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1-8 Table of Contents

9-16 Course Syllabus

17 Experiential Learning

18 Service Learning

19 Discovery Learning

20 Discovery Learning at U.T.

21-2 Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst

23 My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

24-28 Course Goals

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29 Racial Harassment Policy;

30-31 Sexual Harassment Policy;

32 If I Am Heterosexual

33 Ally Work

34-35 LBGT Vocabulary

36-37 Drug + Alcohol Policy;

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38-39 The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

40 Employer survey: writing, collaboration, ethics, reality

41-45 Revenge of the Right Brain

46-8 Flunking out of College

49-50 The New Curriculum

51 Moyers Rebirth at U.T.

52 Concentration vs. “multitasking”

53 Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking

54 Negative vs. Positive Attitude

[CF. Goleman on optimism in “Emotional Intelligence”

55-59 Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.

60-61 U.T. Counseling Center

62 Stress Test

63 Tips for Reducing Stress

64 U.T. Stress Relief Site

65 Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College Before I Started: Why Are You Here?

66 Texas Constitution: “for the promotion of literature”

67 U. T. Seal

68 U. T. CORE PURPOSE (Ethics) and Core Values: Freedom, Discovery, etc.

69 Diversity

70-72 Perfectionism

73-74 Covey, Time Management form and example

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75 Tower Motto: Ye Shall Know the Truth

76 Blake, “London”

77-78 Scallop Shell Symbolism

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79 Five Characteristics of a Good Student: Postive Attitude...

80-81 Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.

82-3 Motivation; cf. Perfectionism

84 Goal Setting

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COMMUNICATION

85-86 Covey on listening +reading, writing, speaking

87 Class Discussion

88 Listening

89 Have You Tried Listening?

90-91 Leading Class Discussion

TIME MANAGEMENT + RESOURCES

92-93 “Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage Stress”

94-95 Covey, Personal Planning System, from The Eighth

Habit

96-97 Overcoming Procrastination;

98-99 Design Your Own Procrastination Plan

100-1 Learning Skills Center

102 Undergraduate Writing Center

READING ASSIGNMENTS.

*103-112 David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech *= on schedule

ETHICS FLAG

113-115 Moral Dystopia”

Ideology 1 “Greed is Good”

116-117 Enron + Madoff

118-121 Enron vs. Empathy

122-127 Wall Street

Ideologies 2: Christianity and business ethics

128-129 Paul’s First Letter to Timothy: Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas: (the root of evil is greed)?

130-132 Billy Graham et al

133-138 Pope Francis

University of Texas Ethics

139-145 Ethical Challenges selections

146-151 Honor Code of U.T.

see also 993-994 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

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BUSINESS ETHICS

152                Sisodia, Ethical Capitalism

153                Cox, Ethics in Business Education

154-159         Harvard students’ MBA Ethics Oath

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EMOTIVE BUSINESS ETHICS

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160-161 Covey bio

162-169 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

170-181 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: The Whole-‐Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence, Compassion and Conscience Ethos, Pathos, Logos Character

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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182 Know Thyself

183-186 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain

187-189 Emotional Intelligence

190-192 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

193-194 “The Man Without Feelings”

195-196 “The Roots of Empathy”

197-199 Empathy vs Video Games

200 David Lee Powell, Plan II student?

201 Molesters and Sociopaths

202 “I Am a Rock”;

202 “Comfortably Numb”

203-206 “Turn It Off”.

207 Definition of “Sentimentality” (603B15)

*EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING;

208-209   Meditation and Guided Imagery

210-212    Feedback and Emotional Intelligence

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EMOTIONAL LITERACY

213-220 Emotion Words checklist

221 Children’s Feeling Words

222 Vocabulary of Emotions

223 Intensity of Feelings Chart

224-225 Writing Emotions

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226-232 The Word Love in English and Greek

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233 The words “Loving-Kindness” and Metta

234 Metta and the other brahmaviharas

235-237 Harris on the brahmaviharas

238 Judeo-Christian love and caritas; love vs. fear

239 Native American love vs. fear story

240 The term biophilia

241-281 Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization: 241-5 Intro.; 246-8 Adam Smith revised; 248-52 The new psychology of empathy + global empathic consciousness; 253-4 Mirror neurons and resonance circuitry; 255 Darwin; 256 Deep play; 257 Empathic roots of language; 258 animal models; 264 India, Jainism, Buddhism; 266 reason and emotion, Schopenhauer, Kant; 271 animal welfare; 272 group therapy and self-help groups, Moreno;275 fellow species, biophilia, 278 global empathy

282-288 Dolby, Rethinking Multicultural Education: the New Empathy and Social Justice

POSITIVE NON-BINARY EMOTIONS

289-290 Love +Joy

291-292 Peacefulness + “Know Thyself”

293-294 Enjoyment; Acceptance

295-297 Enthusiasm

DEFINITIONS OF RELATED TERMS

298-300 Definition of Passion

301-302 Definition of Compassion

303-305 Definitions of Humane, Human,

306-307 Definition of Animal

308 Definition of Empathy [SEE ALSO “Enron vs. Empathy”; “Roots of Empathy”; “Empathy vs. Video Games:; Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization; Dolby

310-311 Definition of Sympathy

311 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination

OVERVIEWS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS

312-316 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents

317 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary

318-319 Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams, Table of Contents

320-324 Project One Instructions

POWER ANIMALS

325-328 Totemism and Power Animals, some definitions

329-339 Animal Speak

340-343 Spirit Animals

344 Power Animals table of contents

345-346 Animal Spirit Guides table of contents

347-349 Power Animals in Bless Me Ultima Harry Potter, and Black Elk Speaks

350-371 Black Elk Speaks

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TEXAS TOTEM ANIMALS

372-376 Dobie introduction

377-394 J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns

395 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?

396-401 Longhorns at U.T.

402-403 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry

404-406 Texas Longhorn: origins

407--414 Learning from Longhorns

TOTEM ANIMAL ORIGINS: CATTLE

415-418 Cattle in Ancient History

419-427 Cattle in World Religions

428-430 Cattle in Hinduism

431-435 Cattle in Jainism

436 Cattle in the Odyssey

437-438 The Sacred Calf in the Bible

439-446 Hemingway on bullfighting

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THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

447-448 Flawn, Address to the University, 1984

449-453 Newman, The Idea of a University, 5-7

454-456 Giametti, Yale Freshman Address

457-458 “Liberal Arts” defined

459-460 Newman and the Liberal Arts

461-462 Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”

463-464 History for Dollars

465 Well-‐Rounded Docs

THE IDEA OF THIS UNIVERSITY

466 Constitution

467 Seal

THE IDEA OF PLAN II

468-471 Plan II history and goals

ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

472-576 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG

577 Hermann Hesse

578-684 Siddhartha

685-686 Suffering

687-691 Compassion Overview

692 Jain Guidelines

693-696 Jainism and Environmental Ethics

697-701 Ahimsa

702 Gandhi

703-705 Jain Ahimsa in Practice

706-710 Mahavira’s Environmental Ethics

711-713 *Learning from Eastern Thought

ANIMAL ETHICS

714-750 Monson, Earthlings transcript

PRACTICAL ETHICS: WHAT CAN YOU DO?

As an individual

751 Eiseley, “Starfish Story”

In a group

752 Local Protestors

753-755 California ballot

756-758 Iowa courts

international

759 Declaration on Animal Welfare

760 Declaration of Animal Rights

nonprofit corporation: example, PETA

761-763 PETA origin

764-765 “10 actions”

766-771 “Companion Animals”

772-775 “Laboratory Animals”

776-777 “Vivisection in Schools”

GLOBAL CULTURE AND ANIMAL ETHICS

778-779 Coetzee, introduction

780-795 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Philosophy

796-808 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Poetry

809-810 Marjorie Garber commentary

811-833 Holocaust analogy analysis

834-837 Holocaust comparison quotations,

838-841 Peter Singer commentary

842-848 Wendy Doniger commentary

849-856 Barbara Smuts commentary

GLOBAL CULTURE AND COMPASSION IN ACTION

857-858 Ram Dass, introduction

Thich Nhat Hanh

859-871 biography and five mindfulness trainings

872-878 quotations

879-882 best books

883 “Please Call Me By My True Names”

ANIMAL ETHICS AND THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION

884-885 Rilke 8th Elegy

ETHICS IN ACTION: SHELTER ANIMALS

886 “In the Animal Shelter

887-891 Hempel, “At  the Gates of the Animal Kingdom”

FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF VIEW

892 Rick Bass, Intro.

893-903 Rick  Bass’s  “The  Odyssey,”

CATS

904-905 Rilke, “Panther”

906-907 Hughes Intro

908 “Jaguar”

909 “Jaguar II”

910 Rilke, “Black Cat”

911-913 Cat Sense

ANCIENT WORSHIP OF CATS

914-916 "In Ancient  Egypt, Greece, and  Rome," Dorothy Stuart

 917-921 "The Cat in Ancient Egypt"

922-923 "What Happens to Cats," Herodotus

924 Siamese Temple Cats ; The Origin of the Cat in Islam

925 Cat Eye folklore

CAT COMPANIONS IN ANCIENT ART

926 TiYi, Egypt, 1500s B.C.

927 Penby, Egypt, 1200s B.C

928 Southern Italy, 4th c. B.C

LATER CAT COMPANIONS

929 Mahomed + Belgian "Cat's Prayer"

930-931 "Jeffry," Christopher Smart, 18th c

932 "Never Again," Doris Lessing

933 "Killing Willie," Mary Hemingway

CAT TEACHERS

934 Zen Masters, Ekhart Tolle

935 "Miao," Dilys Laing

FROM THE CAT’S POINT OF VIEW

936 "Kitten's Recollections," A. N. Wilson

937 "From the Laws of Cats," Karel Capek

938 “Hiddigeigei," J. V. Von Scheffel

939 “Simon," Frederick Pollock

940 "Cat of the House," Ford Madox Ford

941 “The Ballad of Tough Tom," Paul Gallico

942-945 “Diary of a Cat," Edwina S. Babcock

CAT EPITAPHS

946 “Duchesse du Maine” Sir Edmind Gosse

947 “Epitaphium Felis” Jorton

ANIMAL AND DIET ETHICS

948-976 “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows”

977-988 The Face on Your Plate

Carnism and Sustainability   Quiz in class."Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet 703-760 + Encyclical?  + SenateRejects.pdf

WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

989-990 High School to College Writing Transition

991-992 Researching

993-994 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

PHRASES IN BOLD = RUBRICS FOR PEER AND INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUES

O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose

+V = 4. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric

995 Writing Well is Thinking Well

996-7 Rhetorical Fallacies

998 Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”; RETHINK REWRITE ALSO ^ [

coherence]

999 Forster, “Only Connect” ALSO ^ [coherence]

1000-1001 Creating a Strong Thesis

1002 Structure of a Professional Research Paper

1003 “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of ALSO ^ [coherence]

1004 Introductions and Conclusions ALSO ^ [coherence]

^ = 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW

1005-1006 Flow and Transitions ALSO O

1007 COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper

1008 Transitional Expressions

1009 Focusing on Transitions

W=8. WORD CHOICE

USE THE Oxford English Dictionary:

https://login.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oed.com%2f

1010-1011 Verbs that Take Prepositions

1012 Rough Guide to Prepositions

P= 7. PUNCTUATION:

1013-1023 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

1024-1025 Quick Guide to Commas

DOC= 6. DOCUMENTATION

1026-1029 Chicago Manual of Style

W= 8. WORD CHOICE + S= 3. SPECIFICITY:

1030 Hemingway on Rewriting

1031-1032  Hemingway's Farewell to Arms summary

1033-1056 Hemingway's Farewell to Arms 47 endings

1057 Revisions Checklist

1058-1059 Saying What You Mean

C= 9. CONCISENESS

1060-1061 Diction and Conciseness ALSO W= 8.

1062-1063 Eliminating Wordiness ALSO W= 8.

1064 Readability and Clarity ALSO W= 8.

1065 Tips for Improving Readability ALSO W= 8.

P =PROOFREADING

1066-1068 Proofreading

1069 Why spell checkers are not enough

THE ETHICS OF DIET AND SUSTAINABILITY

1070-1083 The term SUSTAINABILITY

1084-1100 “Bovine Planet”

1101-1107 Making Progress

1108-1110 New Diet Guidelines

LATE ADDITIONS

1111-1112 Song Lyrics: “Born Free”; “Get Together”; “Peaceable Kingdom”

1113 Ram Dass / Einstein guided imagery

1114-1118 Vizenor, “Squirrel”