updated 12/8/06

 

"Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.Ó  E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22

"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset Ñ we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected. The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'Ó

Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml

image of a hammer    image of a hammer    image of a hammer

ÔOne day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ÔHammer* your thoughts into unityÕ. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]Ó William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51)

*hammer images "Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good. It seems particularly appropriate in these troubled times" (http://www.ragweedforge.com/ThorsHammer.html). See especially http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html

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E375L 06 SCHEDULE

subject to change

updated 9/4/06

MAKE SURE TO "REFRESH" YOUR SCREEN EACH TIME YOU VISIT THIS PAGE TO GET THE LATEST VERSION

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The importance of READING DIRECTIONS in this course.

In terms of your future success even more important than reading literature with care is the ability to read directions carefully and follow them fully and faithfully. Employers regard that as a key asset, and of course see weakness in this area as a serious liability. You can not expect an employer to hold your hand throughout an assignment the way you may have expected your parents or elementary school teachers to do so. Now that you are in college you must make the transition clearly stated in the traditional address to Freshmen at Amherst College. On the other hand, instructions and schedules often have ambiguities and sometimes even obvious errors. So, if, after reading the directions carefully, you still have questions, you are strongly encouraged to ask questions in class, email the instructor, or come to see him in his office hours. I look forward to getting to know you and helping you in any way that I can. I want you to succeed here!

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 DB= Optional Discussion Board; DBR= Required Discussion Board or -12 points ; C = Class Presentation Due; P = Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project

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Formal Writing due dates

P1 = Personal Vision; P2 = Leadership Vision,

A = Electronic B = hard copy

Sept. 19 Psychological Type Essay

Sept. 26: P1A electronic

post on Blackboard Discussion Board

Oct. 3: P1A hard copy

Oct 17: P1B

Oct. 31 : P2A post

Nov. 7: P2A hard copy

Nov. 28 P2B

Dec. 11: Optional Take Home Final Due

PORTFOLIO INSTRUCTIONS

Dec. 12: Electronic CDs should be tested in my office 1:30-3:30

Dec. 13: Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3 or earlier OR -100 POINTS

Dec. 15. Portfolio returned, Par 132 1-3: UNLESS YOUR PORTFOLIO IS ENTIRELY ELECTRONIC YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO OR LOSE 100 POINTS

REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

Sept. 24, 1-3:15, Downtown architecture

EXTRA CREDIT CAMPUS SCAVENGER HUNTS

SHELLS

HAMMERS

IMAGES OF THE FEMALE

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EXTRA CREDIT ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE RANCH PARTY: OCT. 21

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YOUR COLLEGE LIFE

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course anthology table of contents

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1.Aug. 31 Parlin Hall 104 : Questionnaires + Time Management Plan due. Introduction to reading and writing with computers, including BLACKBOARD, webspace, MOO, STUDENT FEEDBACK, hypermedia, etc.

  • BRING TIME MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT TO CLASS

    DUE: time mangement month plan, goals, etc. see internet reading:

  • Learning Skills Center Motivation and Goal Setting site

    Learning Skills Center Time Management Site

    Learning Skills Center Procrastination Site

    Semester Planning Form

    Monthly Planning Form

    Daily Planning Form

    + read

    162-163            Stress

  • 164-165          Motivation

    166-169           Overcoming Procrastination

    170-174            Perfectionism: the Double-Edged Sword

    175-176            Time Management

    177                   Goal Setting

  • BEFORE CLASS prepare questions about: 

     

    37-44                        Leadership and E. Q.

    45-52                        Your Personal Vision

    53-63               Lee, Discovering the Leader in You

    64                        Reading Directions

    65-66                        5 Traits of Good Students

    67-69                       Student excuses: what the teacher hears

    70-71              Class Participation:   Listening

    72                    Racial Harassment Policy

    73-74A             Sexual Harassment Policy

    74B                        Drug + Alcohol Policy

    74D                     Undergrad. Writing Center

    75-76              Learning Skills Center  (Motivation, Procrastination, Learning Styles)

    77-78              Grades Definition 

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    COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION

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    "Five Characteristics": "Good computer skills...Strong writing skills

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    79                    PC vs. MAC

    80                    Changing your email address for Blackboard

    81-82               Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace

    83- 100                Introduction to the Moo: GO TO MAPPA MUNDI

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    • "Five Characteristics": "Good computer skills...Strong writing skills"

      WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

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    • 30% of  your grade on our fomral writing assignments will be based on unity:

    • 101A                  ÒCOMPOSITION,Ó the meaning of

    • 101B-102           COHERENCE, sign of an ÔAÕ paper

    • 1009                  Yeats, ÒHammer Your ThoughtsÓ

      1010                 Hopkins, ÒAs kingfishersÓ

      1011-1012        Browning, ÒTwo in the CampagnaÓ

      1013                 Forster, ÒOnly ConnectÓ

      1014                        Alan Watts, Introduction

      1015-1021            Watts, ÒThe World is Your BodyÓ

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    • PUNCTUATION, the road to perfection (teacherÕs pet peeves):

      103-113           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

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    • KEY TOOL :
    • 114-115          THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE
      REVISING, PERFECTING:

      116-133 NUMBERS NOT USED

    •  

    • 134                  Hemingway on Rewriting

      135                  Why spell checkers are not enough

      136-138           Proofreading 

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      WRITING INSTRUCTION: THE BIG PICTURE

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      THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WRITING

      139-142            Teaching/Learning Styles,

      143-152            Writing Styles

      153-161            Dass, ÒThe Witness,Ó

      INSPIRATION, key ingredient for your  PROJECTS

      178                 Think for Yourself        

      179-180          Wild Mind vs. Monkey Mind

      181                ÒFlowÓ

      182                number not used

      183                Frustration, a Stage of the Creative Process

      184                Blocks to Creativity: Pride/hubris vs. humility

      185                Keats: ShakespeareÕs Negative Capability

      186                 ÒThe MysteryÓ

      187                 Inspiration

      188                 Oxford Motto: Psalm 27: ÒGodÓ as source of creativity 

      189-193             Language Change as Creativity: the Whorf hypothesis

      194                  Literature as Inspiration: Keats on ChapmanÕs Homer

      195-196            GHOSTS: Ancestral Voices of The Collective Unconscious as Inspiration

    • 197A                        Steinmark tribute before each game

    • 197B-213           Key to HRC ghost windows: A GALLERY OF LEADERS

      CREATIVITY AS THE TRANSCENDENCE OF DUALISM

      214                Bump, Dualism and Creativity

      215                Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

      216-229         Rico, Two Modes of Knowing, Writing the Natural Way

INTERNET "READING"

Class Participation and Leadership

VISIT Our virtual model of a world to which you can contribute now: find openings, opportunities for you in the world: MAPPA MUNDI (just hit Enter for the password; Mac users use Firefox)

MOO as model of world which can inspire you (Hopkins's "Duns Scotus's Oxford")

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VICTORIAN AGE (1832-1901)

works by Victorians in red

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2.Sept. 5 Bring calendars to choose Downtown excursion REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARD: Origin and Purpose of Universities in the Victorian age, according to Newman

Discussion Board instructions

Class Participation and Leadership

+ prepare any questions you might have on introductory materials

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  • "Who Are You? " said the Caterpillar (repeatedly). What does it mean to answer, "I am a college student?" 
  • Who Are You? often involves Why Are You (Here)?  DBR ON NEWMAN'S IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY  308-313

  • Texas seal

    Texas seal

    Newman's idea of a university was based on his alma mater, Oxford, whose seal appears on the Main building:

    Texas seal

  • :The Goals and Purposes of Universities

  • with a focus on LEADERSHIP

  • Leadership in the Idea of a University and at U.T.

305B-305E      HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF UNIVERSITIES

306-307        Flawn, Address to the University, 1984, citing Newman

308-313        Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7

314- 317       Newman, The Site of a University

318                Boyer/Carnegie Research Univ. Report

YOUR ALMA MATER

Texas flag

       

298                 U. T. Core Values

301-302          Tower interior: Hall of Noble Words

303                  Tower motto

304              Texas Constitution, 1876: Òfor the promotion of literatureÓ

305                  U. T.  Seal

TEACHING PHILOSOPHIES

330-331        Discovery Learning Project

332               Discovery Learning

333            Discovery Learning in the Alice Books?

334               The U. T. Moore Method

335-336        Discovery Learning in Freshman English at Amherst College

337                My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

INTERNET "READING"

Carnegie Report

U. T. Tower

U. T. Discovery Learning Site

Victoria's R. L. Moore ghost on the MOO (Mac users use Firefox)

Passing the Torch

Generations

Generations II

Books by Margaret Catherine Berry on the history of the University of Texas

MOO as world to which you can contribute: MAPPA MUNDI (Mac users use Firefox)

review, connect, hammer into unity: previous 200 pp., esp. course goals, Composition, Dass, 'The Witness', Ghosts, etc.

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3. Sept. 7 Victorian Origin and Purpose of  Liberal Arts and The English major OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD

  • read

    319-320           Newman and the Liberal Arts

  • 321-322           Palaima, Essential Education

  • 323-324           Brickley, ÒValue of the Liberal ArtsÓ

  • 325-327          Revenge of the Right Brain    

    328A               Liberal Education and Computer Literacy

    328B-329       Bump, ÒLogic of the HumanitiesÓ

    338-343           Arnold, ÒLiterature and Science"

    344-347           Pater,  Conclusion to The Renaissance

    348                  Eng Dept Mission Statement

    review, connect, hammer into unity: Newman's Idea of a University and today's writings:

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ÒLarger universities must find ways to find ways to create a sense of place and to help students develop small communities within the larger whole.Ó CarnegieÕs Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for AmericaÕs Research Universities (http://notes.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf)

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4. Sept. 12 ROAD MAPS* Due for A-H; *road map presentations FIVE MINUTE PRESENTATIONS electronic examples

Road Map instructions 293-297 Road Map readings 230-292F.

5. Sept. 14  ROAD MAPS* Due for K-Y ; *road map presentations FIVE MINUTE PRESENTATIONS electronic examples

Road Map instructions.293-297 Road Map readings 230-292F

C Road Map Due: The Power of Places in Your Life: How Your Places  Have Made You Who You Are. Where Did You Come From? Where is Your Home? What Is Your Pilgrimage, Your Ultimate Goal in Life?

  • Assignment Due: Bring to class a visual representation of the various "places" you have experienced over the course of your life. You may think of your life not in terms of places but in terms of people or whatever. However, remember that the goal of this exercise is to raise your consciousness of the power of places in your life: houses, schools, churches, playgrounds, places in nature, etc. To earn maxiumum credit, keep the focus on the power of places and spaces in your life. sense of place To get a sense of the power of such places as houses, schools, churches, and places in nature, see the readings below.
  • (You will also get insight into a lot of Victorian literature. As you can see from the readings in red, Hopkins, Pater, and Dickens all wrote about place. We can include Wordsworth not only for his influence on the Victorians, but also because he was poet laureate until 1850. Later, we will see what Newman, Arnold, Ruskin, Pugin, Clayton, Adams, and Browning have to say about the power of place.)
  • The actual oral presentation of the Road Map is a very small part of the assignment, lasting only five minutes or so. The emphasis is primarily on visual rather than verbal rhetoric. To see what is meant by visual rhetoric see the readings below. Because students will have so little time to look at your Road Map in class, it is particularly valuable to have an electronic version of your Road Map that we can put on our website. However, I will take a pictures of physical road maps for our website as well.
  • The Road Map can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or ......  Many students make Power Point presentations which they put on a CD which we can play in class and then put on our website. Some make websites, and now, for extra credit, you can design an object in 2ndLife and make it a link to a website or, even better, put part or most of the road map in 2ndLife somehow. However, doing a 2ndLife version of the project, or a website or Power Point version, while recommended, is not required. You can do a physical version instead, if you wish, as many others have done before you.
  • For electronic examples and pictures of physical road maps, see below
  • This will become part of your portfolio.
  • Speaking of portfolios and websites, instead of using webspace.utexas.edu for a website, I ask that you use the "Content System (trial)" in Blackboard. It is designed by the same people who did webspace and has the same limitations, but by putting assignments in the Blackboard Content System you will be able to collect them all together quickly at the end of the semester in a Portfolio (required).
  • Remember, if you do an electronic Road Map to get credit you must put it on a CD and turn the CD in to the instructor for transfer to our website. The CD should be tested before the presentation.
  • Also, consider using shells to mark the stations of your pilgrimage, see
  • 576-577          Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T
  • scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.

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    WRITING ABOUT PLACE

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    230-237           Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

    238-239           Placeways: theoria, haptic perception, expressive space, pathetecture, selective support, mutual immanence, PlatoÕs doctrine of place

    249-259            Semiotics, from The World is a Text

    260-264            Place theory + topistics,  Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World

    265-269           Terms for sense of place: genius loci, querencia, inscape, instress

    270A                        Lopez, an introduction

    270B-274           Lopez, ÒA Literature of PlaceÓ

    NATURE AS PLACE

    275                  Wordsworth,  ÒMichael, A Pastoral PoemÓ

    HOME AS PLACE

    276                  Pater, introduction

    277-279          Pater, ÒThe Child in the HouseÓ

    SCHOOL AS PLACE

    280                 Dickens, introduction

    281-284          Dickens, from Hard Times [ incl. math vs. mystery]

    285-288          Shideler, ÒThe ClassroomÕs Sense of PlaceÓ

    289-292A          Pink Floyd, ÒThe WallÓ

    COLLEGE AS PLACE

    292B-292E            College as Place

    SACRED SPACE

    292F                          SACRED SPACE

    YOUR PLACES

    293                          Road Map of Places in Your Life

    294-297             Road Map of Your Journey

 

INTERNET "READING"

sense of place

scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.

semiotics

iconography

examples of road maps from  last year's Senior Seminar , E375L last spring, E320M, The previous E320M , E603 last year , Previous E603

examples of electronic road maps: from last year's Senior Seminar: Amy , Andrew , Kristin , Mali ,Nicole , Raj,

from E603:Victoria, Jessica,Brette

campus sites, local sites, hill country sites

person/place connections in MAPPA MUNDI

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At U. T. "Leadership" is defined as "The will to excel with integrity and the spirit that nothing is impossible."

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6. Sept. 19 Psychological Type Essay due 'Who Are You? " said the Caterpillar (repeatedly). Are you an introvert or an extrovert or .....?

Take the psychological ÒtypeÓ test of the Meyers-Briggs variety, such as that at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Print out the results and include them in your document. Then check out the descriptions of the related learning styles in our course anthology and add a evaluation of at least 300 words of how well you believe "your" learning and writing styles describe you as a reader and writer.

139-142             Teaching/Learning Styles

143-152            Writing Styles

How does this assignment relate to E375L? Psychology was invented in the Victorian era. The first laboratory for the study of psychology as we know it was built in 1879. The first basic text was William James's Principles of Psychology (1890) and both of the next two pioneers of the field were raised as Victorians: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and, the theorist of psychological types for this assignment, Carl Jung (1875-1961).

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REQUIRED READING, OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: PATTERN OF CONVERSION:

 349-361       Buckley, ÒThe Pattern of ConversionÓ

362-363       Mill, introduction

364-365       Mill,  crisis in his life

373              Dylan, ÒIn the time of my confessionÓ

373-374       Dylan, ÒLay down your weary tuneÓ

               review, connect, hammer into unity: 183-213

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for next week:

LOOKING AHEAD:  INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR FIRST FORMAL ESSAY:

45-52                       Your Personal Vision

53-63                      Lee, Discovering the Leader in You

37-44                      Leadership and EQ

  • 74D                       Undergrad. Writing Center

    75-76              Learning Skills Center

  • 81-82          Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace

  • 101A                      ÒCOMPOSITION,Ó the meaning of

    101B-102         COHERENCE, sign of an ÔAÕ paper

    PUNCTUATION:

    103-113           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

    REVISING, PERFECTING:

    134                 Hemingway on Rewriting

    135                Why spell checkers are not enough

    136-138        Proofreading 

    114-115          THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE

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course anthology table of contents

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7. Sept. 21 PARTY FOR ENGLISH MAJORS AFTER CLASS IN THE EASTWOODS ROOM OF THE STUDENT UNION, 3:30-6. EXTRA CREDIT FOR VICTORIAN COSTUMES.

Victorian Leadership: Carlyle and Emerson   "'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind', said Alice

REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARD ON THE VICTORIAN pattern of  conversion in Sartor Resartus THE key document of the Victorian Age, distinguishing it from Romanticism

366                                Carlyle, introduction

367-369                    Carlyle, crisis chapters of  Sartor Resartus

370                        Emerson, introduction

371-372            Emerson, Representative Men

review, connect, hammer into unity: 349-374, 183-213

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for next time:

LOOKING AHEAD:  INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR FIRST FORMAL ESSAY:

45-52                        Your Personal Vision

53-63                       Lee, Discovering the Leader in You

37-44                       Leadership and EQ

  • 74D                      Undergrad. Writing Center

    75-76              Learning Skills Center

  • 81-82          Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace

  • 101A                       ÒCOMPOSITION,Ó the meaning of

    101B-102        COHERENCE, sign of an ÔAÕ paper

    PUNCTUATION:

    103-113           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

    REVISING, PERFECTING:

    134                Hemingway on Rewriting

    135                 Why spell checkers are not enough

    136-138          Proofreading 

    114-115          THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE

 

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  • SEPT. 24 , DOWNTOWN EXURSION: meet at northern entrance of the capitol at 1 P.M. 20 points to be earned, -20 points if you do not attend. Students from previous courses of mine, if they do not want to repeat the tour, can explore at least two of the other nineteenth-century buildings in Austin on pp. 775-785 or 761 or the Neill-Cochran House at 2310 San Gabriel and write up your responses (a page or so on each) and submit them, preferably with pictures, to the Texas Architecture Discussion Board.

  • ODB on

  • 756-760          Texas Architectural Styles
  • 764-771, Nicholas Clayton, Architect of St. Mary's Cathedral
  • Other readings:
  • 762-763 Basic Traditional Shapes: Columns and Domes
  • 775-785 Historic Downtown Austin: OUR ROUTE
  • 761 Two U. T. Houses west of  campus

  • INTERNET "READING"

    ANTIMODERNISM 

    SELECTED VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS

    local sites

    Victorian Antimodernist Architecture at Oxford: Balliol (virtual tour), Brasenose, Exeter, Ashmolean Art Museum (virtual tour), University Science Museum (virtual tour 1) (virtual tour 2), Oxford Union Library, Keble, ....

    Victorian Antimodernist Architecture in London: Westminster Palace (vs. medieval Westminster Abbey)

    Salamanca, Spain

    review, connect, hammer into unity:

     Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.

    the experience of place

    Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

    Semiotics, from The World is a Text

    Place theory + topistics,  Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World

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    If you have to do this excursion on your own, follow these directions.

    [1] At the capitol, to identify briefly with ancient Greece, either photograph or identify with EXACT locations, examples of  Doric, Ionic, and Cornithian columns (one pt. each).

    [2] To identify with ancient Rome, lay down on your back as close to the center of the capitol dome as possible. Look up and describe the effect on you of the dome. (up to seven points.) What Roman buildings are famous for their domes (two pts.)

    [3] With the map in front of you of Victorian/Historic Downtown Austin, go from building 1 to building 48. Identify the symbol on this building that connects you to ancient Israel (one point).

    [4] Proceed to building 47. To identify with medieval Christianity, looking at the front of the building, explain how it fits Ruskin's second principle of  "The Nature of Gothic" (one point). Enter the church and describe the effect on you of the interior (up to seven points).

    [5] Check out buildings 46, 7, 8, 9, 10 on the way to building 11. To explore your identity as a Texan, identify the examples of Ruskin's fourth principle on the outside of the building (one pt.) and explain the relevance of the term "Widow Maker" to the interior (one point).

    Note that all these buildings were built in this town around the same time and thus demonstrate that to be a Texan is also to be an ancient Greek, a Roman, an Israelite, a medieval Christian, and ..........

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    8. Sept. 26  P1A electronic version: post on the Blackboard "Project One" Discussion Board before class   

  •   INSTRUCTIONS FOR  P1A ELECTRONIC VERSION

 

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ÒLarger universities must find ways to find ways to create a sense of place and to help students develop small communities within the larger whole.Ó CarnegieÕs Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for AmericaÕs Research Universities (http://notes.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf)

vic college life Oxford and Cambridge in Vic. literature, Collegiate Gothic

Place as the most important Professor at Oxford:

375-396       Dougill, Oxford in English Literature

Campus tours: Virtual CampusMain Building Tour
architectural details, personalities, sights, sounds Now & Then
tour of The University of Texas at Austin from the 1920s to 1980s.Pictorial Tour
images of classroom buildings, laboratories, museum artifacts, commencement exercises and more.Scenes from the Top
Take a virtual guided tour around the observation deck of the university's Tower.

review, connect, hammer into unity:

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Sept. 27-Sept. 30: R Collaborative Creativity

64-65                  How to Respond to the Projects of Others* 134          Hemingway on Rewriting

How to Respond to Other Students' Projects

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9 .Sept. 28  

" Truth to Nature” in Architecture ?

Meet at Littlefield house 24th and Whitis. Are You a Modernist or an Traditionalist? Both? Neither? A Romantic? A Goth?

OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD:

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    977                        Map of Campus

    896-942            Margaret Berry, Brick by Golden Brick, selections, esp.  899-902 Old Main; 920-921  Littlefield House and Carriage House

    698            Littlefield House

DRAWING VS. WRITING, VS. PHOTOGRAPHY

467-468          Hopkins, introduction

469-470          Ruskin, introduction

471-496          Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing"

VICTORIAN GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE and its context

712                 Romanticism 1775-1830 and beyond

713                  Romantic Medievalism

714-717        Moreland, Medievalist Impulse in [Victorian] America

718                     Historicism in architecture; H. H. Richardson + Romanesque

719               Gothic

x519-522            Gothic revival

720                     Romanesque

721-740        Ruskin, ÒThe Nature of GothicÓ

741-742        Pugin, introduction

743-746        Pugin, Contrasts between 19th c. and 18th c. architecture [Gothic vs.                                     Neoclassical]

747               Old Main, University of Texas

                 Consider: Are these buildings “True to Nature”? Are they “True to Nature” in Ruskin’s sense of the words? Can the influence of Ruskin’s essay be detected in these buildings? Can you find his six features of Gothic in them? What sentences are illustrated by what features? What sentences are contradicted by what features?

  • WHY THE DRAGONS ON THE MANTLE?

INTERNET "READING"Oxford Gargoyles and GrotesquesMedieval OxfordANTIMODERNISM Victorian Antimodernist Architecture at Oxford: Balliol (virtual tour), Brasenose, Exeter, Ashmolean Art Museum (virtual tour), University Science Museum (virtual tour 1) (virtual tour 2), Oxford Union Library, Keble, ....Victorian Antimodernist Architecture in London: Westminster Palace (vs. medieval Westminster Abbey)SELECTED VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE IN TEXASlocal sitesSalamanca, Spain: a Plateresque example Find Antimodernism in MAPPA MUNDI

_review, connect, hammer into unity:

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VICTORIAN COLLEGE LIFE

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10 . Oct. 3 Meet at HRC second floor: Oct. 3: P1A hard copy due:

P1A hard copy due: INSTRUCTIONS

VICTORIAN COLLEGE STUDENTs  I: Hopkins and Newman and Dodgson at Oxford  Tennyson and Darwin at Cambridge?

467-468          Hopkins, introduction

469-470          Ruskin, introduction

471-496          Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing"

503-505            Poetry as Music

506-507            ÒSpringÓ

/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/carroll/_review, connect, hammer into unity: ____________________________________________________

 

ÒLarger universities must find ways to find ways to create a sense of place and to help students develop small communities within the larger whole.Ó CarnegieÕs Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for AmericaÕs Research Universities (http://notes.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf)

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11. Oct. 5

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E603/medievalarch.htm

 

 

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12.Oct.  10 OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Dragons, Discovery Learning, the Grotesque  

 

The Littlefield Dragon

Class Drawings of the Dragon

WHY THE DRAGONS ON THE MANTLE?

ARE THEY MODERN?

699                        Modernism, definitions

700A-700E            Modernism, history

701-709            Miller,  The Disappearance of God

ARE THEY TRADITIONAL, HISTORICIST?

  • 786-794           Blackwood, Oxford Gargoyles and Grotesques

  • 888-895             Notre Dame de Paris, a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

                891-895      the human grotesque

  • ARE THEY RELATED TO CHRISTINA'S GOBLINS?

  • 843A               Christina Rossetti, introduction

    843B-858        Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

    859-870           Jerome Bump, ÒChristina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodÓ

review, connect, hammer into unity:

 

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At U. T. "Leadership" is defined as "The will to excel with integrity and the spirit that nothing is impossible."

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Oct. 12 OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Grotesque in Poetry and Symp. Imag.

871-872           Definition of the Grotesque

873-875           Walter Bagehot, the Grotesque in Victorian Poetry

876                  Robert Browning, Introduction

877                  Criteria of Dramatic Monologues

878-879           ÒMy Last DuchessÓ

879-880           ÒPorphyriaÕs LoverÓ

881                  Browning discussion questions

882-883           The Sympathetic Imagination

884                  Betty Sue Flowers,  Literature and Morality

885-886           ÒMy Last ProfessorÓ

Sarah Jett's Robert Browning variations site

Maggie Huerta's Elizabeth Barrett Browning site

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14. Oct. 17: P1B* Project instructions Blanton, images of the female, medieval, light, grotesque *First project REVISED with at least 350 new words

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15.Oct. Oct. 19. BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR LAUREN [TODAY], ALANA [10/13], AND AMBER [9/4] and Unbirthday party for the rest of us

OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD:

Hopkins 1

  • 497- 500         HopkinsÕ college diaries, 1863-4

  • 509-510            ÒThe May MagnificatÓ

  • 512-515            ÒThe Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We BreatheÓ

review, connect, hammer into unity:

  • 467-468          Hopkins, introduction

    471-496          Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing"

  • Sacred space
  • additional information:
  • Bump, Jerome. / Gerard Manley Hopkins. / Boston / 1982 PR 4803 H44 Z597 PCL Stacks -- 6 copies available
  • Electronic version:
  • [1] go to http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/index.html
  • [2] go to the letter T
  • [3] select Twayne's Authors Series
  • [4] select Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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             16. Oct. 24 OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Hopkins 2

  • The Sacramental View of the World,

  • 508-509            ÒHurrahing in HarvestÓ

  • 506                        ÒGodÕs Grandeur,Ó ÒThe Starlight NightÓ

  • 506-507            ÒSpringÓ

  • 511                        ÒAs kingfishers catch fireÓ

  • 507-508            ÒThe WindhoverÓ

  • review, connect, hammer into unity:

Sacred space

17. Oct. 26 OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Hopkins 3

507                        ÒThe Sea and the SkylarkÓ

510-511            ÒInversnaidÓ

511-512            ÒRibblesdaleÓ

517-535            Bump, ÒHopkins, the Humanities, and the EnvironmentÓ

  • review, connect, hammer into unity:
  • 506                        ÒGodÕs Grandeur,Ó

  • 506-507            ÒSpringÓ

  • P2A INSTRUCTIONS

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NATURE ON CAMPUS

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18. Oct. 31 P2A post on Project Two Discussion Board

P2A INSTRUCTIONS

Meet at Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center

EXTRA CREDIT FOR BEST VICTORIAN HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

DB Why Are You Here? What Are You? An Animal? An Angel? Both? Neither? What, Where Are You in Relation to Nature?

Clues in the Campus Natural History Museums.

OPTIONAL Discussion Board

596                          ÒReal Alice,Ó Oxford Univ. Museum

597                          ÒOxford Dodo,Ó Oxford Univ. Museum

598-600           Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum

601-605           Texas Memorial Museum guide to ghosts

INTERNET "READING"

Oxford University Museumvirtual tour

Oxford University Museum images

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/Darwin1.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/Darwin2.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/debate1.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/debate2.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/UnivMuseum/AliceAJDC.JPG

illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University Museum

Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center directions

Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center website

Texas Memorial Museum/Natural Sciences Center images

review, connect, hammer into unity: ____________________________________________________

 

course anthology table of contents

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19. Nov. 2 Hopkins' spiritual approach to nature compared to Darwin's, Tennyson's

REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARD

Evolution vs. Spiritual Approach to Nature; Are Darwin and Hopkins incompatible? "Intelligent Design"? Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification

606A                Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time

606B-607          ÒGenesisÓ

608-610           Darwin, biography

611                  Evolution, introduction

612- 617          Darwin,  from The Origin of Species (1859)

            615-616                 ÒThe Great TreeÓ

618                ÒThe Tree of LifeÓ

619-622A        Ellison and Jones, ÒWalking the Forty AcresÓ

622B                        Living Among Skeletons and Ghosts

THE VICTORIAN LITERARY DEBATE ABOUT EVOLUTION

623-624           Tennyson, introduction

625-629           Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)

630                   Browning and evolution

598-600           Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum

1] Read Tennyson's #123 (from (In Memoriam), which focuses on the firmament of time. This is the poem quoted on the south side of the Hogg building, referring to the time when this part of Texas was at the bottom of the sea. Relate to the quote from Eiseley's Firmament of Time.[2] Read "Evolution" on the debate between Darwinism and the literal interpretation of the Bible. Basically, the problem was the belief that fossils and multiple strata in the crust of the earth (more than seven) meant that Genesis could not be scientifically true if taken literally. This was not necessarily a problem for a Rabbi or a Jesuit priest, but fundamentalists, then and now, who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible were and are troubled by this. [3] In that context read poem #56  (In Memoriam), written by Tennyson when speculated on the meaning of fossils in "scarped cliff and quarried stone." In this poem "type" means "species." As you can see, to him, fossils provide that species could become extinct, and thus according to the Darwinian interpretation, homo sapiens also could become extinct. If this is true, he feared, churches and organized religion based on the Bible could become meaningless and "love thy neighbor as thyself" reverts to the war among dinosaurs and other "dragons of the prime." Eventually he solved the problem in the same series of poems (In Memoriam), but this is a famous statement of the predicament.[4] Read our Darwin selections to see for yourself what Darwin said.

 

 

 

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ÒLarger universities must find ways to find ways to create a sense of place and to help students develop small communities within the larger whole.Ó CarnegieÕs Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for AmericaÕs Research Universities (http://notes.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf)

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.Nov. 7. P2A   hard copy.

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/christchurch/default.asp

review, connect, hammer into unity:

CONNECT LIMESTONE AND FOSSILS IN WALLER CREEK TO DARWIN_

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21. 

Nov. 9 OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD:

In Memoriam and the Disappearance of God: Do you or do you not accept Tennyson's spiritual/moral/sentimental evolutionism as the solution to the Darwin vs. religion dilemma? Why or why not?

Read the concluding poems in our anthology from In Memoriam. Review

606A                Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time

606B-607          ÒGenesisÓ

608-610           Darwin, biography

611                  Evolution, introduction

612- 617          Darwin,  from The Origin of Species (1859)

625-629           Tennyson, In Memoriam selections (1850)

630                   Browning and evolution

598-600           Huxley Wilberforce debate, Oxford Univ. Museum

1] Read Tennyson's #123 (from (In Memoriam), which focuses on the firmament of time. This is the poem quoted on the south side of the Hogg building, referring to the time when this part of Texas was at the bottom of the sea. Relate to the quote from Eiseley's Firmament of Time.[2] Read "Evolution" on the debate between Darwinism and the literal interpretation of the Bible. Basically, the problem was the belief that fossils and multiple strata in the crust of the earth (more than seven) meant that Genesis could not be scientifically true if taken literally. This was not necessarily a problem for a Rabbi or a Jesuit priest, but fundamentalists, then and now, who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible were and are troubled by this. [3] In that context read poem #56  (In Memoriam), written by Tennyson when speculated on the meaning of fossils in "scarped cliff and quarried stone." In this poem "type" means "species." As you can see, to him, fossils provide that species could become extinct, and thus according to the Darwinian interpretation, homo sapiens also could become extinct. If this is true, he feared, churches and organized religion based on the Bible could become meaningless and "love thy neighbor as thyself" reverts to the war among dinosaurs and other "dragons of the prime." Eventually he solved the problem in the same series of poems (In Memoriam), but this is a famous statement of the predicament.[4] Read our Darwin selections to see for yourself what Darwin said.

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course anthology table of contents

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At U. T. "Leadership" is defined as "The will to excel with integrity and the spirit that nothing is impossible."

22. Nov. 14 : Required Discussion Board on your position in the Evolution vs. Spirituality debate

THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE

631-632A               ÒDarwin Under AttackÓ

632B-632E               Using GodÕs Design to Communicate Faith

633-635              Olasky and Perry: Monkey Business

635B-635D                R. C. Changing Position on Darwin?

635E-G            "Bush Remarks Roil Debate"

635H                           Klugman, ÒDesign for ConfusionÓ

636-637             Bump, ÒScience, Religion, and PersonificationÓ

review, connect, hammer into unity:

Tennyson, Hallam, and the Apostles at Cambridge

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23. Nov. 16 Meet at Biology ponds; a.k.a. Tower Garden

  • OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Landscape Architecture II: Retreat / Recharge Zone"and then -- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains."

  • TOWER MEMORIAL GARDEN

    638-639           Klingenborg, Without Walls

    640                  Definition of ÒgardenÓ; ÒArcadian golden ageÓ

    641-643           Tower Memorial Garden

    644-645           Forster, introduction

    646-651           Forster, ÒThe Other Side of the HedgeÓ

    652-654           Arnold, introduction,

    655                  Arnold, ÒKensington GardensÓ

     

  • review time management stress on concentration, "relax[ing] and do nothing rather frequently,"
  • VALUE OF MEDITATION: Improved Mental Abilities: Increased intelligence, increased creativity, improved learning ability, improved memory, improved reaction time, higher levels of moral reasoning, improved academic achievement, greater orderliness of brain functioning, increased self-actualization.http://www.tm.org/research/home.html

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____________________________________________________24. Nov. 21 OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Arnold and Victorian Pastoral

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/Arnoldsfield.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/Arnoldsfield2.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/Bump.MPG

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/03students/frolic.MPG

 

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/Arnoldspires.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/03students/walkers.JPG

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/Chilswellfarm.JPG

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/view1.JPG

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/view2.JPG

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/oxford/Arnold/view3.JPG

 

 

 

 

review, connect, hammer into unity:

652-654           Arnold, introduction,

655                  Arnold, ÒKensington GardensÓ

___________________________________________________25. Nov. 28 P2B Meet at HRC FOLLOW DIRECTIONS FOR PIB: Project instructions

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/carroll/

Flash introduction to Dodgson

Dodgson in MAPPA MUNDI

review, connect, hammer into unity: EVERYTHING

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26. Nov. 30 Alice books as parodies of your own personal experience of life as an undergraduate. Comparisons are to be supported by page nos.

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR ANNA [TODAY] AND JENNIFER [11/11]

_review, connect, hammer into unity: EVERYTHING ___________________________________________________

Dec.5 ALICE PARTY TIME, LED BY BETH'S NIECE

points to be awarded

 

_review, connect, hammer into unity: EVERYTHING ___________________________________________________28. Dec. 7 Alice graduates  

OPTIONAL DISCUSSION BOARD: Alice as Hero 2 

 

review, connect, hammer into unity: EVERYTHING ____________________________________________________

Extra Credit: J compare Carroll's and Tenniel's illustrationsTenniel's are in your Annotated Alice

450-456        DodgsonÕs handwritten Alice with his own illustrations

See more of them in the British Library

review, connect, hammer into unity: Rico, Two Modes of Knowing, Writing the Natural Way Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Semiotics, from The World is a Text

Extra Credit: J Compare Slick's interpretations of Alice to the originals

459                  ÒWhite Rabbit,Ó Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane

460-464         Grace Slick, Wonderland Suite

INTERNET "READING"

Grace Slick's Alice images

review, connect, hammer into unity:

BOTH ALICE BOOKS 450-456ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ DodgsonÕs handwritten Alice with his own illustrations

course anthology table of contents

 

 

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Dec. 11 Optional Take Home Final Due in mail slot of Par 132 ____________________________________________________

PORTFOLIO INSTRUCTIONS

LAB OPEN FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO WORK:

Where: FAC 10
When: 10 am to 2 pm
Days: Dec. 11th through 15th
Proctors: Aimee and Hampton

Dec. 12: Electronic CDs should be tested in my office 1:30-3:30

Dec. 13: Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3 or earlier OR -100 POINTS

Dec. 15. Portfolio returned, Par 132 1-3: UNLESS YOUR PORTFOLIO IS ENTIRELY ELECTRONIC YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO OR LOSE 100 POINTS

Previous E375L electronic portfolios

Brooks ; Jordan ; Keturah ; Yashoda ;

 

Jan. 6-11

Canyon of the Eagles LEADERSHAPE training

Jan. 8 JB visits

 

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