P1B DUE ON BLACKBOARD BY 1:30 PM TODAY, BEFORE CLASS: see below
[NO OTHER BLOG DUE]
MEET AT THE MUSTANGS STATUE
UT Totem Animal Walk
THE DOBIE WALK: UT's Totem Animals, starting at the Mustangs statue, one of the Signature GEMS of the University of Texas at Austin. The statue is located at the star on San Jacinto on the map, at the intersection with 24th, due west of "TMM"
START WALKING NOW.
FDH J. Frank Dobie House SHD Simkins Hall Dormitory CS4 Chilling Station No. 4JON Jesse H. Jones Hall (Law) SJG San Jacinto Garage TMM Texas Memorial Museum
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EXPLORE U.T. GOALS
[4A] To acquaint students with some of the gems of the university that make it unique (its “signature”)
[4B1] To invoke the personal presences (ghosts, genius loci) embodied in campus places, such as, in Waller Creek, the ghosts of Joe Jones, Frank Dobie, and the students of 1969 and others; and all the ghosts inhabiting the Harry Ransom Center; i.e. to give some sense of the social as well as environmental history of this campus, and comparable genius loci embodied in the social and environmental history of other colleges.
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ALL PROJECTS ARE DUE IN BLOG FORMAT ON THE P1 BLOG ON BLACKBOARD BY 10:30 A.M. before class
Basic requirement: an essay in blog format* of at least four-hundred words from the point of view of your power animal). Must be acceptable college-level writing.**
TODAY'S TOPICS: your alma mater and querencia: the animals represented on campus
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: VIRTUAL STATUES TOUR (esp. Southeast Campus Tour).Tour of the representations of animals from the Mustangs to the Texas Exes. Experiential learning based on interaction and interpretation, an exercise in SEMIOTICS, asking the basic questions, what does the representation of the animal tell us about the relationship between homo sapiens and animals? Assuming an animal of that species spoke our language, how would the animal answer that question?
Student speeches (five minutes, based on research about the object or place, earn up to twenty points depending on eye contact, how well delivered, research, etc. -20 if no speech)
in front of
the Mustangs LIONESS campus mustang images
Waller Creek Waller Creek TIGER Waller Creek Images
Texas Exes alumni center
the Freedom Mare SEA TURTLE The Freedom Mare at The Alumni Center
Bevo BLACK JAGUAR The Texas Longhorn at The Alumni Center Bevo tradition Bevo images Longhorns
the Texas Family Sculpture SNOW HARE Texas Exes family sculpture
the Female Student, DOLPHIN image
the Male Student, BLUE JAY image
and Generations ARCTIC FOX Generations
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:
TODAY'S RECOMMENDED READING:
Now & Then
tour of The University of Texas at Austin from the 1920s to 1980s.Campus architecture:
Littlefield House Battle Hall Sutton Hall Old Biology Bldg. Old Geology Bldg. (Hogg) Garrison Hall Waggener Hall Goldsmith Hall Texas Union The Tower The Stadium Alumnae Center Miscellaneous Campus Buildings Dobie's House
Campus sculpture:Mustangs Freedom Mare Longhorn
Generations Torchbearers See also Gargoyles and Grotesques
Campus landscape architecture:Tower Memorial Garden/ Biology Ponds
Campus nature sites:The Littlefield Pine The Battle Oaks Waller Creek
Campus Museums:Texas Memorial Museum pictures Texas Memorial Museum website Story of Texas Museum Pictures Story of Texas Museum website Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Pictures Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center website
REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:everything you have learned about animals and totemism