Schedule of Course Readings and Assignments

Because of the collaboratively generated nature of this class, it is the responsibility of each student to check the e-portfolio site every week for details on course readings and assignments.  As we move into the collaborative research phase of the course in April, it will be important for students to be using the e-portfolio site even more frequently.

 

Week 1:         

Wed 2/17       

• Introductions, Syllabus, Using E-portfolio
• Late start:  noon – 12:45 for Presidential Finalist Faculty Meeting

Week 2:         

Mon 2/22       

• Using E-portfolio
• Read:  Time Machine, pp. vii-71.
• Post to Moodle: Intro; Time Machine Dialogue Responses (DR) 1

Wed 2/24       

• Read:  Time Machine, pp. 132-175
• Post: Time Machine DR 2

Week 3:         

Mon 3/1         

• Library Session in Library Classroom with Linda Butterworth
• Read:  Time Machine, pp. 179-259
• Post:  DR 3

Wed 3/3         

• Read:  no reading assignment – write 1st draft essay 1
• Research questions; Apocalyptic Film Festival planning
• Post: Time Machine, Text in Context Essay

Week 4:

Mon 3/8

• Read:  Earth Abides
• Post:  DR 4 (Film Festival Planning; Learning Contracts; Peer Responses to essay drafts)

Wed 3/10

• Read:  Find your own scholarly article relevant to Earth Abides
• Post:  DR 5 (Earth Abides)
• Begin Apocalyptic Film Festival (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)

Week 5:  Spring Break!  (Read Canticle for Leibowitz)

 

Week 6:

Mon 3/22

• Read:  Canticle for Leibowitz
• Post:  DR 6 (Research Discussion)

Wed 3/24

• Read:  Finish Canticle; find and read a scholarly article relevant to Canticle
• Post:  DR 7 (Canticle)
• Film Festival:  3:30 - 6:30, The Thing

Week 7:

Mon 3/29

• Read:  The Dispossessed, ch. 1-4
  
• Post: DR 8

Wed 3/31

• Read:  The Dispossessed, ch. 5-7
• Post: DR 9
• Film Festival:  3:30 - 6:30, Dawn of the Dead, or Total Recall

Week 8:

Mon 4/5

• Read:  The Dispossessed, ch.8-end
• Post:  DR 10

Wed 4/7

• Read:  The Book of Revelations
• The classic King James version:  quod.lib.umich.edu...
• The American Standard Version:  www.earlychristianwritings.com
• Post: DR 11
• Film Festival:  3:30 - 6:30, Children of Men

Week 9:

Mon 4/12

• Watch: Watch "The Fly" either on your own OR at 545 Dameron Drive. Saturday 4/10/10 @ Noon.
• District 9 in class viewing
• Collaborative Readings as determined by group research project
• Post:  DR 12 (As assigned by Rell and Sam C.)
• (Paul out of town -- class still meets to discuss readings and research project)

Wed 4/14

• Rell and Sam C. "Bodily Transformations and Violence in Science Fiction"
• Read:  
  
• Find and read 3-5 secondary sources that support your particular research question / approach.  These do not necessarily need to address any specific texts, but rather should help your analysis of the texts that you are analyzing.  Post these citations to the Shared Biblography.
• Collaborative Readings as determined by group research project
• Sam K. and Parable of the Sower; Rachel on "Short Stories and Science Fiction (part 1)"
• Post:  DR 13 (As assigned by Sam K. and Rachel)
• Film Festival:  3:30 - 6:30, 2001

Week 10:

Mon 4/19

• Will - Video Games
• Post: DR 14 (As assigned by Will / Rachel)
• Second draft of Essay 1 -- post as text module and/or attachment to your personal e-portfolio site.
• (Paul out of town -- class still meets to discuss research / go to computer lab to write detailed peer reviews of second draft of Essay 1)

Wed 4/21

• Read:  Collaborative Readings as determined by group research project
• Wallis and Lauren "Science Fiction and Fantasy" Movie Day
• Post:  DR15 (As assigned by Wallis and Lauren) 
  
• E-portfolio collaborative research project (post, comment, revise)
• (Paul out of town -- class still meets to work on e-portfolio)
• Film Festival:  3:30 - 6:30, A Scanner Darkly

Week 11:

Mon 4/26

• Read:  Collaborative Readings as determined by group research project
• Wallis and Lauren: Presentation Day
• Post:  DR16 (As assigned by Wallis and Lauren)
  
• E-portfolio collaborative research project (post, comment, revise)

Wed 4/28

• Read:  Selected Short Stories TBA
• Sam Kassel and Rachel: Parable of the Sowers and Selected Short Stories
• Post:  TBA: Sam and Rachel
• Film Festival:  3:30 - 6:30, Wizards

Week 12:

Mon 5/3

• Read:  Collaborative Readings as determined by group research project
• Post:  E-portfolio collaborative research project (post, comment, revise);
• Personal e-portfolio (post, read others, comment, revise) including all assignments (see syllabus and below)

Wed 5/5

• Read:  Review class e-portfolio (all sections) and all personal e-portfolios (comment)
  
• Post:  Personal e-portfolio (final draft, Essay 1; Synthesis of Learning narrative with links to "Essay 2" in collaborative research project e-portfolio, links to DRs, etc.)