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2-5 20 pts. bonus for posting P3A on Blackboard by midnight tonight
2-9 15 pts. bonus for posting P3A on Blackboard by midnight tonight
2-10 10 pts. bonus for posting P3A on Blackboard by midnight tonight
2-18 P3A due on Blackboard or -10 per day
2- 25 P3B due on Blackboard or -20 per day
3-1 P3 critiques due by midnight, Saturday
3-6 P3C Hard Copy due
Apr. 8 P4 due on Blackboard
Apr. 12 P4 critiques due
Apr. 18 P4 hard copy due
4-26 Required Excursion, Taniguchi Garden, 10 AM
OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE
Schedule. 1- 14; 1-16; 1-21 Dass, How Can I Help?; 1-23; 1-30, 2-4 Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves;; 2-6 Ethics and the Sympathetic Imagination; 2-11, 2-13,Coetzee,1;; 2-18 P3A due + Earthlings 1; 2-20 Earthlings 2, 2-25 P3B due; 2-27 Coetzee,3; 3-4 Carnism 3; 3-6 P3C Hard Copy due; 3-18 I. B. Singer; 3-20 Sadism 3-25Alice and Animals ;, 3-27, 4-1,4-3 Research Animals; Apr. 8 P4 due; 4-10 ; overview: the history of compassion;;, 4-15 Paradise Lost and Regained 4-17 P4 hard copy due; 4-22 Paradise Lost and Regained 2;4-24, Islam and Sufism; 4-27 Required Excursion, Taniguchi Garden, 11 AM; 4-29 Siddhartha selections; 5-1 awards, evaluations, etc.
1-14 HOW CAN I HELP, Dass book required or -10 each class day. "Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear1-16 HOW CAN I HELP, Dass book required or -10 each class day."Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: for Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
1-21;HOW CAN I HELP, Dass book required or -10 each class day."Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
ETHICS and animals I
1-23 Fowler, EVERYBODY BESIDES THEMSELVES book required or -10 each class day"Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: for Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
1-28 Ice Day
1-30;EVERYBODY BESIDES THEMSELVES second hundred pages book required or -10 each class day"Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
2-4;EVERYBODY BESIDES THEMSELVES final hundred pages book required or -10 each class day"Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: for Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
2-5 20 pts. bonus for posting P3A on Blackboard by midnight tonight
2-6 ETHICS: COMPASSION, Cats, Dogs, AND THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION :Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
2-9 15 pts. bonus for posting P3A on Blackboard by midnight tonight
2-11Coetzee "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: for Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
2-12 10 pts. bonus for posting P3A on Blackboard by midnight tonight
2-13 Coetzee 2 ""Best and Worst"for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
2-18 P3A due on Blackboard or -10 per day COMPASSION TEST EARTHLINGS 1 -20 for not attending or leaving early
2-18, 2-19 12 pts. extra credit for a short movie clip of you talking with one of the Peta2 volunteers at their tent on Gregory Plaza 10-3 Tuesday or Wednesday; 8 pts. for a photo. Send movie or photo to me in email.2-20;Earthlings 2 COMPASSION TEST -20 for not attending or leaving early
BLOG DUE NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT SUNDAY, FEB. 23
2-25 P3B due on Blackboard or -20 per day; movies: Peaceable Kingdom; Witness; Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
2-27 COSTELLO 3 + Disgrace ending "Best and Worst"for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
2-27 EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: LISA SOLOMON IN JOYNES ROOM AT 7 PM;12 pts for proof of attendance, much more for a post in the Extra Credit blog
2-27-28 Animal 8 pts for proof of attendance, much more for a post in the Extra Credit blog which connects film to our assignments;Full description here --> http://landmarks.utexas.edu/artistdetail/ellis_david discovered by Sea Horse
3-1 EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES : 8 Pts for proof of attendance at each event;OPTION ONE: J. Bump on the Alice books as guides to college, CAL 100, 11-11:40
OPTION TWO Exploring Emotions: Expressing Feelings Through Drawing, GrEGory Gymnasium (GrE) Plaza all day. Artfully express different emotions in a fun and creative way by drawing one of the many colorful emotions that we all have. Explore healthy ways to express the emotion's drawn.
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3-1 CRITIQUES DUE ON BLACKBOARD by midnight Saturday
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3-4 Carnism."Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
3-6 P3C Hard Copy due or -10 per class day, that is, -10 if turned in 3-18, -20 if turned in 3-20, etc.
website map MAIN P3 INSTRUCTIONS
3-18 MEET AT WALLER CREEK: Singer: Judaism, Holocaust, Vegetarianism; Birthday Crab 3-16 "Best and Worst"for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
3-20 MEET AT WALLER CREEK: Sadism; "Best and Worst"" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
3-25 MEET AT WALLER CREEK: Alice and Animal; ,"Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear Animal Studies today: 475-77; 478-496 Bump, "Biophilia and Emotive Ethics"
3-27 MEET AT PARLIN 104: Research Animals 1, "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
4-1 MEET AT WALLER CREEK Research Animals 2,"Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
4-3 MEET AT WALLER CREEK Research Animals 3,Red Peter vs. Planet of the Apes speech,speciesim and racism,"Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
Literature and POPULAR CULTURE
FernGully, the book........................................................................620-6
Batty Rap……..………………………………………………………………………………627
Planet of the Apes multimedia overview................................................628-32
Planet of the Apes, the novel, selections................................................633-70
Franz Kafka introduction...................................................................671
Kafka"Report to the Academy".......................................................672-8
_ 4-4: 8 pts. for proof of attendance at Friday lecture on primates' social behavior and how we study them, -- to include discussion of "similarity and differences" between humans and primates.
http://www.esi.utexas.edu/hot-science-cool-talks/378-primate-social-behavior
20 more points available for a post relating this to our readings in the Extra Credit Blog.
Remember that there is a limit of 50 pts for individual extra credit, and 100 pts. for group extra credit (when two more class members attend together).
Apr. 8 P4 due on Blackboard MEET AT BLANTON. equipment: a quarter for the cubby for your backpack, your camera (may be used only on the second floor set to "no flash"), and your laptop or pencil (no pens allowed) and paper.[1] Find a work of art that no one else has claimed that depicts compassion and/or clearly and obviously is designed to elicit compassion from the viewer. One painting per student: stake your claim early. [2] take detailed notes on a painting, to be shown to the instructor, outside the museum entrance, between noon and 12:15.[3] up to twenty-seven points for post to Blanton Blog by May 10. Include at least one picture of the painting you have chosen and at least one quote, if not one about the painting, at least one from our course anthology. Images from the internet may be used but not all paintings can be found on the internet
TODAY'S GOALS: [2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.
History of Compassion
4-10 overviews, compassion "Best and Worst"for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
Apr. 12 P4 critiques due: 80 points available
4-15, Paradise Regained 1. "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
Paradise Lost: Genesis, Milton's version, selections + review 481-2, 486, ....
Paradise Regained:
Isaiah ……………………………………………………………………………………………..709-710
Virgil intro…………………………………………………………………………………………….711
Ecologue IV ...........................................................................................712-15
Philip.....................................................................................................716-17
Ps-Matthew............................................................................................717-8
Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom ....................................................................719-20
721-2 Blake intro.
723 Tyger and London
724-28 Songs of Innocence: Night, Little Girl Lost, Little Girl Found,
729 "Auguries of Innocence" (to line 42)
730 "The Mystery: spoken by a child"
731 "The Mystery in the Middle Ages: entering into joy"
732 The Mystery in the twentieth century
733-741 Kipling, "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat"
4-17 P4 hard copy due: MEET AT S.A.C. BOTTOM FLOOR AT ORANGE ROOM WITH FIREPLACES, WILL PROCEED TO REFLECTION,/MEDITATION ROOF, " SKYSPACE" ETC. BRING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR HARMONIZING AT THE CREEK AFTERWARDS
P4 HARD COPY
WHAT SHOULD BE IN THE FOLDER TO BE HANDED IN?
[1] YOUR FINAL COPY CLEARLY MARKED AS "FINAL COPY. " FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method.. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes). THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE OR -5.
ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE these and only these related materials
[2] The P1, P2, and P3 rubric evaluation forms from me and the P1, P2, and P3 final essays edited by me, with my marks on the essays or -50
[3] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT of P4, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO BLACKBOARD;
[4] ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE OF YOUR PROJECT, PUT INTO A SINGLE WORD DOCUMENT, WITH THE NAME OF THE REVIEWER and the color code AT THE TOP OF EACH CRITIQUE.
[5] A SECOND DRAFT WITH ALL THE CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES, WITH CHANGES NOW HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO TO WHICH REVIEWER, INCLUDING ANY MADE IN RESPONSE TO THE INSTRUCTOR'S CRITIQUES OF P1, P2, and P3.
4-19 SATURDAY, 10-12, SOUTH MALL
Gray Wolf Walkathon 20 pts. For participating, 10 more pts. For having your picture taken with Kate. More info at
https://www.facebook.com/events/507763832659131/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
4-21-4-25 Earth Week
Monday 4-21 SACA table (outside Gregory Gym) on Monday (Earth Day) Elephant (Shelbie E603a) 10-11; Dolphin (Jacek UGS) 11-12; 8 pts for picture taken with Elephant or Dolphin
4-22 MEET AT WALLER CREEK: Paradise Regained 2 "Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
742-3 Yann Martel
744- 55 Life of Pi: "Zoo"; religion; zoomorphism
756-76 Tolle, from The Power of Now, A New Earth notice especially the discussions of joi de vie; the role of nature; and Blocks to Return: "mind-‐forged manacles" (Blake): egoism; negativity; merely intellectual knowledge: abstraction, concepts, information, facts, labels, judgments, opinions; mere words, compulsive analysis
RETURN TO CHILDHOOD?
I. B. Singer, Stories for Children..............................................................789
Author's Note..............................................................................790
"Why Noah Chose the Dove".......................................................791-4
"Zlateh the Goat".........................................................................794-8
"The Parakeet Named Dreidel".................................................799-801
"Naftali the Storyteller & His Horse, Sus".................................802-11
Dylan Thomas intro................................................................................812
"Fern Hill"..............................................................................................813-14
4-22 Tuesday SACA serving vegan ice cream (awesome) on Speedway for the actual Earth Day festival
4-24, MEET AT WALLER CREEK: Islam and Sufism "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
777 Mysticism
778 Sufism
779 Rumi
780-8 A few Rumi poems
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4-26 EXTRA CREDIT (15 pts for attendance, more for driving; +10 pts. Per hour of work.) 9AM TO 1 PM removing invasive plants from Spring Lake, San Marcos, glass bottom boat ride and lunch provided, rsvp to Chris Burnett at burnett@austin.utexas.edu
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4-27 TANIGUCHI GARDEN REQUIRED EXCURSION:
DIVERSITY EXPERIENCE: TANIGUCHI: Nature and the Orient, the Asian-American experience " It doesn't matter what the professors teach, it's what the place teaches...." Zilker excursion: bring anthology and writing materials and be prepared to remove your shoes and "read" with your bare feet. Extra credit for Japanese clothing. Meet at the Bamboo hut in the Taniguchi oriental garden at 11 AM: here is a map of how to get there from the parking lot of the Botanical Gardens:
Barton Springs Road is at the bottom, Stratford Drive to the right of the Taniguchi garden 23 points to be earned, -23 points if you do not attend. (alternative is eight-hundred-word formal essay with pictures of you at the garden.) BEST PLACE TO PARK: TAKE STRATFORD DRIVE BEHIND THE BOTANICAL GARDENS AND PARK UNDER MOPAC SOMEWHERE AND THEN ENTER THE GARDENS ON FOOT FROM STRATFORD DRIVE REQUIRED READINGS: Asian American Exclusion Acts Taniguchi Oriental Garden images
Zilker Botanical Garden website Hartman Prehistoric Garden website Isamu Taniguchi Oriental Garden website
815 Zilker Botanical Garden map;
816 Isamu Taniguchi;
817 "The Spirit of the Garden";
818 Reading "The Spirit of the Garden"
4-27, STUDENT HOLI PARTY IN 'EDEN': 600 West Seventh St., Taylor, 76574, 699-1095 DIRECTIONS HERE
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4-29 MEET AT WALLER CREEK: SIDDHARTHA selections, "Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Black Bear
Apr. 30th Wednesday from about 9 or 10 til 2pm; SARA farm animal visit (cow, chicken, turkey) 8 pts. For picture taken with one of the animals; up to 20 more for a blog.
5-1 awards, evaluations, etc. "Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet: Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake,Hummingbird
5-12 5 PM Deadline for turning in all remaining assignments such as revisions of projects, expansion of blogs with past due deadlines, blogs without deadlines, multimedia pilgrimage, etc. I would add doing blogs you missed; if you do so, however, to create some simulation of a discussion, you will need to include in your blog references to most of the previous posts.
FEELING STRESSED?
Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, once wrote, "to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.
More than that, it is cooperation with violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys her own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful."
One interpretation: The fear of failure and the need to get things done create this downward spiral of the spirit. To break this "circle of violence" we must step back, reflect, meditate. While at rest we may be able to see things anew, which will increase our "fruitfulness at work" and at home.
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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