Schedule.
Sept. 2 Meet in RAS 312 (classroom). intro. + Historical geology
Readings
for today's class:
4-6 Course
Description
7 Schedule
and Class Locations at a Glance
8-18
Reading
Schedule
COURSE
POLICIES AND RESOURCES
19-21 Group
Participation Guidelines
22-24 Guidelines
for Listening
25 Racial
Harrassment Policy
26-27 Sexual Harrassment Policy
28-29 Drug
and Alcohol Policy
30 Undergraduate
Writing Center in FAC 211
31-32 Learning
Skills Center
33 Changing
your email address for Blackboard
34-35 Grades
Definition
35
Teaching
Philosophy
37 Discovery
Learning
WRITING
INSTRUCTIONS, EXAMPLES, ADVICE
36 Previous Course Goals
39-40 Learning Record Instructions
41-47
Crowe,
"Nature and the Sense of Place"
48-52 Lopez,
"A Literature of Place"
53 Wordsworth, "Michael, A Pastoral Poem"
54 Pater,
introduction
55-57 Pater,
"The Child in the House"
57B Dickens,
introduction
57C-58 Dickens, from Hard
Times
59-62
Shideler,
"The Classroom's Sense of Place"
63-66 Road Map of Your Spiritual Journey
67-68 Formal Writing Project Instructions
69-76 from
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
77 from Writing the Natural Way
78-79 from Wild Mind
91 Why spell checkers are not enough
92-95 Appositives
96-97 Hyphens
98-101 Verb Tense Consistency
102 Coherence
103 Web Site Citation guidelines
104-105
Putting Pages on the Web
Using Webspace
106 Web Projects
107-110 Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay
111-115 Some Third Hour Activities Related to This Course
116 Map of Campus
THE
HISTORY OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET
117-125 Ellison and Jones, "Walking the Forty Acres"
126-129 Evolutionary and Geological Timelines
Class activities: Find TMM on map for next time, work on questionnaires discuss A1, A2 and first project. Then we will leave the classroom and take a tour of some of the buildings on campus. Look for buildings on which you might want to do a project. Our guide will be Ellison and Jones, "Walking the Forty Acres," about the stones from which the buildings are made.
Focusing on the stones in your projects, if you choose to do so, brings into your projects immense corridors of time in terms of geology and biology etc. as well as human history. One human history angle stones can invite, for example, is the roots of our culture in Israel, especially Jerusalem, whose buildings are often constructed of Jerusalem stone, which is apparently similar to the limestone from which campus buildings are often made.
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Sept. 9
Meet at
street entrance of Texas Memorial Museum (east of the Mustangs) Historical biology I: TMM then
Waller Creek
Writing
Due Today: Questionnaire. .Learning Record parts A1. A2.
36-6
Learning
Record Instructions
Readings
for Today's Class:
Review
117-125, Ellison and Jones, "Walking the Forty Acres"
[1] Read
Tennyson's #123 (from (In Memoriam),
on p. 143, 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.
[1] Read
"Carved in Stone" on 144-147 on the fossils in Texas and especially
those around Austin. Fossils are seen not only in the Texas Museum but also in
Waller Creek and in the stones of many buildings on campus. Relate to the quote
from Eiseley's Firmament of Time on
148
[2] Read
"Evolution" on p. 154 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 LITERALLY true. 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 may be troubled by this.
[3] In that
context read poem #56 on 142 (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
155-160 to see for yourself what Darwin said.
[5] Learn
about Waller Creek from the readings below:
162-3
Waller
Creek, introduction
164-167
Ellison and Jones, "Waller Creek
Walk"
168 Jones,
introduction
169-176 Jones, from Life on
Waller Creek
195-197 Oliphant, "San
Jacinto"
198 Barney
"On a Detail from Audubon"
199 Barney,
"Mr. Bloomer's Birds" [describes Boat Tailed Grackles -- the most
common birds at Waller Creek]
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Sept. 16 meet south of Hogg. Historical
biology II: Hogg to Tower Gardens/ Biology Ponds where we will meditate on Fish, Reptiles, Evolution, and
the Sympathetic Imagination.
Writing due: LR Statement of YOUR course goals.
LR reading:
38 Previous
course goals
39-40 Learning
Record Instructions
Project
readings:
41-48
Crowe,
"Nature and the Sense of Place"
48-52 Lopez,
"A Literature of Place"
53 Wordsworth, "Michael, A Pastoral Poem"
54 Pater,
introduction
55-57 Pater,
"The Child in the House"
57B Dickens,
introduction
57C-58 Dickens, from Hard
Times
59-63
Shideler,
"The Classroom's Sense of Place"
63-67 Road Map of Your Spiritual Journey
67-68 Formal Writing Project Instructions
Readings
for today's activities:
Review 154-161 on Darwin and Evolution
361 Berry,
Botanical Pools
200-201 Bate, The Sympathetic Imagination"
202 Lawrence,
introduction
203-216 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile
and Fish poems
217 Harrigan,
introduction
218-224 Harrigan "Swamp
Thing"
225 Barney
"On Greer Island"
226 Definition of a Garden
227-229 Tower Memorial Garden
230-234 Arnold, introduction, and "Kensington
Gardens"
235-6 Forster, introduction
237-242 Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"
537-584 Berry, Brick by Golden Brick: A History of Campus Buildings at the University of Texas at Austin: 1883-1993, especially pp. 559-560 on Will C. Hogg Building
Class
activities: Decide
on when to go to Zilker Park.* Landscape architecture: compare to Taniguchi
garden, Ft. Worth Japanese garden, Versailles, Blenheim, etc. Check out
previous classes at work here on our web site.
Journal at
ponds incorporating 1 citation from Arnold and 1 from Forster. Upload to Tower
Garden Discussion Board by Sept. 18.
At the end
of the hour show instructor at least two pages of what you have written before
you leave.
*Bring
your calendars so
that we can decide in class we meet at Treaty Oak and the Japanese Garden in
Zilker park and when we have our class party at my little ranch.
The Japanese
Garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi, father of a dean of the school of
architecture and author of "The spirit of the garden": "one
unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the
elements of nature." Before we go there, read 187-202 on the garden and
other sites in Zilker Park. Also, when we go to Zilker Park for third hour activities
you might want to check out Philosopher's Rock --the statues of Texas nature
writers, Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb, in front of the swimming pool -- and the
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and, if time, take a canoe ride out into the
"lake." Check out pictures of all these places on our web site.
Readings
for Zilker Park excursion:
244-245 Treaty Oak history
246-254 Harrigan "The Soul
of Treaty Oak"
255 Form
for visit to the garden
256-257 Isamu Taniguchi
258 Taniguchi,
"The Spirit of the Garden"
259-269 Bauld, "The Mother
Tree"
270 map
of Zilker park
271 Map
of Zilker Botanical Garden
272-277 Zilker Park third-hour
options,
278-283 Philosopher's Rock
284 Hartman
Prehistoric Garden
Sept. 23 Meet at Bob Bullock Story of Texas Museum
at Speedway and Martin Luther King. The History of Texas and the West I. Bring $12.50 and plan to attend the
3-D movie Texas afterwards.
Write up how the movie affected your sense of place for a third-hour activity
Writing
due: First Project (on Sense of Place) to be Posted on Website before class.
(Project 1 Discussion Board). See instructions for the project. Paste in text only or upload as an
Attachment [saved in Microsoft Word format], or as an HTML link to your URL on webspace or .......
Readings
for Project Assignment: See Sept. 16.
Readings for today's class activity:
116 Map of campus
285-287 Story of Texas museum
288-296 Ragsdale et al, "History is My Home: A Survey of Texas Architectural Styles"
297-299 Texas Savenger Hunt
Worksheet
Review Crowe, Lopez, Wordsworth on Sense of Place.
Computer Work Assignment: Because THE SECRET OF WRITING IS
REWRITING respond to
projects of others by Sept. 28.
Responses that consist solely of generic phrases, such as "Good
Job," that do not reveal detailed knowledge of the project, will not be
acceptable. You must respond in sufficient detail to reveal that you have read the project closely. Let the author of the essay know how it
affected you as a reader, where you were pleased, where you got confused, where
irritated, etc. In general, evaluate the other students' essays as works of
art. If each essay were, say, a statue, which little as well as big flaws
should be corrected?
Respond to at
least half the class. 2 points for each response IF for each person you suggest
[1] how to expand the essay and [2] how to revise one of the sentences.
ü
ü *How to Respond to Other Students' Projects.
ü [1] You must quote a whole sentence of the student's essay that has not been quoted by a previous respondent and specify where the sentence needs improvement and then rewrite the sentence to improve it. For the subject line of your reply, paste in the sentence you are going to rewrite so that it will be easier for others to see what sentences are left for revision.
ü [2] In addition, you must make suggestions on how to add a page or more of new material.
ü
ü Grading: Remember that responding properly to the correct number of projects before the deadline is not just part of your class participation grade but also, and more importantly, your portfolio grade (10% of your final grade). For your portfolio you will print out all of your responses to other students and their quality will be fairly obvious in that format.
You must respond to at least half the class in detail. You
get extra credit for every three people over the required half of the class to
whom you respond. This extra credit can be used to improve your class
participation grade.
Sept. 30 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. The History
of Texas and the West II.
Writing
due: Hard Copy of First Project (on Sense of Place):. HAND IN 4-6 PAGE ESSAY ON YOUR SENSE OF
PLACE IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH NAME ON OUTSIDE. (In the case of websites hand in
URL and complete screen shots of each screen.) Include a printout of the
suggestions of other students and highlight the suggestions you incorporated in
your essay.
*For your hard
copy pay special attention to 19A-19K Effective Visual Design. You may include
pictures in this assignment. The purpose of the pictures is for you to become
acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become
common in the field these days and to gain some practical experience in
preparing a brochure. Make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them
big enough (at least 2.5 X 3.5) by using Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent
program.
*As suggested
in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26 of your anthology, you will need to go
beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of
your insights to receive that grade.
Readings
for today's class:
300-317 Dobie,
"The Longhorns" [relate to statue of Longhorn at Alumni Center]
318-360 Dobie, "The
Mustangs" [relate to statue at Texas Memorial Museum]
361-364 Mustangs at U.T.
365-371 Longhorns at U.T.
372 "Longer
Horns"
373 Windberg,
San Jacinto Longhorn
374 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
375-379 A Dying Breed?
380 Reverence
for cattle in India
381 Ransom,
on Dobie
382-385 Dobie introduction;
386-387 Local Writing
537-584 Berry,
Brick by Golden Brick: A History of Campus Buildings at the University of Texas
at Austin: 1883-1993, especially pp.
547-548 on Texas Memorial Stadium,
551-552 on the Weaver Power Plant, and 571-574 On the Alumni Center, 579
on the Seal Monument, 584 on the Seal of the University
Review
278-283 Philosopher's Rock
Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"
Class activities:
At Dobie's house
we will see the memorabilia. Then we will go on to the statue of the
mustangs in front of the Texas
Memorial Museum, cited by Dobie. Then to the statues in front of the Alumni
Center, perhaps stopping at the stadium along the way. At the Center you will
see more Western art and make journal entries in long hand about what you have
seen, incorporating at least one quote from Dobie's The Mustangs and one from his The Longhorns.
At
the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.
Oct 7 Meet at the Cactus entrance (south) of
the Union (Western Art III); Then to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center for more on Western Art, G. M. Hopkins and the British sense of place,
writing as rewriting, etc.
Writing
due: Learning Record
list of goals (revised) and self-observation of how well you are meeting your
goals.
Readings
for today's activities:
537-584 Berry,
Brick by Golden Brick: A History of Campus Buildings at the University of
Texas at Austin: 1883-1993, especially pp.
561, on the Texas Union, and 575-576 on the Ransom Center.
388 Ransom
Center Map
393-419 Bump,
"Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing"
420-421 Ruskin, introduction
422-423 Hopkins, introduction
434-433 Bump,
"Catalogue of the Hopkins Collection"
434 Hopkins,
"Spring";
434-435 Hopkins, "In the
Valley of the Elwy"
Internet preparation for today's activities: Preparation for our visit to
Hopkins's drawings in the HRC: go to
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/Hopkins/
Here are pictures of some of the
drawings (or ones similar to them) that we will see at the HRC, listed as
drawings1.jpg, drawings3.jpg, and drawings4.jpg
Oct. 14 Meet at Story of
Texas museum for walk to State Capitol (Hellenism 1)
Class activity: compare the Capitol with the Pantheon and with Gothic
architecture such as that of St. Mary's in the distance.
Readings for today's class:
439-478
Crowe, Nature
and the Idea of a Man-Made World, especially
pages 455-461 on the
Pantheon
479-486
Pugin, Contrasts (comparing neoclassical architecture [such as that
of the Capitol] with Gothic architecture)
487 Hugo, introduction
488-498 Hugo, from Notre Dame De Paris, on architecture vs. printing
q
Writing Due: Revised Project due. Remember your grade will be
reduced for each error that is repeated from your first draft! For example, if you had 2 points
deducted for an error on your first draft, repeition of the error in the
revised draft will result in a loss of 4 points for each occurrence. If the
same error reappears in project two, it will be 6 points off, and if it recurs
in the revision of project two it will be 8 points off for each
occurrence. So it pays to apply
discovery learning to rewriting as well. If you try to avoid learning what you
need to learn by rewriting the sentence or whatever, an additional 4 points
will be deducted.
ü Turn in to instructor a revised project in pocket folder with your name on the outside with
[1] revised project with ALL changes, even the smallest periods
and commas, HIGHLIGHTED. If a change is not highlighted you may not get credit
for doing it. If you omit a word just
highlight the spot and write "word(s) omitted" in the margin.
If you move a sentence
just write a note also to that effect.
If you add a lot of new material you can just draw a vertical highlight in margin rather than highlighting each sentence.
ü [2] first project with instructor's original comments
ü [3] suggestions from other students
ü [4] If you are revising a website you follow these rules as they apply to your screenshots. You must upload the changes to the website.
Ÿ *follow suggestions in 107-110 Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay
Oct. 21 Meet
at University Christian Church southeast of Littlefield
Fountain.(Hebraism I): UCC, UTCC, UBC, UMC.
Readings for Today's Activities:
499 Definitions
of Gothic
500-526 Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic"
527 Hopkins, "Duns Scotus's Oxford"
528-534 U.Chr.Ch., "Symbols of the Apostles"
535-536 Shell symbolism
Review Pugin and Hugo
Oct. 28:
Hellenism II: Meet at Goldsmith;
Then to Torchbearers; then to Tower
Readings for today's
class:
537-584 Berry, Brick by Golden Brick: A History of Campus Buildings at the University of Texas at Austin: 1883-1993, especially pages 540-544 on Old Main, 556-557 On Goldsmith Hall, 564-569 on the Tower, and 581 on the Torchbearers
585 Constitution and
University Seal;
Review Crowe and Pugin
Nov. 4 Meet just north of Garrison. Western art III: Garrison,
Waggener, Texas Gothic: Littlefield house.
Writing Due: Second project to be posted on website before
class. Perhaps this time you
will want to focus on the "educational environment." See the brief
selection from Dickens's Hard Times(57C-58)
and see Christina Shideler's essay (59-63).
Internet writing due Nov. 8: Respond as before to the other half of the class within two days.
Readings
for Today's Class:
537-584 Berry,
Brick by Golden Brick: A History of Campus Buildings at the University of
Texas at Austin: 1883-1993, especially 550 on Garrison, 554-555 on Waggener,
and 562-563 on Littlefield
586-587
Littlefield
House
588-598 Gargoyles and Grotesques
Review
69-76 from
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
393-419 Bump,
"Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing"
499 Definitions
of Gothic
500-526 Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic"
Nov 11 Meet at west
entrance of Sutton Hall: Spanish Renaissance II and vestiges of Gothic: Sutton,
Battle, Biology
Writing
Due: Bring polished
hard copy of project 2, along with both versions of project 1 (with instructor
comments), in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the
anthology. The essay is to be the same size: 4-6 pages. However, you are to
understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity. To get
an A in your writing you will need, first of all, to avoid the problems cited
in the first two project drafts, especially those I stressed on the second
draft.
Readings
for Today's Class:
537-584
Berry, Brick by Golden Brick: A History of Campus Buildings
at the University of Texas at Austin: 1883-1993, especially pages 545-6 on Battle and Sutton Halls, and 549 on the Biological Laboratories
Review
479-486
Pugin, Contrasts
499 Definitions
of Gothic
500-526 Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic"
588-598
Gargoyles
and Grotesques
Nov.
18. Meet at Blanton Art
Museum, north of stadium; Helleni;sm vs. Hebraism, from Medieval to Modern.
Writing
due: Learning Record
list of goals (revised) and self-observation of how well you are meeting your
goals.
Readings
for Today's Class:
599-605 Pater, The Renaissance: La Gioconde, Conclusion
Nov.
25 Meet at the sycamore east
of HRC. The final exam: Modernism:
truth to nature?
Class
activity: There we
will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals.
One of our themes will be the contrast between the tree and the modern
architecture of the building. . For examples see web sites of previous classes
Dec. 2 No organized class today, to make up for
meeting at oriental garden, but writing due.
Writing
Due: turn in revised project two to Parlin 132 during class time or before.
Dec 10
Writing
Due: Learning Record Final due in Par 132 by 3 PM.
Dec.
16
Writing
Due: PORTFOLIO DUE
TO BE DELIVERED TO PAR 132 BETWEEN
2 AND 3
If you want to
turn it in earlier and the mail slot is full go to Par 108 and ask that folders
be put on desk.
The portfolio
consists of the journal, LR weekly observations, midterm, and final.
Please
construct a table of contents referring to numbered pages, like the following:
Journal, pp.
1-75 or so (do not number pages
that have less than 1/2 page of text, double spaced if typed)
Project 1
(final version), pp. 76-82,
Project 2
(final version), pp. 83-89
LR final,
midterm, and weekly observations, pp. 90-?
Other samples
of work and other activities
Grades: To get
a B on the portfolio you need to meet all the basic requirements perfectly,
including table of contents and page numbering.
Grades:
to get a straight A on the paper portfolio you need to go beyond that to an
achievement in visual rhetoric. Think of this as a portfolio you will be taking
to a nature-writing magazine, seeking employment in competition with many
others. You would be well advised to have it all typed in one way or another,
perfectly proofread, illustrated, etc. and very professional in appearance. Pay
special attention to 19A-19K Effective
Visual Design and 48-9 on unity
Grading of your portfolio: 100 points
______Journal, worth up to XX points.
(Pages in chronological order. XX assignments (including scavenger hunts) X 1.5 = 20 pages for an A.
If graded on quantity alone XX points per full page, less XX points if detailed response to Oriental Garden is not included)
_______Visual impact of whole portfolio: XX points.
______X LR items, worth X points each = X points (1 LRs A1, A2, 1 final, 1 list of goals)
_______Complete and accurate table of contents tied to page numbers: X points
_________Accurate page numbers: X points
_________Clean, illustrated copies of projects 1 and 2 = 10 points
_________ 15 Third Hours = ?
_________Total number of points for portfolio
_________Extra Credit = ?.
Dec
19
Unless already retrieved, portfolio to
be picked up between 10 and 4 in Par 132.