CREDIT: Hammer Sightings on Campus and their Significance
May ?: Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier
May ?. Portfolio picked up in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier
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