updated 8/20/09
E603A, #34190, FALL 09
Instructor: Jerome Bump
<mailto:bump@mail.utexas.edu>; Office: PAR 132 Office phone: 471-8747
PARLIN 104 Tues/Thurs 11-12:30; office hours: Tu. Th 9:45-10:45, 1:15-1:45 PM; and by appointment.
Writing Flag + Leadership and Ethics Flag
BASIC COURSE POLICY UPDATES: go to website
MAKE SURE TO ÒREFRESHÓ THE SCREEN EACH TIME YOU VISIT THE WEBSITE SO THAT YOU ARE READING THE LATEST VERSION OF THE PAGE:
go to http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/603A09/ for latest Schedule of Readings and Assignments, Class Participation, Presentations, Leadership, etc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BASICS
* check website for updates
1-2 Map of Campus
3-9 Table of Contents
10-13 Course Description*
14-18 Course Goals*
19 Schedule Overview*
20 Class Participation
21 Class Discussion
22 Listening
23 Have You Tried Listening?
24-25 Leading Class Discussion
26-31 Discussion Board Instructions*
32-33 Road Map Directions
34-37 Road Map of Your Journey;
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38 Racial Harassment Policy;
39-40 Sexual Harassment Policy;
41-2 Drug + Alcohol Policy;
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43-55 Schedule, first draft
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56-95 numbers not used
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96 Undergrad. Writing Center;
97-98 Learning Skills Center ;
99-100 Counseling Center ;
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101-102 The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class
103-105A Flunking out of College
105B Student Grade Expectations
106-108 What Professors hear when students make excuses;
109A Five Characteristics of a Good Student
109B Positive Attitude
110 ÒEverything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College before I StartedÓ
111 Concentration vs. ÒmultitaskingÓ
112 Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking
113-114A Stress
114B-E Perfectionism
115-116 Motivation
117-118 Overcoming Procrastination
119-120 Design Your Own Procrastination Plan
121 Goal Setting
WHO ARE YOU?
TYPE PSYCHOLOGY AND WRITING
122-135 Kiersey, Please Understand Me
136-137 Meyers Briggs Business Uses
138-140 Teaching/Learning Styles
141-146 Instructor/Class Typology
147-155 Writing Styles
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ROAD MAP RATIONALE: USING BOTH SIDES OF YOUR BRAIN
156 PC vs. MAC
157-160 Revenge of the Right Brain
161-162 "Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: HypermediaÓ
WHY ARE YOU HERE?
THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
163-164 Flawn, Address to the University, 1984
165-170 Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
171-173A Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
173B-C ÒLiberal ArtsÓ defined
173D-E Newman and the Liberal Arts
173F-G Brickley, ÒValue of the Liberal ArtsÓ
173H Well-Rounded Docs
PLAN II
173I-M Plan II history and goals
YOUR ALMA MATER: THE TOWER
174 Texas Constitution : Òfor the promotion of literatureÓ
175 U. T. Seal
176-179 The Main Building and The Tower
180 The Tower exterior words, letters
181-182 Tower interior: Hall of Noble Words
183A-B U. T. Core Values
U. T. TEACHING PHILOSOPHIES
184 Experiential Learning
185 Discovery Learning Project +The U. T. Moore Method
186-187 Discovery Learning in Freshman English at Amherst College
188 My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report
U.T. ARCHITECTURAL DIVERSITY
Spanish Traditional Architecture
189 Battle Hall
190A-B Sutton Hall + ÒSpanish Plateresque ArchitectureÓ
191-192 Scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
193-194 Spanish heritage of Texas
The Harry Ransom Center
195-197 Key to HRC ghost windows: a gallery of leaders
IS YOUR EXPERIENCE HERE LIKE ALICEÕS AT OXFORD?
198 ÒReal Alice,Ó Oxford Univ. Museum
199-205 Dougill on DodgsonÕs Oxford
206-207 Oxford references in the Alice books
208 Alice as hero: student in-class essay
209-210 AliceÕs pilgrimage: student in-class essay
211-212 U.T. students and the Alice books
213-216 ÒJabberwockyÓ in French, Spanish, German, Italian
217 Alice and subatomic physics
218 White Rabbit, by Grace Slick
LEADERSHIP
219-226 Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership
220 Service Orientation, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand
221 Focusing on that which is greater than the ego
222-4 Conscience, Character, É..
225-6 Left Brain/Right Brain
227-242 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
228-9 Personal Planning System
230-6 The Whole-Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence
237 Compassion and Conscience
238-9 Ethos, Pathos, Logos
240 Character
241-2 Communication: listening (+reading, writing, speaking)
243-246D Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain
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YOUR FIRST PROJECT, WHO ARE YOU?
247-253 Personal Vision Rationale, Multimedia, Quotations
254-264 Lee, Discovering the Leader in You: Personal Vision and Role Models that set up your Leadership Vision
265-273 Dass, ÒThe WitnessÓ: How to deal with multiple answers, selves
274A How to Respond to the Projects of Others*
ETHICS
DEFINITIONS
274B-D Speciesism
274E-F Animal
274G-I Human
274J-K Compassion
274L Empathy
274M-N Sympathy
274O- Sympathetic Imagination
EMPATHY ESSENTIAL TO ETHICS
275A-B ÒThe Man Without FeelingsÓ
275C-D ÒThe Roots of EmpathyÓ
275E-F Molesters and Sociopaths
ANIMALS AND THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION
276A-310 Earthlings screenplay
311A-I Quotations
312-313 Bentham
314-318 Alice Walker, ÒAm I Blue?Ó
319-322 Jude the Obscure selections
323-330 Carroll on Vivisection
ANIMALS AND SYMPATHY
331-333 Philip K. Dick, Intro.
334 Know Thyself
335-337 Emotional Intelligence summary, Goleman
338-339 Coetzee intro.
340-363 Lives of Animals
342-3 Garber on analogy
344-347 SingerÕs fiction
348-355 Doniger on compassion, vegetarianism,
355-362 Smuts on nonhuman persons
362-363 Contributors
364 Kafka intro.
365-370 Report to the Academy
371-372 Rilke, ÒPantherÓ
373-374 Hughes Intro
375 ÒJaguar IÓ
376 ÒJaguar IIÓ
377-385 Quotations
386-387 Montaigne, ÒThe Apology of Raymond Sebond?Ó
388-394C ÒSexist Words, Speciesist RootsÓ
395 Derrida intro
396-407 Derrida, ÒThe Animal That Therefore I Am (Following)Ó
408-413 John Berger, ÒWhy Look at AnimalsÓ
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TOTEM ANIMALS
414 Totem Animals and Power Animals
415-425 Personal Totem/Power Animal/Spirit Guide Vision Quest
TEXAS TOTEM ANIMALS
433 Dobie introduction
434 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
435-452 J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
453-458 Longhorns at U.T.
459-478 J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs
470-471 querencia
479-481 Mustangs at U.T.
482-483 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
WRITING
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484-485 High School to College Writing: Making the Transition
486-487 Researching
488-489 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
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WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART
490 Writing Well is Thinking Well:
491-492 Rhetorical Fallacies
493 Yeats, ÒHammer Your ThoughtsÓ
494-5 Forster, ÒOnly ConnectÓ
496-497 Creating a Strong Thesis
498 Structure of a Professional Research Paper
499 ÒCOMPOSITION,Ó the meaning of
500 Introductions and Conclusions
501-502 Flow and Transitions;
503-504 COHERENCE, sign of an ÔAÕ paper
505 Focusing on Transitions
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WORD CHOICE
506-507 THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE
508-509 Verbs that Take Prepositions
510 Rough Guide to Prepositions
PUNCTUATION:
511-521 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons
522-523 Quick Guide to Commas
CHICAGO STYLE FOOTNOTES
524-525 CMS: Formatting Your Paper
REVISING, PERFECTING:
526 Rewriting as Discovery Learning
527 Hemingway on Rewriting
528 Revisions Checklist
529-530 Saying What You Mean
531-532 Diction and Conciseness
533-534 Eliminating Wordiness
535 Readability and Clarity
536 Tips for Improving Readability
537-539 Proofreading
540 Why spell checkers are not enough
YOUR PORTFOLIO
541 Employers and Digital Literacy
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numbers 542-888 not used
U. T. LEADERS
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889 Texas, our Texas
890-895 Cousins,ÓMemories of an English MajorÓ
896-898 Cooley, ÒThe Best of TimesÓ
899-901 Jones, ÒBetween the WarsÓ
902-907 Oliver, ÒSome Blues for a TrioÓ
908-911 Dick, ÒA Gallant and Beautiful SpiritÓ
912-916 Flowers, ÒÕThe Times They Were a ChangingÕÓ
917-920 Whittier, ÒThe Last BastionÓ
921-924 Schwartz, ÒThe Web of Campus LifeÓ
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TxTell: UT Stories
925-926 Alan Bean
926-930 Barbara Conrad
931-932 Denton Cooley
932-933 Catherine Crier
933-934 Edwin Dorn
934-935 Lee Jamail
935 Luis Jimenez
935-936 Alejandro Junco de la Vega
936-937 Red McCombs
937-940 Bill Moyers
940-942 Americo Paredes
942-945 George W. Pierce
945-946 Weldon Smith
946-948 Ben Streetman
948-951 Heman Marion Sweatt