Reading and Assignment Schedule

C = Connections, EI = Emotional Intelligence, X=anthology

September

2 Introduction

9 C57-68; EI, pp. ix-8, 289-296, 8-95; X7-10 Group Participation and Listening Guidelines: compare to EI pp. xiv, 145-6, 183, 266; X301-323 Student Guide, Internet Resources, Finding Poetry in the Net, Undergraduate Writing Center, Learning Skills Center

16 C150-152, 157-171; EI, pp. 96-185: X 108-112 Ralston, "Emotional Literacy in Business," Enterprise Rent-A-Car on emotional intelligence in business; X11-36 U.T. Counseling Center handouts: Racial Harassment Policy: compare to EI pp. 155-9. Sexual Harassment Policy; Drug Free University Guidelines: compare to EI on substance abuse: 246-249, 252-255. X45 Nonsexist language.

23 Take home exam on EI, esp. pp. 189-287, to be uploaded in the Mail system and hard copy turned in to instructor. Review C150-152, 157-171.

30 Essay instructions. X46-81. Review EI 15, 50-53, 75-77, 106-110, 206 on repression and anhedonia. Read all of the following and write two pages or more in response to two or more of them X88-89 Arnold, "The Buried Life"; X83-87C Mill, "Autobiography"; X90-91 "Dualism vs. Creativity" and Dickens, Tale of Two Cities; X92-98 Dickens, Hard Times; X99-107 Fleming, "Charles Darwin, the Anesthetic Man; X87D+87E Texas Constitution and The Logic of the Humanities; C137-141; review EI 54, 118, 271-2, 294 on literature and emotional intelligence.

October

7 Essay #1 to be uploaded in the Mail system and hard copy turned in to instructor. Then comment on stories of other students. X113- 149 Student Suggestions for Improving Emotional Literacy; Vocabulary of Feelings. Rico, Writing the Natural Way: Using Right Brain Techniques to Release Your Expressive Powers: "The Emotions and the Hemispheres; Clustering; Metaphor"; Wild Mind: review EI 180-181.

14 Review EI 90-95 on flow and on the right brain as guide: ix-x, 3-4, 28-9, 53-54 and xiv, 43, 46-55 on self-awareness. Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more in response to 2 or more of them: X1 Course Motto. X199-213 Ram Dass on models of the self, self-awareness: the Witness, meditation, Not Knowing. X214 Meditation suggestions X163-183 Rico, Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal Crisis: Feeling Sketchbook, Flow: The Key to Feelings, Feeling and Word Connection. C9-18, 28-31, 39-44, 53-56.

21 Hand in highlighted revision of Essay #1 in folder with highlighted student comments and first draft with instructor comments.. Review EI, 129-147 on gender. Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more in response to 2 or more of them: X150-162 Men and Their Emotions incl. Typology of Emotions, interest-excitement, joy-ecstasy, surprise-startle, distress-anguish, fear-terror, shame-humiliation, contempt-disgust, anger-rage, Anger vs. Tenderness/Affection. X215-223 Sizing Up the Sexes; More Clues on Sexual Orientation C87-105.

28 EI on Anger: ix, 6, 59-65, 142-147, 169-172, 268 and aggression: x, 196-7, 234-239. Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more in response to 2 or more of them: X 237-238 Anger vs. Love; X 246 Olds; X240A-240B Hughes, Writing from Your Inner Self: The Angry Exercise, X241-242 The Biggest Fight; X243 Plath ; X150-162 review anger-rage in Men and Their Emotions ;.C184-202.

November

4 Essay #2 to be uploaded in the Mail system and hard copy turned in to instructor with all materials from Essay #1.

11 Review EI on depression -- x, 69-75, 175-6, 239-246 -- and on grieving: 7, 210-212. Also on the dynamics of trauma: 200-214. Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more in response to 2 or more of them: 37-44 U.T. Counseling Center handouts: Coping with Depression; Suicide Prevention; X184-198 Pain and Paralysis on depression; Writing from the Inner Self: X244-245 Dissolving a Kernel of Grief. C216-252.

18 Hand in highlighted revision of Essay #2 in folder with highlighted student comments and first draft with instructor comments and all previous materials. Review EI on Fear -- 6,65-69, 83-84 -- and stress (172-5) and motivation (xii, 43, 79-80, 90-95). . Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more in response to 2 or more of them: X248 Fear Worksheet; X249 Sybil; X 82 Here Comes the Judge; X 16-36 U.T. Counseling Center handouts: Stress, Motivation, Time, Procrastination, Perfectionism. C253-275.

25 Review EI on love (7, 84), empathy (xiv, 43, 96-110. 183, 278) and teamwork/cooperation (xiv, 155-159, 263-7). Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more on a diskette to be uploaded to Interchange in response to 2 or more of them: X250-256 Sympathetic Imagination, Browning's Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess, and the parody, My Last Professor. Writing from the Inner Self: Jealousy.X239 Blocks to Love Worksheet. C75-84.

December

2 Review EI on family dynamics: 98-110, 114-117, 129-147, 189-199; Read all of the following and write 2 pages or more in response to 2 or m 0ore of them: X257-300 Writing from the Inner Self: Family Snapshot; Kerr, Lewis, "Family Types'" "Traits of Healthy Families," Moore, Steinem, Hite, Ivins, Angier, Erickson, Satir; X130 Family Roles ; X247 Gibran on parenting; X224-236 Family dynamics in Popular Music. C122-134.