• especially to verbal and visual rhetoric on the web and on paper.
• Questionnaires to be distributed and collected.
• IF computer account number required on the first day to logon to class intranet. New users may claim an IF account at the Student Microcomputer Facility in the Flawn UGL by completing an IF account request form and presenting it and a government-issued photo ID at the front desk.

1-3 Course Description

4-7 Reading Schedule

8-11 Group Participation Guidelines

12-14 Guidelines for Listening

15 Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17 Sexual Harrassment Policy

Project Instructions

18 Portfolio

19 Polished Writing Instructions

20 Web Projects

21 Web Site citation guidelines

22 Undergraduate Writing Center resources for you

23-4 Learning Skills Center resources for you

25-6 General Grades Definition (see also course description)

27 "Local Sites" updated version at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E309K/localsites.html

28 Nature Websites

29-30 ACITS short courses

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

35-61 "How to Create a Web Site and a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"

• see HTML class schedules: http://www.utexas.edu/computer/classes/

• see self paced tutorials: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training/handouts/tutorials.html#internet

• Review X1-61, especially "Local Sites"; Nature Websites; ACITS short courses;  HTML Basics; HTML Quick Reference; "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM."
• Journal due on 2 of the following: Discovery Learning; Bump, "Radical Changes"; Miller, "Ex-Apple pioneer captures nature digitally"; Bump, " Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism": tune your browser to www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html

64-80 Bump, "Radical Changes" [about why we are using computers in this class]

81-4 Miller, "Ex-Apple pioneer captures nature digitally"

web     Bump, " Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism" [tune your browser to www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html] [also about why we are using computers in this class]

Review

1-3 Course Description

4-7 Reading Schedule

8-11 Group Participation Guidelines

12-14 Guidelines for Listening

15 Racial Harrassment Policy

16-17 Sexual Harrassment Policy

Project Instructions

18 Portfolio

19 Polished Writing Instructions

20 Web Projects

21 Web Site guidelines

22 Undergraduate Writing Center

23-4 Learning Skills Center

25-6 Grades Definition

27 "Local Sites"

28 Nature Websites

29-30 ACITS short courses;

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

35-61 "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"

• Journal Entries Due on two of the following Wordsworth's "Prelude"; Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood"; "The Force That Through the Green Fuse"; Thomas's "Fern Hill"

416-19 Wordsworth's "Prelude"

420-30 Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood"

(431 Thomas, Introduction)

431-2 "The Force That Through the Green Fuse"

433-5 Thomas's "Fern Hill"

436-9 Road Map of Your Journey

• We will be going from the classroom to the sycamore in front of the Humanities Research Center building. 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
• Readings: those in bold are required: Barney's The Shape of Sound; Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30]; the introductions to Hopkins and Ruskin; and "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."

152-8 introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin

203-210 "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"

442 Barney, "The Shape of Sound"

• Essay instructions. See examples from past on website.
• Scan drawings from Sept. 14, if possible.
• Journal Entries Due on two of the following "Hurt Hawks," "Vulture"; Harrigan "The Tiger is God"; Blake "The Tyger" vs. Blake "The Lamb." To see Blakeís poems with his illustrations go to website: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E309K/blake.html

413-414 "Hurt Hawks"

415 "Vulture"

444-450 Harrigan "The Tiger is God"

443 Blake introduction

443A Blake, "The Lamb" text only

443B Blake, "The Tyger" text only

• 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 Victorian architecture of the building and the tree.
• Required Readings: Littlefield House; Harrigan's "The Soul of Treaty Oak";
• Review Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30]; Barney's The Shape of Sound; introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;

451-458 Harrigan's "The Soul of Treaty Oak"

Review

125-51 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing"

203-210 "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"

442 Barney, "The Shape of Sound"
 
 

• Scan drawings if possible.
• Must cite my article or Harrigan or Barney.
• Save responses on diskette.
• Decide on when we meet at the Japanese Gardens in Zilker park. It 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. Read X187-202 on the garden and other sites in Zilker Park. Also, while at Zilker Park you might want to check out Philosopher's Rock --the statues of 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."

188-98 The Mother Tree

199-200 maps

201-2 Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum

215-15 Philosopherís Rock

459 Form for visit to the garden

• Journal Entries due on "The Sympathetic Imagination" and 2 of the following: Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"; Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"; Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.
• For help with ideas for your project, due Oct. 3, see previous examples on web site and Unity in the writer: X203-213 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind.

86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

(104-8 introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)

109-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems

460-465A Harrigan "Swamp Thing"

465B Barney "On Greer Island"

For help with ideas for your project see

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;

211 Writing the Natural Way;

212-3 Wild Mind

• Post First Story on web and hand in polished hard copy in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the anthology. [Multmedia projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text amd Cd or diskette, etc.]
• Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least ten people in some detail (at least four sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond.
• Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.
• Save comments on diskette.

• Review

Project Instructions

18 Portfolio

19 Polished Writing Instructions

20 Web Projects

21 Web Site guidelines

22 Undergraduate Writing Center

23-4 Learning Skills Center

25-6 Grades Definition

29-30 ACITS short courses;

31- 4 HTML Quick Reference

35-61 "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

211 Writing the Natural Way

212-3 Wild Mind

Journal Entries Due on two of the following: Jones, Life on Waller Creek; "Anatomy of a Riot" and "Committed 'til Death"; Oliphant's "San Jacinto."

Next time we will be writing at Waller Creek: to prepare, see previous examples on web site.

(161 Jones, introduction)

162-9 Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86    "Committed 'til Death"

466-8     Oliphant, "San Jacinto"

• If you think you wonít know what to write about, check out what your predecessors have written on the web site.
• Write about whatever you see there. If you are feeling blocked, just start describing the details of the plants and animals and water and stones etc. in front of you.
• Look at what is in front of you from 2 points of view besides yours. In other words, say what you think two people very different from you ó say Jones and Barney ó would see.
• Cite from Jones and Barney.

470 Barney, "Mr. Bloomer's Birds" [describes Boat Tailed Grackles ó the most common birds at Waller Creek]

Review:

161 Jones, introduction,

162-9 Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86 "Committed 'til Death"

466-8 Oliphant, "San Jacinto"

• Citations from Jones and Barney required.
• Save responses on diskette.

161 Jones, introduction,

162-9 Jones, Life on Waller Creek

170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"

176-86 "Committed 'til Death"

466-8 Oliphant, "San Jacinto"

469 Barney "On a Detail from Audubon"

470 Barney "Mr. Bloomer's Birds"

• Journal Entry Due on Graves, "Blue and Other Dogs" and one of the following: Graves, "Meat" and Walker, "Am I Blue?"

483-486 Graves, "Meat,"

(487 Introduction to Alice Walker)

488-491 Walker "Am I Blue?"

• Journal Entries due on either John Graves' Good-Bye to a River or his "Nineteen Cows" AND on two of the following brief selections about different regions of Texas by George Sessions Perry; Katherine Anne Porter; Dorothy Scarborough; Loula Grace Erdman; Sidney Lanier; Elmer Kelton; Walt Whitman; and Benjamin Capps. From Don Grahamís Texas: A Literary Portrait.

496-504 Graves, "Nineteen Cows"

505 George Sessions Perry on the Gabriel River

506-7 Katherine Anne Porter, on the blackland farming country

508 Dorothy Scarborough, from In the Land of Cotton

509 Loula Grace Erdman, on the high plains

510 Sidney Lanier, on the prairies

511 Elmer Kelton, from The Time it Never Rained

512 Walt Whitman on west Texas

513 Benjamin Capps on arrival of spring in west Texas

• Revised Project due. Turn in to instructor a revised project in pocket folder with your name on the outside with
• [1] revised project
• [2] first project with instructor's original comments and
• [3] print-out of suggestions from other students.

• Journal Entries Due on "Cedar Cutter" and one of the following: Bedicheck, "The Wing of the Swallow"; Graves, 'Texas Hill Country"; "Carved in Stone."

(216 Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web)

(217-8 Local Writing)

(219 Bedicheck, introduction)

220-2 Bedicheck, "The Wing of the Swallow"

223-30 "Cedar Cutter"

231-48 Graves, "Texas Hill Country"

249-52 "Carved in Stone"

• Fill In, Tear Out, and Turn in midsemester evaluation,
• Journal Entries Due on Wordsworth's "Michael" and either Dobie, A Texan in England or Hopkins, Binsey Poplars, [G156-7];
• Journal/discussion question for "Michael": compare to "Cedar Cutter": how are these two accounts of old men who are close to nature similar and different?

253 Hopkins: Binsey Poplars, [G156-7];

256-61  Wordsworth, ëMichael" compare to "Cedar Cutter": how are these two accounts of old men who are close to nature similar and different?

(262 Dobie, Introduction)

268-79 Dobie, "A Texan in England" ": how are the English and the Texan

• At Dobieís house we will see the memorabilia.
• And midsemester brainstorming results will be distributed and discussed.
• Then we will go on to the statue of the mustangs in front of the Texas Memorial Museum
• then to the statues in front of the Alumni Center.
• At the Center you will make journal entries about what you have seen, incorporating at least one quote from Dobieís The Mustangs and one from his The Longhorns .
• Journal Entries Due on

298-337  Dobie, "The Mustangs" [relate to statue at Texas Memorial Museum]

Review

214-5 Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs

216 Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web

217-8 Local Writing

262-67 Dobie introduction;

170-5  Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot" (on Dobie etc.)

268-279  Dobie, "A Texan in England"

• Journal at ponds incorporating 1 citation from Darwin, X339-43, and one from the following: Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"; Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"; Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.

Review

85 The Sympathetic Imagination"

86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

(104-8 introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)

109-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems

460-465A Harrigan "Swamp Thing"

465B Barney "On Greer Island"

• Incorporate two Dobie quotes in Dobie contribution
• For Biology Ponds contributions remember 1 citation from Darwin, and one from the following: Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"; Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"; Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.
• Save responses on diskette

339-43 Darwin
 

Review

86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

(104-8 introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)

109-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.

460-465A Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"

465B Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"
 
 

• Up till now in the course we have often focused on various details we have seen in nature. That approach is sometimes called stofftrieb. Now we will turn to formtrieb: the idea of unity in the variety. We will consider how each medium communicates the idea of the whole which has no truly isolated or entirely individual parts, only local symptoms or manifestations. This idea has been variously described as a web of mutual interdependency, or a special harmonious unity, balance, or equilibrium achieved in an ecosystem not by leveling the forces of diversity but by promoting them.
• Journal Entries Due on two of the following: Bump, "Dualism"; Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature" ; Alan Watts," The World is Your Body"; Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"; "Musical Responses to Nature."

347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

365A "Musical Responses to Nature"

• As you look at Waller Creek now, focus now on unity, seeing the big picture, in time as well as space perhaps. For examples, see how Jones talks about the Creek flowing for centuries through different stages of civilization, etc. Or think how Darwin would talk about the fossils in the streambed and the age of the limestone. Or think of the whole ecosystem of the creek. Or ÖÖ
• Incorporate 2 citations from readings for Nov. 9.

346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

365 "Musical Responses to Nature"

• In the Waller Creek discussion, incorporate 2 citations from readings for Nov. 9.
• In the Oriental Garden discussion, incorporate the answers you made to the form.
• Save responses on diskette

346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."

347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"

352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"

359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"

365 "Musical Responses to Nature"

187 "The Spirit of the Garden"

188-98 The Mother Tree

241-5 Philosopherís Rock

459 Oriental Garden Discussion Form

• Journal Entries Due on Wordsworthís "Tintern Abbey OR his "Immortality Ode" AND one of the following: Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"; Miller, "The Disappearance of God'"; Clark, The Worship of Nature"; Nuns of Brenham article .
• For help with ideas for project 2 see Unity in the writer. X203-13 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind.

• Journal Entries Due on

408-411 Wordsworth, the Immortality Ode

384-5 "The Worship of Nature"

(386-7 Forster, introduction)

388-393 Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"

514-5 Nuns of Brenham

For Project 2 Review

203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "

211 Writing the Natural Way;

212-3 Wild Mind

• For help with ideas for your project see Unity in the writer. X203-13 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "Writing the Natural Way; Wild Mind;
• Websites must be self-contained and portable, all references must be internal, none to outside URL;
• Begin commenting on the stories of others and finish outside of class. As before, you must respond to at least ten people in some detail (at least four sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond. However, this time you must start with the ten people you did not comment on last time.
• Save responses on diskette;

• Focus now on unity.
• 1 citation from Forster required
• and 1 citation from readings for Nov. 2, listed below, or Darwin.

Review

339-343 Darwin

460-465A Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"

465B Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"

86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

107-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.

• Focus now on unity.
• 1 citation from Forster required
• and 1 citation from readings for Nov. 2, listed below, or Darwin.

339-343 Darwin

388-93 Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"

460-465A Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"

465B Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"

86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"

107-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.

Journal Entries Due on two of the following Hopkinsís "The Woodlark," Hopkinsís "Spring," Hopkinsís "Hurrahing in Harvest; Wordsworth's " Lines Written in Early Spring," Wordsworth's "The Excursion lines 42-55"; Wordsworthís "I wandered lonely as a cloud"

394 Wordsworth, "The Excursion"

395 Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely"

396 Wordsworth, "Lines written in early spring"

397 Hopkins, "Spring"

399 Hopkins, "Hurrahing in Harvest" [the source of my email motto]

401,404 Hopkins, "As kingfishers catch fire"

402-403 Hopkins, "The Woodlark"
 
 

• 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 and printouts of all your contributions to the sycamore, pine, Oriental Garden, and Dobie web pages, to both Waller Creek web pages, to both Biology Ponds web pages, your comments on projects1 and 2 of others, and the road map of your journey.
• Journal Grade: assuming consistent quality, and one page = about 250 words, an A would usually be awarded for 2.5 X 19 reading assignments = 47 pages, a B for 2 X 19 = 38 pages, a C 1.5 X 19 pages = 29 pages.

• Please construct a table of contents referring to numbered pages, like the following:

• Journal, pp. 1-75 (do not number pages that have less than 1/2 page of text, double spaced if typed)
• Essay 1 (final version, clean copy), pp. 76-82,
• Essay 2 (clean copy, final version if available), pp. 83-89
• Web Page contributions:
• Sycamore and Pine, p. 90
• Waller Creek I, p. 91
• Biology Ponds I and Dobie, p. 92
• Waller Creek II, p. 93
• Biology Ponds II, p. 94
• Oriental Garden essay (if not on web site), pp. 95-100
• Road Map of My Journey, pp. 101-102
• Comments on others
• Comments on essay 1, extra credit comments over required ten highlighted, pp. 103-106
• Comments on essay 2, extra credit comments over required ten highlighted, pp. 107-110
• Extra credit comments on web pages, pp. 111-116
• Extra credit option #1-- every 3 responses over 10 to first or second essay projects = 1 A or 2 U's
• Extra credit option #2: 5 responses to sycamore, waller, or ponds sites = 1 A or 2 U's

• Revision of project 2 to be handed in a folder with the copies of essays 1 and 2 on which I commented, the revision of essay 1 with my comment on it, and all suggestions from students for changes to essay 2.
• YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO TO RECEIVE A GRADE IN THIS CLASS

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