Class Outline 1C Fall '07

Class Outline - 1C Fall 2007

• 8/31 | 9/2 - Procedures & Parameters. Logic & Fallacy.
  




• Plato's "Allegory
  of the Cave." http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/platoscave.html


• "Toulmin's
  Model" http://www.concentric.net/~Creyn266/COMM335/Toulmin.htm


• Logical
  Fallacies http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
  (Get at least a good start on these)
  
  




• 9/7 | 9/9 - Toulmin, Plato, Fallacy, Sign vs Referent.
  
  
  
  
  • http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
    (Finish these.)
    
    
  
  
  • Edward Herman
    on the "propaganda model" http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/2002----.htm
    
    
  
  
  • Jeff Cohen
    http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1122-31.htm
    
    
  
  
  • Agnew
    - http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/spiroagnewtvnewscoverage.htm
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 9/14 | 9/16 - "Information Filters." Choose medium for
  presentation.
  
      DUE#1 CRITICAL READING AND EXPOSITION OF FALLACIES.
  
  
  
  
  
  • Breton http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/freedom-of-love/
    
    
  
  
  • Perkins-Gilman's
    "Yellow Wallpaper." http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/gilman.htm
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 9/21 | 9/23 - Breton, Gilman, Blake, Drucker. Choose media for future
  discussions.
  
  
  
  
  • Dooce -- http://www.dooce.com/
    (Take a look around)
    
    
  
  
  • Wikis --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
    (Read the article)
    
    
  
  
  • http://therealnews.com (Exact article
    TBA in the blog)
    
    
  
  
  • http://earlyradiohistory.us/1922new.htm
    
    
  
  
  • http://www.jeffcohen.org/docs/interviewactive.html
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 9/28 | 9/30 - Media objects. Compare notes for student-led discussions.
  Research.
  
  


• 10/5 | 10/7 - Student-Led Media Discussions. Choose Debate and Deep-reading
  topics. DUE - ASSIGNMENT #2 Critical Response to art or media. Research.
  
  


• 10/12 | 10/14 - Discussions continued. Debate meeting and Conferences.
  Research.
  
  


• 10/19 | 10/21 - Debate meeting + Conferences.
  
  


• 10/26 | 10/28 - ASSIGNMENT #3 DEBATES Read for discussion
  in 2 weeks:
  
  
  
  • "The
    Storm" Chopin. http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/kchopin/bl-kchop-thestorm.htm
    
    
  
  
  • from
    Walden http://www.skidmore.edu/~tkuroda/hi215/ThoreauWalden.htm
    
    
  
  
  • "The Metamorphosis." http://www.mala.bc.ca/~Johnstoi/stories/kafka-E.htm
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 11/2 | 11/4 - DUE ASSIGNMENT #4 In-class essay - VOICE.


• 11/9 | 11/11 - Discuss readings and themes


• 11/16 | 11/18 - Discuss readings and themes


• 11/23 | 11/25 - Shakespeare


• THANKSGIVING !!


• 12/7 | 12/9 - Discuss Shakespeare


• 12/14 | 12/16 DUE # 5 RESEARCH PROJECT # 6 DUE FINAL TEST