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2-8 Table of Contents
9-10 Campus Map
11-17 Course Syllabus
18 Experiential Learning
19 Service Learning
20 Discovery Learning
21 Discovery Learning at U.T.
22-3 Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst
24 My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report
25-29 Course Goals
30 Class Participation
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31 Racial Harassment Policy;
32-3 Sexual Harassment Policy;
34 If I Am Heterosexual
35 Ally Work
36-37 LBGT Vocabulary
38-9 Drug + Alcohol Policy;
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40-1 The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class
42 Employer survey: writing, collaboration, ethics, reality
43-5 Revenge of the Right Brain
46-8 Flunking out of College
49 Student Grade Expectations, Disputes
50-51 The New Curriculum
52 Moyers Rebirth at U.T.
53 Concentration vs. “multitasking”
54 Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking
55 Negative vs. Positive Attitude
[see also Goleman on optimism in “Emotional Intelligence” below]
56-60 Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.
61-2 U.T. Counseling Center
63 Stress Test
64 Tips for Reducing Stress
65 U.T. Stress Relief Site
66 Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College Before I Started: Why Are You Here? Just Do It!
67 Texas Constitution: “for the promotion of literature”
68 U. T. Seal
69 U. T. Core Values: Freedom, Discovery, etc.
70 Diversity
71-3 Perfectionism
74-5 Covey, Time Management form and example
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76 Tower Motto: Ye Shall Know the Truth
77 Blake, “London”
78-9 Scallop Shell Symbolism
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80 Five Characteristics of a Good Student : Postive Attitude...
81-2 Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.
83-4 Motivation;
85 Goal Setting
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COMMUNICATION
86-7 Covey on listening +reading, writing, speaking
88 Class Discussion
89 Listening
90 Have You Tried Listening?
91-2 Leading Class Discussion
TIME MANAGEMENT + RESOURCES
93-4 “Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage Stress”
95-6 Covey, Personal Planning System, from The Eighth Habit
97-8 Overcoming Procrastination;
99-100 Design Your Own Procrastination Plan
101-2 Learning Skills Center
103-8 Blog Instructions
109 Undergraduate Writing Center
110-13 Totemism and Power Animals, some definitions
114-24 Animal Speak
125-28 Spirit Animals
129-30 Power Animals table of contents
131 Animal Spirit Guides table of contents
132-4 Power Animals in Bless Me Ultima Harry Potter, and Black Elk Speaks
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135 Definition of poetry
136 Hopkins, introduction
137 Hopkins, "The Windhover" ; As Kingfishers"
138-48 Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins (instructor’s blog)
149 Robinson Jeffers intro
150 Jeffers, “Hurt Hawks”.
151 Jeffers, “Vulture”
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152-156 Dobie introduction
157-174 J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
175 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
176-181 Longhorns at U.T.
182-200 J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs
201-3 Mustangs statue
204-5 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
206-208 Texas Longhorn: origins
209-216 Learning from Longhorns
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217-224 Covey, Principled Leadership
Service, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand
Focusing on that which is greater than the ego
Conscience, Character, …..
Left Brain/Right Brain
225-36 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
The Whole-Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence
Compassion and Conscience
Ethos, Pathos, Logos Character
237 “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum
238-44 Dodgson’s Oxford
245-6 Oxford references in the Alice books
247 Alice as hero: student in-class essay
248-9 Alice’s pilgrimage: student in-class essay
250-1 U.T. students and the Alice books
252 Time in a Bottle
253-6 “Jabberwocky”: four translations257 White Rabbit, by Grace SlickTHE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
258-9 Flawn, Address to the University, 1984
260-4 Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
265-7 Giametti, Yale Freshman Address
268-9 “Liberal Arts” defined
270-1 Newman and the Liberal Arts
272-3 Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”
274-5 History for Dollars
276 Well-Rounded Docs
THE IDEA OF PLAN II
277-80 Plan II history and goals
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
281 Know Thyself
282-5 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain
286-8 Emotional Intelligence
289-91 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought
292-3 “The Man Without Feelings”
294-5 “The Roots of Empathy”
296 David Lee Powell, Plan II student
297 Molesters and Sociopaths
298 “I Am a Rock”; “Comfortably Numb”
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EMOTIONAL LITERACY
299-306 Emotion Words checklist
307 Children’s Feeling Words
308 Vocabulary of Emotions
309 Intensity of Feelings Chart
310 Smiley-Face Feelings guide
311 Joy
312-3 Writing Emotions
POSITIVE NON-BINARY EMOTIONS
314 Love
315 Joy
316 Peacefulness
317 “Know Thyself”
318-19 Enjoyment; Acceptance
320-2 Enthusiasm
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323-5 Definition of Passion
326-7 Definition of Compassion
328 Definition of Empathy
329-30 Definition of Sympathy
331 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination
332-3 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents
334-37 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary
338-9 Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams, Table of Contents
340-4 Project One Instructions
345-52 Project Two instructions
353-415 Project Two Role Model possibilities
353-388 Texas, Our Texas
Cousins, ”Memories of an English Major”
Cooley, “The Best of Times”
Jones, “Between the Wars”
Oliver, “Some Blues for a Trio”
Dick, “A Gallant and Beautiful Spirit”
Flowers, “’The Times They Were a Changing’”
Whittier, “The Last Bastion”
Schwartz, “The Web of Campus Life”
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389-415 TxTell: UT Stories
Alan Bean
Barbara Conrad
Denton Cooley
Catherine Crier
Edwin Dorn
Lee Jamail
Luis Jimenez
Alejandro Junco de la Vega
Red McCombs
Bill Moyers
Americo Paredes
George W. Pierce
Weldon Smith
Ben Streetman
Heman Marion Sweatt
416-419 Honor Code of U.T.
WRITING INSTRUCTIONS
High School to College Writing: Making the Transition..................................................…420-1
Researching…………………………………………………………422-3
Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism………………………………424-5
WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART
O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose+V = 4. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric
Writing Well is Thinking Well………………………….426
Rhetorical Fallacies……………………………………....427-8
Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”…………………….429
Forster, “Only Connect”………………………………….…430
Creating a Strong Thesis………………………………....431-2
Structure of a Professional Research Paper……..433
“COMPOSITION,” the meaning of………………….....434
Introductions and Conclusions………………………….…435
^= 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW
Flow and Transitions……………………………………..436-7
COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper……………………..438
Transitional Expressions……………………………….439
Focusing on Transitions………………………………………………440
W=8.WORD CHOICE
Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Reference Online....................................................................441-2
Verbs that Take Prepositions……………………..443-4
Rough Guide to Prepositions……………………………445
PUNCTUATION:P= 7. Punctuation
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons .446-56
Quick Guide to Commas………………………………447-8
PROJECT CRITIQUES……………………………..………….….459
REWRITING
Rewriting Instructions………………………………...460-3
DOC= 6. DocumentationChicago Manual of Style……………………………….............
464-7
REVISING: Rewriting as Discovery Learning ……………………....468
W= 8. Word choice+ S= 3. Specificity:
Hemingway on Rewriting ……………….........…..469
Revisions Checklist……………………….………470
Saying What You Mean…………………………....471-2
C= 9. ConcisenessDiction and Conciseness………………………………..473-4
Eliminating Wordiness………………………………….475-6
Readability and Clarity…………………………………...477
Tips for Improving Readability………………………………......478
P =ProofreadingProofreading ……………………………………………...479-81
Why spell checkers are not enough………………..482
DIVERSITY READINGS
483-511 Black Elk Speaks
Campus Semiotics I
512-14 The Main Building and The Tower
515-18 Cesar Chavez (statue)
519-20 Spanish Plateresque Architecture
521-2 Texas Spanish Heritage
523 Battle Hall
Hispanic-American Student Essays
524-530 Miguel Ramirez
531-539 Norma Andrade
539-46 Alexandro Melendez
Asian-American Student Essays
547-8 Asian Exclusion Act
549-57 Anthony Luckett
558-68 Johnny Lee
569-77 Vincent Ng
Campus Semiotics II
578-82 Racism in U.T. Statues?
583 Martin Luther King (statue)
584-7 MLK, “I Have a Dream”
588-90 MLK’s visit to U.T.
591-2 Barbara Jordan (statue)
593 Toni Morrison
594-617 Bump, “Racism and Appearance”
618-626 Bump, Family Dynamics
627-38 Alison Bechdel and Fun Home
639 Maxine Hong Kingston
640-739 Dead Poets Society
EMOTIONAL LITERACY review
740-7 Emotion Words checklist
748 Children’s Feeling Words
749 Vocabulary of Emotions
750 Intensity of Feelings Chart
751 Smiley-Face Feelings guide
“Stress Recess” Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called “Stress Recess” at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!
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