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TENTATIVE AND EVOLVING

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Spring 2007 Schedule

Study Questions

 

Week Topic Lecture Notes Assignments and Study Questions

Week 1

1/10 – 1/12

Syllabus LINK TO FALL SCHEDULE

 

F: Read:
Syllabus
Assignment Page
Cultural Lens Theory

Week 2

1/15 – 1/19

Orientation /Review, Frankenstein
 


1st Semester  Concepts Review

Let's Be Clear

Review/Preview

Cultural Lens Theory

The Other vs. Empathy

It's Science!

Frankenstein Themes and Context

Frankenstein "Letters" and Ch. 1 Thru 8

Week 3

1/22 – 1/26

Frankenstein

Working In Groups

Preliminary Abstract

Mary Shelley Biography

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

Frankenstein  Ch. 9 Thru 17

Week 4

1/29 - 2/02

Frankenstein  The Other and Doppelgδnger

Mary Shelley Biography

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

Frankenstein Themes and Context

Frankenstein Finish

Finding Implicit Reasons

Monster Argument Outline

Week 5

2/5 – 2/9

Bride Of Frankenstein Plagiarism and Cheating

Man and Machine

Visual Literacy

Comparing Shelley and Whale

Kate Law’s Frankenstein imagery page

Bride of Frankenstein

James Whale

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

 Lit Analysis MP typed rough draft due in class: BRING TWO COPIES, 3 pp min each.

F: Literary Analysis Mini Project Due

Bride Of Frankenstein

Week 6

2/12 – 2/16

Bride Of Frankenstein

Bladerunner

Film: music: how music forms emotional response.

Man and Machine

Blade Runner Empathy

"Myths and Legends" Cultural Lens  Lecture

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

Week 7

2/19 – 2/23

Bladerunner

Bladerunner and Film

Crash?

Experience Design

Blade Runner And The Holocaust

General Outline for Theory Papers

Blade Runner Finish

Drake Gone Friday

Week 8

2/26 – 3/2

Bladerunner and Film

Crash?

Critical Thinking Rubric

Comparing Novel  & Film

Drake Gone Monday

Bladerunner, the Film

 Blade Runner Group

Week 9

3/5 – 3/9

Batman: The Dark Knight

Comix and Design

Five Tools For Understanding Art and Meaning

The Big Triangle

Comix Terms

Vigilante Justice

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

Due Friday:

Monster Media Propaganda Project

 

Hankins Storyboard Example

 

Week 10

3/12 – 3/16

Spring Recess Spring Recess Spring Recess

Week 11

3/19 – 3/23

Frankl and The Holocaust

Existential Heroism

Obedience to Authority: Stanley Milgram Th: Batman Discussion Qs

 

Week 12

3/26 – 3/30

Frankl and The Holocaust

Propaganda

Creating A Webpage

Hitler And Art/Design

The Architecture of Doom

WWII Propaganda

Nazi

Anti-Semitic

Der Ewige Jude

US Office of War Prop

De-myth-ing The Holocaust

Group Webpages

Man's Search For Meaning
Holocaust Literature SQs

Mein Kampf: Propaganda

Week 13

4/2 – 4/6

Dawn: Terrorism and Just War

 

Monster Media Propaganda Project
OR
Storyboard/Comic Mini-Project

Week 14

4/10 – 4/13

Cold War

 

 

Hankins Storyboard Example

 


 

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

Week 15

4/16 -- 4/20

Cold War and Modern Terrorism

Conference  Prep

 

Week 16

4/21 – 4/25

Schindler's List

Conference  Prep

Conference  Prep

Developing and Revising Drafts

Week 17

4/30 – 5/4

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

Week 18

5/7 – 5/11

Finals Week   Mon: 5:00 Electronic Portfolio