TABLE OF CONTENTS


 


1-16 Table of Conte

17 Experiential Learning

18-19 Meditation and Guided Imagery

20-21 Lyrics

22 Einstein/Dass meditations

23-5 Deep Relaxation

26-35 Mindfulness

36 Service Learning

37 Discovery Learning

38 Discovery Learning at U.T.

39-40 Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst

41 My Teaching PhilosophY + the Carnegie Report

42-46 Course Goals

47 Racial Harassment Policy;

48-49 Sexual Harassment Policy;

50 If I Am Heterosexual

51 Ally Work

52-53 LBGT Vocabulary

54-57 "Toxic Masculinity"

58-59 Drug + Alcohol Policy;

60-61 The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

62 Employer survey: writing, collaboration, ethics,

63-67 Revenge of the Right Brain

68-70 Flunking out of College

71-72 * The New Curriculum*

73 Moyers Rebirth at U.T.

74 Concentration vs.multitasking?

75 Sleep Deprivation anMultitasking

76 Negative vs. Positive Attitude

[CF. Goleman on optimism + Emotional Intelligence?

77-81 Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.

82-83 U.T. Counseling Center

84 Stress Test

85 Tips for Reducing Stress

86 U.T. Stress Relief Site

87 Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College Before I Started: Why Are You Here?

88 Texas Constitution: for the promotion of literature

89 U. T. Seal

90 U. T. CORE PURPOSE (Ethics) and Core Values:

Freedom, Discovery, Learning,

Leadership, Responsibity, Individual Opportunity

91 Diversity

92-94 Perfectionism

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  1. Tower Motto: Ye Shall Know the Truth

  2. Blake, “London”

97-98 Scallop Shell Symbolism

  1. The Mystery: Spoken by a Child

  2. * Augustine,* "Entering Into Joy"

  3. Kesey and Robbins, on the Mystery

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  4. Five Characteristic of a Good Student: Positive Attitude...

103-104 Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.

104 Motivation; cf. Perfectionism

107 Goal Setting

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108-109 Covey on listening, reading, writing, speaking

  1. Listening during Class Discussion

  2. Compassionate Listening

  3. Listening Instructions

  4. Have You Tried Listening?

114-115 Leading Class Discussion

=================================================== TIME MANAGEMENT + RESOURCES

116-117 Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage Stress? 118-119 Covey, Personal Planning System, from /The Eighth Habit/ 120-121 Covey, Time Management form and example

122-123 Overcoming Procrastination;

124-125 Design Your Own Procrastination Plan

  1. Sanger Learning Skills Center

  2. Undergraduate Writing Center

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READING ASSIGNMENTS.


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WHAT COLLEGE CAN DO FOR YOU


128-137 David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

=========================================== THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

138-139 Flawn, Address to the University, 1984

140-144 Newman, The Idea of a University 5-7 [BRITISH] 145-147 Giametti, Yale Freshman Address

148-149 Liberal Arts defined

150-151 Newman and the Liberal Arts [BRITISH] 152-153 Brickley, ?Value of the Liberal Arts?

154-155 History for Dollars

  1. Well-Rounded Docs


    THE IDEA OF THIS UNIVERSITY

  2. Constitution

  3. Seal


THE IDEA OF PLAN II

159-162 Plan II history and goals


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ETHICS FLAG


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University of Texas Ethics


"Ethics, (or morality) is the study of how people should act toward one another, other species, and natural systems"

*/*Ethical Challenges*/


163-170 /*Ethical Challenges*/ [official UT workbook for this flag] 171- 175 Honor Code of U.T.

see also Course Syllabus :

https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/303A16/course.html + Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism


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*ETHICAL PROBLEMS?

The Example of Business

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176-177 Enron + Madoff

188-121 Enron vs. Empathy

182-127 Wall Street

188-92 When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers


*ANSWERS: RELIGION?*

193-194 Paul’s First Letter to Timothy:

Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas

(the root of evil is greed)?

195-197 Billy Graham et al

198-203 Pope Francis

204-210 Buddhism in the BusinessSchool?


*ANSWERS: ETHICAL CAPITALISM?*


  1. Sisodia, Ethical Capitalism

  2. Cox, Ethics in Business Education 213-218 Harvard students? MBA Ethics Oath 219-220 A Humane Revolution

221-222 Humane Business

223-230 Cruetlty-Free Companies 231-235 Consumer voting with forks 236-239 Example: Perdue Chickens

240-247 Example: EcoDairy Farm

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*ANSWERS? EMOTIVE BUSINESS ETHICS?*

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248-249 Covey bio

250-257 Covey,/* Principled Leadership*/: Service, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand Focusing on that which is greater than the ego Conscience, Character,

?..Left Brain/Right Brain


258-269 Covey, /*The 8th Habit*/: From Effectiveness to Greatness: The Whole-≠?Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence, Compassion and Conscience Ethos, Pathos, Logos Character


see also Emotive Ethics below


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FUNDAMENTALS OF EMOTIVE ETHICS


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BASIC EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE


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270 Know Thyself

271-274 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain 275-277 Emotional Intelligence

278- 280 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

281-282 ?The Man Without Feelings? 283-4 ?The Roots of Empathy?

[see also "Empathy" below]

285-287 Empathy vs Video Games

  1. David Lee Powell, Plan II student?

  2. Molesters and Sociopaths

  3. ?I Am a Rock?;

290 ?Comfortably Numb?

291-294 ?Turn It Off?.


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EMOTIONAL LITERACY


295-297 Feedback and Emotional Intelligence 298-305 Emotion Words checklist

  1. Children?s Feeling Words

  2. Vocabulary of Emotions

  3. Intensity of Feelings Chart

309-310 Writing Emotions

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THE BASIC EMOTIONS? LOVE VS. FEAR


311-314 Emotive Ethics

315-317 Living in the NOW free of fear

318-327 Transforming Fear

328-329 The Role of Love in Education: Buscaglia 330- 332 Brooks, Love and Learning

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*FINDING THE WORDS*


333-339 The Word /Love/ in English and Greek

340 The words ?/Loving-Kindness and /Metta/

341- /Metta /and the other brahmaviharas 342-344 Harris on the brahmaviharas

345-347 A /Metta /meditation

  1. Judeo-Christian love and caritas/; love vs. fear

  2. Native American love vs. fear

  3. The term /biophilia/

351-391 The term /empathy/ Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization/:

Intro.; Adam Smith revised; The new psychology of empathy + global empathic consciousness; Mirror neurons and resonance circuitry; Darwin; Deep play; Empathic roots of language; animal models; India, Jainism, Buddhism; reason and emotion, Schopenhauer, Kant; animal welfare; group therapy and self-help groups, Moreno; fellow species, biophilia, global empathy


392-398 Dolby, /Rethinking Multicultural Education: the New Empathy and Social Justice/

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* POSITIVE NON-BINARY EMOTIONS*

399-400 Love +Joy

401-402 Peacefulness + ?Know Thyself? 403-404 Enjoyment; Acceptance

405-407 Enthusiasm

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RELATED TERMS

408 Definition of ?Sentimentality?

409- 411 Definition of Passion

412-413 Definition of Compassion

414-418 Compassionate Grief

419-421 Definitions of Humane, Human, 422-423 Definition of Animal

424 Definition of Empathy


[SEE ALSO ?Enron vs. Empathy?; ?Roots of Empathy?;

?Empathy vs. Video Games:; Rifkin, Dolby]


425-426 Definition of Sympathy

427 Definition of _/*Sympatic Imagination*/_


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RELATED PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS

428-432 /Companion to Ethics/ by Singer Table of Contents

433 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary 434-435 /Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams,/ Table of Contents

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VOLUME TWO

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THE CHALLENGE: LOVE VS FEAR, AGAPE VS THANATOS, COMPASSION VS SADISM


436-440 Bump, "Biophobia, Sadism, and the Divided Self" 441-449 Golding, /Lord of the Flies: /"Piggy" [BRITISH] 450-456 Hogarth, "Four stages of cruelty” [BRITISH]

457 Terrorism and animal cruelty

458-462 Animal Cruelty syndrome

463- Crush videos protected

464-466 The New Sadism

467-471 Yale and Stanford Experiments 472-506 Zimbardo report


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COMPASSION IN ACTION / HOW CAN I HELP?/


507-508 Ram Dass, introduction

GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG: Thich Nhat Hanh [VIETNAM]

509-521 biography and five mindfulness trainings 522-528 quotations

529-531 best books

532-533 “Please Call Me By My TRUE Names”

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CALISTHENICS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION:

EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER SPECIES I


"Ethics, (or morality) is the study of how people should act toward one another, *other species*, and natural systems"

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*CULTURAL DIVERSITY: NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS* *OF EXTENDING THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION TO OTHER ANIMALS

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699-702 Cattle in Ancient History EGYPT, GREECE

703-706 Cattle in INDIA

707 Cattle in Judaism, Islam MIDDLE EAST

708 Cattle in ancient EGYPT,

Celts, GREECE

709-711 Cattle in modern ASIA

712-714 Cattle in Hinduism INDIA

715-719 Cattle in Jainism INDIA

720 Cattle in *The Odyssey * GREECE 721-722 The Sacred Calf in *Exodus ISRAEL

723-730 Hemingway, /Death in the Afternoon AMERICA 731-763 Hemingway, /Death in the Afternoon ,/ HRC MSS.

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*ETHICS IN ASIA, etc.*

764-768 Context: Buddhism

769 Herman Hesse GERMANY 770-815 /Siddhartha /GERMANY SUFFERING

816 Breughel, /Fall of Icarus / BELGIUM

817-818 Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" BRITAIN 818 Williams, "Landscape ....” AMERICA

819-823 Compassion in World History

824 Jain Guidelines INDIA

825-828 Jainism and Environmental Ethics INDIA 829-833 Ahimsa INDIA

834 Gandhi INDIA

835-837 Jain Ahimsa in Practice INDIA

838-842 Mahavira’s Environmental Ethics INDIA 843-845 *Learning from Eastern Thought

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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: COMPASSION

846-882 Monson, Earthlings transcript RELATED TEXTS:

883-888 I. B . Singer, “The Slaughterer” /POLAND/

/ 889-906 / I B Singer's Eternal Treblinka /POLAND

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VOLUME THREE

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907-909 Bump, Biophobia and the Holocaust 910-916 Industrial Agriculture

THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN FICTION

917- 928 Sinclair, The Jungle AMERIC

929-930 Bump, Recent fiction


AUDIENCE RESPONSE*

931-932 Bump, Emotive Ethics and Earthlings

933-934 Bump, Denial and Apathy

935-937 Moral Dystopia?

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PRACTICAL ETHICS: WHAT HAVE OTHERS DONE?

[Make documentaries [see Earthlings above + Cowspiracy, Speciesism, Write, teach literature:......]


*WHAT CAN YOU DO?*

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As an individual*, in addition to daily choices:

938 Eiseley, Starfish

939-942 Write for the /Daily Texan/,

Wissel, Start Petitions [see also project four: Leadership Vision]


* In a group*


943 Local Protestors


In a group in *politics*

944 California ballot


In *the courts*

946-949 Iowa

950 Seattle

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*In a *forprofit corporation* [see above]*

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974 Declaration on Animal Welfare

975 Declaration of Animal Rights

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RELATED TOPIC introduced in /Earthlings/: RACISM CALISTHENICS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION: EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER HUMANS [CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICA]


SPECIESISM AND RACISM

976 Jeremy Bentham . BRITAIN

977-978 Carol J. Adams, /The Sexual Politics of Meat/ . 979-999 /The Dreaded Comparison /

1000 Alice Walker intro AMERICA 1001-1004 Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?"

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1005 Racism and U.T.'s South Mall Statues 1006-7 Racism and Simkins Residence Hall. 1008-1009 Fear of Slave Revolts

1010- 1012 Racism and ASPCA

1013 Toni Morrison

1014-1037 Bump, Racism and Appearance 1038-1045 Bump, Family Systems Therapy 1046-1051 Free Speech at Amherst

1052-1057 White Debt


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EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER SPECIES IN WORLD LITERATURE II,


GLOBAL CULTURE: SOUTH AFRICAN

1058-1059 Coetzee, introduction

1060-1075 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Philosophy 1076-1088 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Poetry 1089-1090 Marjorie Garber commentary

1091-1114 Holocaust analogy analysis

1115-1117 Holocaust comparison quotations, 1118-1121 Peter Singer commentary

1122-1128 Wendy Doniger commentary 1129-1136 Barbara Smuts commentary 1137-1138 Rilke, Der Panther GERMANY 1139-1140 Hughes Intro

1141 Jaguar BRITAIN

1142 Jaguar II BRITAIN

1143 Rilke, Black Cat GERMANY

1144-1145 Rilke 8th Elegy GERMANY


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WRITING FLAG

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PROJECTS ONE AND TWO

1146-1150 Project One Instructions 1151- 1159 Project Two Instructions

For updates go to https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/303A16/


REQUIRED CITATIONS: CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING OR .......?


* David Abrams, /Becoming Animal

ETHICS IN ACTION: SHELTER ANIMALS

1160- Hempel In the Animal Shelter AMERICA

1161-1165 Hempel, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom? 1166-1167 Taylor Animal Shelter


FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF VIEW 1168-1179 Maggie AMERICA

1180-1185 Letters from Pups


LITERATURE

1186 Rick Bass, Intro.

1187-1197 Rick Bass?s “The Odyssey” AMERICA


POEMS ABOUT DOGS 1198-1218


FROM THE CAT'S POINT OF VIEW

[1137-1138 Rilke, Panther

1139-1140 Hughes Intro

1141 Jaguar

1142 Jaguar II

1143 Rilke, Black Cat? ]

1219- 1221 Cat Sense ANCIENT WORSHIP OF CATS

1222-1224 "In Ancient *Egypt, Greece,and Rome*," Dorothy Stuart 1225-1229 "The Cat in *Ancient Egypt"*

1230 "What Happens to Cats," *Herodotus* 1232 *Siamese Temple Cats ;

The Origin of the Cat in Islam*

1233 Cat Eye folklore BELGIUM CAT COMPANIONS IN ANCIENT ART

1234 TiYi, Egypt, 1500s B.C.

1235 Penby, Egypt, 1200s B.C

1236 Southern *Italy*, 4th c. B.C LATER CAT COMPANIONS

1237 Mahomed + *Belgian* "Cat's Prayer" 1238-1239 "Jeffry," Christopher Smart 18th c BRITAIN

1240 "Never Again," Doris Lessing BRITAIN

1241 "Killing Willie, Mary Hemingway AMERICA CAT TEACHERS OF ZEN

1242 Zen Masters, Ekhart Tolle

1243 "Miao," Dilys Laing FROM THE CAT’S POINT OF VIEW

1244 "Kitten's Recollections, A. N. Wilson BRITAIN

1245 "From the Laws of Cats,” Karel Capek CZECH REPUBLIC

1246 Hiddigeigei," J. V. Von Scheffel GERMANY

1247 Simon," Frederick Pollock BRITAIN

1248 "Cat of the House," Ford Madox Ford BRITAIN

1249 “The Ballad of Tough Tom," Paul Gallico AMERICA 1250-1253 Diary of a Cat," Edwina S. Babcock AMERICA CAT EPITAPHS

1254 Duchesse du Maine? Sir Edmind Gosse BRITAIN

1255 “Epitaphium Felis” Jorin BRITAIN


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WRITING INSTRUCTIONS


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1256-1257 High School to College Writing Transition 1258-1259 Researching

1260-1261 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism


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WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART


LETTERS IN BOLD = CODE FOR PEER AND INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUES*

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*O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose

+V = 4. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric


1262 Writing Well is Thinking Well

1263-4 Rhetorical Fallacies

1265 Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”; IRELAND

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* RETHINK /REWRITE ALSO = ^ [coherence]

1266 Forster, ?Only Connect” *ALSO ^ [coherence] *BRITAIN 1267-1268 Creating a Strong Thesis

1269 Structure of a Professional Research Paper

1270 ?COMPOSITION,? the meaning of *ALSO ^ [coherence]*

1271 Introductions and Conclusions *ALSO ^ [coherence]

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^ = 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW*

1272-1273 *Flow and Transitions ALSO O* 1274 COHERENCE, sign of an “A” paper

1275 Transitional Expressions

1276 Focusing on Transitions


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* P= 7. PUNCTUATION:*

1277-1287 / Eats, Shoots, and Leaves/: commas, semicolons 1288-1289 Quick Guide to Commas

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DOC= 6. DOCUMENTATION*

1290-1293 Chicago Manual of Style: Endnotes Only;

No Bibliography; Consecutive endnote numbers with no repeats; specific page nos. required for all print source citations ;

do not use automatic citations systems unless they match this one EXACTLY

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“ Our papers came back bloodied with red marks most lavishly the withering "ww" for "wrong word." Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel (page 201) AMERICA*/_

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W= 8. WORD CHOICE + S= 3. SPECIFICITY: *

1294 Hemingway on Rewriting

1295-1296 Hemingway's /Farewell to Arms/ summary AMERICA

1297-1320 Hemingway's /Farewell to Arms:/ 47 endings 1321-1322 Verbs that Take Prepositions

1323 Rough Guide to Preposition

1324 Revisions Checklist 1325-1326 Saying What You Mean 1327-1328 Diction and Conciseness


USE THE Oxford English Dictionary: https://login.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oed.com%2f


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* C= 9. CONCISENESS*

1327-1328 Diction and Conciseness *ALSO W= 8.* 1329-1330 Eliminating Wordiness ALSO W= 8.* 1331 Readability and Clarity *ALSO W= 8.*

1332 Tips for Improving Readability *ALSO W= 8. *

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* P =PROOFREADING*

1333-1335 Proofreading

1336 Why spell checkers are not enough


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* LATE ADDITIONS

1337 EQ in Local Schools

1338 “Spirit animal” urban dictionary etc.


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