TTH CAS Resources
Syllabus
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Weebly Videos
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Course Schedule
T 01/23: Welcome!
TH 01/25: What is digital writing and how is it different from print?
Read the following digital writing resources in preparation for your blogs:
T 01/30: How to set up a Weebly blog.
TH 02/01: How to do an explication.
TH 01/25: 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"
T 01/30: 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.
TH 02/01: 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
T 02/06:
TH 02/08:
T 02/13:
TH 02/15:
T 02/20:
TH 02/22:
T 02/27:
TH 03/01:
- 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.
TH 02/08:
- 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.
T 02/13:
- 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.
TH 02/15:
- 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.
T 02/20:
- Read 11 “Fire Escape” 157 – 189
- Answer discussion questions on Canvas by 6 pm the night before.
TH 02/22:
- 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.
T 02/27:
- 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.
TH 03/01:
- 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
T 03/06: What is Project Media?
TH 03/08: How to Write a Proposal
Friday 03/09: Project Text Final Draft Due
T 03/13: What are the Many Concepts of Space?
TH 03/15:
Spring Break March 19 – March 23
T 03/27: Film Screening
TH 03/29:
T 04/03:
- Project Text Draft #1
- Make groups for Project Media
TH 03/08: 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
T 03/13: What are the Many Concepts of Space?
- Read “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.
TH 03/15:
- 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 23
T 03/27: Film Screening
TH 03/29:
- 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
T 04/03:
- 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
- Workshop: Analysis of "Worldwide Photowalk 2014--Antigua, Guatemala" in Vasatransmedia
Project Media: Community Projects
TH 04/05: How Do We Know What Communities Need
T 04/10: Campus ethnography
TH 04/12:
T 04/17: Project Space Draft #2 (bring a physical copy to class)
TH 04/19: How to make presentations with an impact
TH 04/26: Workshops
T 05/01: Presentations
Project Media Draft #2 (drafts must be complete)
TH 05/03: Presentations
T 04/10: Campus ethnography
TH 04/12:
- Workshop: Re-imagine Space—Fill the Erasures or Shed Light on the Background: Blackout Poetry or Clandestine Art
T 04/17: Project Space Draft #2 (bring a physical copy to class)
TH 04/19: How to make presentations with an impact
- Read "We Are Americans, Revisited"
- Read "What is TPS?," Chapter 14 “Designing Documents” in Concise Guide to Writing and Chapter 6 “Proposing a Solution” in Concise Guide to Writing.
- Read: "Where TPS Stands for Haitian and Central American Immigrants"
TH 04/26: Workshops
T 05/01: Presentations
Project Media Draft #2 (drafts must be complete)
TH 05/03: Presentations
Portfolio
T 05/08: Project Media Due
Workshop: Reflection letters and portfolio guidelines
TH 05/10: Portfolios Due
Friday 05/11: Last day to submit a blog post.
Workshop: Reflection letters and portfolio guidelines
TH 05/10: Portfolios Due
Friday 05/11: Last day to submit a blog post.