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ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT COURSE SYLLABUS?

ANY  QUESTIONS ABOUT FIRST HUNDRED PAGES OF ANTHOLOGY?

9                      Experiential Learning

10-11                Meditation and Guided Imagery

12-14               Feedback and Emotional Intelligence

15                    Service Learning

16                    Discovery Learning

17                    Discovery Learning at U.T.

18                    Discovery Learning in Freshman English, Amherst

20                    My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report

21-22               Song Lyrics: “Born Free”; “Get Together”; “Peaceable Kingdom”

23                    Ram Dass / Einstein  guided imagery

24-28               Course Goals  

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29                    Racial Harassment Policy; 

30-31               Sexual Harassment Policy; 

32                    If I Am Heterosexual

33                    Ally Work

34-35               LBGT Vocabulary

36-37               Drug + Alcohol Policy; 

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38-39               The Importance of Reading Directions in This Class

40                    Employer survey: writing, collaboration, ethics, reality

41-45               Revenge of the Right Brain

46-8                 Flunking out of College 

49-50               The New Curriculum

51                    Moyers Rebirth at U.T.

52                    Concentration vs. “multitasking”

53                    Sleep Deprivation and Multitasking

54                    Negative vs. Positive Attitude

[CF. Goleman on optimism in “Emotional Intelligence”

55-59               Jacob Meyer: Suicide at U.T.

60-61               U.T. Counseling Center

62                     Stress Test

63                    Tips for Reducing Stress

64                    U.T. Stress Relief Site

65                    Everything  I  Wish  Someone  Had  Told  Me  About College Before I Started: Why Are You Here?

66                    Texas Constitution: “for the promotion of literature”

67                    U. T. Seal

68                    U. T. CORE PURPOSE (Ethics) and Core Values: Freedom, Discovery, etc.

69                    Diversity

70-72               Perfectionism

73-74               Covey, Time Management form and example

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75                    Tower Motto: Ye Shall Know the Truth

76                    Blake, “London”

77-78               Scallop Shell Symbolism

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79                    Five Characteristics of        a Good  Student: Postive Attitude...

 80-81              Willie Tichenor: Positive Attitude at U.T.

82-3                 Motivation; cf. Perfectionism

84                    Goal Setting

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COMMUNICATION

85-86               Covey on listening +reading, writing, speaking

87                    Class Discussion

88                    Listening

89                    Have You Tried Listening?

90-91               Leading Class Discussion

 

TIME MANAGEMENT + RESOURCES

92-93               “Procrastination: How Adolescents Encourage Stress”

94-95               Covey, Personal Planning System, from The Eighth

Habit

96-97               Overcoming Procrastination;

98-99               Design Your Own Procrastination Plan

100-1               Learning Skills Center

102                  Undergraduate Writing Center

READING ASSIGNMENTS.

University of Texas Ethics

103-110           Ethical Challenges selections

111-115           Honor Code of U.T.

 see  also  689-690 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

 


1-21, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE


TODAY'S GOALS:

 

 [2A2] ETHICS: The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: "have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems." Our ethics goals include    [   [2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.    [2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.


TODAY'S TOPICS: tower m otto

Who are you? do you know? Are you dead or are you alive? are you in pieces or are you whole? have you been virtually "lobotomized" [had one part of your brain(left side?) severed from another (right side?)]?  how are you feeling? right now?   RATIONALE

 


TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:; Answering questions about pp. 9-115; quiz on pp. assigned below;............. discussion


Gawain

On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester: “How do you see the world?” And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:" I see it feelingly."

REQUIRED READING: COURSE ANTHOLOGY:

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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116                 Know Thyself

117-120          Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain

121-123           Emotional Intelligence

124-126           Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

127-128           "The Man Without Feelings"

129-130           "The Roots of Empathy"

131-133           Empathy vs Video Games

134                 David Lee Powell, Plan II student?

135                 Molesters and Sociopaths

136                  "I Am a Rock";

136                 "Comfortably Numb"

137-140                "Turn It Off".

141                  Definition of "Sentimentality"

EMOTIONAL LITERACY

142-149           Emotion Words checklist

150                 Children's Feeling Words

151                  Vocabulary of Emotions

152                  Intensity of Feelings Chart

153-154           Writing Emotions

230-231 Definition of Compassion;  

240 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination

9              EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING;

10-11            Meditation and Guided Imagery

12-14            Feedback and Emotional Intelligence

23                 Ram Dass / Einstein Guided Imagery 

21-22          Song Lyrics: "Born Free"; "Get Together"; "Peaceable Kingdom"       

Gawain Gawain

 

 

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REVIEW: pp. 9-115

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LOOKING AHEAD: Best and Worst begins, Blogs  begin etc.

BLOG INSTRUCTIONS

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    DUE BY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 1-24:

    [2]BLOGS FOR NEXT WEEK [60 POINTS OR SO]

    [3]QUESTIONNAIRES DUE : -5 PER CLASS DAY UNTIL RETURNED BY EMAIL

    [4] INTRODUCTION BLOG 15 PTS. AT STAKE

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DUE NEXT WEEK

[5] OPTIONAL BEST AND WORST BLOG POST DUE BEFORE CLASS

1-26 Compassion and the Sympathetic Imagination: best and worst 1st half of the alphabet; quiz, discussion of blogs

1-28 Power Animals and Native American Literature: b&w 2nd half; quiz, discussion of blogs



 CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: these texts and your own ethics and/or

  • Your Head and Your Heart

honi soit motto

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