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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 )

"If I Had a Hammer .... I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters/ All over this land”  words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger

*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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Overview of schedule

Jan. 16 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces

Jan. 18 Gawain as new hero + review gargoyles, grotesques,

Jan. 23 Yudof, topic of religion at state ; Isaiah, Psalms, Virgil, Socrates,

Jan. 25 Jesus, review ahimsa

Jan. 30 King, Gandhi, and Ahimsa;……… review Jesus

Feb. 1 How Can I Help?

Feb. 3 Visit to Barsana Dham

Feb. 6 How Can I Help?

Feb. 8 P3A posted Intro to Poetry: Keats, Tennyson, Bob Dylan, Cummings

transform your 2nd Life avatar

Feb. 13 Compassion in Medicine pp. ix-90

Feb. 15 Compassion in Medicine pp. 91-176

Feb. 20 P3A due; HRC: writers as heroes

Feb. 22 Ego vs. Higher Cause, Sympathetic Imagination; Arnold, Pattern of Conversion, Bob  Dylan, Browning Dramatic Monlogues

Feb. 27 Practicing the Sympathetic Imagination in Second Life

Mar. 1,Bluest Eye: Compassion, Racism, Judging by Appearance,

Mar. 4 Holi festival, Barsana Dham

Mar. 6 Clay Pit meeting: Bluest Eye II sNarrator/Writer as hero

Mar. 8 P3B due. Scientist and poet as heroes: TMM. evolution 1

Mar. 20: Evolution II

Mar. 22: P4A posted; HRC, Writers as Heroes II

Mar. 24:  Ranch party

Mar. 27 Evolution III: debate in SL

Mar. 29. Alice I: Portfolio update due

 Apr 3. Alice II

Apr. 5 Alice III,

Apr. 10 Woman Warrior I

Apr. 13 Woman Warrior II

Apr. 17 Color Purple I

Apr. 19 Color Purple II

Apr. 24 Goblin Market

Apr 26 P4B due. Blanton

May 1 Max Desir

May 3 Max Desir

 


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 = College Architecture; P2 = Personal Vision; P3 = Role Model, Leadership Research Paper; P4 = Leadership Vision,

P...A = Electronic P...B = hard copy

Feb. 8: P3A posted on DB, responses to others required;

transform your 2nd Life avatar

Feb. 20: P3A hard copy

Mar. 8 : P3B due.

Mar 29: P4A + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD

Apr 10: complete reviews of others on SWORD

April 17: P4B + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD

Apr 19: First feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

Apr 26 complete reviews of others on SWORD

Apr 29: Second feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

May 1 : turn in P4C CD version:

WHY MUST THIS ESSAY BE IN WEBSITE FORMAT?

May 9: Electronic Portfolio of both semesters due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier


visit to Chinese Buddhist temple

Informal Writing due dates

REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARDS


REQUIRED CLASS PRESENTATIONS

Mar. 27 Evolution Debate in SL


REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

Feb. 3 Barsana Dham


EXTRA CREDIT SCAVENGER HUNTS

SHELLS

HAMMERS

IMAGES OF THE FEMALE

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 RDB= Required Contribution to Discussion Board Due; ODB= Optional Contribution to Discussion Board;  C = Class Presentation Due; P3A, P3B, P4A, P4B = Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G=Graded Discussion


Jan. 16  RDB Class #1. Heroes

4-45                 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces*

46                    Apotheosis

47-48               Raglan, The Hero

49                    Caryle, intro

50-54               Carlyle, The Hero as Man of Letters

[*pp. 16-45  ("Monomyth"); 112-115 (Universal Mother); 148-166 ("Apotheosis"); 245 ("The Keys"); 297-315 ("Virgin Birth"); and 387-391 ("The Hero Today") of the Princeton U. P. Bollingen hardback ]

Supplemental Hammer Ceremony. Physical Portfolios returned. date of Bharsana Dam excursion Feb. 3

review, connect, hammer into unity:

Time Management

Learning Skills Center Motivation and Goal Setting site

Learning Skills Center Time Management Site

Learning Skills Center Procrastination Site

Semester Planning Form

Monthly Planning Form

Daily Planning Form

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Jan. 18. Class # 2. Gawain as new kind of hero?

RDB GAWAIN all quotes are to be in the original language

Discussion Questions:

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 ?

How does it relate to the touchstone of "Nature"?


Gawain and the Green Knight: The Challenge of the Gothic North

to Arthur's Round Table:


A green man looks down on the Christians at Christ Church cathedral, Oxford

"Green Men" sculptures at Winchester, at York, and at Oxford: Balliol Library, the Bodleian Library, Merton Chapel, and City Hall

"Green Women" on the tomb of St. Frideswide, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Green Giant in the home of the Vikings


The Orders of the Garter and the Thistle


Online Resources

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Jan. 23. Class #3. ODB GrecoRoman and Jewish Heroes

website            Plato, the Symposium

55-58               Plato, the Apologia

59                    Yudof on Religion at Colleges

60-69               Isaiah, selections, KJV

70-71               Psalms, selections, KJV

72                    Virgil, introduction

73-76               Virgil, Eclogue IV

review, connect, hammer into unity: Joseph Campbell, Raglan, Carlyle, Gawain

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Jan. 25. Class #4. RDB Jesus

art designed to inspire compassion:

the Pieta on the altar at Notre Dame de Paris

relic inspiring compassion: the crown of thorns

ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris

77-114            Gospel of John, KJV

review, connect, hammer into unity: Plato, Isaiah, Psalms, Virgil

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Jan. 30. ; ODB King, Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Sympathetic Imagination

                        114-8               “Ahimsa,” Gandhi’s tradition

119                  Gandhi biography

120                  King biography

121-3               King, “I Have a Dream”

124-5               Passion

126-7               Compassion

128-30             Sympathy

131-2               The Sympathetic Imagination

133                  Betty Sue Flowers, Literature and Morality

134                  David Lee Powell: I. Q. and Morality

review, connect, hammer into unity: Jesus, Isaiah, Virgil

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Feb. 1. Class # 6.  RDB How Can I Help? pp. 3-121

 

review, connect, hammer into unity: 114-133 of the anthology

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Barsana Dham excursion

2:45, February 3

up to 21 points if you are there on time;

-21 if you are not

MAP AND DIRECTIONS

 

more pictures of Barsana Dham

Barsana Dham site

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This site connects our semesters remarkably well, for it is a famous Hill Country nature site. Previously it was owned by Walter Prescott Webb and he restored the land to embody his ideal "conservation of natural and human resources." Webb, J. Frank Dobie, and Roy Bedichek (remember Philospher's Rock in Zilker Park?) used to meet there for retreats. Bedichek's classic Adventures with a Texas Naturalist was written there.

More information

Austin Hindu Center

 

Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Temple: another to explore?

http://www.ibps-austin.org/ 6720 N Capital of Texas Highway Austin, TX 78731

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Feb. 6. Class #7: ODB How Can I Help?

pp. 122-243

from the anthology:

135                   Augustine, Entering Into Joy

136                  The “Mystery” acc. to Robbins

P3 Instructions

transform your 2nd Life avatar

review, connect, hammer into unity: the Mystery

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Feb. 8. Class #8  P3A posted

RESPONSES TO AT LEAST NINE OTHER STUDENTS REQUIRED WITHIN THREE DAYS.

New Responses Requirements

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR EMILY, MEGAN GILBERT (Feb. 10), and ADAM (Feb. 22)

 P3 Instructions 

transform your 2nd Life avatar

ODB Poetry: the Medium is the Message

 

137-9               Keats, “Chapman’s Homer”

140-46             Rico, Metaphor and Creativity 

147-8               Tennyson, introduction

149-53             “The Lotos Eaters” cf. The Odyssey IX, 82 ff.

154                  “Lotos Eaters” discussion questions 

155                  Cummings: since feeling is first

 

review, connect, hammer into unity these readings from last semester:

A266                 Wordsworth,  “Michael, A Pastoral Poem”

A616-618                  Hopkins’s “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”

A633-635                  Hopkins’s Oxford, II: “Binsey Poplars”

A760-762         Oliphant, “San Jacinto”

A739                 Arnold, “Kensington Gardens”

A906                Hopkins, “As kingfishers”

A908-909        Browning, “Two in the Campagna”

698-701                        Wordsworth, The Prelude

A704                         W. Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”

A705-706                  D. Thomas, “The Force ….”

A707-709                  D. Thomas, “Fern Hill”

POETIC PROSE

A190               Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

A689-691            Pater, La Gioconda , a.k.a. the Mona Lisa

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Feb. 13. Class #9 RDB

Compassion in Medicine

pp. ix-90

review, connect, hammer into unity:

How Can I Help?

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Feb. 15 Class # 10. ODB

Compassion in Medicine

pp. 91-176

review, connect, hammer into unity:

How Can I Help?

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Feb. 20. Class #11 P3A Hard Copy due.

"Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes"  John Irving, "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed"

Meet at at the front door of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, on southwest corner of campus, opposite the Dobie mall/dorm.

We will read the building as an example of Modernism. We will read the Gutenberg Bible inside in the context of Victor Hugo's "This Will Kill That." Then we will focus on rewriting as the secret of writing as seen in the exhibits from the Twenties and in Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.  Finally, to expand our horizons to other writers, we will read the etched windows of the HRC.

read

186                        Victor Hugo, Introduction

187-89                        Notre Dame de Paris, a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

                                   “This Will Kill That” Literature vs. Architecture

review, connect, hammer into unity:

A 125 Hemingway on Rewriting;

A170-188 Key to HRC ghost windows

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Feb. 22. Class #12. Role Playing Training: Literature as Equipment for Living

ODB Requirement for any role playing: the Sympathetic Imagination

Requirement for role playing of an altruistic hero: a sense of a higher cause vs. the limits of the isolated ego.

Role Playing and the Sympathetic Imagination

178                        Browning info

179                        Criteria of Dramatic Monologues

180-1                        “My Last Duchess”

181-2                        “Porphyria’s Lover”

183                        Browning discussion questions

184-5                        “My Last Professor”

187-92                        Notre Dame de Paris, a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

                                   190-92 The human grotesque

the limits of the isolated ego

156                        Matthew Arnold, introduction

157-8                       Arnold  “Isolation. To Marguerite’

159                Matthew Arnold “To Marguerite.Continued”

160                  Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach”

a higher cause

161-72                       Buckley, "The Pattern of Conversion"

173-75             Carlyle, crisis chapters of Sartor Resartus

176-7                        Dylan, “Lay down your weary tune”

177                        Dylan, “In the time of my confession”

additional related texts suggested by the DB entries:

Meditation XVII

from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.

Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.

 

Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me and see my state may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. …. when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another. As therefore the bell that rings a sermon calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come, so this bell calls us all; but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness. . . . Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. . . .

 

John Donne 1624

 

When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be

 

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,

Before high-piled books, in charactery,

Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,

Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,

And think that I may never live to trace

Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,

That I shall never look upon thee more,

Never have relish in the faery power

Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

 

John Keats (1795-1821)

 

 

A winters day

In a deep and dark december;

I am alone,

Gazing from my window to the streets below

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

Ive built walls,

A fortress deep and mighty,

That none may penetrate.

I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.

Its laughter and its loving I disdain.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

 

Dont talk of love,

But Ive heard the words before;

Its sleeping in my memory.

I wont disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.

If I never loved I never would have cried.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

 

I have my books

And my poetry to protect me;

I am shielded in my armor,

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.

I touch no one and no one touches me.

I am a rock,

I am an island.

 

And a rock feels no pain;

And an island never cries.

 

 

Simon and Garfunkel,
“I am a Rock”

 

 

review, connect, hammer into unity:

131-2 The Sympathetic Imagination

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Feb. 27 . Class #13. Practicing the Sympathetic Imagination in Second Life

Conversations with avatars of role models in Second Life in class

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Mar. 1 . Class #14.RDB Bluest Eye: Compassion, Racism, Judging by Appearance. Entire book due.

review, connect, hammer into unity:

 

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Mar. 3 .  3-7 Spring Festival at Barsana Dham 

  

Extra Credit: all you need is pictures to prove you were there and got "powdered"

MAP AND DIRECTIONS

 

more pictures of Barsana Dham

Barsana Dham site

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Mar. 6. Class #15 MEETS AT THE CLAY PIT, 1601 GUADALUPE, AT 11. ODB  Bluest Eye II Narrator/Writer as hero

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR EVERYONE WITH SUMMER BIRTHDAYS

193-209            Bump, “Racism and Appearance in The Bluest Eye: a Template for Emotive Criticism”

210-219            Bump, “Family Systems Therapy and Narrative in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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Mar. 8. P3B DUE: same instructions as last semester except that the emphasis now is on word choice and conciseness.

So make evident in footnotes or in some other unobtrusive way what words were removed and where. Also, at the end indicate what the word count was after you made all your cuts. It is to that word count that you must add 350 new words.

As for word choice, if the word choice is better, positive points will be awarded. The number of points deducted will be the same for word choices that are no better, and slightly higher for word choices that are worse.

Also, include in your folder a CD or whatever with the working website version of the final copy.

Class #16.scientists and poets as heroes  Meet at Texas Memorial Museum

ODB What Are You? An Animal? An Angel? Both? Neither? What, Where Are You in Relation to Nature?

Clues in Campus Natural History Museums.

220                 Evolution, introduction

221-2                      Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum

223                       “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum

224- 28          Guide to ghosts in Texas Natural Science Museum (a.k.a. Texas Memorial  Museum)

229                Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time

230-33                      “Genesis”

234-39          Darwin,  from The Origin of Species (1859)

                                    237-238             “The Great Tree”

240                “The Tree of Life”

241-2                        Evolutionary Timeline

242-3                        Geological Timeline

244-9                        Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”

250                        Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts

251-5                         Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)

256                        Dust in the Wind

257                Browning and evolution

Oxford University Museum virtual tour

Oxford University Museum images

illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University Museum

Texas Memorial Museum

McKinney Falls Rock Shelter (just east of Austin)

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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March 12-17 Monday-Saturday. Spring break.

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Mar. 20. Class #17.

LOOKING AHEAD:

P4 Instructions

RDB Evolution vs. Spiritual Approach to Nature; Are Darwin and Hopkins incompatible? "Intelligent Design"? Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification

THE VICTORIAN LITERARY DEBATE ABOUT EVOLUTION

251-5                         Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)

256                        Dust in the Wind

257                Browning and evolution

THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE

258-9                        “Darwin Under Attack”

260-263            Studebaker, “Using God’s Design to            Communicate Faith”

264-6 Olasky and Perry: Monkey Business

267-9           "Bush Remarks Roil Debate

270                        Klugman, “Design for Confusion”

271-2 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.

review, connect, hammer into unity :

220                 Evolution, introduction221-2                      Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum223                       “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum224- 28          Guide to ghosts in Texas Natural Science Museum (a.k.a. Texas Memorial  Museum)229                Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time230-33                      “Genesis”234-39          Darwin,  from The Origin of Species (1859)                                    237-238             “The Great Tree”240                “The Tree of Life”241-2                        Evolutionary Timeline242-3                        Geological Timeline244-9                        Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”250                        Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts251-5                         Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850) 256                        Dust in the Wind257                Browning and evolution

Oxford University Museum virtual tourOxford University Museum imagesillustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University MuseumTexas Memorial Museum

McKinney Falls Rock Shelter (just east of Austin)

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Mar. 22; Class #18.

REQUIRED Discussion Board

Meet at Waller Creek with COPY OF YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE REQUIRED DB What is Your Position? RESOLVED: DARWINIAN AND SPIRITUAL APPROACHES TO NATURE ARE COMPATIBLE. ARGUE FOR OR AGAINST.

teams for the debate will be chosen on the basis of your statements.

Are Darwin and Hopkins incompatible? "Intelligent Design"? Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification

CHARDIN?

illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University Museum

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Mar. 25 .  10-2 EXTRA CREDIT

Spring Festival at Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Buddhist Temple
6720 N Capital of Texas Highway Austin
  (on 360, north of 2222, opposite Bull Creek park)

Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Temple: http://www.ibps-austin.org/

more pictures of the temple

  

Extra Credit: all you need is pictures to prove you were there

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Mar. 27. class #19. MEET AT WALLER CREEK with writing materials, something to put on a wet rock to sit on, and what you wrote in class Mar. 22, the course anthology, volume two of the course anthology from last semester, and COPIES OF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DARWIN DBS.

_review, connect, hammer into unity:

readings from last semester:

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

260 Lopez, an introduction

261-265 Lopez, “A Literature of Place”

NATURE AS PLACE

266 Wordsworth, “Michael, A Pastoral Poem”

# SACRED SPACE
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284 "Sacred" Places

# Nature as the Touchstone?

TOUCHSTONE: "1. A very smooth, fine-grained, black or dark-coloured variety of quartz or jasper (also called BASANITE), used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the colour of the streak produced by rubbing them upon it; a piece of such stone used for this purpose.

b. fig. That which serves to test or try the genuineness or value of anything; a test, criterion.

….SHEFFIELD (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 207 Time..in all matters of writing, is the only true touchstone of merit. 1822 HAZLITT Table-t. I. xi. 253 Well-digested schemes will stand the touchstone of experience. 1871 BLACKIE Four Phases i. 42 The touchstone..to distinguish the true man..from the false pretender." (OED)

584-585 Hopkins, Introduction

586-612 Bump, “Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing”

509 Romanticism 1775-1830 and beyond

535-562 Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

314- 317 Newman, The Site of a University,

(Waller Creek vs. Oxford's Binsey (Thames, or Isis), and the Cherwell

616-618 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, introduction

744-751 Jones, from Life on Waller Creek (1982)

752-757 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot," Battle of Waller Creek
758 "Committed 'til Death"

759 Recent example at Cornell

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Mar 29. Class #20.  MEET AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, on southwest corner of campus, opposite the Dobie mall/dorm.

P4A + self-evaluation* submitted to SWORD

In the program itself all you submit is your title and a Word document with the URL of the webspace location of your essay.

P4 Instructions +

CRITERIA THAT WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE YOUR ESSAY**

*Program states that the self-evaluation will not be graded, but it will, at least to the extent of giving a certain number of points for a good self-evaluation, and a certain number of negative points for no self-evaluation at all.

** Ignore the references to headings and subheadings. With regard to "flow" record every place you slow down if not stop when reading the essay, including at punctuation and proofreading errors if they slow you down.

 

We will read the building as an example of Modernism. We will read the Gutenberg Bible inside in the context of Victor Hugo's "This Will Kill That." Then we will focus on the writer as hero, exemplified by Lewis Carroll. Finally, to expand our horizons to other writers, we will read the etched windows of the HRC.

review, connect, hammer into unity:

186                        Victor Hugo, Introduction

187-89                        Notre Dame de Paris, a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

                                   “This Will Kill That” Literature vs. Architecture

A170-188 Key to HRC ghost windows

ODB ON THE ALICE BOOKS, writers as heroes, leaders, role models; Alice as hero, leader, role models

READ BOTH ALICE BOOKS +

 

283-4                   Dodgson’s Allusions to Friends and Family in Oxford

285-91                        Dodgson’s handwritten Alice with his own             illustrations, samples +

Lewis Carroll at the HRC

_review, connect, hammer into unity:

May 20-25

Leadershape Application

due today by 4 PM

 

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 APRIL 1-8: DIVERSITY EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES : all you need is pictures to prove you were there, but you get more points if you write up the experience.

April 1:

Ram Navi Festival at Barsana Dham 11 A. M. speech, chanting, arti, lunch, etc.

MAP AND DIRECTIONS 

more pictures of Barsana Dham

Barsana Dham site

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APRIL 1-8

CHRISTIAN HOLY WEEK

extra credit for attending services in Spanish or at African-American churches

an example from our architecture tour: St. Mary's Cathedral: April 1 and April 8: Mass Schedule . Sunday: 8:00 AM, 9:45 AM, 12:00 Noon, 1:45 PM (Spanish), 5:30 PM Saturday: 5:30 PM Vigil

Other holy week services:Holy Thursday (April 5) 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday (April 6) 12 p.m. Stations of the Cross, 2 p.m. Celebration of the Lord's Passion; Holy Saturday (April 7) 8 p.m. Easter Vigil

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Apr. 3 Class # 21. RDB ALICE II.

(Both Alice books due.)

WHAT IS THE RELATION BETWEEN THE ALICE BOOKS AND THE EXHIBITS IN THE OXFORD MUSEUM, i.e. what is the role of nature and Darwin in the Alice books?

273            “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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Apr 5. Class #22. ODB ALICE III.

Alice books as parodies of college life

281-2                        Alice as Parody of the U. T. Freshman Experience

292                “White Rabbit,” Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR LIZ

Flash introduction to Dodgson

Dodgson in MAPPA MUNDI

Lewis Carroll Does U.T.

Lewis Carroll at the HRC

Images of Alice

Vogue Slide Show Images

contributed by Liz Wong

VIDEOS:

1903 Alice in Wonderland

Russian Alice in Wonderland

Arabic Alice in Wonderland

Jefferson Airplane on Smothers Brothers TV show

Disney Alice + Jefferson Airplane take 1

Disney Alice + Jefferson Airplane take 2

Disney Alice Unbirthday Song

Disney Alice Unbirthday Song in Brazilian Portuguese

Video of Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More"

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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April 10 Class #23.

RDB WOMAN WARRIOR I.

Entire book due.

complete reviews of others on SWORD

 

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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April 12 . Class #24.

ODB  WOMAN WARRIOR II +

Girls Need to Be Perfect

_review, connect, hammer into unity: _______________________________________________________________________________

Apr. 17 Class # 25.

P4B + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD :

Put JUST the URL of P4B in a Word doc and submit to SWORD.

Make a hard copy of the accompanying self-evaluation before you submit it to SWORD and bring it to class.

The P4B you put on webspace or wherever this time MUST include your pictures and other multimedia.

You do NOT hand in a hard copy of P4B to the instructor.

RDB COLOR PURPLE I. Entire book due.

 

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Apr. 19, Class # 26.

 

ODBCOLOR PURPLE II.

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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APR 22:_complete back-reviews, that is reviews of the suggestions of others, on SWORD by midnight.

Amanda exploring diversity on her own

2-4 PM 30 pts. extra credit for further Diversity training:

Chinese Buddhism and Temple

Art and Architecture, led by Rev. Maio Shan, and introduction to a Chinese-American community in Austin, and then lunch/dinner at the Firebowl in the Arboretum just off 360

Meet at 2 PM sharp

at Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Buddhist Temple
6720 N Capital of Texas Highway, Austin
 

(on 360, north of 2222, opposite Bull Creek park)

Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Temple: http://www.ibps-austin.org/

more pictures of the temple

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Apr. 24. Class #27.

RDB Goblin Market

read

293                        Christina Rossetti, introduction

294-309            Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

310-321            Bump, “Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”

some images:

CR and her mother, portrait:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/rossettichrisMom3.jpg

CR, portrait:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/rossettichristina2.jpg

CR, modelling Mary:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/rossettiecce5.jpg

CR later in life, photo:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/rossetti.gif

 

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/GoblinMarket.JPG

 

sisters:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/harrisongoblin.jpg

 

goblins:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/goblin3.gif

 

the temptation:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/harrisonstood2.jpg

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/rackhammarket3.jpg

more images:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/CR/

review, connect, hammer into unity:

Apr. 26. NO CLASS* Complete reviews of the second drafts of others, on SWORD, by midnight, USING THE REVISED CRITERIA.

*in partial compensation for all the required extracurricular class activities ________________________________

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Apr. 29. Final feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD

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May 1. Class #29. turn in P4C* CD version in class:

WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IF THERE ANY LINKS TO THE WEB, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COURSE WEBSITE

IN OTHER WORDS, ALL FILES MUST BE ON THE CD[S] EXCEPT FOR LINKS TO OUR COURSE WEBSITE

no chance for revision or change

WHY MUST THIS ESSAY BE IN WEBSITE FORMAT?

*What is P4C?

To clarify, P4C is a revision of P4B in response to the suggestions of your P4B reviewers, especially concerning combining visual and verbal rhetoric. So, please hand in with P4C copies of the four or five P4B reviews. On the P4C CD you can put any other materials you need to hand in as well if they fit. So, remember to hand in the P4B reviews along with the P4C CD

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"

 

RDBThe Family of Max Desir I : chapters 1-7

 

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May 3. Class # 30.

RDB The Family of Max Desir II: rest of the book

at least one quote from the second half of the book, unless you have already done so in the previous DB.

 

review, connect, hammer into unity:

all diversity readings and activities

Award Ceremony: Presentation of the Hammers of Unity and the Scallop Shells of Pilgrimage

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May 7: Extra Credit due in Par 132 by 5:30 PM

May 9: Electronic Portfolio of both semesters due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier:

WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IF THERE ANY LINKS TO THE WEB, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COURSE WEBSITE

IN OTHER WORDS, ALL FILES MUST BE ON THE CD[S] EXCEPT FOR LINKS TO OUR COURSE WEBSITE

-150 pts. if not done or not accepted

PORTFOLIO INSTRUCTIONS

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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


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