Tentative Schedule:
Note: I may need to adjust this syllabus and course schedule to accommodate pedagogical needs as they arise. We will discuss all changes as a class and the new schedule will be reflected on our course blog.
M 1/28 | Class: Introductions. Syllabus.
Home: Buy books. Bring in one printed text (book, magazine, journal, poster, card) of your choice. |
W 1/30 | Class: Rhetorical Analysis: Genre conventions.
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 1 |
M 2/4 | Class: Visual Rhetoric/ Interface Design. Rhetorical analysis assignment. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/visual_rhetoric/analyzing_visual_documents/organizing_your_analysis.html
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 2 |
W 2/6 | Class: Intro to sample sites and tools. Examples: https://eng256spring16.wordpress.com/tag/rhetorical-analysis/
Home: Writer/Designer Chapter 4 |
M 2/11 | Class: Fair use and public domain.
Home: Finish and post rhetorical analysis. |
W 2/13 | Class cancelled. Attend: Career Services’ Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Professional Minor Event at 5 pm, Rockland A
Home: Write a blog post about your potential career goals and how they relate to this course. Read service learning articles http://www.dailygood.org/story/218/helping-fixing-or-serving-rachel-naomi-remen-md/ and https://heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/rhowas.pdf |
M 2/18 | Class: Service Learning. Sites and scheduling group visits. http://tiny.cc/w8d1zy
Home: Read PDF provided by Dr. L |
W 2/20 | Class: Grant-writing. Style sheets.
Home: Outline grant. |
M 2/25 | Class: Library visit.
Home: Read selections from Carlos Hernandez poems and write 3 questions for the artist: “In Lieu of the Stories My Santera Abuela Should Have Told Me Herself, This Poem” <https://uncannymagazine.com/article/lieu-stories-santera-abuela-told-poem/>” and “Saturn Devouring His Young” <http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/saturn-devouring-his-young/>. Draft grant. |
W 2/27 | Class: Carlos Hernandez visits. Write a reflection on your experience.
Home: Draft grant. |
M 3/4 | Class cancelled. Site visit!
Home: Draft grant. Review WWW.exsulvanhelden.com And write 3 questions for the artist. |
W 3/6 | Class: Exsul Van Helden visits.
Home: Read Americanah. |
M 3/11 | Class: Grant review.
Home: Finish grant. Turn in hard copy, printed, double-sided, double spaced on Wednesday in class. Read Americanah.
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W 3/13 | Class: Conferences
Home: Read Americanah. Groups 1 post provocations by Friday the 22nd. Site visit. |
3/18- 3/20 | Spring Break. No classes.
Read Americanah. Group 2 post responses by Monday the 25th |
M 3/25 | Class: Americanah introduction.
Home: Finish Americanah. Groups 3 post provocations by Wednesday. |
W 3/27 | Class: Fishbowl for Groups 1 and 2
Home: Site visit. Group 4 post responses by Friday. |
M 4/1 | Class: Fishbowl for Groups 3 and 4.
Home: Read the book chapter on Liberians (PDF handed out in class, and here ) by Wednesday. Also, Find a news story about refugees or asylum seekers from the past 6 months and bring in a physical copy. Post it to our blog with a 250 word summary by Monday. |
W 4/3 | Class: Library visit.
Home: Find an article that presents the opposite viewpoint from the previous article and post it to our blog with a 250 word summary by Monday. |
M 4/8 | Class: Gallery Walk.
Home: Find an academic, peer-reviewed source about immigrants or refugees from your ancestral home and post it to our blog with a 250 word summary. Bring in your headphones, charger, and phone. Download the free NYTVR app before class. |
W 4/10 | Class: Comics, Graphic Novels, and VR.
Home: Find one visual representation of the refugee/asylum seeker narrative. This can be a video, comic, video game, etc. Download GuardianVR for the video “Limbo” and bring headphones and chargers. |
M 4/15 | Class: Remix assignment.
Home: Bring in 3 research questions and a rough outline. Site visit. |
W 4/17 | Class:. Final Project
Home: Develop pitch. Site visit. |
M 4/22 | Class: Pitch ideas
Home: Final. |
W 4/24 | Class: Group work
Home: Final. |
M 4/29 | Class: Group work
Home: Final. |
W 5/1 | Class: Group work
Home: Final. |
M 5/6 | Class: Conferences.
Home: Post revised version no later than Friday at noon. |
W 5/8 | Class: Conferences.
Home: Finish final. |
5/9-11 | Final presentations Final reflections |