1102 Spring 07 Calendar

Week 1 Jan 9	Course overview: Online syllabus, Controversial Issues & Discourse Community SB 529 & semester university/community engagement project Free the Slaves / introduce web site and assign readings for Thursday Study Abroad in Vietnam Summer 07 http://www.meganjacobs.com/vietnam Assign: Response 1 -- 1 page Response (Objectives: Give you practice thinking critically about sources, which you will need to do for your final project research; give you practice writing a summary, which you will need to do for your annotated bibliography.) Read my course description for our ENGL 1102 class and the Department of Writing and Linguistic's Course Goals and Objectives. Think about what is the same about these and what is different. This response is designed to: help you understand what our goals for the course are and what my particular method for achieving these goals is give you practice seeing how two different texts can speak in very different ways about basically the same thing. The difference between my course description and the department's course description is partly methodological (that is, I give you a method for how we will achieve the department's goals) and partly rhetorical (that is, a way of compelling you to a vision of writing and the work of the class). After reading these two descriptions and thinking about what my course description tells you, write a short response (a page or so) analyzing my methodology and rhetoric. Pay special attention to my language -- how is it similar to and different than the department's course description? What does my course description say we are going to do, how we are going to do it, and why?
Jan 11	SB 529 & Free the Slaves/ Discussion -- Review of site, categories, issues. This site works in conjunction with your assigned text, Where Does Your T-Shirt Come From? Begin reviewing this book -- read Table of Contents, first few pages of the introduction, skim the index. Assign: Dealing with People You Can't Stand: "Introduction," Chapter 1 "The 10 Most Unwanted List," & Ch. 2 "The Lens of Understanding" Assign Essay #1: Explain the primary orientations that, according to Dealing with People You Can't Stand, people have in the world, and how these primary orientations can sometimes lead to problem behaviors. This is a formal writing assignment -- see essay instructions; bring it to the writing center for a review before you turn it in to me for a grade. (Due Thurs. Jan. 30 )
Week 2 Jan 16	Don't Miss: Bernice King for Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Day!! Tuesday Jan. 16, 7:00 pm – Performance Art Center Social/Cultural Issues Workshop: Given that we are going to spend the bulk of the semester researching, thinking, and writing about the social and cultural issues you face in your lives and world, you have an opportunity in your work for this class to really understand a problem that your local community, GSU, or this area faces and to imagine how to engage with that problem. What ideas are you having about issues that are important to you? Women's History Month Read-In: Call for Submissions See the Spring 2007 Diversity Calendar -- review this calendar and choose 2 - 4 events that seem most significant to you; use these to help determine your social/cultural issues and as resources for your final project work Leadership Programs -- Review these and take advantage!!! Class Brainstorm from Social Issues Workshop Assign: UNAIDS and Women & Report on the Global AIDS Crisis
Jan 18	SYLLABUS UPDATE: -- ESSAY 1 DUE DATE MOVED BACK -- DUE TUESDAY JAN 30 Dr. Alison Scott, College of Public Health: “This is What goes on Inside Me ”: HIV-positive Women's Representations of HIV and AIDS." 12:00 - 1:00 p.m/ RU 2071 class meets in the RU for Dr. Scott's talk Assign: Response 2 -- 1 - 2 page response on AIDS issues (informal writing) based in Dr. Scott's presentation and the AIDS web sites that you have reviewed, sum up what you think are the major issues surrounding AIDS that your generation faces. Remember: informal responses are a place for you to really explore ideas -- be creative, think deeply. I am not concerned with grammar, punctuation, or organization in these responses. They are places for you to really sink your teeth into ideas, without the pressure of formal/mechanical issues blocking your ability to think. Imagine that you are having a conversation with a really good friend, and you are trying to get to heart of the issue --- go deep and really try to think
Week 3 Jan 23	SYLLABUS UPDATE: -- ESSAY 1 DUE DATE MOVED BACK -- DUE TUESDAY JAN 30 Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) 12:30-1:45 Russell Union, Room 2047 -- class meets in Union for Mr. Gonzalez's talk Film screening 5:00 CIT 1004 "Fighting 529" Assign: Response 3 -- 1 - 2 page response on Immigration Issues (informal writing)
Jan 25	Due: Informal writings 2 and 3, on AIDS and immigration -- turn in today, Friday, or Monday of next week. I'd like to grade these and return these to you by Tuesday Jan. 30, so, if you don't have them ready for class (which is fine :-), email them to me. In-Class work on Essay 1 -- peer reviews of essay drafts; Completed Essays, with first draft and revised final copy, due Tuesday Jan. 30
Week 4 Jan 30	Formal Essay 1 Due Assign: Essay #2. Choose either AIDS or Immigration Response to develop into Essay # 2. Due Feb. 8. This is a formal writing assignment; bring to the Writing Center for a review before you turn it in to me for a grade. Begin research for annotated bibliography. Search Strategies: Form groups based around common social/ cultural concerns. You are going to begin gathering research about your issue. Review Henderson Library's Research tips and strategies, paying careful attention to the complete guide to research (I would suggest doing this as a group, but you can work this out however you want. Many of you will already be familiar with research strategies, so, most importantly, you want to let your group members know if you are a good researcher and a resource or if you are new to research and will need support) Review Ohio State's Guide to Searching the Internet and print a copy of Kathy Schrock's Guide for evaluating internet sources for each web site you include in your annotated bibliography. Speaker Martin Yate, author of the New York Times best selling Knock ‘Em Dead books will be the keynote speaker for the event! Talks Tuesday Jan. 20, 3:30pm-5:00pm & 7:00pm-8:30pm / College of Education Lecture Hall Life-Planning Workshops Wednesday, Jan. 31, from 10am-3pm in Russell Union 2080 For information and a complete calendar, contact Amy Williams, 912-681-5197 \| awilliams@georgiasouthern.edu
Feb 1	Annotated Bibliography work Continue Research & begin compiling annotated bibliography. (Style Sheets for citing electronic sources) Your group will turn in 1 copy of the annotated bibliography and the evaluation checklist for each internet site Include the names of all group members on the cover page of the annotated bibliography. Indicate, at the end of each annotation, who wrote the annotation. Indicate, on the web site evaluation checklist, who completed the evaluation. Database Search for scholarly articles: Galileo Tutorial Searching Databases and reading citations Research Exercise Interlibrary Loan Request Form Continue Reading Dealing with People You Can't Stand -- Should have this read by Feb. 13
Week 5 Feb 6	Annotated Bibliography work Sit with your group members. Go to net.tutor's Smart Research Strategies & Smart Search Techniques-- review and, as a group, come up with search terms. Begin an internet search with google.com. Each of you will search independently, but you will keep checking in with your group to see what your group members are finding, tell them what you are finding, and to revise and refine your searching terms and techniques. Keep track of the sites that seem best. By the end of the class, your group needs to have come up with a preliminary list of the websites you will include in your annotated bibliography. When you have, as a group, decided on the best sites, divide the work of thoroughly reviewing and evaluating the web sties. Use Berkeley's tips for evaluating web sites; completethe evaluation checklist for the web site. Additional searching help from Ohio State's resources: Searching 101, Using Web Search Tools, & Berkeley's Finding Information on the Internet Tutorial Introduction: Using Galileo Databases
Feb 8	Due: Essay #2 -- by 5:00 p.m. Friday; slip under my office door, Forest Drive 1127, if you don't have it ready in class on Thursday. If you need more time on this, I can approve an extension and let you turn it in on Monday, though I think it would be better for you to get this done and out of your hair. See me if you have due-date issues :) Return and Review Essay 1 -- Sample Essay Writing Issues Checklist & Purdue On-line writing explanations and handouts Run-on sentences Passive verb problems Exercises for eliminating wordiness answers Effective writing/ general see especially: logical vocabulary, reaching logical conclusions, logical reasoning exercise, fallacies, coherence Paragraph development and exercises for Writing Thesis statement Annotated Bibliographies -- Review Galileo search techniques and Ordering a book through Georgia Interconnected Libraries
Week 6 Feb 13	Annotated bibliography work
Feb 15	Gender Roles -- Donna Fisher, Stephanie Sipe, Douglas Johnson; Class meets in Russell Union Room 2044, 12:00 - 1:30 Assign: Response 4 -- 1 - 2 page response on Gender issues (informal writing) -- If your group needs the time Thursday to work on your annotated bibliographies, you may work in our classroom on that. If you are not able to attend today's talk on Sexual Harassment, then you may do Response 4 about one of the upcoming Sexual Assault Awareness Week activities. Response 4 is due March 2. Annotated bibliographies due. Each group keeps copy of entire bib, but turn 1 copy in for group. Remember to include names for each group member and who wrote annotations for each source. Full annotation for Interlibrary loan book will be added when the book arrives; do a preliminary annotation for the ILL source based on library description, amazon.com, and google reviews.
Week 7 Feb 20	In-Class revision workkshops -- Essays 1 & 2
Feb 22	In-Class revision workkshops -- Essays 1 & 2 Paper Map
Week 8 Feb 27	Sexual Assault Awareness Week Activities -- use events for community engagement activities Finish Essay 1 & 2 Revision Workshops
Mar 1	Due: Response 4 (by 5:00 p.m. Friday, March 2) Begin work with Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy-- As introduction to Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, visit the Clothesline Project in the Union or at the RAC (Clothesline Project running this week 9 - 5). Read the T-shirts -- study these as TEXTS and as CULTURAL ARTIFACTS Why does the T-shirt become the symbol of representation -- the piece of clothing that is turned into art, the medium through which the culture talks back to/ acts against sexual violence? Come to class Tuesday with your book and your deep thoughts :-) about the Clothesline Project; we will introduce the reflection paper assignment for the book and your options for Essay 3 on Tuesday March 6. Take Back the Night March: Meet 6:00 p.m. Hanner Field House, march and rally at Union, candlelight vigil in rotunda
Week 9 Mar 6	Assign: Response 5 -- 2 page response to main issues in Where Does Your T-Shirt Come From -- (informal writing) Watch: PowerPoint Presentation, The Face of Domestic Violence Introduce Essay #3 Options
Mar 8	Women's History Month Read-In -- Russell Union, in the quad between the bookstore and the RU, outside of Starbucks. 11 - 2 -- come and read your work! -- Remember: I am assigning you 7 reflection papers; you have to choose an additional three campus events about which to write reflection papers. You may choose the Read-in as a reflection paper option. READ: Final Project EXPLANATION -- I want you to have an idea for your final project within the next two weeks! Remember, you have seriously investigate a social issue that impacts your life and world. Use the Read-in, the lectures we have been attending, and the campus/community events you have been going to as a basis for thinking and deciding a final project direction. Your final project needs to be a serious, thoughtful investigation of a social/cultural issue that affects your life and world. Once you have defined an area of interest/need, you need to define what the current problem is, who is affected, how, and why; Once you have determined the problem and its effects, I want you to think about the dynamics, structures, and relationships that sustain/ keep in place/ perpetuate the problem you have defined. Your reading in Travels of a T-shirt will be very, very important context for this! To get an idea of how other students in other programs around the country are engaging with social issues, look over these sites: Ten Steps to Succeeding in Your Student Initiated Service Learning Project Examples of What students are doing at CSUPomona Central Washington's Academic Service Learning Portfolio Guidelines (especially for those of you who might do a service learning transcript and need to put a portfolio together -- you could extend the work you are doing in this class to meet the service learning requirements) Begin emailing me your project ideas -- I will be working with you individually and in groups to decide a final project product. Additional Resources: Guide to Writing Proposals Fund Raising Project Proposal Feasability Study Literature Review
Week 10 Mar 20	Response 4 past due -- if you haven't gotten this to me already, the last possible moment is midnight to night -- what I don't have by then I won't be able to grade! Response 5 -- 2 page response to main issues in Where Does Your T-Shirt Come From -- (informal writing) DUE this week Return annotated bibliographies -- If you need to revise, see model bibliography Workshop Essay 3 -- Option 1: From Dealing With People You Can't Stand Option 2: From Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy Option 3: Final Project Exploratory Assign: Welfare Reform and Violence Against Women: an NIJ report -- prep for Dr. Maccarthy's talk
Mar 22	Dr. Nailah Macarthy: “Welfare in America : 10 Years Post Reform.” Discussion asks where are we now and where do we go from here? Analysis of the dynamics of the federal regulations of welfare and state adopted programs and policies. A call for national minimum requirements in time-limited cash assistance for the poor. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., Russell Union Room 2071 -- class meets in RU for talk Assign: Response 6 -- 1 - 2 page response on Welfare in America (informal writing)
Week 11 Mar 27	Essay 3 workshop: bring REVISED DRAFT to class, WITH YOUR Writing Issues Checklist -- You will need to have gone to the writing center AT LEAST ONCE to conference this essay, and you will be showing me, in class, how well you understand the writing issues you have been working with, how much work you have so far put into your revisions, and what work you still have left to do. Final Project Work & Revision workshops -- from this point on, I'll be working with you and your groups in a workshop/ studio setting -- we will be conferencing essays that you are revising, working on drafts of your final project, planning, researching, revising and editing.
Mar 29	Essay 3 DUE Final Project Work & Revision workshops
Week 12 Apr 3	Final Project Work & Revision workshops Film -- Choose from one of the following. Arrange to see the film with other students in the class who are interested in the film you want to see. You may use a reflection on the film to take the place of a reflection paper that you have missed or one of the outside events. Blood Diamond Everything is Illuminated Hunt for Justice The Pornography of Everyday Life What the Bleep Do We Know When Turtles Fly Resolution and Revolution, Concert Event Wednesday April 4, 11 - 2:, Sweetheart Circle -- GO!! Great Music, Free Food -- bring your blanket, your frisbee, your dog -- just GO!
Apr 5	Final Project Work & Revision workshops Nikki Giovanni tonight, 7:00 p.m. Performing Arts Center -- GO!! April 6 - 14: Long Day's Journey into Night, Black Box Theatre
Week 13 Apr 10	Monday April 9 Global Warming Talk, 7:00 p.m. IT Auditorium/ 1004 Final Project Work & Revision workshops Assign: Response 7 -- Check your responses. Response from film, or final project progress report
Apr 12	Final Project Work & Revision workshops using the File Transfer Protocol download free version of Core FTP/ file transfer protocol 30 free trial of Dreamweaver/ download
Wee 14 Apr 17	Final Project Work & Revision workshops
Apr 19	WGST Brown Bag-- RU 2071. You may go to this, or you may work on your final project.
Week 15 Apr 24	Final Project Work & Revision workshops
Apr 26	Final Projects Due!! Final Projects: Remember, you MUST TURN IN ALL OF YOUR DRAFTWORK for you final project! This includes: All of the emails we have exchanged All of your outlining, notes, brainstorming, and draft work The final draft (if this is a web site, print each link on your site; if it is a scrapbook, poster project, or traditional paper, print each page of the text you are submitting), with your revision notes from either a writing center conference or a peer review from one of you classmates. The projects are due by the exam date. In my ideal world, you would turn the projects in between Thursday April 26 and Monday April 30. If I have your project by Monday, I'll have it graded and returned to you by the final exam. If you turn the project in on the day of the final, you will need to come by the office Thursday April 3 to pick up the project and find out your grade.
Tuesday May 1	Final Exam in Newton Building, Room 2211 -- 12:30 - 2:30 For the final exam: You will have 5 minutes to explain your project to the class. Make sure that you rehearse your oral presentation before class. Take one minute to explain your project topic and why you chose it. Take 2 – 3 minutes to explain the major points/findings of your project. Take 1 – 2 minutes to conclude your presentation by explaining why your work is important and why we need to understand your issue.

Annotated bibliography Assignment: