SCHEDULE

Religious Holy Days listed at the end

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8-23-8-31 Add/drop for the fall semester for students who registered and paid their tuition by August 12; after this date, changes in registration require the approval of the department chair and usually the student’s dean.

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AUG. 25 GONE TO TEXAS 6-10 PM:

Liberal Arts: Turtle Pond just north of the Tower

6-7:45 live music, barbeque, and door prizes.

I WILL BE THERE FROM 6 TO 7 WEARING MY BLACK MAD HATTER'S HAT SO YOU CAN MEET ME AND OTHERS IN THE CLASS. From 7-8 I will be at Undergraduate Studies: Texas Union Patio and Flawn Academic Center lobby

N.B. If you are in the College of Communications, Engineering, Natural Sciences, or whatever, your dinner will be elsewhere, but please try to come by the Turtle Pond before 7..........

8 p.m. At the Tower: Enjoy a program filled with special guest speakers, live performances by a wide variety of performing ensembles and a finale featuring the Longhorn Band!

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FOR EXTRA CREDIT ACTIVITIES ON THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE:                  TO RECEIVE CREDIT, WRITE UP AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPERIENCE, with pictures proving you were there, FOR THE FACEBOOK EXTRA CREDIT DISCUSSION BOARD. ________________________________________________________________________

BASICS

8-27 Introduction

• 11-13                      Course Description*
• 14-18                      Course Goals*
• 19                              Schedule Overview*
• 20                              Class Participation
• 38                              Racial Harassment Policy;
• 39-40                      Sexual Harassment Policy;
• 41-2                         Drug + Alcohol Policy;
• 96                             Undergrad. Writing ;
• 97-98                       Learning Skills ;
• 101-102                The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

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9-1   Introduction II.

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS Planner + Time Management Forms* (2 Copies)

+ you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course.  

Speaking of printouts, the way to save the most paper and printer supplies is apparently to copy the relevant pages into Word, then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page. Most important of all, use only recycled paper!

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• *Go to the Learning Resources site   and select the "W" in front of each of the following handouts. Microsoft Word will open with each document. Make sure to save them somewhere on your computer. Overcoming Procrastination; Design Your Own Anti Procrastination Plan; Effective Time Management; Monthly Planning Calendar; Scheduling Your Time; Setting Smart Goals; Things I Have to do This Week; Weekly Schedule

• WRITING DUE: TWO COPIES OF EACH OF THESE TIME MANAGEMENT FORMS : Monthly Planning Calendar (filled out for Sept. 3-Oct. 6); Things I have to Do This Week; and Weekly Schedule* (each filled out for the week of Sept. 3-Sept. 10).  Your grade will depend on how well you demonstrate your grasp of the Covey readings below and pp.121 and 228-9 of the course anthology. *For example, feel free to copy Covey's weekly schedule (blank: Covey pp. 180-181) and substitute that for the one on the website, hopefully filling it out with the kind of detail we see on Covey, pp. 166-167.

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TODAY'S GOALS: to understand the goals of this course, especially:

[1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: to help students meet Plan II academic standards and to help them get and keep jobs. To that end, students need to learn [1A] how to survive despite apparent craziness like Alice in Wonderland; [1E] time management

[2] To help students understand the University's core curriculum: the flag course requirements, especially the Ethics requirement

[3] To help students understand the roles of student and teacher in late-stage adolescence

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TODAY'S TOPICS: the new curriculum; late-stage adolescence and other psychological issues and the value of the counseling center

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Reading Comprehension Quiz: Course Goals+Flunking out of College.Then answering questions about all the readings so far and .......  Then discussion of Course Description, today's required reading, and future assignments (Schedule Overview), counseling center, etc.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

Required Orientation Video

• Time Management:
• Covey (book) on time management anxiety 16, 41;Time management techniques 149-150;Weekly worksheet 166-167, 180-181;Saying “no” 156-7; etc.
• Course anthology:
• 115-116          Motivation
• 117-118          Overcoming Procrastination
• 119-120           Design Your Own Procrastination Plan
• 121                  Goal Setting
• 228-9               Personal Planning System
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• 26-31                      Discussion Board instructions;
• 111                          Concentration vs. “multitasking” +
• 112                          Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking
• 103-105A               Flunking out of College
• 105B                       Student Grade Expectations
• 106-108                What Professors hear when students make excuses;
• 111                         Concentration vs. “multitasking”
• 112                       Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking
• 113-114A            Stress
• 114B-E                 Perfectionism
• 99-100                   Counseling Center, see
• Jacob Myers:1985-2009

• Study: 30 percent report depression Israel Perez The Daily Texan
• Published: Monday, August 31, 2009

• "Lifestyle changes, classes and homework are just some of the reasons why 30 percent of students reported feeling depressed to the point of having trouble managing day-to-day activities, according to the recently released 2008 American College Health Association survey. “College students experience significant levels of anxiety, depression and stress,” said Jane Bost, associate director for UT Counseling, Learning & Career Services. “That’s something that can be very much a part of a college student’s life.” About half of the polled students reported feeling extreme anxiety. Though any college student can experience high levels of stress, Bost said, new and transfer students experience the most anxiety because they’re adjusting to a whole new experience. “Change is stressful,” Bost said. “There are lots of different areas in a person’s life that are impacted by coming to college.” There are a number of reasons why many college students report feeling stressed, including trying to figure out who they are and career choices, said Victor Schwartz, psychiatrist and dean of students at New York’s Yeshiva University. But to him, depression has more severe consequences. “Depression is a disorder where people feel sustained unhappiness often connected to feelings of anxiety and feeling overwhelmed and hopeless,” Schwartz said. “It can also have a lot of physical manifestations, like feelings of low energy.” Schwartz said depressed students also have trouble sleeping and enjoying the simple things that once made them happy, including time with friends. But he emphasized that stress affects all young adults. “College is a difficult period, but it’s not clear if college students experience more stress than people in the same age who are not in college,” Schwartz said. Undeclared sophomore Christopher Fisher said he felt the same stress last year but is determined to make things different this year. “Last year wasn’t a very good time for me academically, but this year, I’m determined to do great and not repeat the same mistakes I made during my freshman year,” Fisher said. Bost said there are a number of resources available to UT students who are feeling stressed, adding that the first week of school is when there is an initial spike in students seeking help, a number that gradually increases throughout the semester. Those resources are located on the 5th floor of the Student Services Building and are also available 24 hours a day through a hotline and a new interactive stress management Web site that includes videos and tips to reduce stress. “Students don’t have to be alone,” Bost said."

RECOMMENDED READING: 14-18 Course Goals

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Course Description and Schedule Overview

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LOOKING AHEAD:9/8 1^st DB Type psychology. TYPE SHORT ESSAY . 9-10 ROAD MAPS

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9-3  Introduction III. Power of Positive Thinking .

Most college students consider themselves basically invulnerable at this age, if not immortal. Hence the most profound lesson they can learn is that taught by Jacob Meyers and by Willie Tichenor, a student in my 05-06 Freshman Course.

Willie Emulating His Hero: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Willie and Others at Waller Creek

Willie fought cancer throughout the course, until his death, half way through the second semester. Victor Hugo defined this, our human condition, quite clearly: " les hommes sont tous condamnés à mort avec des sursis indéfinis " -- we are all condemned to death with an indefinite reprieve. Willie taught this difficult truth and demonstrated to perfection the traditional way of defying death. He epitomized the power of positive thinking. He never sought any special status for himself; indeed never even initiated discussion of his situation. If you went by his behavior alone, you would have never known he was mortally ill. He taught us the glory and fragility of life and set an extraordinary example of leadership through positive thinking. The U. T. Mission is "Transforming lives for the benefit of society." Willie transformed us and we will benefit from his lesson for the rest of our lives.

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS: to understand the goals of this course, especially:

[1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: to help students meet Plan II academic standards and to help them get and keep jobs. To that end, students need to learn

[1B] how to maintain a pro-active, positive attitude +

[1D] how to listen

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TODAY'S TOPICS:leadership by pro-active attitude; leadership in  class discussing, listening, The Importance of Reading Directions............

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Quiz? discussion of today's required reading, and future assignments: Discussion Board entries, writing sample, Road Maps.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

Covey and positive energy:

• Covey book: Habit 1” Be Proactive,” especially pp. 66-84, 92-94, + 132 + 199
• Course anthology:
• 109A                       Five Characteristics of a Good Student
• 109B                       Positive Attitude
• 246C                       Goleman on optimism

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• 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;
• 191-192                Scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
• 241-2                    Communication: listening (+reading, writing, speaking)

• RECOMMENDED READING:Road Map Instructions; First Project Instructions

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Your own experiences of leadership in discussion, listening, etc.; Your experience of reading and following directions for the Time Management assignment

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  LOOKING AHEAD:9/8 1^st DB Type psychology. TYPE SHORT ESSAY . 9-10 ROAD MAPS  Road Map Instructions
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9-3 "Maymester Abroad" program holds information session Description: Maymester Abroad Programs are four-week courses offered in late May by a professor at an international location. Come and learn about the 2010 Maymester Abroad courses and how to apply. All faculty, staff and students welcome. Time: 4-5 p.m. Location: Pharmacy Building (PHR), Room 2.110 Admission: Free URL: http://www.utexas.edu/student/abroad/mm.html

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9-3 Plan II Convocation, Thursday, September 3rd 7:00 p.m. in WEL 1.308 "Plan II Convocation kicks off the academic year and is MANDATORY for all Plan II first-year students. Be there by 6:45-50 to check in. Dress code: snappy casual (no shorts/flip-flops!). Plan to go to dinner with your World Lit Peer Advisors prior to the event and walk over to Welch Hall together." MEET AT BIG BITE ON 24TH, JUST WEST OF GUADALUPE AT 5:30: THE INSTRUCTOR WILL BE THERE AS WELL.

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9-7 DISCUSSION BOARD ENTRY DUE THIS EVENING, BY 8 FOR MAXIMUM CREDIT

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WHO ARE YOU?

9-8 DISCUSSION BOARD ENTRY DUE BY MIDNGHT THE EVENING OF 9-7; BY 8 PM FOR MAXIMUM CREDIT MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a separate printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog on the Meyers Briggs inventory: this will be your writing sample for the instructor*; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course.

*Discussion Board Entry on your Psychological Type, revised? as writing sample. Take a Meyers-Briggs test (such as the one at   http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm )

Blog: See Discussion Board Blogs and Leadership or26-31  Discussion Board instructions

All DB entries need at least two quotes and two images. In this case at least one quote is needed from the section on Learning Styles and at least one quote is needed from the section on Writing Styles. You will "publish" on your blog your evaluation of how well you believe "your" psychological type's learning and writing styles describe you as a reader and writer and how well it fits the description in “Instructor/Class Typology.” Then put the link to your blog in the Facebook discussion board and prepare a hard copy as writing sample to bring to class.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[1C]IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: to understand how to read and follow directions;

EXPLORE FLAG SUBJECTS:[2E] Writing; [2I] Independent Inquiry;

RELATED GOAL: prepare students for [2B] the technological revolution; DIGITAL LITERACY.

SPECIFIC GOALS

: [2E3].  experience writing as discovery learning, especially as one connects parts of the essay, usually while rewriting.

 [2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing.

 [2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

 [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses in learning, writing, reading, speaking, listening. Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources.

[2I2] to think for your self, decreasing reliance on secondary sources, practicing what is known as active, experiential or discovery learning (as in science experiments, the Moore method in math, and Amherst College’s Baird Freshman English course in the humanities);

[3A] Universal college goal of   living in fragments no longer, learning to think, to connect, to hammer thoughts into unity

.[3C] Our goal is thus also unity, of the self, of the self and others, of the self and nature, of one subject and another, etc.

[3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

 

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TODAY'S TOPICS:identity according to Jungian psychology (one of the options for the first essay); Web 2.0: blogs and Facebook discussion boards;

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: discussion of today's required reading, and future assignments: Road Maps.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

Discussion Board Blogs and Leadership

• 26-31                      Discussion Board instructions

• 101-102                The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class
• 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
• 156                       PC vs. MAC

RECOMMENDED READING:Road Map Instructions; First Project Instructions

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: all your answers to the question, "Who Are You?"

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LOOKING AHEAD: Road Map Instructions

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9-8 EXTRA CREDIT. The Creative Writing Department invites you to a fiction reading with author Nam Le. Le's fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in "Best American Nonrequired Reading" and "Zoetrope." His debut short story collection "The Boat" won the 2009 Dylan Thomas Prize. “It’s a precept all writers have heard: write what you know. Nam Le, a Vietnam-born corporate attorney raised in Australia, did just the opposite, doing copious research and penning fictional stories about adolescents in Colombia or another tale set in the days before an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The result is a collection called The Boat, which is garnering the kind of praise usually reserved for established literary heavyweights.”—The New York Times

Time: Tuesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Location: Carothers Residence Hall, University Honors Center, Joynes Reading Room Admission: Free. 5 pts. just for submitting a photo that proves you were there or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about writing, leadership, and/or ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.

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9-10

Meryl Streep as Alice in 1981: Who Are You?

ROAD MAPS the new reading and writing: MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page

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TODAY'S GOALS:

  [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS: [1C] how to read and follow directions   [1D] how to listen

: [2B] DIGITAL LITERACY: “students will be  better able to deal with  the technological revolution” by being able to

[2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person

[2B3] move from making slide shows to making movies (road map assignment)

[2B4] increase web 1.0 skills of web: email, websites, electronic portfolios;

[2E] WRITING

[2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing. To face the changes in writing computers demand. Computers don’t do what you want them to do: they do what you tell them to do, and in their coding they demand perfection. They have no forgiveness for errors in code. Hence, proofreading and attention to detail becomes even more important

[2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

[2G] INDEPENDENT INQUIRY GOALS:  [2I1] “to know thyself.”

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TODAY'S TOPICS:The Caterpillar's recurring question, "Who Are You?"

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: performances by ACOSTA; LAUREN MARIE ARMSTRONG; ALICE MARIE BATES; MOLLY JEANNINE BECK; SPINDRIFT SEELIGSON CACCIATORE; C. G. FINE; CALLIE MICHELLE HAU; HELEN THIEN KLING; KATHERINE JANE

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:Road Map Instructions

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Your Self

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LOOKING AHEAD: First Project Instructions

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9-10 to 9-27 EXTRA CREDIT DRAMA PERFORMANCE: Measure for Measure (ticketed event) Austin Shakespeare. September 10-27 at the  Long Center,        extra credit for the play: 10 pts. just for turning in a ticket stub or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.

9-11 Last day an undergraduate student may add a class except for rare and extenuating circumstances; Last day to drop a class for a possible refund.

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9-11 Deadline for applying for 100 POINTS OF EXTRA CREDIT!

There is a leadership program available for first-year students that will earn you 100 points of extra credit, or, rather, what is even better, 100 points of class participation. (Extra credit is capped at a max of 100; class participation has no limit, even though there is a point total in Blackboard.)

The application form must be received by Friday, however: by 5 PM at the Student Organization Center on the fourth floor of SSB. (The website states that the deadline was last Friday but it has been moved to this Friday.)

Here is the program: "Leadership Education And Progress (LEAP), a component of The University of Texas Leadership and Ethics Institute, is a leadership development program geared toward first-year students who are looking to grow and develop their leadership skills. Through an eight-week leadership workshop series, offered both in the fall and spring semesters, first-year students will interact with student mentors, create a network with other first-year students and build a solid foundation of ethical leadership principles and practices."

To earn the 100 points you need to attend all the weekly workshops which are given on Tuesdays from 3:30-5 pm Sept. 15 through Nov. 3; the LEAP socials Sept. 18 and Oct. 23 at 7 pm; and LEAP graduation Nov. 10 at 7 PM.

The application form is at

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/downloads/LEAPFirstYearApp09.pdf

The website for thisLEAP program is

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/leadership_leap_first.php

The website for the general leadership program is

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/leadership_leap.php

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9-12: EXTRA CREDIT: UT OF AUSTIN POWWOW, UT Rec Center, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

I will be there in the afternoon and can confirm your attendance if I see you there. Otherwise, provide some proof of attendance for eight points and earn up to twenty more points by writing up the event for the Extra Credit DB. This event is relevant to our class because next semester we will be studying Native American literature, primarily Black Elk Speaks, and because the totem animal vision quest (a project one option) is a Native American quest.

The Longhorn American Indian Council (LAIC), an agency of the Multicultural Information Center, invites the university community to kick off the fall semester by celebrating American Indian dance, culture and food at its annual signature fall event - the University of Texas Powwow. A powwow is a huge cultural event that brings together Native Americans from all over the country representing their tribes. This event is best described as part art exhibit, part dance competition, part family reunion, and part educational experience. The LAIC Powwow will be featuring over 200 dancers and a welcome/celebration dinner. Other events include a raffle and a cakewalk.

Powwow Schedule: Gourd Dance (11am) Grand Entry (11:45) Inter-Tribal Dances (throughout the day) Expedition Dances (throughout the day) Potato Dance Cake Walk (mid-day) Dinner Break (late afternoon) and more dancing! (until 7pm)

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9-15 

Who Are You? Disney version

ROAD MAPS the new reading and writing MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

  [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: [1C] how to read and follow directions  

: [2B] DIGITAL LITERACY: “students will be  better able to deal with  the technological revolution” by being able to

[2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person

[2B3] move from making slide shows to making movies (road map assignment)

[2B4] increase web 1.0 skills of web: email, websites, electronic portfolios;

[2E] WRITING

[2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing. To face the changes in writing computers demand. Computers don’t do what you want them to do: they do what you tell them to do, and in their coding they demand perfection. They have no forgiveness for errors in code. Hence, proofreading and attention to detail becomes even more important

[2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

[2G] INDEPENDENT INQUIRY GOALS:  [2I1] “to know thyself.”

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TODAY'S TOPICS:The Caterpillar's recurring question, "Who Are You?"

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: performances by KWON; HONGRAK LAW; JADE NGUYEN; THUYEN HONG OCERA; MAYSIE MELLETTE ORDONEZ; JOSE MIGUEL RICHARDSON; EMILY ANN SHARMA; SHARAD TAMEZ; KARISMA MARIE    Road Maps will be presented in STUDENT WEBSITES

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:Road Map Instructions

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Your Self

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LOOKING AHEAD: First Project Instructions

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9-15 Extra Credit: 10 PTS. FOR PROOF OF ATTENDANCE, UP TO 20 MORE FOR DB: Tuesday, September 15 What Happy Faces are Hiding Nationally known speaker on Mental Health: Ross Szabo 7:30-8:30 PM JES A.121A

Ross Szabo uses tasteful humor and insights to help participants understand common mental health conditions and individual differences. He also covers warning signs that students can look for in their friends and peers, as well as resources that can provide guidance in these sensitive situations. Ross has been encouraging college students to have open dialogue about depression and suicide for years. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16, Ross has learned first hand about the intricacies of mental health. The program focuses specifically on how the societal stereotypes can lead to increased loneliness, isolation, and suicide. Be That One

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5 PTS. FOR PROOF OF ATTENDANCE, UP TO 20 MORE FOR DB: All Week Know the Signs Project 8 AM - 5 PM Gregory Gym Concourse

Students are often the first ones to recognize when their friends may be struggling with a mental health issue. Therefore, it is important that students can recognize the signs which indicate that their friends may be thinking about suicide. Come learn how to recognize these signs through this interactive exhibit. For more information check out: Be That One

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5 PTS. FOR PROOF OF ATTENDANCE, UP TO 20 MORE FOR DB:

9-16 (Diez y Seis de Septiembre) University Lecture on King Lear: Howl, Howl, Howl! Does Father Always Know Best?
 Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Department of English, at 7 p.m. in ACES 2.302

King Lear is a huge play and a painful one. It asks us to think hard about how we treat our parents and how we wish to be treated in turn as we grow old. In certain periods the world seems especially violently chaotic, and at the same time parents and children feel out of touch. These two fears combined in Shakespeare’s day and perhaps also come together in ours. Whenever King Lear is popular, as it is today, it speaks to us about terror and about whether our families can ease our anxieties. This multimedia presentation will trace through image and film how a play from almost exactly four hundred years ago remains unforgettable and therapeutic for all generations even today.

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9-17  P1 Writing Instruction MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS: IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL:[1C] how to read and follow directions

DIGITAL LITERACY: [2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person; [2B4] increase web 1.0 skills of web: email, websites;  WRITING: [2E1] get a taste of what it is like to be a professional writer aiming at perfection and adopting the necessary time management, rewriting, and proofreading to become a great writer. [2E2] get a taste of writing as a work of art. We practice informal writing as way to overcome writer’s block and as a foundation for becoming good writers. Our formal writing is writing as art, and thus the best writing you can possibly do. Think of your project as, say, a statue: you want it to have as few flaws as possible, to be as “perfect” as possible. [2E3].  experience writing as discovery learning, especially as one connects parts of the essay, usually while rewriting. Our mottos: [2E3a]. Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.”  [2E3b]. “, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’. [2E4] practice writing energized by positive rather than negative motivations, by love of your work of art rather than fear of deadlines, by creativity rather than going through the motions, by curiosity rather than compulsion.[2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing. [2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain. OPTION ONE ESPECIALLY: INDEPENDENT INQUIRY GOALS  [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses in learning, writing, reading, speaking, listening. Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources.[2I2] to think for your self, decreasing reliance on secondary sources, practicing what is known as active, experiential or discovery learning (as in science experiments, the Moore method in math, and Amherst College’s Baird Freshman English course in the humanities);  

 

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TODAY'S TOPICS:The Art of Listening; The Caterpillar's recurring question, "Who Are You?; P1 instructions; WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART: Criteria # 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW; Criteria # 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose; Criteria # 3. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric; WORD CHOICE, SPECIFICITY, and CLARITY; CMS documentation

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:1. CELEBRATION OF SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS: JOSE (10th) AND LAUREN (13th) 2. Jose's Road Map, speech  3.Overview of formal writing for both semesters; 4.P1 instructions  5. Writing samples: unity and specificity

 

Sir Paul McCartney sings Happy Birthday to You!

Born Free

Our version: to be born (again) free:

"You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Set You Free"

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

LISTENING:

• 20                              Class Participation
• 21                             Class Discussion
• 22                              Listening
• 23                              Have You Tried Listening?

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WRITING:

• First Project Instructions  including  Detailed criteria for your Blackboard version  + Detailed criteria for your print version  +
• Faigley, chs. 1-6,16 (esp. 16b5), 18-21
• Covey
• on writing: p. 44 Eliot quote + p. 267: Rogers quote + p. 43: inside-out autobiographical writing moving toward interdependence
• p. 66 our need for the perspective of the Witness 66 in general and to observe our old scripts (p.104)
• (For projects two, three, and four: rescripting 103; writing your own funeral 96-97 cf. Logan, Willie; personal mission statements 106-108, 128-129, 136; project missions statements 144 no. 6)
• COURSE ANTHOLOGY READINGS:
• 484-485                High School to College Writing: Making the Transition
• 101-102                The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class
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• 265-273                Dass, “The Witness”: How to deal with multiple answers and selves
• 141-146                Instructor/Class Typology (Faigley 1b: REMEMBER YOUR AUDIENCE: read about Instructor's type, ISFJ, especially P vs J and N vs S)
• FOR OPTION TWO ESPECIALLY:
• 486-487                Researching
• 488-489                Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
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• WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART: 
  • Criteria # 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW: 
  • Criteria # 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose,
  • Criteria # 3. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric
• 490                       Writing Well is Thinking Well:
• 491-492                Rhetorical Fallacies
• 493                      Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”
• 494-5                   Forster, “Only Connect”
• 496-497                Creating a Strong Thesis
• 498                           Structure of a Professional Research Paper
• 499                           “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of
• 500                           Introductions and Conclusions
• 501-502                Flow and Transitions;
• 503-504                COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper
• 505                           Focusing on Transitions
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• Criteria # 7. WORD CHOICE and CLARITY: "Is the best word in the best place throughout this essay? How many words do not seem to be the very best possible choices? Has the author been as specific as possible? Has the author used examples and “word pictures” as needed, that is, “illustrations, analogies, vivid quotations, metaphors, similes” (Trimble 76)? Does the prose delight the reader with wit, fresh phrases, new insights, fresh images? Has the reader avoided empty abstractions?" 
  • Trimble's Tests for clarity: "1. What does this sentence mean? Explain the sentence to yourself. If there’s a more direct way to say it, wouldn’t your reader appreciate hearing it? 3. Like what? Are you being specific enough? (Ex. “The character of Hamlet displays the qualities of a tragic hero.” LIKE WHAT???) Abstract arguments need concrete images. Use “word pictures” like “illustrations, analogies, vivid quotations, metaphors, similes” (76). This helps your reader both understand and remember your argument. Secret writer’s club tip #2: Images and metaphors are your artillery against blandness."
• 506-507  The Oxford English Dictionary And Oxford Reference Online
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• 5. Documentation: see Faigley 16 (esp. 16b5)
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  LOOKING AHEAD:

• LAST CALL FOR TIME MANAGEMENT FORMS THAT MEET THE SPECIFICATIONS: STARTING 9-25 PENALTY OF -5 PER DAY FOR FAILURE TO READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS ON THIS ASSIGNMENT

• FIND YOUR PASSION Second Project Instructions FIND YOUR CONSCIENCE Third Project  FIND YOUR LEADERSHIP VISION:  Fourth Project

  • 247-253                Personal Vision Rationale, Multimedia, Quotations
  • 254-264                Lee, Discovering the Leader in You: Your Personal Vision

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  9-17  Diversity Extra Credit, with Free Food
• Islamic Dialogue Group hosts Ramadan fast-breaking dinner Description: The Islamic Dialogue Student Association will host a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner. Join us in an atmosphere of tolerance, dialogue and understanding while we break our fast over delicious Turkish food. Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m. Location: Graduate School of Business Building (GSB), Room 2.126 Admission: Free http://www.utexas.edu/oncampus/calendar/20090917/e8783 5 points for proof of attendance up to 20 more for writing it up

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9-21  Office hour visit must be completed by 9-21. After that -5 per class until done.

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9-22  P1 DUE ON BLACKBOARD. MEET AT HARRY RANSOM CENTER SECOND FLOOR. BRING TO CLASS A PRINTOUT OF YOUR P1 BLOG, the one linked to your entry on the Blackboard DB, and the usual printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

EXTRA CLASS PARTICIPATION CREDIT FOR PERFORMING "JABBERWOCKY" IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE A LA PROF. STARBIRD'S PERFORMANCE AT CONVOCATION.

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TODAY'S GOALS: to see the importance of Rewriting (Hemingway); to see what impact an amateur writer can have on world culture (Dodgson). +

[4B] To capture a sense of the university as a place,  esp. the campus as an alma mater, a second home:  HRC, the tower, totem animals, Dobie walk, etc.

[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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TODAY'S TOPICS:Rewriting (Hemingway); what impact an amateur writer can have on world culture (Dodgson).

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:Seeing Hemingway manuscript, Dodgson photos, a few international editions of Alice. Extra credit, up to 20 pts. (if fully memorized and professionally delivered) for performing Jabberwocky in any foreign language a la Starbird. In addition to French, Spanish, German, Italian in your anthology, I have requested Alice in Catalan, Finnish, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Dutch, and Danish, but many other translations of Jabberwocky are available on the internet

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REQUIRED READING:

• ALICE BOOKS, or at least The Mouse's Tale in Alice and Jabberwocky in The Looking Glass
• 195-197                Key to HRC ghost windows: a gallery of leaders
• 213-216                “Jabberwocky” in French, Spanish, German, Italian
• 274A                          How to Respond to the Projects of Others*

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: thoughts about what is needed to achieve greatness, leadership like that demonstrated by Hemingway and Dodgson

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  LOOKING AHEAD: Learning from Hemingway's example: 9-22 to 9-26 Peer Critiques: http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/603A09/P1evalteams.htm

• http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/P1Acriteria.html
• 274A                          How to Respond to the Projects of Others

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9-22. Extra Credit University Lecture: How to Know a Tyrant When You See One: Models of Tyranny and Leadership from Classical Drama, Dean Paul Woodruff, School of Undergraduate Studies, formerly director of Plan II. 7 PM Bass Concert Hall. I WILL BE THERE: SO ALL YOU WILL NEED FOR TEN POINTS OF EXTRA CREDIT IS TO MAKE SURE I SEE YOU THERE.

Tyranny is the opposite of freedom. If we care about our freedoms we need to know what tyranny looks like. Tyranny shows up brilliantly in theater. We will see three exciting scenes of tyrants in action, performed by the Department of Theater and Dance, along with a commentary on freedom and tyranny by Paul Woodruff, who has recently published a book on the idea of democracy. See three loathsome but hardworking tyrants in scenes from Sophocles’ Antigone, Shalespeare’s Measure for Measure, and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

extra credit: 5 pts. just for turning in a ticket stub or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board

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9-23 Last day to drop a class without a possible academic penalty

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9-24 LAST CALL FOR TIME MANAGEMENT FORMS THAT MEET THE SPECIFICATIONS: STARTING 9-25 THERE WILL BE A PENALTY OF -5 PER DAY FOR FAILURE TO READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS ON THIS ASSIGNMENT

9-24. P1 Revision Writing Instruction MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:   [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL [1D] how to listen + goals for 9-17

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TODAY'S TOPICS: The Art of Listening; WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART: Criteria # 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW; Criteria # 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose; Criteria # 3. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric; WORD CHOICE, SPECIFICITY, and CLARITY; CMS documentation

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Changing Passwords, Listening and Revision Instructions

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REQUIRED READING:

• LISTENING:
• * 20 Class Participation
• * 21 Class Discussion
• * 22 Listening
• * 23 Have You Tried Listening?

REWRITING see 9-17 +

• Faigley,chs. 7, 16, 18
• CHICAGO STYLE FOOTNOTES
• 524-525                CMS: Formatting Your Paper
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• 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

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:everything you know about listening, writing, and creativity

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LOOKING AHEAD: 9-26 Last chance for Peer Critiques or -50 points; 9-29 strenghening your motivation

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9-26 Last chance for Peer Critiques or -50 points

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WHY ARE YOU HERE?

9-29 Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[3] PLAN II GOALS

 The goal of the required signature courses is to “expose each entering UT student to the broad goals and possibilities of a university education.’ Plan II shares this goal as well as this one: to experience college as students did at the model for Plan II, Oxford, and other liberal arts colleges whose seals are represented on and in the Tower. This includes the

[3A] Universal college goal of   living in fragments no longer, learning to think, to connect, to hammer thoughts into unity.

[3B] This is a central principle of Newman’s Idea of a University, still the classic text on this subject. Newman’s model was Oxford. Newman emphasizes again and again the necessity of synthesis -- connection between the various courses and activities of university life -- to achieve a strong sense of university education as the unity it is supposed to be, rather than the fragmented multiversity it all too often is.

 [3C] Our goal is thus also unity, of the self, of the self and others, of the self and nature, of one subject and another, etc.

[3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: Why Go To College?

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION, led by Jade. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about pages 165-170 and at least one of the questions about p. 184. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight on Monday. If you have done so, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING

 

• 110                  “Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College before I Started”
• THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
• 165-170       Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
• 171-173        Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
• 173B-C                “Liberal Arts” defined
• 173D-E                 Newman and the Liberal Arts
• 173F-G                 Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”
• 173H                      Well-Rounded Docs
• THE IDEA OF PLAN II
• 173I-M                  Plan II history and goals
• 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
• 188               My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: your thoughts about the value of going to college

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  9-30-OCT. 3 EXTRA CREDIT DRAMA PERFORMANCE: King Lear (ticketed event), Actors from the London Stage September 30, October 1-2 at the B. Iden Payne Theater and on October 3 at Winedale 

  Tickets are $20 for non-affiliated admission and $10 for affiliated admission (UT ID holders, seniors, all college and non-college students). To purchase visit the Performing Arts Center website -- http://www.utpac.org/  -- or call 477-6060 or 1-800-982-2386.  Affiliated tickets may be purchased without a service charge in person at the Frank Erwin Center Box Office (M-F, 10 AM - 6 PM) and the Bass Concert Hall Ticket Office (M-F, 11 AM - 2 PM inside lobby and 2 - 6 PM outside ticket window).

  Winedale Performance on October 3 at 7 PM (Winedale Historic Center, Round Top)

  Tickets are $20 for non-affiliated admission and $10 for affiliated admission (UT ID holders, seniors, all students).  To purchase visit the Winedale tickets website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/winedale/

    extra credit for the play: 10 pts. just for turning in a ticket stub or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.

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10-1 MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS P1 HARD COPY DUE and website version and printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course.

WHAT SHOULD BE IN THE FOLDER TO BE HANDED IN?

[1] YOUR FINAL COPY. FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method (See Faigley), ETC. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes) AND THE U.R.L. OF THE BLOG VERSION. THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE. 

ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE [2] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO BLACKBOARD; [3] COPIES OF ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE AND ANY MADE BY THE INSTRUCTOR ON THIS OR PREVIOUS WRITING SAMPLES; [4] A SECOND DRAFT WITH ALL THE CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES,INCLUDING ANY INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUES OF YOUR WRITING, WITH CHANGES NOW HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO WHICH REVIEWER; [5] A CD OR JUMP DRIVE WITH A WEB VERSION OF THE PROJECT WITH AN INDEX FILE. so that the project may be published onour course website and you achieve internet immortality. The index file is the first step toward the creation of your portfolio. You may ignore, for now, the directions for project two in the instructions.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[4B] To capture a sense of the university as a place,  esp. the campus as an alma mater, a second home:  HRC, the tower, totem animals, Dobie walk, etc.

[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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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:SEMIOTICS. We walk from Par 104 to the Tower. We will read will read The Tower, starting with the fourth floor (including the President's office). What does the Tower and its rooms tell us about the Idea of a University? Questions to be asked as we move about. First with the correct answer earns the points.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• 174                Texas Constitution : “for the promotion of literature”
• 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

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• 165-170       Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
• 171-173        Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
• 173B-C                “Liberal Arts” defined
• 173D-E                 Newman and the Liberal Arts
• 173F-G                 Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”
• 173H                      Well-Rounded Docs
• THE IDEA OF PLAN II
• 173I-M                  Plan II history and goals
• 183A-B           U. T. Core Values

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  10-2 Host: Hindu Students Council Type: Festival  Navratri, which means “nine nights”, is a nine day Hindu celebration commemorating the contribution of women to society. At this festival, everyone comes together to celebrate life through various community activities, including performing traditional dances such as garba and dandiya raas. Garba is a graceful dance performed in a circle, often around a centerpiece of flowers and lamps. Dandiya raas is a fast-paced dance which is traditionally performed with colorfully decorated sticks. Come celebrate Navratri FREE with Hindu Students Council! There will be a fantastic DJ, great music, and free T-shirts! Udipi Cafe will be serving delicious Indian food all night: Dosa - $5 Pau Bhaji - $5 Samosa Chaat - $5 Samosas - 2 for $3 Please bring your UT ID if you want to use our dandiya sticks!

  extra credit : 5 pts. just for a photo or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.

  This event is awarded extra credit because we will be discussing Hinduism later in the course and because it illustrates the diversity and global cultures goals of the new curriculum.

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• 10-5 to 10-8 Leadership Week extra credit :For each event: 5 pts. just for a photo or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the event affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.
• LEI's Leadership Week is a week of events promoting leadership on campus and providing opportunities for leaders across campus to learn, grow and develop their leadership skills.
• Leadership Week 2009 Schedule
• 1. October 5, 11:30-1:30 p.m.: LEI Kick-Off Rally in the West Mall Rally Space
• 2. October 6, 5-8 p.m.: L.O.U.D.D*.
• 3. October 7, 5:30-6:30 p.m.: The Leadership Series**
• 4. October 8, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Resource Fair at the Gregory Gym Plaza
• *Leadership, Outreach, Unity, Diversity and Development (L.O.U.D.D.) is an annual leadership conference that brings leaders from across campus together for leadership training and development, networking, and an opportunity to learn from peers. The 2009 L.O.U.D.D. conference will begin at 5p.m. in the San Jacinto Multi-purpose Room on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. We hope to see you there! Attire for the event will be business casual. Please contact UTLeadershipandEthicsInstitute@austin.utexas.edu with any questions or concerns. Register for LOUDD.
• **OCTOBER 7, 2009 5:30 - 6:30 PM RECSPORTS GAMES ROOM (2.104):
• WANT IT, HAVE IT, NEED IT YOU ARE WORKING HARD ON CAMPUS - WHY NOT MAKE THE CAMPUS WORK HARD FOR YOU? WHETHER YOU WANT HELP, HAVE AN IDEA, OR JUST NEED THE JOB DONE, COME LEARN ABOUT VARIOUS CAMPUS RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO YOU AND MAKE YOUR LIFE A LITTLE EASIER!
• Join us at this session of The Leadership Series and hear from our panelists representing a diverse number of campus resources for your individual and organizational success. Panelist participants will include representatives from the Counseling and Mental Health Center, the Texas Union Events Co-Sponsorship Committee, the UT Police Department, the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, the Career Exploration Center, and the Academic Counselors Association. Participate in this session and network with fellow student leaders, representatives from the campus resources represented, and start your path towards Leadership Certification! For more information about The Leadership Series visit <http://www.utlei.com/> .
• The Leadership Series Certification Certification can be attained on both the individual and organizational level. The three degrees of certification are as follows: Basic Certification - Individual Advanced Certification - Individual Exemplary Certification - Individual Basic Certification -

1. Basic Certification is attained when an individual attends at least three workshops. It is encouraged that individuals pursuing basic certification keep a journal to reflect on each workshop and the insights the individual gained from each workshop.
2. Advanced Certification is attained when an individual attends at least four workshops. It is also required that individuals pursuing advanced certification keep a journal to reflect on each workshop and the insights the individual gained from each workshop.
3. Exemplary Certification is attained when an individual attends all six workshops. It is also required that individuals pursuing exemplary certification keep a journal to reflect on each workshop and the insights the individual gained from each workshop,
4. A detailed description of The Leadership Series Certification Requirements can be found here. (PDF)

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LEADERSHIP

 10-6 COVEY: Leadership, MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A1] LEADERSHIP, FIRST GOAL OF REQUIRED LEADERSHIP/ETHICS FLAG COURSES,

is also the key to meeting the goals of the Basic Education Requirements: “The University strives to enroll exceptionally well-prepared, highly motivated students and to produce self-reliant graduates who will become leaders in both their chosen professions and their communities.”

Finally, leadership is the GOAL OF THE REQUIRED NEW CURRICULUM:  “all of our students, whatever their areas of specialization, be better prepared for a changing world: graduate with the flexible skills they need to be leaders in our communities.”

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TODAY'S TOPICS:Leadership

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight on Monday.[Both the required quotes and the required images can not have been used earlier in the DB discussion. If have no others to take their places, yours is not a valid DB entry.] If you have a valid DB entry, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. Morever, if you do post a valid DB entry early you can earn up to 65 points* by leading the discussion (See Speaking and Listening instructions.) 65 points explained: -45 is replaced by up to +20.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• Covey book: 7-182, especially pp. 16, 41, 43-4, 66-84, 92-94, 96-97, 103-104, 106-108, 128-137, 144, 149-150, 156-7, 166-167, 180-181
• Course Anthology:
• 219-226   Covey, Principle- ed 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, …..
•                   225-6    Left Brain/Right Brain
• 227-242   Covey, The 8^th 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
• 157-160                Revenge of the Right Brain
• 161-162        "Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia”

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Everything you have read about leadership and all your personal experiences of it.

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  LOOKING AHEAD: Second Project Instructions  WHAT IS YOUR PASSION?

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10-8: P2 writing instruction, incl. revision for the  Passion Essay MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page

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TODAY'S GOALS:

 

IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL:

[1C] how to read and follow directions

DIGITAL LITERACY:

• [2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person;
• [2B4] increase web 1.0 skills of web: email, websites; 

WRITING:

• [2E1] get a taste of what it is like to be a professional writer aiming at perfection and adopting the necessary time management, rewriting, and proofreading to become a great writer.
•  [2E2] get a taste of writing as a work of art. We practice informal writing as way to overcome writer’s block and as a foundation for becoming good writers. Our formal writing is writing as art, and thus the best writing you can possibly do. Think of your project as, say, a statue: you want it to have as few flaws as possible, to be as “perfect” as possible.
• [2E3].  experience writing as discovery learning, especially as one connects parts of the essay, usually while rewriting. Our mottos:
  • [2E3a]. Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.”
  •   [2E3b]. “, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’.
• [2E4] practice writing energized by positive rather than negative motivations, by love of your work of art rather than fear of deadlines, by creativity rather than going through the motions, by curiosity rather than compulsion.
• [2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing.
• [2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

INDEPENDENT INQUIRY GOALS

•  [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses in learning, writing, reading, speaking, listening. Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources
• .[2I2] to think for your self, decreasing reliance on secondary sources, practicing what is known as active, experiential or discovery learning (as in science experiments, the Moore method in math, and Amherst College’s Baird Freshman English course in the humanities);  

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TODAY'S TOPICS:Writing as Art; Rewriting as Creativity, Discovery Learning

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Discussing writing samples

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• Second Project Instructions  WHAT IS YOUR PASSION?   including Criteria for your P2 Project  + Detailed criteria for your print version  +
• 243-246D Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain
• 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, “The Witness”: How to deal with multiple answers, selves
• 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
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• Criteria # 7. WORD CHOICE and CLARITY: "Is the best word in the best place throughout this essay? How many words do not seem to be the very best possible choices? Has the author been as specific as possible? Has the author used examples and “word pictures” as needed, that is, “illustrations, analogies, vivid quotations, metaphors, similes” (Trimble 76)? Does the prose delight the reader with wit, fresh phrases, new insights, fresh images? Has the reader avoided empty abstractions?" 
  • Trimble's Tests for clarity: "1. What does this sentence mean? Explain the sentence to yourself. If there’s a more direct way to say it, wouldn’t your reader appreciate hearing it? 3. Like what? Are you being specific enough? (Ex. “The character of Hamlet displays the qualities of a tragic hero.” LIKE WHAT???) Abstract arguments need concrete images. Use “word pictures” like “illustrations, analogies, vivid quotations, metaphors, similes” (76). This helps your reader both understand and remember your argument. Secret writer’s club tip #2: Images and metaphors are your artillery against blandness."
• 506-507  The Oxford English Dictionary And Oxford Reference Online

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:

• Faigley, chs. 1-6,16 (esp. 16b5), 18-21
• Covey
• on writing: p. 44 Eliot quote + p. 267: Rogers quote + p. 43: inside-out autobiographical writing moving toward interdependence
• p. 66 our need for the perspective of the Witness 66 in general and to observe our old scripts (p.104)
• (For projects two, three, and four: rescripting 103; writing your own funeral 96-97 cf. Logan, Willie; personal mission statements 106-108, 128-129, 136; project missions statements 144 no. 6)
• COURSE ANTHOLOGY READINGS:
• 101-102                The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class
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• 265-273                Dass, “The Witness”: How to deal with multiple answers and selves
• 141-146                Instructor/Class Typology (Faigley 1b: REMEMBER YOUR AUDIENCE: read about Instructor's type, ISFJ, especially P vs J and N vs S)
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• 490                       Writing Well is Thinking Well:
• 493                      Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”
• 494-5                   Forster, “Only Connect”
• 496-497                Creating a Strong Thesis
• 499                           “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of
• 500                           Introductions and Conclusions
• 501-502                Flow and Transitions;
• 503-504                COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper
• 505                           Focusing on Transitions

• CHICAGO STYLE FOOTNOTES
• 524-525                CMS: Formatting Your Pap

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LOOKING AHEAD: P2 due, then the Alice test, worth over 100 points

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10-13  P2 DUE ON BLACKBOARD  -10 PER DAY IF LATE BECAUSE THE GRADES OF OTHERS DEPEND ON YOUR P2 BEING AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

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MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts OF THE VERSION OF P2 YOU POSTED ON BLACKBOARD+ you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[4B] To capture a sense of the university as a place,  esp. the campus as an alma mater, a second home:  HRC, the tower, totem animals, Dobie walk, etc.

[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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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:SEMIOTICS. We will from Par 104 to the Tower. We will read The Tower, starting with the outside and then moving to the second floor What does the Tower and its rooms tell us about the Idea of a University? Questions to be asked as we move about. First with the correct answer earns the points.

In case of rain we will go to the Blanton Museum of Art: UP TO TWENTY POINTS TO BE EARNED BY WRITING ABOUT ONE OR MORE WORKS OF ART THAT INCLUDE ANIMALS. YOU MUST CHOOSE A WORK OF ART THAT NO ELSE IN THE CLASS IS WRITING ABOUT. BEGIN BY IDENTIFYING THE WORK OF ART AND THE ARTIST AND THEN WRITE ABOUT IT AT SOME LENGTH. WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ART REVIEW AND THE PRINTOUTS FOR THE DAY, TAKE THEM TO PARLIN 132, AND PUT THEM IN THE MAIL SLOT IN THE DOOR BY MIDNIGHT.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• 174                Texas Constitution : “for the promotion of literature”
• 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

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:
• 165-170       Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
• 171-173        Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
• 173B-C                “Liberal Arts” defined
• 173D-E                 Newman and the Liberal Arts
• 173F-G                 Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”
• 173H                      Well-Rounded Docs
• THE IDEA OF PLAN II
• 173I-M                  Plan II history and goals
• 183A-B           U. T. Core Values

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  LOOKING AHEAD:

  [1] peer reviewing of the five projects of others to which you have been assigned, must be done by 6 PM, Sunday Oct. 18 or -50 points. Why? Because you will be hurting other students as well as yourself. "No excuses, no exceptions, and no rescues" ("Flunking Out of College," anthology pp. 103-105A). Go to Blackboard. Find out the projects assigned to you (different from last time). Review them according to the instructions (different from last time): up to 50 points to be earned.

  [2] Revise your own project: learn the secret of writing: rewriting! Up to 200 points at stake. Revised project due by 2 P.M. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in a folder with all required items, or -10 per class day Requirements for the hard copy. Requirements for the website version.

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10-15 WHAT QUESTION DOES THE CATERPILLAR ASK?

 

TRAILER FOR THE TIM BURTON JOHNNY DEPP MOVIE

BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:   [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS [1A] how to survive despite apparent craziness like Alice in Wonderland   [4A] Signature Course goal: to acquaint students with some of the gems of the university that make it unique (its “signature”) (preparing for our visit to the Alice collection in the Harry Ransom Center)

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TODAY'S TOPICS:the Alice books as guides to college

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:TEST on Alice in Wonderland  and Through the Looking Glass  (not including the "Wasp in a Wig" episode). Hint: pay special attention to the treatment of animals

• 37 Questions, OVER 100 POINTS AT STAKE, questions worth 3 pts. each on average, one hour to finish the test.
• Sample questions:
• Most of the questions take this form: "On what page in The Annotated Alice (hardback edition only) does the following passage appear?"
• A few questions take these forms:
  • Who wrote................?
  • What year .............?
  • What place .............?
  • What creature...........?
  • What feature............?
  • What poem........?
  • What person........?

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:the Alice books + related readings assigned below

• 198                   “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum
• 199-205         Dougill on Dodgson’s Oxford
• 206-207         Oxford references in the Alice books

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:Oxford, U.T., and the Alice books

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LOOKING AHEAD:

[1] peer reviewing of the five projects of others to which you have been assigned, must be done by 11 AM, Tuesday Oct. 20 or -50 points. Why? Because you will be hurting other students as well as yourself. "No excuses, no exceptions, and no rescues" ("Flunking Out of College," anthology pp. 103-105A). Go to Blackboard.Find out the projects assigned to you (different from last time). Review them according to the instructions (different from last time): up to 50 points to be earned.

[2] Revise your own project: learn the secret of writing: rewriting! Up to 200 points at stake. Revised project due by 11 A.M. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in a folder with all required items, or -10 per class day Requirements for the hard copy. Requirements for the website version.

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This event is awarded extra credit because we will be discussing Hinduism later in the course and because it fits the diversity and global cultures goals of the new curriculum.

October 17  Divali Celebration MAP AND DIRECTIONS

• 15 points if seen by me or other proof of attendance provided + up to 20 more points if written up for a DB entry,
• additional points for those who provide transportation to others
• Divali festival of lights at Barsana Dham, Oct. 17, 5:30 pm - 11:30 pm
• 5:30-7 Delicious Vegetarian Dinner (Free )
• 7:30-8:30 Discourse and Fire Worship
• 8:30 Fireworks
• 9-11 Raas Garba with Sur Sangam of Heart, Tx. Bring our own garba sticks or rent them there.

more pictures of Barsana Dham       Barsana Dham site

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10-20 Alice books as guides to ethics and leadership

• Flash introduction to Dodgson
• Lewis Carroll Does U.T.
• Lewis Carroll at the HRC
• Images of Alice
• Vogue Slide Show Images
• contributed by Liz Wong
• YouTube VIDEOS:
• Russian Alice in Wonderland

• Jefferson Airplane on Smothers Brothers TV show
• Disney Alice Unbirthday Song in Brazilian Portuguese
• Video of Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More"
• JABBERWOCKY:
• PROF. STARBIRD'S PERFORMANCE IN  ENGLISH AND GERMAN
• Hongrak's reading, in Korean
• Movie: Jabberwocky in Seedish
• THE MOUSE'S TALE:
• FRENCH: Alice and Maysie
• SPANISH: Lauren, Emily, and Maysie

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

  [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS [1A] how to survive despite apparent craziness like Alice in Wonderland  

[2A1] LEADERSHIP, FIRST GOAL OF REQUIRED LEADERSHIP/ETHICS FLAG COURSES,

is also the key to meeting the goals of the Basic Education Requirements: “The University strives to enroll exceptionally well-prepared, highly motivated students and to produce self-reliant graduates who will become leaders in both their chosen professions and their communities.”

Finally, leadership is the GOAL OF THE REQUIRED NEW CURRICULUM:  “all of our students, whatever their areas of specialization, be better prepared for a changing world: graduate with the flexible skills they need to be leaders in our communities.”

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

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TODAY'S TOPICS:Surviving and learning leadership and ethics skills in a wildly diverse and challenging environment

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about Alice's leadership in Alice in Wonderland and at least one of the questions about her leadership and ethics in Through the Looking Glass and at least one question on pp. 208-212. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight on Monday. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to thirty more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions); (* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.) ++ review of Alice test results +

CELEBRATION OF OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS: HELEN (19th):

Sir Paul McCartney sings Happy Birthday to You!

• Born Free
• Our version: to be born truly free:
• "You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Set You Free"

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• Both Alice Books +
• 208                     Alice as hero: student in-class essay
• 209-210               Alice’s pilgrimage: student in-class essay
• 211-212               U.T. students and the Alice books

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Everything so far about leadership, ethics, and the Alice books

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  LOOKING AHEAD:

• [1] Revise your own project: learn the secret of writing: rewriting! Up to 200 points at stake. Revised project due by 11 A.M. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in a folder with all required items, or -10 per class day Requirements for the hard copy. Requirements for the website version.

• [2] Looking ahead to next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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10-21 Last day an undergraduate student may, with the dean’s approval, withdraw from the University or drop a class except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons

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ETHICS (preparation for P3)

Third Project Instructions: first draft

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10-22  Alice books and animals 

• Flash introduction to Dodgson
• Lewis Carroll Does U.T.
• Lewis Carroll at the HRC
• Images of Alice
• Vogue Slide Show Images
• contributed by Liz Wong
• YouTube VIDEOS:
• Russian Alice in Wonderland

• Jefferson Airplane on Smothers Brothers TV show
• Disney Alice Unbirthday Song in Brazilian Portuguese
• Video of Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More"
• JABBERWOCKY:
• PROF. STARBIRD'S PERFORMANCE IN  ENGLISH AND GERMAN
• Hongrak's reading, in Korean
• Movie: Jabberwocky in Seedish
• THE MOUSE'S TALE:
• FRENCH: Alice and Maysie
• SPANISH: Lauren, Emily, and Maysie

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

  [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS

to help students meet Plan II academic standards and to help them get and keep jobs. To that end, students need to learn

[1A] how to survive despite apparent craziness like Alice in Wonderland

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

[2A2g] To practice tolerance for diversity

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TODAY'S TOPICS: the representation of animals in the Alice books and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about the ethics of the interaction with animals in Alice in Wonderland, at least one of the questions about the ethics of the interaction with animals in Through the Looking Glass, at least one question about the assigned websites, and at least one question on pp. 319-322. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions); (* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING: both Alice books + these two websites and these two selections in the anthology:

CAT on Carroll's vivisection essay and the Walrus and the Carpenter +

DAVID on what Alice learns about animals +

• 319-322                Jude the Obscure selections
• 323-330                Carroll on Vivisection

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Everything so far about leadership, ethics, and the Alice books

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  LOOKING AHEAD:

• [1] Revise your own project: learn the secret of writing: rewriting! Up to 200 points at stake. Revised project due by 11 A.M. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in a folder with all required items, or -10 per class day Requirements for the hard copy. Requirements for the website version.

• [2] Sign up for EDP 369K during advising?
• [3] Looking ahead to next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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10-22 to 10-28 Academic advising for continuing and readmitted students for the spring semester: Consider: Academic Leadership Classes

EDP369K: Student Organizational Leadership: designed to develop student leaders by providing both theoretical and practical knowledge and skills necessary to understand their own intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths, identity and ethical code; how to work effectively in groups, teams and organizations; and how to be an ethical change agent leader for the community.

Class time is 12:30-2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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10-24  Class "Ranch" Party

 DIVERSITY EXPERIENCE: celebrating Diwali (Hindu+ Sikh Festival of Lights), Halloween, All Souls, All Saints, Dia de los Angelitos, Dia de los Santos Inocentes, Dia de los Muertos, Druid and Wicca Samhain.....*

more information on these festivals

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• COME IN COSTUME IF YOU CAN FOR EXTRA CLASS PARTICIPATION POINTS
• BYOM (Bring your own bags of marshmallows);  BYOB (unless you are satisfied with diet soda or bottled water), and whatever you want to celebrate your favorite rituals: floating candles, marigolds or other flowers, pan de muerto, barmbrack cakes, candy skulls, candles in hollow turnips,  etc. see more information on these festivals

• directions

• Extra Credit Writing

• Pied Beauty, the ranch

  Tex and Bob, the longhorns

  Mother and Daughter, the mustangs

  Zoe, the white donkey, and the mustangs

  Bumpers

  others

  THE SPIRITS:

  Pied Beauty, the horse

  Babe: the story

  Babe: the sequel

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10-26 to 11-6 Registration for the spring semester for continuing and readmitted students.

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10-27  P2 Hard copy due

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS P2 HARD COPY and website version and printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course.

WHAT SHOULD BE IN THE FOLDER TO BE HANDED IN?

[1] YOUR FINAL COPY of P2. FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method (See Faigley), ETC. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes) AND THE U.R.L. OF THE BLOG VERSION. THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE.  ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE [2] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT of P2, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO BLACKBOARD; [3] COPIES OF ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE OF P2 AND ANY MADE BY THE INSTRUCTOR ON THIS OR PREVIOUS P2 WRITING SAMPLES; [4] A SECOND DRAFT OF P2 (double-spaced) WITH ALL THE CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES ,INCLUDING ANY INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUES OF YOUR WRITING, WITH CHANGES NOW HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO WHICH REVIEWER; [5]THE COPY OF P1 WITH THE INSTRUCTOR EDITS ON IT AND THE INSTRUCTOR'S CRITERIA WORKSHEETS WITH HIS MARKS; [6]A CD OR JUMP DRIVE WITH A WEB VERSION OF PROJECTS 1 AND 2 WITH AN INDEX FILE. so that BOTH projects may be published on our course website and you achieve internet immortality. This index file is the second step toward the creation of your portfolio.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

[2A2g] To practice tolerance for diversity for personality types and races/ethnic groups (African-Americans and Hispanic Americans our prime examples), thereby advancing the goals of the  Multicultural Perspectives and Diversity required flag courses [2C].

[2A2h]To practice tolerance for different global cultures (India our prime example), thereby advancing toward the goals of the Global Cultures required flag courses [2D].

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TODAY'S TOPICS:leadership action plans; ethical treatment of animals

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:Collect P2 folders; class visit to PETA Animal Liberation display; analyze effectiveness of this leadership action plan on campus and on the website

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:  the PETA2 Animal Liberation Project

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: 10-22  Alice books and animals

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LOOKING AHEAD: to next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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10-28 Extra Class Participation Points* up to 20 CP points if you write it up your response to seeing the display yesterday as an Extra Credit DB entry AND get your thoughts published in the Comments section of the Daily Texan article about the display.

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10-29 Extra Class Participation Points* SACA: short video screening and a Q&A session over the PETA Animal Liberation display on Thursday at 7pm in Jes A121A

*Because this is a continuation of a class activity you will earn 7 class partipation points from proof of attendance and up to 15 more if you write it up as an Extra Credit DB entry

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10-29 Androids 1

   

Would you pass the empathy test? Related scene from Blade Runner (with Spanish subtitles). Max Polokov's name has been changed to "Leon" in this scene. In the novel the interrogator's name is Dave Holden.

Did you pass this empathy test? http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=10271484508075145982

In other words, do you have Emotional Intelligence (335-337)?

 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Chapters 1-6, pp. 3-68; MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

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TODAY'S TOPICS:What does it mean to be "human"? E. Q., empathy for animals, ......

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about the novel and at least one of the questions about anthology pp. 335-337 and 275A-F. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions) If no one volunteers to be a leader for this discussion the -45 score for leadership stands for all who do not lead a discussion this semester.

(* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Chapters 1-6, pp. 3-68 +

• 331-333                Philip K. Dick, Intro.
• 334                       Know Thyself
• 335-337                Emotional Intelligence summary, Goleman
• 275A-B                 “The Man Without Feelings”
• 275C-D                 “The Roots of Empathy”
• 275E-F                  Molesters and Sociopaths
• are these your songs?

  I AM A ROCK by Simon and Garfunkel:

  "A winters day In a deep and dark december; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. Ive built walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. Its laughter and its loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an island. Dont talk of love, But Ive heard the words before; Its sleeping in my memory. I wont disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island. I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries."

  COMFORABLY NUMB by Pink Floyd:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

  "Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home? Come on, now. I hear youre feeling down. Well I can ease your pain, Get you on your feet again. Relax. I need some information first. Just the basic facts: Can you show me where it hurts? There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ships smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin. When I was a child I had a fever. My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I got that feeling once again. I cant explain, you would not understand. This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb. Ok. Just a little pinprick. [ping] Therell be no more --aaaaaahhhhh! But you may feel a little sick. Can you stand up? I do believe its working. good. Thatll keep you going for the show. Come on its time to go. There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ships smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin. When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb."

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: everything about feelings and animals

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  LOOKING AHEAD:

• Looking ahead to next semster:  Third Project Instructions

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10-29 Extra Class Participation Points* SACA: short video screening and a Q&A session over the PETA Animal Liberation display on Thursday at 7pm in Jes A121A

*Because this is a continuation of a class activity you will earn 7 class partipation points from proof of attendance and up to 15 more if you write it up as an Extra Credit DB entry

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11-3 Androids 2

     

“Androids Are Among Us”

I, Robot: Sonny’s Interrogation

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

 

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TODAY'S TOPICS:What does it mean to be "human"? Androids, Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Sympathetic Imagination

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about chs. 7-12 of the novel and at least one of the questions about the website abstractions and at least one of the quesitons about the anthology pp. 274JA-O. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions) If no one volunteers to be a leader for this discussion the -45 score for leadership stands for all who do not lead a discussion this semester.

(* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING: chapters 7 to 12 + the website, abstractions, + anthology pages:

• 274J-K                    Compassion
• 274L                       Empathy
• 274M-N                  Sympathy
• 274O-                     Sympathetic Imagination

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: First six chapters of Androids and EQ

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LOOKING AHEAD:11-4 Extra Credit  The Leadership Series; Third Project Instructions

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11-4 Extra Credit  The Leadership Series of  the University of Texas Leadership and Ethics Institute (LEI)

"WALK THE WALK" FEATURING MEME DRUMWRIGHT "LEARN HOW TO APPLY RESPONSIBLE AND ETHICAL LEADERSHIP TO EVERYDAY LIFE. FIND OUT HOW TO ARTICULATE AND PROMOTE YOUR SKILLS"

5:30 - 6:30 PM RECSPORTS GAMES ROOM (2.104)

extra credit: 7 pts. just for turning in a ticket stub or other proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.

Student Activities and Leadership Development * Office of the Dean of Students * Division of Student Affairs 512-471-3065 * SSB 4.400 * UTLeadershipandEthicsInstitute@austin.utexas.edu

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAfFIl_kmE&feature=player_embedded

WHY FACE THE TRUTH?

11-5 Earthlings:   attendance required or -20  (Earthlings was specified in all course descriptions) 

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2B] DIGITAL LITERACY: “students will be  better able to deal with  the technological revolution” by being able to

[2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person

[2B2] recognize the power of multimedia to change society, prime example Earthlings

[2B3] move from making slide shows to making movies (road map assignment)

[2E] WRITING. GOAL  OF THE OLD AS WELL AS THE NEW CURICULUM: “Every graduate of the University is expected to be able to express himself or herself clearly and correctly in writing” (U. T. “Basic Education Requirements”) P4 LEADERSHIP VISION ACTION PLAN: include making a documentary like this? or ......?

 [2E8] To practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: animal ethics, movies and appeals to the right brain as action plan goals, writing screen plays, reading a screen play vs. seeing the movie that results

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:seeing Earthlings ch. 1-8 For your DB and your own growth, keep track of how you felt during it and afterwards: shock? denial? anger? grief/sadness? guilt? shame? impulse to do something about it? if so, what? Comparie to how you think a German might have felt being confronted by evidence of a concentration camp operating nearby, or a plantation owner confronted by evidence of the cruelty being inflicted on his own slaves. And/or compare seeing EARTHLINGS with reading the screenplay, seeing the displays on campus, and the website PETA that includes the same displays. And/or perhaps consider the validity of the analogies between speciesism and racism and antisemitism.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:276A-295  Earthlings screenplay

• our photos of the PETA posters and MLK
• our photos of the class there
•   the PETA2 Animal Liberation website
• our Facebook photos

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: left brain right brain info

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LOOKING AHEAD:  Third Project Instructions

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• 11-5 Extra Credit*  Noted Holocaust survivor/author to speak in Austin
• Renowned author and Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein is recognized throughout the world for the emotional acceptance speech she delivered in 1996 when the HBO documentary about her life, "One Survivor Remembers," received an Academy Award.
• Klein was born and raised in Bielsko, Poland, and was 15 years old when German soldiers invaded her hometown in September 1939.

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• Time: 7-9 p.m. Location: Texas Hillel, Seibel Building, 2105 San Antonio St.
• Admission: Free and open to the public URL
• http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs/news/O11274

  *provide proof of attendance for seven points and earn up to twenty more points by writing up the event for the Extra Credit DB.

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• 11-7 Extra Credit* 18TH ANNUAL AUSTIN POWWOW AND AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL 10 AM to 10 PM Toney Burger Center**

• 10 AM to 10 PM  Dance Competitions
• 10 AM Special Educational Heritage Program -- Grand Entry
• 12 Noon Gourd Dance
• 1 PM Grand Entry
• 5 PM Gourd Dance
• 6 PM Grand Entry
• 10 AM to 6 PM   Arts n Crafts outside arena
• 11 AM to 5 PM Heritage Tent
• * I will be there in the afternoon and can confirm your attendance if I see you there. Otherwise, provide some proof of attendance for ten points and earn up to twenty more points by writing up the event for the Extra Credit DB. This event is relevant to our class because next semester we will be studying Native American literature, primarily Black Elk Speaks, and because the totem animal vision quest (a project one option) is a Native American quest.
• **3200 Jones Rd. Sunset Valley: On 290 West between Brodie Lane and Westgate Blvd
• Austin PowWow Organization

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  11-10  Earthlings:   attendance required or -20  (Earthlings was specified in all course descriptions) 

  MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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  TODAY'S GOALS:

  [2B] DIGITAL LITERACY: “students will be  better able to deal with  the technological revolution” by being able to

  [2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person

  [2B2] recognize the power of multimedia to change society, prime example Earthlings

  [2B3] move from making slide shows to making movies (road map assignment)

  [2E] WRITING. GOAL  OF THE OLD AS WELL AS THE NEW CURICULUM: “Every graduate of the University is expected to be able to express himself or herself clearly and correctly in writing” (U. T. “Basic Education Requirements”) P4 LEADERSHIP VISION ACTION PLAN: include making a documentary like this? or ......?

   [2E8] To practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

  [2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

  [2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

  [2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

  [2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

  [2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

  [2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

  [2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

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  TODAY'S TOPICS: animal ethics, movies and appeals to the right brain as action plan goals, writing screen plays, reading a screen play vs. seeing the movie that results

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  TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:seeing Earthlings ch. 9-16 For your DB and your own growth, keep track of how you felt during it and afterwards: shock? denial? anger? grief/sadness? guilt? shame? impulse to do something about it? if so, what? Comparie to how you think a German might have felt being confronted by evidence of a concentration camp operating nearby, or a plantation owner confronted by evidence of the cruelty being inflicted on his own slaves. And/or compare seeing EARTHLINGS with reading the screenplay, seeing the displays on campus, and the website PETA that includes the same displays. And/or perhaps consider the validity of the analogies between speciesism and racism and antisemitism.

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  TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:295-310  Earthlings screenplay +

  

  • BUT WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN ONE PERSON MAKE? “One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, ‘What are you doing?’ The youth replied, ‘Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.’ ‘ Son,’ the man said, ‘don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!’ After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said…‘I made a difference for that one.’”
  • Star Thrower, 1978, a collection of essays by the naturalist and writer Loren Eiseley

  BUT WHAT CAN ONE DO? PETA is a good example of how a nonprofit answers this question. Here are just a few of the categories in Ingrid Newkirk's Peta Practical Guide to Animal Rights (NY: St. Martin's, 2008):Creating a Group; Ten Actions. The following categories contain long lists of possible actions: Respect Animals; Not Eating Animals; Protect Entertainment Animals; Protest Hunting and Fishing; Protect Companion Animals; Protect Laboratory Animals; Not Wearing Animals; Stop School Vivisection; Protect Wildlife. Your anthology next semester will contain these materials as examples of the range of possible responses to ethical situations.

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:

  • our photos of the PETA posters and MLK
  • our photos of the class there
  •   the PETA2 Animal Liberation website
  • our Facebook photos

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  LOOKING AHEAD:  Third Project Instructions

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100 class participation points available for next semester.

If you didn't sign up for LEAP this semester here is your chance for next semester.

If you did LEAP this semester here is our chance to be a mentor next semester for another 100 points:

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/leadership_leap.php.

11-18: Paper applications must be received by 5 PM at the Student Organization Center (SOC) on the 4th floor of the Student Services Building

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11-12 Coetzee's The Philosophers and the Animals, part ONE of THE LIVES OF ANIMALS in his novel, Elizabeth Costello. (pp. 59-90 of the Penguin edition)

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS: Understand the role of philosophy in ethics generally and advancing animal rights specifically; become aware of the advantages and disadvantages of analogies such as that between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses.

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

 

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TODAY'S TOPICS:The value and validity of analogies such as those between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses a la Earthlings and Coetzee.

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about The Philosophers and the Animals, part ONE of THE LIVES OF ANIMALS in his novel, Elizabeth Costello. (pp. 59-90 of the Penguin edition) and at least one of the questions about the anthology pp. 340-363. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions) If no one volunteers to be a leader for this discussion the -45 score for leadership stands for all who do not lead a discussion this semester.

(* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:First half of the novel +

• 338-339                Coetzee intro.
• 340-363                Lives of Animals 
•    342-3                                   Garber on analogy
•    344-347                             Singer’s fiction
•    348-355                             Doniger on compassion, vegetarianism,
•    355-362                             Smuts  on nonhuman persons
•    362-363                             Contributors

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Earthlings, the PETA2 Animal Liberation Project, treatment of animals in the Alice books

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  LOOKING AHEAD:

• Looking ahead to next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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EXTRA CREDIT MOVIE REVIEWS,

FROM FINE ARTS LIBRARY:

   

THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM

   

THE WITNESS

the makers of these documentaries

FROM RENTAL BUSINESSES:

FOOD INC.

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11-17    Coetzee's The Poets and the Animals, part TWO of THE LIVES OF ANIMALS in his novel, Elizabeth Costello. (pp. 91-115 of the Penguin edition)

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.

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TODAY'S GOALS: Understand the role of literature and compassion as compared with the role of philosophy and reason in advancing animal rights.

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

 

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TODAY'S TOPICS: Which is more effective in advancing animal rights: philosophy; nonfiction such as that by Doniger and Smuts; fiction such as that by Coetzee + Singer?

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about The Poets and the Animals, part Two of THE LIVES OF ANIMALS in his novel, Elizabeth Costello. (pp. 91-115 of the Penguin edition) and at least one of the questions about the anthology pp. 365-376. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions) If no one volunteers to be a leader for this discussion the -45 score for leadership stands for all who do not lead a discussion this semester.

(* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:the second half of the novel and

• 364                           Kafka intro.  
• 365-370                Report to the Academy
• 371-372                Rilke, “Panther”
• 373-374                Hughes Intro    
• 375                           “Jaguar I”
• 376                           “Jaguar II”

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: 1st half of the novel, Earthlings, the PETA2 Animal Liberation Project, treatment of animals in the Alice books

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LOOKING AHEAD: to next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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100 class participation points for next semester.

If you didn't sign up for LEAP this semester here is your chance for next semester.

If you did LEAP this semester here is our chance to be a mentor next semester for another 100 points:

http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/leadership_leap.php.

11-18: Paper applications must be received by 5 PM at the Student Organization Center (SOC) on the 4th floor of the Student Services Building

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11-18: Extra Credit  The Leadership Series of  the University of Texas Leadership and Ethics Institute (LEI)

THE PATH LESS TRAVELED

FEATURING DR. RICHARD RIBB. “I TOOK THE PATH LESS TRAVELED AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.” TAKE THE FIRST STEP TOWARD ACHIEVING ALL YOUR BIG PLANS. LEARN HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR VISION AND HOW ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS CAN BE LITTLE (OR BIG)

5:30 - 6:30 PM RECSPORTS GAMES ROOM (2.104)

extra credit: 7 pts. just for proof of attendance + up to 20 more points for an account of how the performance affected your thoughts and feelings about leadership and ethics. The account is to be posted in the Extra Credit discussion board.

Student Activities and Leadership Development * Office of the Dean of Students * Division of Student Affairs 512-471-3065 * SSB 4.400 * UTLeadershipandEthicsInstitute@austin.utexas.edu

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11-19    Peer Pressure and Speciesism: words and looks; Website 3 due: Website folder now including TM Forms, Road Map movie, Road Map picture, Type DB entry, 9-1 Quiz, P1, Reviews of Your P1, Reviews of Others' P1, and P2, all properly linked to your index file.

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS YOUR JUMP DRIVE WITH YOUR NAME CLEARLY PRINTED ON IT (OR -5). Website 3 as described above should work perfectly when uploaded to our site or -10 per class day. BRING TO CLASS YOUR COURSE ANTHOLOGY (or -5). Also bring the usual printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page.  Most important of all, use only recycled paper!

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by SEXISM.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: ethics, peer pressure, altruism, sadism, speciesism, sexism, antisemitism, ......

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION. -20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about the anthology pp. 388-394C and at least one of the questions about the anthology pp.396-407 and at least one of the questions about Peer Pressure: Altruism vs. Sadism.  Extra points for answering questions from 377-387, 408-413. This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions) If no one volunteers to be a leader for this discussion the -45 score for leadership stands for all who do not lead a discussion this semester.

(* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• 274B-D Speciesism
• 274E-F Animal
• 274G-I Human
• 377-385                Quotations
• 386-387                Montaigne, “The Apology of Raymond Sebond?” written, 1576, first identification of speciesism?
• 388-394C            “Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots”
• 395                           Derrida intro
• 396-407                Derrida, “The Animal That Therefore I Am (Following)”
• 408-413                John Berger, “Why Look at Animals?”
• Peer Pressure: Altruism vs. Sadism

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  REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: everything so far on ethics, speciesism, sexism, antisemitism,

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  LOOKING AHEAD: Third Project Instructions

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11-24 Racism, Slavery, and  Speciesism Comparisons

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page. Most important of all, use only recycled paper!

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us, such as those involving cruelty to animals.

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: racism, slavery, and speciesism

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:

[1] CELEBRATION OF NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS: CALLIE (16th); SPIN (29TH);

[2] POT LUCK THANKSGIVING DINNER. Maysie: apple juice; Emily: stuffing; Lauren: chocolate chip cookies; Jade: cookies, maybe snicker doodle; Karisma: cupcakes with chocolate frosting; Helen: apple pie or smore brownies; Chris: pumpkin pie; Alice: pumpkin cheesecake; Spin: candy; Thuyen: tofu spring rolls; Jerome: water, soda, plates, cups, silverware, salt and pepper, birthday candles, use of microwave and refrigerator.

[3] Entertainment by Molly and Katherine using hand puppets!

[4] QUIZ and then DB DISCUSSION*or alternative as organized by the DB leader. For examples, see below*.-20 on the quiz if you can not answer at least one of the questions about “Am I Blue?” and one from Dreaded Comparison: Foreword by Alice Walker; First three Chapters, from "An Historical Understanding" to "Slaves and Masters." This penalty does not apply if you have uploaded a DB entry that meets the basic requirements by midnight the night before. N.B.: Basic requirements include at least two quotations that have not been cited before in the discussion*. If you meet these requirements, then you can skip the quiz or take it for possible additional points at no risk of the penalty. If you have done so, you may also be able to lead the discussion and earn up to 65 more points. ( Leading Class Discussion Instructions  are included in the Speaking and Listening Instructions) If no one volunteers to be a leader for this discussion the -45 score for leadership stands for all who do not lead a discussion this semester.

(* This rule, which is in the original instructions, will be strictly enforced from now on. Its purpose is make sure you have read what others have said and thus participate in a true discussion. Also, it encourages time management because it you wait til the last minute you may not have time to read all the previous DB entries. You can include quotations cited before but they will not count toward meeting the basic requirements.)

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• 312-313                Bentham
• 312-318                Alice Walker, “Am I Blue?”
• Dreaded Comparison: Foreword by Alice Walker; First three Chapters, from "An Historical Understanding" to "Slaves and Masters."

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  Alternatives:
• [1] the leader could organize a debate around a subject such as "Resolved: The UT campus is the most 'confederate' in the country,"or "Resolved: The UT campus defends slavery more than any other campus in the country,"using the website materials below.
• [2] Or perhaps see if the class can agree on a proposed law, such as "all killing of animals for meat must be done with done with a method that inflicts no suffering, to be enforced with inspectors, heavy fines, ....."
• [3] In any case, I am glad to see in the DB that we are beginning to focus on the subject of P3. P3 involves some kind of action plan for whatever one chooses to do, whether about animals or not. We touched on this subject on 11-10 with the starfish story and the brief overview of the hundreds of suggestions in the Peta Practical Guide to Animal Rights. Now, with Katherine’s mention of her ethical dilemma about her guinea pig, I can cite a P3 essay that focuses on that dilemma and draws on the starfish story model of what one can do. In this case, one perspective is that Katherine has rescued the guinea pig from an even worse fate, a perspective I adopt for the animals I rescue as well. The essay is by  AMANDA JANE , about a hamster, illustrating one version of P3: extending the sympathetic imagination. A similar essay is by ERICA , about a dog.
• [4] P3 must conclude with an action plan with some manageable goals. Katherine’s DB gives some examples of the first of such goals, the quick wins.      
• [5] Katherine writes, " We could have a debate about the ethics of keeping pets. Are we really taking care of them or are they just toys?
• [6] While I think a debate would be interesting, I also thought it would be beneficial to make real contributions to animal rights legislature. I searched the internet and found a great site in no time at all. I'm sure there are many more sites that would teach us how we may contribute as well. We could send these electronic (and easy to fill out) letters to support the following bills: (All found on the Humane Society’s website)
• · Great Ape Protection Act which would phase out the 500 federally owned chimpanzees used for research. o https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4242 · Horse Transportation Safety Act which would improve interstate transport of horses. https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1926 · Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act which concerns horses being used for human consumption. o https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2248 · Wild Horses and Burros Act which would end the killing of wild horses and burros for consumption. o https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=728 · Shark Conservation Act of 2009 would close a loophole which allows sharks to be finned. (Have their fins cut off and thrown back into the water.) o https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1742 · Sportsmanship in Hunting Act would improve hunting conditions including cracking down on captive hunts. o https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2032 · Captive Primate Safety Act (already passed in the House!) would work against primates in the pet trade. o https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1986
• Here’s a page for more Humane Society Action alerts: http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/action_alerts/ You can go to this page to see how to support various actions for different organizations.
• There is also a list for different actions in states, so we can check to see if Texas ever has anything we can do.
• Also, I’m not sure if any of you have heard of this website before, but it was pretty popular at my high school for a while. You can click a button, and it donates 0.6 bowls of food to an animal shelter. You can sign up for an e-mail reminder and do it once a day—not a big deal! It also has similar tabs which support charities involving hunger, breast cancer, child health, literacy and the rainforest. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ It also has a site which lists petitions you can sign which support various animal issues. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/takeaction.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_takeaction_from_thankyou_leftnav So all I’m saying is that maybe we could periodically spend fifteen minutes in class signing petitions or sending electronic letters to our representatives. Or maybe even for just one day. Anything would help make some positive difference."
• JADE ADDS:
• Here are just a few brands that do not test on animals: Abercrombie & Fitch Almay Avon Products, Inc. Bare Escentuals bareFaced Mineral Cosmetics Bath & Body Works Bobbi Brown The Body Shop Erno Laszlo Estée Lauder Everyday Minerals Liz Claiborne Cosmetics M.A.C. Cosmetics Pur Minerals St. Ives

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: 11/10:

• BUT WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN ONE PERSON MAKE? “One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, ‘What are you doing?’ The youth replied, ‘Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.’ ‘ Son,’ the man said, ‘don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!’ After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said…‘I made a difference for that one.’”
• Star Thrower, 1978, a collection of essays by the naturalist and writer Loren Eiseley

BUT WHAT CAN ONE DO? PETA is a good example of how a nonprofit answers this question. Here are just a few of the categories in Ingrid Newkirk's Peta Practical Guide to Animal Rights (NY: St. Martin's, 2008):Creating a Group; Ten Actions. The following categories contain long lists of possible actions: Respect Animals; Not Eating Animals; Protect Entertainment Animals; Protest Hunting and Fishing; Protect Companion Animals; Protect Laboratory Animals; Not Wearing Animals; Stop School Vivisection; Protect Wildlife. Your anthology next semester will contain these materials as examples of the range of possible responses to ethical situations.

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LOOKING AHEAD:  Third Project Instructions

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12-1

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8B6el2nDWA

provided by Jade Law

Slavery Comparisons; Website 4 due: Website folder now organized into subfolders (see Alice's portfolio) including TM Forms, Road Map movie, Road Map picture, Type DB entry, 9-1 Quiz, P1, Reviews of Your P1, Reviews of Others' P1, P2, Reviews of Your P2, Reviews of Others' P2, three more DB entries, three more quizzes, three more pictures of you, all properly linked to your index file.

MEET IN PARLIN 104. BRING TO CLASS YOUR JUMP DRIVE WITH YOUR NAME CLEARLY PRINTED ON IT (OR -5). Website 4 as described above should work perfectly when uploaded to our site or -10 per class day.  BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page. Most important of all, use only recycled paper!

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TODAY'S GOALS:

 Core Curriculum Goal is “To better prepare students for a changing world by making sure they graduate with the flexible skills they need” to be better able to deal with a state and country that are more culturally diverse;* met in part by one of the required course areas that are “flagged”: Multicultural Perspectives and Diversity, and by the second semester of this course

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems,” such as the ethics of animal research and the retention of the confederate statues and inscriptions on our campus.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: ethics, racism, slavery, vivisection, anthropocentrism

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:

[1] Decide whether our final class will be about the instructions and techniques for the portfolio or will be the Dobie totem animal tour.

[2] Optional quiz about Spiegel's "Vivisection" chapter, one on "U.T. most confederate campus in the nation and one on Vivisection On This Campus. No penalty for failing the quiz.

[3] Award ceremony unless we do the portfolio class Thursday.

4] Course Instructor Survey evaluations unless we do the portfolio class Thursday.

[3] Tour of South Mall statues, with chance to earn more points by answering questions about the statues, the people they represent, inscriptions, etc.

[4] Unless someone volunteers to be a leader for this DB, Callie will follow her discussion plan from last time, earning bonus points for including entries from this discussion board. If someone does volunteer for this DB, before 8 PM Monday night, that person can share the leadership role with Callie, either integrating entries from this DB into Callie's plan or presenting a separate discussion plan.

As this is the last discussion, though not the last DB, the grading for leading DBs now changes. -45 is removed for those who have not led this semester.  Reward for those who have will increase from +20 to +30, which is the usual reward for leading a DB when there is no penalty for not doing so. This +30 will apply for each of today's leaders and be applied retroactively.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:Dreaded Comparison: Remaining Chapters, from "Social Relations" to "Further Reading," with special emphasis on "Vivisection"

RELEVANCE FOR U.T.?

Imagine you are an African-American visiting our campus, considering coming here, and you walk around the South Mall, and wonder, is U.T. most confederate campus in the nation?

Imagine you are a professor of ethics focusing on our treatment of animals, considering a job offer from us, and you visit our campus and discover our Animal Resources Center and the role of  Vivisection On This Campus

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: racism, slavery, and speciesism

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LOOKING AHEAD:  Third Project Instructions

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our tribal totem, the longhorn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW1dNp9d-AA

Ft. Worth longhorn drive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsVdtb428k

Our son, Tex

+ Bob, Bumpers the pig, Zoe the donkey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWIVi_Oa4as&feature=player_embedded

Mustangs

Dobie's The Longhorns

Dobie's The Mustangs

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12-3 Dobie walk or review of portfolio instructions and techniques? If TOTEM ANIMALS at UT  MEET AT DOBIE'S HOUSE, NOW THE MICHENER CENTER, one of the Signature GEMS of the University of Texas at Austin: 702 E. Dean Keeton St.). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school. START WALKING NOW.

 

FDH J. Frank Dobie House   SHD Simkins Hall Dormitory  CS4 Chilling Station No. 4

JON Jesse H. Jones Hall (Law) SJG San Jacinto Garage TMM Texas Memorial Museum

MEET IN Dobie's house. BRING TO CLASS printouts*: you get up to eight class participation points per class, sometimes more if you demonstrate good listening, sometimes less if you don’t. You always get up to four class participation points for (1) bringing the books assigned for that day; (2) a print-out of that day's section of the website schedule and (3) a print-out of the next day's section; (4) a printout of your Discussion Board entry from your blog if you made one; and (5), on Tuesdays, a copy of your grades from Blackboard. In other words just for listening and following these instructions every class day you can get 250 points, one-fourth of what you need for an A- in this course. *printouts must be prepared in this fashion: copy the relevant pages into Word and delete the images. Then 'select all" and decrease the size of the font and spacing, and then print, specifying black and white only. If possible, print on both sides of the page. Most important of all, use only recycled paper!

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TODAY'S GOALS: to connect our explorations of our own animal totems to the totems of the tribe, the totem animals of U.T.; to explore the creation of a totem by writing animal folklore +

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[4] EXPLORE U.T. GOALS

[4A] To acquaint students with some of the gems of the university that make it unique (its “signature”)

[4B] Related goal: To capture a sense of the university as a place,  esp. the campus as an alma mater, a second home:  HRC, the tower, totem animals, Dobie walk, etc.

[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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TODAY'S TOPICS:What is your relationship to UT's totem animal, the longhorn? Would you have preferred the mustang to be our totem animal?

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:

[1] Decide about next class: Dobie walk or review of portfolio instructions and techniques?

[2] Tour of the representations of animals from Dobie's house to the Texas Exes.

[3]   DB discussion of The Mustang and The Longhorns at the Texas Exes.

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

• 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

• Dobie's house

  the Dobie walk

• Dobie biography

  more Dobie images

  Bevo

  The campus mustangs

  campus mustang images

• The Freedom Mare on our campus

  Texas Exes alumni center

  The Texas Longhorn at The Alumni Center

  The Freedom Mare at The Alumni Center

  Generations

  Texas Exes family sculpture

  longhorns

  Texas Nature Writing

  Philosopher's Rock: Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb

  Nature writing of Jones, Bedichek, Dobie, and Webb in university libraries

  Roy Bedichek

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  • REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: all your experiences with cattle, longhorns, horses, your own animal folklore, your own animal totems, etc. + EVERYTHING YOU LEARNED IN THIS COURSE

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  • HAMMERING ALL YOUR THOUGHTS INTO UNITY IN YOUR PORTFOLIO    + next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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12-8   Office Hours 9:45-11; All Extra Credit Due by 5 PM in mail slot of door of Par 132

12-10   Office Hours 9:45-11, 12:30-4

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  12-14 FINAL PORTFOLIO DUE   2-5 in Parlin 132  or earlier or -140 pts.

Jump drives: to be uploaded in Parlin 132. Be prepared to wait your turn if you want our jump drive back immediately.

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GOALS OF THE PORTFOLIO:

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  [1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS

to help students meet Plan II academic standards and to help them get and keep jobs. To that end, students need to learn

[1C] how to read and follow directions

[1E] time management (Time management is vital in life, but especially in writing, because the secret of writing as discovery learning; of writing as innovative thinking; of writing as creativity; in short, of great writing, is rewriting. A key to rewriting is allowing enough time to elapse between drafts -- the opposite of procrastination. To teach the importance of this kind of time management, punctuation and proofreading will be stressed in the grading of student writing for they are good indications of how careful the student has been in his or her writing and how much time has been budgeted between drafts

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[2] GOALS OF THE REQUIRED NEW CURRICULUM

Basic Education Requirements of U.T.: “The University must not only equip its graduates with occupational skills but also educate them broadly enough to enable them to adapt to and cope with the accelerated process of change occurring in business, professional, and social institutions today.“

Core Curriculum Goal is “To better prepare students for a changing world by making sure they graduate with the flexible skills they need” for

[2B] the technological revolution;

[2B] DIGITAL LITERACY: “students will be  better able to deal with  the technological revolution” by being able to

[2B1] recognize the value of multimedia for access to right brain, the whole person

[2B4] increase web 1.0 skills of web: email, websites, electronic portfolios;

TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

541                           Employers and Digital Literacy

 

[2E] WRITING. GOAL  OF THE OLD AS WELL AS THE NEW CURICULUM: “Every graduate of the University is expected to be able to express himself or herself clearly and correctly in writing” (U. T. “Basic Education Requirements”) Our goal: every student should [2E3].  experience writing as discovery learning, especially as one connects parts of the essay, usually while rewriting. Our mottos:

[2E3a]. Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.” E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910).

[2E3b]. “‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )

 [2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing. To face the changes in writing computers demand. Computers don’t do what you want them to do: they do what you tell them to do, and in their coding they demand perfection. They have no forgiveness for errors in code. Hence, proofreading and attention to detail becomes even more important.

 [2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

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Looking ahead to next semester:  Third Project Instructions

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• Holy Days during the semesters:
•  Aug. 22 Ramadan begins (Muhammad's reception of the divine revelation, strict fasting from sunrise to sunset);
• Sept. 8 Nativity of Mary;
• Sept. 16 Lailat al Kadr (Mohammed's night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and his ascension to heaven);
• Sept. 19-20 Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year: introspection, abstinence, prayer and penitence);
• Sept. 19-27 Navaratri (Hindu Festival of the divine mother and Krishna);
• Sept. 20 Eid al Fitr –a festival of thanksgiving for Ramadan: wearing finest clothing, saying prayers, and fostering understanding with other religions);
• Sept. 22 Wicca Mabon Equinox harvest festival;
• Sept. 28 Yom Kippur, Jewish Day of Atonement, Dasera (Hindu: Lord Rama’s victory over evil);
• Oct. 3-9 Sukkot (Jewish Feast of Tabernacles which celebrates the harvest and the protection of the people of Israel as they wandered in the wilderness dwelling in tents);
• Oct. 4 St. Francis Day;
• Oct. 10 Sehmini Atzerret (Jewish completion of the annual cycle of reading of the Torah);
• Oct. 11 Simchat Torah (Jewish celebration of the Law: processions and blessing of children); Oct. 17 Diwali, Hindu+Sikh Festival of Lights (Gift exchanges, fireworks and festive meals), Jain celebration of Mahavira's final liberation;
• Oct. 20 Birth of the Bab (Bahai);
• Oct. 31 All Hallows Eve; 
• Nov. 1 All Saints, Samhain (Wicca celebration of the dead  and elderly );
• Nov. 2 All Souls;
• Nov. 25-28 Hajj (pilgrimage rites at Mecca);
• Nov. 26 Thanksgiving;
• Nov. 27 Eid al Adha (festival recalling Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to Allah);
• Dec. 8 Bodhi Day; Immaculate Conception of Mary;
• Dec. 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe;
• Dec. 12-19 Hanukkah (Jewish Festival of Lights commemorating the recapture and rededication of the Temple in 165-164 b.c.e.The eight candle of the Menorah is lighted);
• Dec. 21 Yule Solstice A Christian celebration of the light dawning in Jesus and Wicca Norse celebration of the winter-born king, symbolized by the rebirth of the sun;
• Dec. 25 Christmas
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• Jan. 1 Mary, Mother of God;
• Jan. 6 Epiphany, Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day);
• Jan. 10 Baptism of Jesus;
• Jan. 17 World Religion Day Baha'i celebration of the unity and oneness of all religions;
• Jan. 20 Vasant Panchami: Hindu celebration of Saraswati, goddess of learning);
• Jan. 30: Tu B'shvat (Jewish celebration of the coming of spring by preparation of foods native to Israel) and Mahayana Buddhist New Year;
• Feb. 2 Candlemas: Presentation of Jesus in the Temple; Imbolc (Wicca reflection on the power of the gods from which physical and spiritual harvest will come) and Lughnassad (Wicca festival of the first harvest of the year);
• Feb. 3 Setsubun Sai – Shinto celebration of the change of seasons ;
• Feb. 12 Maha Shivaratri  (Hindu festival in honor of Lord Shiva and his marriage to Goddess Parvati);
• Feb. 14 Chinese New Year: Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist;
• Feb. 14 St. Valentine's Day;
• Feb. 15 Nirvana Day: regional observance of the death of the Buddha.;
• Feb. 16 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) ;
• Feb. 17 Ash Wednesday - Lent begins ;
• Feb. 26 Mawlid an Nabi, Mohammed's birthday;
• Feb. 28 Purim (Jewish celebration of the deliverance of the Jewish minority in Persia from genocide. Charity to the poor, sharing food with friends, and vigorous merrymaking);
• March 1, Holi, Hindu spring festival of colors+ Hola Mohala, Sikh martial arts;
• March 16 Vaisaki – Hindu New Year; 
• March 17 St. Patrick's Day;
• March 20 Vernal Equinox: Ostara, Wicca welcoming of spring and the goddess-as-maiden; March 24 Ramanavami, Hindu: Rama's birthday;
• March 25 Annunciation of the Virgin Mary;
• March 29 Mahavir Jayanti, birthday of Jain founder;
• March 30 Hanuman Jayanti  Hindu celebration of Hanuman: Devotion and selfless work are encouraged ; + Magha Puja Day  (presentation of teachings by Lord Buddha to and assembly of holy men); + Pesach, Jewish Passover ;
• April 1 Maundy Thursday, Christian Passover: The Last Supper;
• April 2 “Good” Friday: the Crucifixion of Jesus;
• April 4 Easter: Resurrection of Jesus;
• April 11 Yom HaSho'ah Jewish Holocaust Day;
• May 1 Beltane (Wicca celebration of the conjoining of the goddess with the energy of the god in the sacred marriage which is the basis of all creation).

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