TENTATIVE AND EVOLVING Spring 2007 Schedule

LINK TO FALL SCHEDULE

Week Topic Lecture Notes Assignments and Study Questions

Week 1

1/10 – 1/12

Syllabus LINK TO FALL SCHEDULE

Let's Be Clear

Review/Preview

Cultural Lens Theory

The Other vs. Empathy

F: Read:
Syllabus
Assignment Page
Cultural Lens Theory

Week 2

1/15 – 1/19

Orientation /Review, Frankenstein
 

It's Science!

Frankenstein Themes and Context

W: Frankenstein "Letters" and Ch. 1 Thru 4

F: Ch. 5-8  (Finish Volume I)

Week 3

1/22 – 1/26

Frankenstein

Working In Groups

Preliminary Abstract

Mary Shelley Biography

Romanticism and Nature

W: Frankenstein  Ch. 9 Thru 17 (Finish Volume II)

Frankenstein Group SQ

Week 4

1/29 - 2/02

Frankenstein  Frankenstein Themes and Context

The Other and Doppelgδnger

William Godwin On Justice

Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth   (Transcript)

The Cultural Lens At Work!

Frankenstein Finish

Finding Implicit Reasons

Monster Argument Outline

Week 5

2/5 – 2/9

Bride Of Frankenstein Plagiarism and Cheating

Visual Literacy

Film: how music forms emotional response

The Power of Icons

Comparing Shelley and Whale

Kate Law’s Frankenstein imagery page

Bride of Frankenstein

James Whale

Biddy and Churchill

W: Monster Argument Outline Due, typed, in class. BRING TWO COPIES

F: Literary Analysis Mini Project Due by 5:00 (see Assignment Guidelines Please!)

Week 6

2/12 – 2/16

Bride Of Frankenstein

Bladerunner

Empathy

Man and Machine

Blade Runner Empathy

Empathy Sources

"Myths and Legends" Cultural Lens  Lecture

Shelley-Whale Comparison SQs

W: Blade Runner Ch. 1 Thru 9 (Open Book Quiz)

Week 7

2/19 – 2/23

Bladerunner

Bladerunner and Film

 

Blade Runner And The Holocaust

Othering and Race or Race, Still Our Most Divisive Force

M: Holiday

W: Blade Runner Finish

F: BR Film

Week 8

2/26 – 3/2

Bladerunner and Film

Critical Thinking Rubric

Comparing Novel  & Film

Blade Runner: Rape

Choose Group Topics And Groups

M: BR Film

Blade Runner Group SQs

Week 9

3/5 – 3/9

Batman: The Dark Knight

Comix and Design

Five Tools For Understanding Art and Meaning

The Power of Icons

The Big Triangle

Comix Terms

Vigilante Justice

http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/instruction/CoreDiscovery/monsters/

Batman Discussion SQs

Week 10

3/12 – 3/16

Spring Recess Spring Recess Spring Recess

Week 11

3/19 – 3/23

Frankl and The Holocaust

Existential Heroism

Review:
Existentialism

Existentialism Is A Humanism

Camus' Myth of Sisyphus

Obedience to Authority: Stanley Milgram (Human Behavior Experiments)

W: Group Abstract

 F: Finish Frankl "Experiences"

Week 12

3/26 – 3/30

Frankl cont. and De-mything The Holocaust

 

Creating A Webpage

De-myth-ing The Holocaust

Hermann Goering Quote

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

M: Frankl Group SQs due in class

W: Group Webpages

F: Mein Kampf: Propaganda

Week 13

4/2 – 4/6

Propagating Hate Wed: Research Projects: BRING LAPTOPS

M/F: Hitler And Art/Design:

Experience Design

The Architecture of Doom

WWII Propaganda

US Posters

Nazi

Anti-Semitic

Der Ewige Jude

US Office of War Prop

F: Monster Media Propaganda Project
OR
Storyboard/Comic Mini-Project

Hankins Storyboard Example

 

Week 14

4/9 – 4/13

The Holocaust: Becoming the Monster

 

Making Them Talk: 24  video

"Making Them Talk"  full article

Disney War Propaganda

W: Tadeusz Borowski "This Way To The Gas Ladies Gentleman"

Week 15

4/16 -- 4/20

Dawn: Terrorism and Just War

Conference  Prep

Heroism

Dawn Context: Irgun

The Categorical Imperitive

Due Friday:
Conference Abstract, Outline, Bib. Mini-Project

Abstract Gradesheet

Week 16

4/21 – 4/25

Dawn: Terrorism and Just War

Conference  Prep

Conference  Prep

Cold War And The Origins of Contemporary Terrorism

Dawn SQs

Developing and Revising Drafts

Week 17

4/30 – 5/4

Conference  Conference  Thursday and Friday
May 3rd
8:00am to 2:00 pm Clearwater room,Commons

May 4th
8:00 am to 6:00 pm  Aurora room,Commons
8:00 am to 6:00 pm  Horizon room,Commons
Drake's Students' Schedule:
07 Group Info 

 

PowerPoint Presentation Guide

Fri 5:00:
Conference Papers Due and Conference and Expo Evaluation

Week 18

5/7 – 5/11

Finals Week