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Syllabus
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Course Schedule
Please note that this is a tentative schedule and may change as the semester progresses; however, you will always be notified and consulted with changes.
Introduction
M 01/22: Welcome!
W 01/24: What is digital writing and how is it different from print?
Read the following digital writing resources in preparation for your blogs:
M 01/29: How to set up a Weebly blog.
W 01/31: How to do an explication.
W 01/24: What is digital writing and how is it different from print?
Read the following digital writing resources in preparation for your blogs:
- "Writing for an Online Audience: How To"
- "The Best Blog Titles for Your Content: 6 Best Practices for How to Get the Click"
M 01/29: How to set up a Weebly blog.
- "How College Students Can Make Money Writing, Despite Their Major or Experience Level"
- Watch the Weebly how-to videos shown above.
- Workshop: How to annotate a literary text and instructions.
W 01/31: How to do an explication.
- Read: “The Tattooed Soldier” by Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre
- Watch: “Episode 5: The Tattooed Soldier”
- Discussion: What is an explication? Literary devices and close reading practices.
Project Text: The Tattooed Soldier
M 02/05:
W 02/07:
M 02/12:
W 02/14:
M 02/19:
W 02/21:
M 02/26:
W 02/28:
- Read 1 “On Crown Hill” 3 – 20 and 2 “El Pulgarcito Express” 21 - 38
- Weebly blogs must be set up and ready.
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
W 02/07:
- Read 3 “Instant Shelter” 39 – 57 and 4 “The Source of the Infection” 58 - 70
- Workshop: How to structure a thesis statement for a literary analysis.
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
M 02/12:
- Read 5 “Probability” 71 – 82, 6 “A Zoo for the Generals” 85 – 97, and 7 “Teodoro’s Hands” 98 - 108
- Workshop: Intertextuality
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
W 02/14:
- Read 8 “The Window” 109 – 122, 9 “Microbes” 123 – 137, and 10 “The Wrestlers’ Brigade” 138 – 153
- Workshop: Formalistic Approach
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
M 02/19:
- Read 11 “Fire Escape” 157 – 189
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
W 02/21:
- Read 12 “The Army of Painted Children” 190 – 207, 13 “Basic Training” 208 – 215, and 14 “Fort Bragg” 216 – 231
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
M 02/26:
- Read 15 “Department of Sanitation” 232 – 244 , 16 “Jaguar” 245 – 257, and 17 “Adventure in Beverly Hills” 258 – 271
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
W 02/28:
- Read18 “Halloween” 272 – 289 and 19 “Below Crown Hills” 290 - 312
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
Project Space: Socio-Economics of Space
M 03/05: What is Project Media?
W 03/07: How to Write a Proposal
Friday 03/09: Project Text Final Draft Due
M 03/12: What are the Many Concepts of Space?
W 03/14:
Spring Break March 19 – March 21
M 03/26: Film Screening
W 03/28:
M 04/02:
- Project Text Draft #1
- Make groups for Project Media
W 03/07: How to Write a Proposal
- Project Text Draft #2
- Read Chapter 3 "Writing Profiles" and Chapter 15 “Field Research” from Concise Guide to Writing.
Friday 03/09: Project Text Final Draft Due
M 03/12: What are the Many Concepts of Space?
- Read "Indigeneity and Decolonial Seeing in Contemporary Art of Guatemala," “Public Memory and Political Power in Guatemala’s Postconflict Landscape” by Steinberg and Taylor, and selections from How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith.
- Workshop: Walter Benjamin and the everyday.
W 03/14:
- Read The Agency of Mapping by James Corner, "Sick Woman Theory" by Johanna Hedva
- Due Microessay #1: 5 Objects and Interviews
Spring Break March 19 – March 21
M 03/26: Film Screening
W 03/28:
- Read Chapter 2 “Remembering an Event” in Concise Guide to Writing and “Urban Citizenship, And Belonging: The Experience of Undocumented Street Vendors And Food Truck Owners in Los Angeles” by Fazila Bhimji
- Due Microessay #2: Getting Lost
M 04/02:
- Read "Just Getting a Bunch of Likes, or Creating a Hashtag? That's Not Social Change" by Lina Srivastava and Copyright Flowchart
- Due Microessay #3: Communities
Project Media: Community Projects
W 04/04: How Do We Know What Communities Need?
W 04/18: How to make presentations with an impact.
W 04/25: Workshops
M 04/30: Presentations
Project Media Draft #2 (drafts must be complete)
W 05/02: Presentations
- Workshop: Re-imagine Space—Fill the Erasures or Shed Light on the Background: Blackout Poetry or Clandestine Art
- Campus ethnography
- Workshop: Analysis of "Worldwide Photowalk 2014--Antigua, Guatemala" in Vasatransmedia
- Project Media Workshops
- Project Space Draft #1
W 04/18: How to make presentations with an impact.
- Read "We Are Americans, Revisited"
- Read: "Where TPS Stands for Haitian and Central American Immigrants"
- Read "What is TPS?," Chapter 14 “Designing Documents” in Concise Guide to Writing and Chapter 6 “Proposing a Solution” in Concise Guide to Writing.
W 04/25: Workshops
M 04/30: Presentations
Project Media Draft #2 (drafts must be complete)
W 05/02: Presentations
Portfolio
M 05/07: Project Media Due
Workshop: Reflection letters and portfolio guidelines
W 05/09: Portfolios Due
Friday 05/11: Last day to submit a blog post.
Workshop: Reflection letters and portfolio guidelines
W 05/09: Portfolios Due
Friday 05/11: Last day to submit a blog post.