Senior Seminar Schedule
Fall, 2002
All required reading assignments are in Jenn’s xeroxed anthology.
[G = optional pages in Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins PR 4803 H44 Z597, PCL and UGL]
Aug 29. INTRODUCTION to the course,
ü Questionnaires to be distributed and collected.
ü Class Contacts to be completed.
ü IF computer account number required to logon to class intranet. (New users may claim an IF account at the Student Microcomputer Facility in the Flawn UGL by completing an IF account request form and presenting it and a government-issued photo ID at the front desk.)
Introductory Course Materials.
1-4 Course Description
5-7 Reading Schedule
8-11 Group Participation Guidelines
12-14 Guidelines for Listening
15 Racial Harrassment Policy
16-17 Sexual Harrassment Policy
--Writing Instructions--
18 The Portfolio
19A-19K Effective Visual Design
19L Spell Checker
19M Polished Writing Instructions
48-9 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay
20 Web Projects
21 Web Site citation guidelines
25-6 General Grades Definition (see also course description)
27 Teaching Philosophy
28 Nature Websites
29 Course Goals
31- 4 HTML Quick Reference
35-6 Learning Record Instructions
ü
ü Journal entry due on Discovery Learning, pp. 62-3, and one or more of the following:
64-80 Bump, "Radical Changes"
81-4 Miller, "Ex-Apple pioneer captures nature digitally"
web Bump, " Left vs. Right Side of the Brain: Hypermedia and the New Puritanism" [tune your browser to
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall99/bump.html]
¸ see ACITS short courses and HTML class schedules:
¸ http://www.utexas.edu/computer/classes/
¸ see self paced tutorials: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training/handouts/tutorials.html#internet
¸ Review X1-61, especially "Local Sites"; Nature Websites; HTML Basics; HTML Quick Reference.
¸ If you are interested in possibly making a web site, check out Netscape Composer or Dream Weaver or ….
¸ Begin assembling pictures of you in nature, your favorite places in nature, etc. for the project due October 1. Most of the pictures must be personal, not taken from the internet.
Review and be ready to ask and answer questions about:
1-3 Course Description
4-7 Reading Schedule
8-11 Group Participation Guidelines
12-14 Guidelines for Listening
15 Racial Harrassment Policy
16-17 Sexual Harrassment Policy
--Writing Instructions--
18 The Portfolio
19A-19K Effective Visual Design
19L Spell Checker
19M Polished Writing Instructions
48-9 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay
20 Web Projects
21 Web Site citation guidelines
25-6 General Grades Definition (see also course description)
27 Teaching Philosophy
28 Nature Websites
29 Course Goals
31- 4 HTML Quick Reference
35-6 Learning Record Instructions
Sept. 5 WHY NATURE? AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RECOLLECTIONS OF YOUTH IN NATURE. RECOVERY OF MYSTERY, INNOCENCE, WONDER, ENERGY, ETC.:
¸ Journal entry due {2 copies} on one or more of the following:
¸ [Items in parentheses do not count]
(254-255 Wordsworth, Introduction)
419C-419H Wordsworth's "Prelude": see especially note 3 on p. 417, love vs. fear, a keynote of this course
420-431 Edith Cobb, "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood"
40-41B Mill, “Autobiography”
(35-6 Learning Record Instructions)
(432 Thomas, Introduction)
433 Thomas, "The Force That Through the Green Fuse"
434-5 Thomas's "Fern Hill"
(443A Blake Introduction)
577 Blake “Auguries of Innocence”
580 “The Mystery”
note that next week your interview will be due: see Sept. 12.
[Extra credit opportunity: ROAD MAP OF YOUR JOURNEY.Extra Credit Assignment (can make up for 1-3 Absences depending on quality): Bring to class a visual representation of your encounters with nature over the course of your life. Include fearful as well as positive memories of nature. Can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or …… For electronic examples, see web site. This will become part of your portfolio.436-9 Road Map of Your Journey]
Sept 10 Verbal and Visual Interpretations of Nature I: architecture as a response to nature
Journal Entries Due [2 copies] on Ruskin, “On the Nature of Gothic” and Survey of Texas Architectural Styles. See web site for pictures.
611-619 History is My Home: A Survey of Texas Architectural Styles
620-647 Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”
(648 Old Main, University of Texas)
(649-50 Victorian homes, Houston)
(651-667 Victorian buildings, Galveston)
(668-670 Selected Victorian Eclectic “Gothic” Architecture in Texas)
(159-160 The Littlefield Home)
Sep 12 VERBAL AND VISUAL RESPONSES TO NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE: DRAWING, WRITING, SYCAMORE VS. HRC.
ü Weather permitting, we will be going from the classroom to the sycamore in front of the Humanities Research Center building. There we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the tree and the modern architecture of the building. For examples see web site. Also note pictures of previous classes at various sites and that you can download such pictures and incorporate them in your Learning Record Final (p. 36) and your portfolio.
¸ Bring two copies of your journal entry on my article and parts A1 and A2 of your learning record.
LR parts A1. A2. due. Initial interview etc. due see 35-6 Learning Record Instructions
Journal entry also due {2 copies} on 125-51 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing
Related materials that can also be included:
156-7 Treaty Oak history
451-458 Harrigan “Treaty Oak”
107 Hopkins on oaks
50-51 Berry on Battle Oaks
152-5 (introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin) [G14-21, 25-30]
203-210 “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”
442 Barney, “The Shape of Sound”
Sep 17 Unity Consciousness
Up till now in the course we have often focused on various details we have seen in nature. That approach is sometimes called stofftrieb. Now we will turn more consciously to formtrieb: the idea of unity in the variety. We will consider how each medium communicates the idea of the whole which has no truly isolated or entirely individual parts, only local symptoms or manifestations. This idea has been variously described as a web of mutual interdependency, or a special harmonious unity, balance, or equilibrium achieved in an ecosystem not by leveling the forces of diversity but by promoting them.
ü Contribute two passages of your choice on this subject to the Unity Forum on our web site, supplying complete bibliographical information. OR a journal entry {2 copies} on one or more of the following:
[Items in parentheses do not count]
346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."
347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"
352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"
359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"
154-155 (Hopkins, introduction)
404 Hopkins, “As kingfishers”
398-399 Hopkins, ‘Pied Beauty,
37-39 Browning, “Two in the Campagna”
187 Taniguchi, "The spirit of the garden"
Sept. 19 MEET AT LITTLEFIELD HOUSE FRONT LAWN. 24th and Whitis [in case of rain meet on porch]. Contrast the Pine with the Littlefield House
¸ LR Statement of YOUR course goals and Weekly Self Observation Due. For an idea of some possible course goals see the previous class’s course goals on the web site
¸ Again, we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the Victorian architecture of the building and the tree. See web site for examples from previous classes.
¸ Review Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic” and readings on Texas architecture; Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30; introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin;
¸ Journal entry due {2 copies} on 159-60 “Littlefield House” or 158 Ruskin’s “Nature of Gothic” and one or more of the following:
203-210 “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”
442 Barney, “The Shape of Sound”
(156-7 Treaty Oak history)
451-458 Harrigan “Treaty Oak”
107 Hopkins on oaks
(50-51 Berry on Battle Oaks)
Review
35-6 Learning Record Instructions
29 Previous Course Goals
152-5 (introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin) [G14-21, 25-30]
Sept. 24 PINE AND SYCAMORE WEB SITE CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS.
¸ Study “How to Post Your Writing” carefully
¸ Scan drawings if possible. [Use Photoshop on computer next to scanner and choose “Import” under “File” options. Other scanners available in Par 102, Par 6, Fac 9, Fac 10, Fac undergrad computer lab, etc.]
ü For examples see web sites of previous classes.
¸ Include at least two citations of my article, Harrigan, Barney, etc. with page nos.
¸ Save responses on diskette.
¸ Bring your calendars so that we can decide in class we meet at Treaty Oak and the Japanese Garden in Zilker park and when we have our class party at my little ranch. The Japanese Garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi, father of a dean of the school of architecture and author of "The spirit of the garden": “one unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature.’
¸ Read 187-202, 214-5, 460 on the garden and other sites in Zilker Park. When we go to Zilker Park you might want to check out Philosopher's Rock --the statues of Texas nature writers, Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb, in front of the swimming pool -- and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and, if time, take a canoe ride out into the "lake." All are extra credit options.
¸ Check out pictures of all these places on our web site.
582-5 How to Post Your Writing
156-7 Treaty Oak history
451-458 Harrigan “Treaty Oak”
107 Hopkins on oaks
50-52 Berry on Battle Oaks
187 "The Spirit of the Garden"
188-98 The Mother Tree
199-200 maps
201-2 Zilker Park extra credit options,
214-215 Philosopher’s Rock
459 Form for visit to the garden
Sept. 26 Painting Nature
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¸ LR Weekly Self Observation Due. (on how well you are meeting your course goals) 35-6 instructions.
¸ ANDand one of the two options below.
Journal Entries Due [2 copies]: on three of the following: ‘Some Characteristics,” Hopkins's "The May Magnificat"; "Binsey Poplars"; "The Starlight Night"; [G41-2, 58-59, 65-66, 31-2, 146-148]
578-9 Some Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Painting
156-158 (Hopkins, introduction)
575-576 Hopkins,"The May Magnificat";
576 Hopkins,"Binsey Poplars";
397 Hopkins,"The Starlight Night";
OR
Poetry and French Painting: The Impressionists
¸
Journal Entry [2 copies]: write your responses to two Impressionist paintings of nature of your choice. You can use any sources you wish, though you must provide documentation for whatever source[s] you use.
If you want to use the web you can start with the sites below. The first is about the whole Impressionist school; the second shows how to move from that site to a specific painter, in this case Monet; the third and fourth are alternative Van Gogh sites; the last two are sites from students in this class in the past focusing on their favorite paintings.
www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism
www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet
http://www.higashi.hit-u.ac.jp/~mizuki/NAITO/MIZUKIDIR/gogh1.html
http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E379S/fall97/windy/cmonet/monet.html
http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E379S/fall97/lisa/gogh.html
To get some idea of the possible relation between painting and
poetry I have designed two pages: on Hopkins and Monet, on Hopkins and
Van Gogh.
http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E309K/Hopkins1.html
see web sites of previous classes and
203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain;
211 Writing the Natural Way;
212-3 Wild Mind
Oct 1 FIRST PROJECT DUE*
on web page AND on paper
ü For examples, see web sites of previous classes.
ü Special instructions:
ü Remember that, given a focus on nature (non-human plants or animals), you have a lot of options, including a web site
Ø If you do an essay, it is to be at least 4-6 pages. However, you are to understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity.
Ø To get an A in nature essay writing you will need to show that you are good at communicating details, at making your plant or animal come alive for the reader. For example, even if you never heard of a catfish before, the details in Perry’s description on p. 505, enable you to see what one looks like and how one behaves. (If you do a web page, of course, you can communicate these details often by pictures.)
Ø Thirdly, as suggested in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26 of your anthology, you will need to go beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of your insights.
Ø *You must include pictures in this assignment. The purpose of the pictures is for you to become acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become common these days and to gain some practical experience in preparing a brochure or web site. Pay special attention to 19A-19K:”Effective Visual Design,” information you will need again when you construct your portfolio.
Ø Unless your pictures were taken with a digital camera, you will need to digitize them (make them into a computer file) with a scanner. If you are going to use them in a paper essay, set the resolution to at least 300 dpi. If you are going to use them on the web 72 dpi is sufficient.
Ø Most of the pictures must be personal -- not be taken from the internet.
Ø Make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them big enough (3X5?) by using “Image Size” in Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent program to enlarge them before you insert them in your text. Remember to set to at least 300 dpi for a paper essay.
¸ Bring First Project on a diskette [saved in Microsoft Word format] and polished hard copy in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the anthology. Paper projects must include two media. This requirement is usually met by inserting electronic files of pictures or photographs into your text and printing the result on a glossy paper with a color printer. [Electronic projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text -- and Cd or diskette, etc. if the project is to be put on our web site]
¸ Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least ten people in detail (at least six sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond. This extra credit can be used to improve your class participation grade. See * below
¸ Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.
¸ Save comments on diskette for your portfolio.
¸ Review
1-3 Course Description
Project Instructions
18 Portfolio
19 Polished Writing Instructions
19A-19K Effective Visual Design
48-9 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay
20 Web Projects
21 Web Site guidelines
25-6 Grades Definition
31- 4 HTML Quick Reference
203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; "
211 Writing the Natural Way
212-3 Wild Mind
*How to Respond to Other Students’ Projects.
Grades: Remember that responding properly to the correct number of projects before the deadline is not just part of your class participation grade but also, and more importantly, your portfolio grade (30% of your final grade). For your portfolio you will print out all of your responses to other students and their quality will be fairly obvious in that format.
Requirements: Responses that consist solely of generic phrases, such as “Good Job,” that do not reveal detailed knowledge of the project, will not be acceptable.You must respond in sufficient detail to reveal that you have read the project closely. Let the author of the essay know how it affected you as a reader, where you were pleased, where you got confused, where irritated, etc. You must make suggestions for revision including, though not limited to, how to add a page or more of additional material. In general, evaluate the other students’ essays as works of art. If each essay was, say, a statue, which little as well as big flaws should be corrected? The result should be a paragraph of at least six sentences.
Oct 3 Writing Nature at Waller Creek.
Meet at Waller Creek behind the Alumni Center.
[in case of rain meet under the eaves of the Alumni Center overlooking the creek]
*LR Midterm 1 Due 35-6 Learning Record Instructions
Turn in midsemester evaluation of course
¸ If you think you won’t know what to write about, check out what your predecessors have written on the web site.
¸ Write about whatever you see there. If you are feeling blocked, just start describing the details of the plants and animals and water and stones etc. in front of you.
¸ Look at what is in front of you from 2 points of view besides yours. In other words, say what you think two people very different from you – say Jones and Barney – would see.
¸ Cite from Jones and "Committed 'til Death" OR Barney OR Oliphant.
¸ At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.
(161A Jones, introduction)
(162B-H Waller Creek)
162-9 Jones, Life on Waller Creek
170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"
176-86 "Committed 'til Death"
466-8 Oliphant, “San Jacinto”
(581 Directions for Writing in Nature)
Oct 8 WALLER CREEK WEB SITE CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS.
¸ Citations from Jones and one other author below required, with page nos.
¸ Save responses on diskette for portfolio.
[Items in parentheses do not count]
Review:
(161A Jones, introduction)
(162B-H Waller Creek)
162-9 Jones, Life on Waller Creek
170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot"
176-86 "Committed 'til Death"
466-8 Oliphant, “San Jacinto”
469 Barney “On a Detail from Audubon”
470 Barney “Mr. Bloomer's Birds”
(582-5 How to Post Your Writing)
Oct. 10 FEAR OF NATURE
Journal Entries Due {2 copies} on one or more of the following
[Items in parentheses do not count]
(405-08 Jeffers, introduction)
409 Jeffers, "Hurt Hawks"
410 Jeffers, “Vulture"
444-449 Harrigan "The Tiger is God"
(443A Blake introduction)
443B Blake, “The Lamb” text only
443C Blake, “The Tyger” text only
Blake "The Tyger" vs. Blake “The Lamb” multimedia: http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/E309K/blake.html
42A-44 Dillard, from Pilgrim
338-343 Darwin, “The Struggle for Existence”
47A-C Tennyson, from In Memoriam
¸ LR Biweekly observation due 35-6 Learning Record Instructions
¸ Journal Entry Due {2 copies} on one or more of the following:
¸ [Items in parentheses do not count]
(586 Texas Nature Writing)
471-482 Graves, “Blue and Other Dogs”
483-486 Graves, “Meat,”
(487 Introduction to Alice Walker)
488-491 Walker “Am I Blue?”
Oct 17 Texas Sense of Place I.
q Revised Project due. Remember your grade will be reduced for each error that is repeated from your first draft!
¸ Turn in to instructor a revised project in pocket folder with your name on the outside with
¸ [1] revised project with ALL changes, even the smallest periods and commas, HIGHLIGHTED
¸ [2] first project with instructor's original comments and
¸ [3] print-out of suggestions from other students with suggestions you liked best HIGHLIGHTED
ü [4] follow suggestions in 588-92 Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay
ü [5] Check out especially 48-49 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay
&
¸ Journal Entries due {2 copies} on two or more of the following. If you did not write about Graves last time you must write about him this time.
[Items in parentheses do not count]
(586 Texas Nature Writing)
492-5 Graves, Good-Bye to a River
496-504 Graves, “Nineteen Cows”
(505A-B, George Sessions Perry, introduction)
506-7 George Sessions Perry on the Gabriel River
(505C-D Katherine Anne Porter, introduction)
506-7 Katherine Anne Porter, on the blackland farming country
(505E-F Scarborough, introduction)
508 Dorothy Scarborough, from In the Land of Cotton
(505G Erdman, introduction)
509 Loula Grace Erdman, on the high plains
(505H Lanier, introduction)
510 Sidney Lanier, on the prairies
511 Elmer Kelton, from The Time it Never Rained
(505I-J Whitman, introduction)
512 Walt Whitman on west Texas
513 Benjamin Capps on arrival of spring in west Texas
Oct 22. TEXAN SENSE OF PLACE II
¸ Journal Entries Due {2 copies} on "Cedar Cutter" and one or more of the following:
[Items in parentheses do not count]
see web site for pictures of instructor acting out parts of Cedar Cutter and Michael
(586 Texas Nature Writing)
(214A-15 Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs)
(216 Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web)
(217-8 Local Writing)
(219 Bedicheck, introduction)
220-2 Bedicheck, "The Wing of the Swallow"
223-30 "Cedar Cutter"
231-48 Graves, "Texas Hill Country"
249-52 "Carved in Stone"
(61-62B Berry, Austin and the Hill Country)
(344-45 Hamilton Pool)
Oct 24: SECOND PROJECT DUE
on web page AND on paper *
¸ Hand in Second Story on diskette in Microsoft Word format and hand in polished hard copy, along with both versions of project 1 (with instructor comments), in pocket folder with name on outside following instructions in the anthology. [Multmedia projects include print-out of the HTML code as well as text and Cd or diskette, etc.]
¸ Begin commenting on the stories of others. You must respond to at least ten people in some detail (at least six sentences), suggesting what they might add to make their story longer or their web site better, what other changes to make, etc. You get extra credit for every three people over the basic ten to whom you respond.
¸ Finish commenting on essays of others outside of class.
¸ Save comments on diskette.
ü *In this project aim specifically at increasing your unity consciousness, as illustrated by Brooke’s web page, listed under Portfolios in Exemplary Web pages on our course web site.
ü You do not need to include pictures this time if you do not want to do so. (The purpose of the pictures was for you to become acquainted with the integration of verbal and visual rhetoric that has become common in the field these days and to gain some practical experience in preparing a brochure.)
ü If you do include pictures, make sure to identify or title all pictures and make them big enough (3X5?) by using Adobe Photoshop or some equivalent program.
ü Remember that, given a focus on nature (non-human plants or animals), you have a lot of options, including writing a traditional lit. crit. essay about some example(s) of the literature of nature.
ü If you do an essay, it is to be the same size: 4-6 pages minimum. However, you are to understand that on the projects you are graded on quality, not quantity.
ü If you add on to your web site, you need 2-3 pages of new text to make an A, unless you make creative HTML changes such as the addition of sound.
ü To get an A in your writing, whether in the essay or web format, you will need, first of all, to avoid the problems cited in the first two project drafts, especially those I stressed on the second draft.
ü Secondly, to get an A on this essay you will need to demonstrate unity. Read pp. 48-9 Carefully.
ü Thirdly, as suggested in most definitions of the grade of A, such as that on p. 26 of your anthology, you will need to go beyond the ordinary, in the quality of your prose, and/or in the quality of your insights.
¸ Review
1-3 Course Description
Project Instructions
18 Portfolio
19 Polished Writing Instructions
48-9 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay
20 Web Projects
21 Web Site guidelines
25-6 Grades Definition
31- 4 HTML Quick Reference
203-10 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
211 Writing the Natural Way
212-3 Wild Mind
589-592 Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay
Oct 29 .J. FRANK DOBIE.
Meet at Dobie's house, 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite the law school.
¸ LR Midterm 2 Due 35-6 Learning Record Instructions
ü Turn in midsemester evaluation of course,
¸ Check out pictures of the journeys of previous classes to these landmarks on our web site and check out quote from the chancellor about Dobie in our course description.
¸ At Dobie’s house we will see the memorabilia.
¸ Then we will go on to the statue of the mustangs in front of the Texas Memorial Museum, cited by Dobie.
¸ then to the statues in front of the Alumni Center.
¸ At the Center you will make journal entries in long hand about what you have seen, incorporating at least one quote from Dobie’s The Mustangs and one from his The Longhorns .
¸ At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.
280-297 Dobie, "The Longhorns" [relate to statue of Longhorn at Alumni Center]
298-337 Dobie, "The Mustangs" [relate to statue at Texas Memorial Museum]
53-56 Mustangs at U.T.
57-60E Longhorns at U.T.
Review
586 Texas Nature Writing
214-5 Philosopher's Rock, Barton Springs
216 Jones, on Dobie, Bedichek, and Web
217-8 Local Writing
262A-D Dobie introduction;
170-5 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot" (on Dobie etc.)
268-279 Dobie, "A Texan in England"
581 Directions for Writing in Nature
Oct 31 Biology Ponds: Fish, Reptiles, and the Sympathetic Imagination.
¸ Journal at ponds incorporating 1 citation from Darwin, 339-43, and one from the following: Arnold’s ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens”; Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"; Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"; Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.
¸ Check out previous classes at work here on our web site
¸ At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.
[Items in parentheses do not count]
(22-3 Arnold, introduction)
24 Arnold, “Kensington Gardens”
(53 Berry, “Botanical Pools”)
(338A-E Darwin, introduction)
(338F Evolution, introduction)
339-43 Darwin
85 The Sympathetic Imagination"
86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"
(104-6 introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)
109-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems
460-465A Harrigan “Swamp Thing”
465B Barney “On Greer Island”
(581 Directions for Writing in Nature)
¸ Journal Entry Due {2 copies} on Wordsworth's "Michael" comparing it to "Cedar Cutter": how are these two accounts of old men who are close to nature similar and different?
¸ check out pictures of instructor acting as both cedar cutter and Michael on our web site
¸
(254-5 Wordsworth, introduction )
255-61F Wordsworth, ‘Michael”
Related material for additional journal entries:
154-155 (Hopkins, introduction)
576 Hopkins: Binsey Poplars, [G156-7];
(262 Dobie, Introduction)
268-79 Dobie, “A Texan in England” "
Nov 7 Dobie and Biology Ponds web contributions.
¸ In Dobie forum Must have at least one quote from Dobie’s The Mustangs and one from his The Longhorns, with page nos. .
¸ For Biology Ponds forum contributions remember 1 citation from Darwin, and one from the following: Arnold, “Kensington Gardens,” Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"; Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"; Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"; " D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.
¸ Save responses on diskette
Review
(22-3 Arnold, introduction)
24 Arnold, “Kensington Gardens”
86-103 Bump, "Stevens and Lawrence"
(104-6 introductions: Stevens, Lawrence)
109-124 D. H. Lawrence, Reptile and Fish poems.
339-43 Darwin, ‘Origin of Species”
460-465A Harrigan's "Swamp Thing"
465B Barney's "On Greer Island a Copperhead Lies Slain"
582-5 How to Post Your Writing
Nov 12 Meet at Battle Oaks
[just north of the north entrance of the Union and south of Littlefield House]
Again, we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. Special emphasis to be put on unity of the tree itself, the unity between the tree and the surrounding landscape, and the unity between the tree and people. Citation from Hopkins or Harrigan required.
At the end of the hour show instructor what you have written before you leave.
LR BiWeekly Self Observation Due.
(50-52 Berry on Battle Oaks)
(156-7 Treaty Oak history)
107 Hopkins on oaks
576 Hopkins: Binsey Poplars, [G156-7];
451-458 Harrigan “Treaty Oak”
188-98 The Mother Tree
Review Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing" [G14-21, 25-30]; introductions: Hopkins, Ruskin;
Nov 14 Battle Oaks, Treaty Oak, and Oriental Garden web site contributions.
¸ In the Oaks discussion, incorporate 2 citations from readings that you have not quoted before in a web forum.
¸ In the Treaty Oak discussion, incorporate at least one citation from Harrigan, and one from Hopkins or Berry on oaks.
¸ In the Oriental Garden discussion, incorporate the answers you made on the form.
¸ Save responses on diskette
Review
346 Bump, "Dualism vs ....."
347-51 Burch, "Vocabularies of Nature"
352-8 Alan Watts,"The World is Your Body"
359-64 Gary Snyder, "Poetry and the Primitive"
365 "Musical Responses to Nature"
187 "The Spirit of the Garden"
188-98 The Mother Tree
241-5 Philosopher’s Rock
459 Oriental Garden Discussion Form
451-458 Harrigan “Treaty Oak”
107 Hopkins on oaks
50-52 Berry on Battle Oaks
582-5 How to Post Your Writing
q Revised Project due. Remember your grade will be reduced for each error that is repeated from your first draft!
Turn in to instructor a revised project in pocket folder with your name on the outside with
¸ [1] revised project
¸ [2] first project with instructor's original comments and
¸ [3] print-out of suggestions from other students.
¸ [4] follow suggestions in Polished Writing Instructions II: Revising the Essay
ü [5] Check out especially 48-49 Suggestions for Ways to Unify Your Essay
&
¸ Journal Entries Due [2 copies] on Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey AND one of the following: Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"; Miller, "The Disappearance of God'"; Clark, The Worship of Nature"; Nuns of Brenham article
[Items in parentheses do not count]
411-415 Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" OR
415-19C Wordsworth, the Immortality Ode
AND one of the following:
365B-83 Miller, "The Disappearance of God"
384-5 "The Worship of Nature"
(386-7 Forster, introduction)
388-393 Forster, "The Other Side of the Hedge"
514-5 Nuns of Brenham
Nov 21. Gerard Manley Hopkins, S. J.
Meet at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, inside by the Gutenberg Bible
Journal Entry due on Bump, "Hopkins, the Humanities, and the Environment" [G158-164] and either “Spring” [G130-145] or “in the Valley of the Elwy.” These are the two poems we will see in the original.
593-610 Bump, "Hopkins, the Humanities, and the Environment"
398-404 Hopkins, poetry, esp. “Spring” on 397 and “the Elwy” on 397-8
Review
125-51 Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian Drawing"
154-155 (Hopkins, introduction)
575-6 Hopkins's "The May Magnificat";
576 Hopkins,"Binsey Poplars";
Nov 26 Oak and Fossils at Texas Memorial Museum.
check out previous class visits here on our web site
Journal due:
Here are the instructions for the journal and for the TMM portion of the web forum.
[1] Re-read “Carved in Stone” on 249-252 on the fossils in Texas and especially those around Austin.
[2] Read “Evolution” on p. 338F on the debate between Darwinism and the literal interpretation of the Bible. Basically, the problem was that fossils, and the fact that there were more than seven strata in the crust of the earth, meant that Genesis could not be LITERALLY true. This was not necessarily a problem for a Jew or a Catholic, but fundamentalists, then and now, who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible, are dismayed by this.
[3] In that context read poem #56 on 47, written by Tennyson when speculated on what fossils in “scarped cliff and quarried stone” mean. In this poem “type” means “species,” As you can see, to him, fossils meant that species could become extinct, and thus according to the Darwinian interpretation, homo sapiens also could become extinct. If this is true, he felt, churches and organized religion based on the Bible are meaningless and “love thy neighbor as thyself” reverts to the war among dinosaurs and other “dragons of the prime.” Eventually he solved the problem, but this is a famous statement of the predicament.
[4] Read 45-46 and 339-343 to see for yourself what Darwin said.
[5] Write a journal entry, to be uploaded to the TMM forum, including at least one citation from Darwin and one from Tennyson, “Carved in Stone,” or one of the TMM exhibits.
Review Darwin and Tennyson readings and
51-458 Harrigan “Treaty Oak”
107 Hopkins on oaks
156-7 Treaty Oak history
50-52 Berry on Battle Oaks
Dec 3 Texas Memorial Museum and Oak WEB.
a journal entry, to be uploaded to the TMM forum, including at least one citation from Darwin and one from Tennyson, “Carved in Stone,” or one of the TMM exhibits
& a journal entry on the oak outside the museum
Journal Entries Due [2 copies] on two or more of the following
[Items in parentheses do not count]
394 Wordsworth, "The Excursion"
394-5 Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely"
396 Wordsworth, "Lines written in early spring"
154-156 (Hopkins, introduction)
397 Hopkins, “Spring”
399 Hopkins, “Hurrahing in Harvest” [the source of my email motto]
404 Hopkins, "As kingfishers catch fire"
402-403 Hopkins, “The Woodlark”
Dec. 10 LR Final Due due in Par 132 by 11 AM
35-6 Learning Record Instructions
Dec 14 PORTFOLIO DUE TO BE DELIVERED TO PAR 132 BETWEEN 10 and 12 noon
If you want to turn it in earlier and the mail slot is full go to Par 108 and ask that folders be put on my desk.
Check out electronic versions of portfolios of previous classes on our web site.
¸ The portfolio consists of the journal, LR weekly observations, midterm, and final, and printouts of all your contributions to the web pages, your comments on projects1 and 2 of others, and the road map of your journey.
¸ Please construct a table of contents referring to numbered pages, like the following:
¨ Journal, pp. 1-75 or so (do not number pages that have less than 1/2 page of text, double spaced if typed)
¨ Project 1 (final version), pp. 76-82,
¨ Project 2 (final version), pp. 83-89
¨ Web Page contributions:
¨ Sycamore and Pine, p. 90
¨ Waller Creek I, p. 91
¨ Biology Ponds I and Dobie, p. 92
¨ Waller Creek II, p. 93
¨ Biology Ponds II, p. 94
¨ Oriental Garden essay (if not on web site), pp. 95-100
¨ Road Map of My Journey, pp. 101-10
¨ LR final, midterm, and weekly observations, pp. 111-?
¨ Comments on essay 1, extra credit comments over required ten highlighted, pp. ?-- every 3 responses over 10 to first or second essay projects = 1 A or 2 U's
¨ Comments on essay 2, extra credit comments over required ten highlighted, pp. ? -- every 3 responses over 10 to first or second essay projects = 1 A or 2 U's
¨ Other samples of work and other activities, other comments by others, inspired by LR or ……pp.
ü Grades: To get a B on the portfolio you need to meet all the basic requirements perfectly, including table of contents and page numbering.
ü Grades: to get a straight A on the paper portfolio you need to go beyond that to an achievement in visual rhetoric. Think of this as a portfolio you will be taking to a nature-writing magazine, seeking employment in competition with many others. You would be well advised to have it all typed in one way or another, perfectly proofread, illustrated, etc. and very professional in appearance. Pay special attention to 19A-19K Effective Visual Design and 48-9 on unity
¨ Grades: to get a straight A on a web portfolio the requirements are much the same, translated into web terminology. For a good example of how to include all your journal entries in a web portfolio see Lisa’s site. Some other complete portfolios are Katy’s and Kristina’s. Many of the other others are incomplete portfolios in that they handed in the paper version of the journal separately.
YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO TO RECEIVE A GRADE IN THIS CLASS
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