E603, 09-10
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
BASICS
8-27 Introduction 1
9-1 Introduction 2
9-3 Covey and positive energy
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WHO ARE YOU?
9-8 1st DB? Type psychology. TYPE SHORT ESSAY DUE.
9-10 ROAD MAPS Road Map Instructions
9-15 ROAD MAPS
9-17 P1 Writing Instruction
9-22 P1 DUE ON BLACKBOARD. meet at HRC
9-24 P1 Revision Writing Instruction
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WHY ARE YOU HERE?
9-30 Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II
10-1 P1 HARD COPY DUE and website version: visit Tower
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LEADERSHIP
10-6 COVEY: Leadership
10-8: P2 writing instruction, incl. revision
10-13 P2 DUE ON BLACKBOARD; meet at?
10-15 TEST ON ALICE BOOKS
10-20 Alice books as guides to college and leadership
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ETHICS
Third Project Instructions: first draft
10-22 Alice books and animals
10-27 P2 Hard copy due; meet at?
10-29 Androids 1
11-3 Androids 2
11-5 Covey on Ethics, Sympathetic Imagination
11-10 Earthlings
11-12 Elizabeth Costello 1st half
1-17 Elizabeth Costello 2nd half
11-19 Speciesism: words and looks
11-24 Dreaded Comparison 1st half
12-1 Dreaded Comparison 2nd half
12-3 UT Totem Animals
12-14 Portfolio due 2-5
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2nd SEMESTER
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THE NEW CURRICULUM: ETHICS, LEADERSHIP, MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES, DIVERSITY, AND GLOBAL CULTURES
Jan. 17 World Religion Day Baha'i celebration of the unity and oneness of all religions
1-19 ETHICS: How Can I Help? ix-90
Awards ceremony for highest scores for portfolios and end of the semester?;
1-21 ETHICS: How Can I Help? 91-148
1-26 ETHICS: How Can I Help? 149-243
1-28 LOVE VS. FEAR Life of Pi v-114 authorÕs note --ch.34
2-1 P3 DUE ON BLACKBOARD
2-2 MEET AT
THE CLAY PITBRING P3 Blackboard Copy2-4 Blake, Hopkins As kingfishers, Mary poems?, the Mystery, Harrigan, "The Tiger is God" Martel as summary of 1st semester? review symp. Imag. And father and sonÕs knowledge of animals + LawrrenceÕs reptile pooems + Harrigan and Barney on reptiles?; MartelÕs territory and querencia
2-9 Life of Pi 114-298 ch.35 -- ch.86?
2-11 Life of Pi 298-401 ch.87 -- end
Feb. 14 St. Valentine's Day;
2-16 P3 HARD COPY DUE MEET AT THE BLANTON ART Museum
Compassion in the West
2-18 overviews: Ecology and World Religions; Jewish Bible + Virgil Add day? Here on NT?
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING: The First Garden: Genesis; Isaiah, ; 122-125 Virgil, Eclogue IV +
+ Genesis 9:2-3: ÒBe the terror and the dread of all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven, of everything that crawls on the ground and all the fish of the sea; they are handed over to you.Ó 7th century BCE? Jerusalem Bible
vs. Leviticus 19:18: "You must not exact vengeance, nor must you bear a grudge against the children of your people. You must love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh." 5th century BCE? Jerusalem Bible
Feel free to cite from anywhere in the Old or Virgil
Insight into Virgil. Scorza's Orpheus Charming the Beasts, 1615, discovered in the Blanton by Tyler. Image not available but here is a Roman mosaic roughly contemporary with Virgil and here is a later version: "According to some legends, Apollo gave Orpheus his first lyre. Orpheus's singing and playing were so beautiful that animals and even trees and rocks moved about him in dance." "Orpheus." Encyclop¾dia Britannica. 2009. Encyclop¾dia Britannica Online. 16 Feb. 2009
2-23Christian Bible P4 Leadership Vision Instructions "The Last Supper as a Triumph of Vegetarianism"
add day on 19th-c. England: Ritvo: Compassion vs. Imperialism + Hunting?
Compassion in the East
2-25 Hinduism, Buddhism,Jainism, Confucianism
March 1, Holi, Hindu spring festival of colors+ Hola Mohala, Sikh martial arts;
3-2 Siddhartha 1
3-4 Mad Hatter's Tea Party: extra credit
3-9 Siddhartha 2 add day?
"MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES AND DIVERSITY"
( a focus of the New Curriculum)
P4 DUE ON BLACKBOARD by midnight P4 Criteria
3-11 MEET AT WALLER CREEK BRING P4 BLACKBOARD COPY
3-15 to 3-20 Spring break
March 20 Vernal Equinox: Ostara, Wicca welcoming of spring and the goddess-as-maiden;
3-23 DEALING WITH DIVERSITY: ALICE BOOKS
3-25 P4 DUE MEET AT THE BOB BULLOCK MUSEUM: P4 Criteria
March 29 Mahavir Jayanti, birthday of Jain founder
3-30 Black Elk Speaks 1
á 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 ;
4-1 Black Elk Speaks 2
4-1 Maundy Thursday, Christian Passover: The Last Supper; á April 2 ÒGoodÓ Friday: the Crucifixion of Jesus; April 4 Easter: Resurrection of Jesus;
4-6 Bluest Eye, Racism, Judging by Appearance
4-8 Bluest Eye, Family Dynamics
April 11 Yom HaASho'h, Jewish Holocaust Day.
4-13: Bluest Eye III Narrator/Writer as hero
4-15 Gender and Diversity: Asian- and Hispanic-American Student Autobiographical Essays 1
4-20Gender and Diversity: Asian- and Hispanic-American Student Autobiographical Essays 2
4-22 Woman Warrior I
4-27Woman Warrior II
4-29Woman Warrior III
5-4 III ALICE AS LEADER: ALICE GRADUATES
5-6 ALICE PARTY
May 17 10-12 Final Electronic PORTFOLIO of both semesters due