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E 603, #33795 Fall 2015, flags CD, GC, (L/E in Spring)
Schedule
TTh 11-20:30 PAR 104 e/l*
Jerome Bump
PROJECTS
P1 due online 10-8
P1 critiques due 10-17
P1 final copy due 10-22
P2 due online 11-19
P2 critiques due 11-24
P2 final copy due 12-8 or earlier
August 24-31 Add/drop 8-25 10-12 Reading Roundup Gone to Liberal Arts 6 PM Turtle pond behind Tower; 8:30 PM In front of Tower: Gone to Texas ceremonies for all.
8-27 Class Parlin 104 11 A.M. Introduction, X9-112; ( esp. p. 64 and Wallace pages 103-112) AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THEM, BRING TO CLASS ALL VOLUMES OF THE COURSE ANTHOLOGY (REQUIRED) TO SHOW THAT YOU HAVE PURCHASED THEM (-5 PER DAY PER VOLUME UNTIL YOU DO + QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT ASSIGNED READINGS PP. 9-112 Wallace commencement speech and video. Blogs explained. Quizzes on course description. Discussion of blogs, motto, and DFW speech. Here is a useful interpretation: http://vimeo.com/68855377
8-30 Sunday: blogs for 9-1 and 9-3 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday. Blog instructions.
9-1 Why the Ethics/Leadership Requirement? Discussion of Blogs due 8-30. Quiz in class. x113-1599-3, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE .Discussion of Blogs due 8-30. Quiz in class. x160-212, 301, 311 Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet9-1 World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation
9-3: 4:30 SAC. get food from Zen, Taco Cabana or Chick-fil-A downstairs (or from Jester/San Jac dorms even if they want) and bring it to CLA 2.606 by 5 PM for Convocation meeting with mentors, alumni, photos of whole class, etc. Then to WEL 2.224.
DUE BY MIDNIGHT 9-4:QUESTIONNAIRES: -5 PER CLASS DAY UNTIL RETURNED BY EMAIL; + INTRODUCTION BLOG 15 PTS. AT STAKE
9-5 EXTRA CREDIT driving with passengers: 10 pts.; 20 pts. for proof of attendance* at first event, 8 pts. each for proof of attendance at one other event;FOR GLOBAL CULTURES AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY FLAGS AND PREPARATION FOR SIDDHARTHA;Janmashtmi Utsav Krishna birthday celebration at Radha Madhav Dam 400 Barsana Road, Austin, TX, 787379-6 Sunday: blogs for 9-8 and 9-10 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
9-8 Emotive Ethics: Empathy, Loving Kindness, etc.[Homo Empathicus ] x226-318 "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet
9-8 Extra Credit. 9 points for proof of attendance, Up to 27 more for an extra credit blog relating the lecture explicitly to our readings.2015 Liz Carpenter Lecture LBJ Library 7:00pm - 8:30pm in Lady Bird Auditorium No tickets or rsvp required. Robert Reich," The Future of Inequality" Professor Reich is one of the world's leading thinkers about work and the economy. Now Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, he has served under three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. He also served on President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. In 2008. His new book coming out in late September, is "Saving Capitalism - For the Many, Not the Few".
9-10 Why are You Here? Leading with Integrity. Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II; Quiz in class. "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet===========================================================
9/11 12th class day last day to add a class
9-13 Sunday: blogs for 9-15 and 9-17 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
9/14 Intrasemester reports due in the deans' offices.
9-15 Gawain and Perfectionism; Quiz in class ; First Half of Gawain "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet; four actors needed: points earned in addition to or in place of blog; extra credit for all for coming in costumes from the Arthurian/medieval period
9-17 Gawain and Perfectionism: Second Half of Gawain 525-576 ; "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet; acting: points earned in addition to or in place of blog; extra credit for all for coming in costumes from the Arthurian/medieval period; if time, induction into the order of the Green Knight ===============================================================================================9-18 extra credits for sustainability (ethics flag):2015 SUSTAINABILITY SYMPOSIUM: EXTRA CREDIT 9 CREDITS FOR ATTENDANCE AT FIRST EVENT + 7 CREDITS FOR ATTENDANCE AT EACH SUBSEQUENT EVENT: Friday, September 18, 2015; 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. AVAYA Auditorium, POB 2.302 SCHEDULE DON'T MISS 1:15 SWIFT FOX: CAMPUS BEEHIVES ETC>Moonlight Prowl set for September 18th 8 PM in front of the Tower 10 POINTS FOR PROOF OF ATTENDANCE AT ENTIRE EVENT=============================================================================================== 9-20 Sunday: blogs for 9-22 and 9-24 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
9-22;Project 1 and Power Animals; Quiz in class. "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet; CLAN ANIMAL ANNOUNCED ;KEYA'S INDUCTION INTO THE ORDER OF THE GREEN KNIGHT?
9-24 Meet on second floor of the HRC, 21st and Guadelupe, opposite the Dobie dorm:the ART OF WRITING VS PERFECTIONISM The Art of Writing; Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon; and Farewell to Arms; "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet. TRIPLE POINTS FOR OGG GREEN WRIST BANDS. QUIZ ON THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION
9-24 MIDNIGHT DEADLINE FOR EMAILING YOUR VOTE FOR CLAN ANIMAL
Extra Credit: September 25, 2015 9:00am - 8:30pm Bullock Museum (MLK and Congress) Great Promise for American Indians, celebrating the 3rd Annual American Indian Heritage Day! 10 PTS. FOR attending a performance and/or the public celebration, more points for an Extra Credit Blog; Performances 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Public Celebration 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m + Dancing and drumming performances by Great Promise for American Indians in the Museum lobby.9-29 REBIRTH AS YOUR POWER ANIMAL: extra credit for your power animal costume and/or Native American musical instruments and playing Native American music on any instrument. "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet; QUIZ ON "Moyers' Rebirth at U.T" and on our anthem, "Born Free." (pp. 51, 1111 in our anthology). Optional Blog on Totem Animals, Dobie, Longhorns, worth up to 27 points.
ASIAN IDEALS OF COMPASSION 10-6 TO 22, EARTHLINGS COMPASSION TEST 10-29 AND 11-3 --GLOBAL CULTURE AND ETHICS FLAGS
10-1 Siddhartha 1 required: extra credit for Indian clothing; Quiz in class. "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet 577-631
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:Hesse intro. Homo Empathicus video above + first two-thirds of Siddhartha: Part I: The Son of the Brahman; With the Samanas;Gotama; Awakening; Sansara; By the River; + Hesse
10-4 Sunday: blogs for 10-6 and 10-8* assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
Musee des Beaux Arts
10-6 Siddhartha 2 required: 632-684; extra credit for Indian clothing; Quiz on final four chapters of Siddhartha: Part II: The Ferryman; The Son; Om; Govinda + AUDEN.PDF; "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet
10-8 1 due online BY 10:30 AM* meet at the Natural Science Museum up the hill from the Mustangs statue *If P1a is submitted by 10:30 AM 10-9 -10 points; If submitted by 10:30 AM 10-10 -15 points; If submitted by 10:30 AM 10-11 -20 points; If submitted by 10:30 AM 10-12 -25 points; If submitted by 10:30 AM 10-13 -30 points; If not submitted by then -100 points P1 critiques due 10-17 by midnight: instructions on P1 Discussion Blog site and at http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/P1Acriteria.html______________________________________________________________________________________
EXTRA CREDIT. ETHICS AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY FLAGS: DIARY OF ANNE FRANK PERFORMANCE OCT. 8-18; OCT. 10. EXTRA CREDIT: Saturday Sacred Springs Powwow at the Meadows Center at 921 Aquarena Springs Drive in San Marcos, Texas 15 pts. for attendance, 10 extra pts. for driving others there, 10 extra pts. for the Blessing on the Shores of the Sacred Spring (10 AM).10 extra pts. for gourd dancing. 10 extra points for powwow dance contest.
10-11 Sunday: blogs for 10-15 assignment due by 11:59 PM Sunday10-13 ASIAN IDEALS OF COMPASSION ; Quiz in class on assigned readings. Discussion of readings,.Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet .x685-713
10-15 DASS 1 pp. ix-90 MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS OR -10; "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet
OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS: GRIZZLY and STARFISH
10-18 Sunday: blogs 10-22 assignment due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
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10-20,. DASS 2 How Can I Help? 91-148 "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet +
11-3 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.Last day an undergraduate student may change registration in a class to or from the pass/fail basis.
11-7 EVENING DIWALI EXTRA CREDIT driving with passengers: 10 pts.; 20 pts. for proof of attendance* at first event, 8 pts. each for proof of attendance at one other event; 6:30-midnight?FOR GLOBAL CULTURES AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY FLAGS at Radha Madhav Dam 400 Barsana Road, Austin, TX, 78737 + up to 20 pts. for optional blog11-7 DAY FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY FLAGS AND EXPERIENTIAL REVIEW OF BLACK ELK SPEAKS Extra Credit.Saturday November 8th PowWow 24TH Annual Austin Powwow Toney Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd., Sunset Valley, TX MAP CP Extra Credit if you go in groups, Individual extra credit otherwise 10 AM - 10 PM driving with passengers: 10 pts. 11 pts. for proof of attendance at first event, 8 pts. each for proof of attendance at other events; + up to 20 pts. for optional blog;;
11-8 Sunday: blogs for 11-10 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
11-10, Coetzee 2; Quiz in class."Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet 796-808 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Poetry 838-841 Peter Singer commentary 842-848 Wendy Doniger commentary 849-856 Barbara Smuts commentary
not this afternoon but this evening This Changes Everything, Tue, November 10, 2015 | Avaya Auditorium, Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Building 2.302 7:00 PM to 10 PM The Humanities Institute will host two screenings of the film "This Changes Everything," (Trailer: https://youtu.be/YQhflH4alO ) inspired by Cline Visiting Professor Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, in advance of Klein's November 11 lecture. 8 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 8 pts. Extra Credit if only one.
11-11 Naomi Klein on Climate and Capitalism http://www.utexas.edu/cola/humanitiesinstitute/events/38539 11 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 11 pts. Extra Credit if only one. Up to 27 additional points for Extra Credit blog with proof of attendance. from 7:00-9:00pm in the Lady Bird Johnson AuditoriumNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of several books, including the 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and was also shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category.
11-12 MEET AT STATUE OF MLK ON EAST MALL. Coetzee 3, The Poets and the Animals; Quiz in class."Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet Quiz on Rilke and Hughes poems in class.11-12, 10 TO 3 PM. EAST MALL Students Against Cruelty to Animals (SACA) is so excited about this event! Society for Animal Rescue and Adoption (SARA) is a non-profit animal sanctuary where they have over 800 animalsThey are going to be bringing some animals to campus! There will be some dogs, 2 goats, a turkey and a cow! We will also be taking donations so you can take pictures with the animals and all the donations will be going to SARA! 8 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 8 pts. Extra Credit if only one. 11-12Naomi Klein will participate in a 45-minute student discussion on Thursday, November 12. She will meet with students on Thursday, November 12, from 11:00-11-45 AM, in CLA 1.302B 8 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 8 pts. Extra Credit if only one. Can earn points for this but will lose some points for not attending:11-12 7-10 PM Hindu Student Association Diwali 10 pts. for attendance the whole time;up to 20 pts. for optional blog OR11-12 Eco-Poetry with Timothy Donnelly, Camille Dungy, & Juliana Spahr Thursday, November 12 at 7:00pm in the AVAYA Auditorium (POB 2.302). Directions to the AVAYA Auditorium in the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Building (POB) can be found here.8 pts. Extra CP credit if more than one class member: 8 pts. Extra Credit if only one. up to 20 pts. for optional blog
11-15 Sunday: blogs for 11-17 and 11-19 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
11-17, . Carnism and Ideology;Why We love Dogs, Eat Pigs, Wear Cows The Face on Your Plate; Quiz in class. "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet? 948-976 "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows"977-988 The Face on Your Plate
P2a due online 11-19 : NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS: OTTER ; BUNNY; Meet in classroom to watch parts of Cowspiracy optional blog to be made available. The topic is SUSTAINABILITY, an important part of ETHICS, to be discussed 12-1
November 19 - T.C. Boyle Reading 10 pts. of extra CP credit for proof of attendance. Up to 27 more for a blog about the experience! Thursday, November 19 at 7:30pm in the AVAYA Auditorium (POB 2.302). The amazingly prolific Boyle has published 25 award-winning novels and story collections—most recently The Harder They Come—translated into two dozen languages. He will read a piece of fiction addressing environmentalist themes. His archive resides at UT's Ransom Center.
11-22 SARA visit. 35 pts. for attendance and helping out. More for driving others and more than one hour of work. Contact Dolphin (Jacek): saca.active@gmail.com. SARA: Meeting Dogs ; Running of the Pigs; Teaching Tip1: You've heard ""Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces."Teaching Tip 1: substitute corn for pearls. Teaching Tip2: substitute love for fear
the teacher's alter ego takes over, as it usually does
11-24 meet in par 104: Triple attendance points and exclusive rights to the Peaceable Kingdom blog;
TWO LEADERSHIP VISIONS REALIZED
PEACEABLE KINGDOM
WITNESS
the makers of these documentaries
11-24 P2 Critiques due by midnight
11-29 Sunday: blog for 12-1 assignment due by 11:59 PM Sunday.
12-1 Carnism and Sustainability Quiz in class."Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet
1070-1083 The term SUSTAINABILITY
1084-1100 "Bovine Planet"
1101-1107 Making Progress
1108-1110 New Diet GuidelinesNEXT SEMESTER: Sustainability Studies at U.T; Encyclical;Senate Rejects.
12-3 DECEMBER BIRTHDAY: JAGUAR. awards, evaluation, etc.Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet
12-8 Final Due Date for P2 hard copy and all extra credit assignments
P2: The experiment: extending the sympathetic imagination to a live animal
SAVE THE PAPERS IN THIS FOLDER FOR NEXT SEMESTER OR -100
NAME
FOR P3 CONCENTRATE ON
_________: (part one), up to 30 points: a monologue from the point of view of the animal (at least three-hundred words) REQUIREMENT: YOU MUST INCLUDE THE ANIMAL'S POINT OF VIEW ABOUT LOSS OF FREEDOM, ABOUT THE ANIMAL'S PHYSICAL CONFINEMENT, etc. *
________: (part two) Evaluating the experiment, incorporating responses to questionnaire;
up to 30 points:
_________ good transition from the animal's point of view to yours. Up to 10 points
_________ research, up to 25 additional points
________ plus points for good writing, detail, insight, etc.
______ points from the three rubric categories designated for P2 (up to 140 points) -3 for each error or infelicity in each of your three P2 rubrics
________*Substantial bonus points for not only including passages from Kafka's Report to the Academy, especially this section, but also revealing insights into the meaning of this section.
_______ subtotal
___ deductions from other rubric categories
_______ deductions for missing items from folder (questionnaire etc.) and/or missing requirements: an essay in blog format* of at least fourteen-hundred words that must include multimedia (at least one video (put on youtube and supply URL) and three stills of the animal), at least the two required citations, and footnotes Must include the animal's point of view about physical confinement, loss of freedom, etc. Must be acceptable college-level writing. Must end with accurate word counts both with and without quotations.
Additional requirements for part two: DO NOT just rehearse your visit, or just provide an account of it. EVALUATE the possibility of extending the sympathetic imagination, empathy, sympathy, and/or compassion to another species. Devote most of P2B to explaining your answers to the questionnaire. Include at least one well-integrated quotation about the sympathetic imagination, empathy, sympathy, or compassion and at least one UNIQUE well-integrated and documented quotation from the readings about cats (pp. 904-947) or dogs (pp. 893-903 or https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/Dogs.pdf ) in our anthology illustrating the sympathetic imagination).
603B BIRTHDAYS: Tiger (3/12) Wolf (3/25) Black Leopard (4/1) Black Bear (7/20)
"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!
FYI :Mindfulness Meditation Lunch Hour Group:
A drop-in group for any member of the UT Community to practice mindfulness meditation together. No experience necessary; brief instruction on meditation will be provided.
Group will meet biweekly on Fridays at 12:10 beginning on Sept. 11. Meetings in Harry Ransom Ctr, 3rd Fl. Tom Lea Room.
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