TABLE OF CONTENTS

1-4D Table of Contents

4E-5 Campus Map

5-8 Course Syllabus

9 Experiential Learning

10 Service Learning

11 Discovery Learning

12 Discovery Learning at U.T.

13-14 Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst

15 My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

15-20 Course Goals

21 Class Participation

22 Racial Harassment Policy;

23-24 Sexual Harassment Policy;

25 If I Am Heterosexual

26 Ally Work

27-28 LBGT Vocabulary

29A-29B Drug + Alcohol Policy;

29C-30 The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

31 Employer survey

32-34 Revenge of the Right Brain

35-37 Flunking out of College

38 Student Grade Expectations

39-41 [numbers not used]

42 Concentration vs. “multitasking”

43 Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking

44 Negative vs. Positive Attitude

45-49 Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.

50-51 U.T. Counseling Center

52 Stress Test

53 Tips for Reducing Stress

54 U.T. Stress Relief Site

55 Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College Before I Started

56 Texas Constitution: “for the promotion of literature”

57 U. T.  Seal

58  U. T. Core Values

59 Diversity

60-63 Perfectionism

64-68 [numbers not used]

69-70 Scallop Shell Symbolism

71 Five Characteristics of a Good Student

72-73 Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.

74-75  Motivation;

76 Goal Setting

COMMUNICATION

77-78 Covey on listening +reading, writing, speaking

79 Class Discussion

80 Listening

81 Have You Tried Listening?

82-83 Leading Class Discussion

84-5 [numbers not used]

86-87 “Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage Stress”

88-89 Covey,  Personal Planning System, from The Eighth Habit

90-91 Overcoming Procrastination;

92-93 Design Your Own Procrastination Plan

94-95 Learning Skills Center

96-97 [numbers not used ]

98-103 Discussion Board Instructions

104 Undergraduate Writing Center

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105-108 Totemism and Power Animals, some definitions

109-119 Animal Speak

120-123 Spirit Animals

124-125 Power Animals table of contents

126 Animal Spirit Guides table of contents

127-129 Power Animals in Bless Me Ultima Harry Potter, and Black Elk Speaks

130 Definition of poetry

131A Hopkins, introduction

131B Hopkins, "The Windhover" ; As Kingfishers"

131C-131M Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins

131N Robinson Jeffers intro

131O Jeffers, “Hurt Hawks”.

131P Jeffers, “Vulture”

132-136 Dobie introduction

137-154 J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns

155 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?

156-161 Longhorns at U.T.

162-180 J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs

171-172 querencia

181-3 Mustangs statue

184-185 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry

186-189 Texas Longhorn: origins

190-197 Covey, Principled Leadership

191 Service Orientation, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand

192 Focusing on that which is greater than the ego

193-195 Conscience, Character, …..

196-197 Left Brain/Right Brain

198- 209 Covey, The 8^th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

199-205 The Whole-Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence

206 Compassion and Conscience

207-208 Ethos, Pathos, Logos

209 Character

210A-B Meyers-Briggs business uses

210C-223 Different Drums and Different Drummers

224 Temperament Tendencies

225-226 Personality and the Teaching of Writing

227-229 Teaching/Learning Styles

230-238 Approaches to Writing

239-244 Typology Assessment of Class by Saumya Tayi, 2009

245-250 Typology Assessment of Class by Tim Smartt, 2011

251 Instructor Typology by Saumya Tayi, 2009

252-260 Instructor Type info

261 [number not used]

262 “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum

263-269 Dodgson’s Oxford

270-271 Oxford references in the Alice books

272 Alice as hero: student in-class essay

273-274 Alice’s pilgrimage: student in-class essay

275-276A U.T. students and the Alice books

276B Time in a Bottle

276C-F “Jabberwocky”: four translations

277 White Rabbit, by Grace Slick

THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

278A-B Flawn, Address to the University, 1984

279-280E Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7

280F-280H Giametti, Yale Freshman Address

280I-280J “Liberal Arts” defined

280K-280L Newman and the Liberal Arts

280M-280N Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”

280-0-P History for Dollars

280Q Well-Rounded Docs

THE IDEA OF PLAN II

280R-280V Plan II history and goals

WRITING BASICS

281-282 High School to College Writing: Making the Transition

283-284 Researching

285-286 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

287 Writing Well is Thinking Well:

288-289 Rhetorical Fallacies

290                Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”

291         Forster, “Only Connect”

292-293 Creating a Strong Thesis

294 Structure of a Professional Research Paper

295 “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of

296 Introductions and Conclusions

297-298 Flow and Transitions;

299 COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper

300 Transitional Expressions

301 Focusing on Transitions

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WORD CHOICE

302-303 The Oxford English Dictionary And Oxford Reference Online

304-305 Verbs that Take Prepositions

306A Rough Guide to Prepositions

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PUNCTUATION:

306B-317           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

318-319 Quick Guide to Commas

320-321 [numbers not used]

322 Project Responsess

323-326 The Main Building and The Tower

327 The Tower exterior words, letters

328-329 Tower interior: Hall of Noble Words

330-331A Spanish Plateresque Architecture

331B-332 Texas Spanish Heritage

333 Battle Hall

334-335 [numbers not used]

336-339 Rewriting Instructions

340 [number not used]

341-342 CMS: Formatting Your Paper

REVISING, PERFECTING:

343 Rewriting as Discovery Learning

344 Hemingway on Rewriting

345 Revisions Checklist

346-347 Saying What You Mean

348-349 Diction and Conciseness

350-351 Eliminating Wordiness

352 Readability and Clarity

353 Tips for Improving Readability

354-356 Proofreading

357 Why spell checkers are not enough

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ETHICS

358A-E MBA Ethics Oath

359 Sisodia, Ethical Capitalism

360 Cox, Ethics in Business Education

361-362 Monson, Earthlings introduction

363-393 Monson, Earthlings screenplay

394-417 David Sztybel, “Can the Treatment of Animals Be Compared to

The Holocaust?”

418-424 Quotations

425-427 Definition of Human

428-429 Definition of Animal

430-432 Definition of Speciesism

433 Definition of Anthropocentrism

433 Definition of Anthropomorphhize

434 Definition of Ethnocentrism

434 Definition of Egoism

435 Definition of Hubris

CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

436 The Starfish Story

437-438 Local Protestors

POLITICS

439-442 Humane Slaughter Act

443-448 California, Iowa

ACTION PLAN EXAMPLES, from P.E.T.A

449-451 Creating a Group

452-453 Ten Actions

454-458 Protect Companion Animals

459-462 Protect Laboratory Animals

463-465 Stop School Vivisection

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466-495 Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

496-507 The Face on Your Plate

508-517A Death in the Afternoon

517B-518 HRC windows

519-523 Sadism in Yale and Stanford Experiments

524-530 Hogarth, “Four Stages of Cruelty”

531-535 The Animal Cruelty Syndrome

536 Crush Videos Protected

537-544 Carroll, “Popular Fallacies About Vivisection”

545-547 Carroll, “ Vivisection as a Sign of the Times”

548-550 Catherine Hagar, “I am the Walrus: Animal Suffering and Lewis Carroll” (student paper)

551-557 Robert Titus on Vivisection on this Campus (student paper)

558 Julie C. on Vivisection on this Campus

559-606 Bump, Alice Book MS. rough draft

607-610 David Daniel, “Take a Bite out of Nature” (student paper)

611 Know Thyself

612-615 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain

616-618 Emotional Intelligence

619-621 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

622-623 “The Man Without Feelings”

624-625 “The Roots of Empathy”

626 David Lee Powell, Plan II student

627 Molesters and Sociopaths

628 “I Am a Rock”; “Comfortably Numb”

629-631 Definition of Passion

632-633 Definition of Compassion

634 Definition of Empathy

635-636 Definition of Sympathy

637 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination

638-642 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents

643 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary

644-645 Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams, Table of Contents

646-650 Amy Hempel, “At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom”

SHELTER DOGS

651 Amy Hempel, “In the Animal Shelter”

652-653 “Calvin’s Story”

654 “Hector”

655 “Cracked”

ELEGIES

656 “Zach”

657 “From One Old Dog”

658 “Still Thawing”

659 “Meanwhile”

660 “Jake”

661-662A “A Bouquet”

662B “For Pine Goose”

663A John Graves, intro.

663B-688A John Graves, “Blue and Some Other Dogs”

FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF VIEW

688B Rick Bass, Intro.

689--430 Rick Bass’s “The Odyssey,”

700 “Max,”

701 “Envoy”; “Devotion”

702 “Hunting Accident”;

702-703 “Gus Speaks”;

704 “Coach”;

705 “Samantha”;

706 “When I Died On My Birthday”;

707 “Buster’s Visitation”

708 “Lola’s Lament”

709-729 Sanders, Beautiful Joe

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730-731 Coetzee, intro

732-733 Lives of Animals

734-735 Garber on analogy

736-739 Singer’s fiction

740-747 Doniger on compassion, vegetarianism,

747-754 Smuts  on nonhuman persons

754-755 Contributors

756 Kafka intro.

757-762 Report to the Academy

763-764 Rilke, “Der Panther”

765-766 Hughes Intro

767 “Jaguar” I

768 “Jaguar” II

769-786 Coetzee, from Disgrace

787-798 Brian Luke, “Gender and the Exploitation of Animals”

799-806 Carol Adams, from The Sexual Politics of Meat

807-813 “Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots”

814-815 Montaigne, “The Apology of Raymond Sebond?”

816 Derrida intro

817-818 Bump, “Derrida and Carroll” MS. in progress

819-830 Derrida, “The Animal That Therefore I Am (Following)”

831-844 John Berger, “Why Look at Animals?”

845-846 Bentham

847 Alice Walker, intro

848-851 Alice Walker, “Am I Blue?”

852-881 The Dreaded Comparison

882 Racism and U.T.’s South Mall Statues

883-884 Racism and Simkins Residence Hall

885-888 MLK’s Mark on U.T.