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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. *Update: Our class is transitioning to online instruction for the rest of the semester. I have modified our schedule to reflect those changes. Last updated March 18, 2020.
Introduction
W 01/22: Welcome back! Preparing for success.
Read the following digital writing resources in preparation for your blogs:
- Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals + Growth Mindset
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"
- "How College Students Can Make Money Writing, Despite Their Major or Experience Level"
- Watch the Weebly how-to videos shown above.
- Meet in the computer lab. The location details will be emailed to you.
- Have a professional Twitter account set up and ready.
- Meet in the computer lab. The location details will be emailed to you.
Project Text: Unaccompanied + Corazón
M 02/10: Timed Essay
- Bring a green book.
- Write your first blog and post on Twitter.
- Discussion: What is an explication? Literary devices and close reading practices.
- Read from Corazón pages 1 - 47.
- Read from Corazón pages 48 - 86.
- Writing Workshop.
- Micro-essay 1 due.
- Read from Unaccompanied pages 1 - 50.
- Writing Workshop.
- Micro-essay 2 due.
- Read from Unaccompanied pages 50 - 94.
- Writing Workshop.
- Micro-essay 3 due.
- Micro-essay 4 due.
- Preparing for Project Text drafts.
- Making groups for Project Media.
Project Space: Socio-Economics of Space
M 03/02: Mentor Day!
M 03/09: Important day! Do not miss class.
M 03/23: What is Project Space?
- Project Text Draft due. Upload on Canvas.
- Quality time with mentors.
- Revisiting your S.M.A.R.T. goals.
- Read selections from How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith.
- Bring a hard copy of your draft to class.
- Workshop: Making a group contract.
M 03/09: Important day! Do not miss class.
- Campus ethnography.
- Group contract due.
M 03/23: What is Project Space?
- Login to Zoom for class. I will email the code.
- Review this photoessay "Worldwide Photowalk 2014--Antigua, Guatemala" in Vasatransmedia.
- Watch Ways of Seeing by John Berger.
- Microessay 1: Objects + People Due
- Read The Agency of Mapping (pg. 213 - 221) by James Corner, "Sick Woman Theory" by Johanna Hedva, and “Public Memory and Political Power in Guatemala’s Postconflict Landscape” by Michael K. Steinberg and Matthew J. Taylor.
- Workshop: Re-imagine Space—Fill the Erasures or Shed Light on the Background: Blackout Poetry or Clandestine Art.
- Micro-essay 2: On Wandering Due
- Project Space Autoethnography Narrative Draft Due
Project Media: Community Projects
W 04/01: Exploring memory and space.
- Read "I Exist" by Breeña Nunez and "Indigeneity and Decolonial Seeing in Contemporary Art of Guatemala" by Kency Cornejo
- Watch: Caracol Cruzando
- Workshop proposals for the group project
- Project Space Autoethnography Narrative Due
- Watch Voices Beyond the Wall
- Micro-essay 3 Due
- Group Proposal Due
- Micro-essay 4 Due
- Workshop: Creating an elevator pitch.
- Email me a working draft of your business website for review.
- Project Space Critical Analysis Essay Draft
- Writing Workshops for the portfolio.
- Project Space Critical Analysis Essay Due
Portfolio
M 05/04: Group Projects Due
- Workshop: Reflection letters and portfolio guidelines.