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Course Info

Course: ENG 1131
Section: 6259
Room: CBD 110B, Weil 410
Time: T 5-6, R 6 & W E1–E3

Instructor: Nicholas Guest-Jelley
Office: TUR 4415
Office Hours: TR 7 and by appointment
Email: njelley@ufl.edu

Tentative Schedule (Sure to Change throughout the Semester)

Day

Class

Readings: Due on the day listed

Screenings

Due

T 1-6

Introduction, syllabus, discussion about policies

 

 

W 1-7

 

 

No Screening.

 

R 1-8

Continue discussion about policies, hold preliminary vote.

 

 

 

T 1-13

Finalize vote on course policies. Reading Skillz.

Intro to Narrative as Representation, Text Book 1-12.

 

Email 1

W 1-14

 

 

Introduction to Dreamweaver/HTML: creating web pages, tables, images, image manipulation.

 

R 1-15

Continue discussing reading skills Continue reading Text Book 12-18

 

Web Assignment One Due by Sunday night.

T 1-20

Absurd comedy; character conflict. Introduction to project 1.

Warren report

Start Assassination Rhapsody (in packet). TB 40-46; Ballard s JFK Story (online).

brief excerpts of Warren Report

 

Email 2

W 1-21

 

 

JFK

 

R 1-22

 

 

 

 

T 1-27

Peripeteia (reversal of fortune)


TB 51-57   Web Assignment Two Due

W 1-28

    Web workshop: Linking, structuring pages,  

R 1-29

Representation and its Complications.

TB 57-61;

 

Email 3

 

T 2-3

Project 1 Review

Project 1 Reading Test

 

 

 

W 2-4

Project Part One presentations

 

 

 

 

R 2-5 Individual Conferences.  

 

Participation Review;

Email 4

         
T 2-10

Project Part One presentations.

   

Project Part One

 

W 2-11

 

 

No Screening

 

R 2-12

Arguing with Metaphor.

 

TB 62-74; Start Assassination Vacation (in packet)

 

 

 

Response 5

 

T 2-17

Metaphor and Dreams.

Media & Constructing a "literate" argument

 

TB 74-81.

Zellner: "Covering the Body" by Telling the Assassination (in packet)

 

  Assignment 3

W 2-18

 

New HTML techniques.

 

R 2-19

Absurd Technique: Surrealist Metaphor.

 

TB: 82-87

 

Response 6

T 2-24

Foundations for absurdity in media argumentation

Parables and Advertising

Zellzer: "Covering the Body" by Mediated Assessment (in packet)

TB: 128-135; 142-149

 

Assignment 4 Due

W 2-27    

Screening: SNL ads; Colbert Report

 

R 2-28

Individual conferences

 

 

Participation Review;
Response 7

T 3-2

Project Part 2 Review

Project 2 Q & A

 

 

 

W 3-3

 

 

 

R 3-4 Reading Test      

March 3/9-3/13

Spring Break  

 

 

T 3-17

Project Two Presentations

 

Screen Collages, Readymades

 

 

  Project 2 Due

W 3-18

 

 

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R 3-19

Intertextuality

 

 

TB: 150-157;

 

 

Response 8

T 3-24

Transforming Texts;

Assassination Rhapsody's Transformations:

 

TB: 157-161.

Asssassination Rhapsody (in packet): "The Revolver." 7-18.

 

 

 

W 3-25

 

Experimental films & Music videos  

R 3-26

Transforming "images"

TB:161-175.

 

Response 9

T 3-31

Assassination Rhapsody

AR:19-43.

 

Web Assignment 5

 

W 4-1

 

 

Web workshop

 
R 4-2  

Finish Reading Assassination Rhapsody

 

Response 10

T 4-7

Project Part 3 Reading Review (Indecisive Individuals)

Project Part 3 Q& A

 

 


W 4-8

 

 

 

 

R 4-9

Individual Conferences;
Reading Test

 

 

Participation Review;

Response 11

T 4-14

Project Part 3 Presentations

 

 

 

Project Three Due

 

W 4-15


 

 

 

R 4-16

Course Review;

Evaluations

 

Response 12
T 4-21

Derek Pell: Assassination Rhapsody;

Putting it all Together

TB: 346-348;

 

 

W 4-23

Work on Final

 

 

Final Project Due Tuesday, April 28.