| COURSE SCHEDULE INFORMATION |
Graded Assignments: You will be given individual assignment sheets throughout the course.
Final exam date, time, and location: T 12/13/16 1:30PM-3:30PM
Course Calendar: *Subject to change*
| T 8/29 | Intros and syllabus. | Join blog, get books, and read “Empathizing 101” http://bit.ly/2b1J9ZK (Try taking the empathy quiz linked in the article). | |
| TH 9/1 | Social annotation. Barthes (The Pleasure of the Text 10-14) | Read and annotate “Reading Books and Watching Films makes you Kinder in Real Life” http://bit.ly/2aB04mo and “What Becomes of Empathy” https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/07/20/what-becomes-of-empathy/. Make a pro/con list for teaching empathy. | |
| T 9/6 | Empathy debate. Provocation assignment. | Read Dick, Philip K., Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? First 7 chapters. | |
| TH 9/8 | Integrating sources and MLA citations. | Read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? First 7 chapters. Group 1 post provocations by Sunday at midnight. Group 2 and 3 post responses to two posts by Tuesday. | |
| T 9/13 | Fishbowl Group 1. | Read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? chapters 8-14. Group 2 post provocations Thursday at midnight. Group 1 and 3 post responses to two posts by Friday. | |
| TH 9/15 | Fishbowl Group 2. | Finish Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? chapters 14-22. Group 3 post provocations by Sunday at midnight. Group 1 and 2 post responses to two posts by Tuesday. | |
| T 9/20 | Fishbowl Group 3. | Read and annotate (using hypothes.is) Bury: http://bit.ly/2aXe1xd | |
| TH 9/22 | Midterm assignment. Guest visit by Cyborgology. | Read. “Donna Haraway – A Cyborg Manifesto.” (please print out and bring to class). | |
| T 9/27 | Reverse outlining. | Read and annotate Davis, Lennard. “Constructing Normalcy.” ConstructingNormalcy_Davis (PDF). Outline midterm. | |
| TH 9/29 | Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA8inmHhx8c. Ableism. Watch Butler video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HZaPkF6qE | Draft midterm. Bring two printed copies to class 10/4. | |
| T 10/4 | Peer review. | Revise midterm. Bring draft to conference. | |
| TH 10/6 | Conferences. | Revise midterm. Post midterm by 10/11. | |
| T 10/11 | NO CLASS | Revise midterm. Post midterm by 10/11. | |
| TH 10/13 | How to read a play. Guest speaker. | Read (first two acts). Capek, Karel, and Ivan Klima. R.U.R. | |
| T 10/18 | Stepford Wives. | Read (acts 3 and 4) R.U.R. | |
| TH 10/20 | Stepford Wives. | Finish R.U.R. | |
| T 10/25 | R.U.R. | Read Clarke, Adele. “Modernity, Postmodernity & Reproductive Processes ca. 1890-1990.” P 139-155. in Haraway, Donna J. et al. The Cyborg Handbook. (PDF). Clarke_ReproductiveProcesses. | |
| TH 10/27 | Posthumanism. | Read Chapter 1. Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Post definitions. | |
| T 11/1 |
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Read: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/opinion/sundance-new-frontiers-virtual-reality.html
And: https://mashedradish.com/2016/04/01/why-is-it-called-virtual-reality/ |
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| TH 11/3 | Virtual bodies. Black Mirror. | Read The Nether. | |
| T 11/8 | The Nether. | Read The Nether. | |
| TH 11/10 | Guest speaker and performance. | Read The Nether. | |
| T 11/15 | Final project. | Write pitch. | |
| TH 11/17 | Speed pitching. | Vote on top four projects. Gather journals to turn in. | |
| T 11/22 | Pick groups. Work on Contract. | Finish contact and email to professor by Monday at noon. | |
| TH 11/25 | NO CLASS | Finish contact and email to professor by Monday at noon. | |
| T 11/29 | Group work. | Group work. | |
| TH 12/1 | Group work. | Group work. | |
| T 12/6 | Group work. | Group work. | |
| TH 12/8 | Reflections. | Finish final project. | |
| FINAL | Presentations.
Tues. 12/13/16 1:30 – 3:30PM |
Happy Holidays! |