Quotes
Life is too important to be taken seriously. --Oscar Wilde
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)
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T 1-6 |
Introduction, syllabus, discussion about policies |
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W 1-7 |
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No Screening. |
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R 1-8 |
Continue discussion about policies, hold preliminary vote. |
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T 1-13 |
Finalize vote on course policies. Reading Skillz. |
Intro to Narrative as Representation, Text Book 1-12. |
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Email 1 |
W 1-14 |
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Introduction to Dreamweaver/HTML: creating web pages, tables, images, image manipulation. |
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R 1-15 |
Continue discussing reading skills | Continue reading Text Book 12-18 |
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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 |
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W 1-21 |
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JFK |
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R 1-22 |
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T 1-27 |
Peripeteia (reversal of fortune)
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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
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T 2-3 | Project 1 Review Project 1 Reading Test |
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W 2-4 | Project Part One presentations
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R 2-5 | Individual Conferences. |
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Participation Review; Email 4 |
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T 2-10 | Project Part One presentations. |
Project Part One
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W 2-11 |
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No Screening |
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R 2-12 |
Arguing with Metaphor.
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TB 62-74; Start Assassination Vacation (in packet)
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Response 5
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T 2-17 |
Metaphor and Dreams. Media & Constructing a "literate" argument
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TB 74-81. Zellner: "Covering the Body" by Telling the Assassination (in packet)
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Assignment 3 | |
W 2-18 |
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New HTML techniques. |
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R 2-19 |
Absurd Technique: Surrealist Metaphor.
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TB: 82-87
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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 |
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Assignment 4 Due |
W 2-27 | Screening: SNL ads; Colbert Report |
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R 2-28 |
Individual conferences |
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Participation Review; |
T 3-2 |
Project Part 2 Review Project 2 Q & A
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W 3-3 |
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R 3-4 | Reading Test | |||
March 3/9-3/13 |
Spring Break |
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T 3-17 |
Project Two Presentations
Screen Collages, Readymades |
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Project 2 Due | |
W 3-18 |
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R 3-19 |
Intertextuality
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TB: 150-157;
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Response 8 |
T 3-24 |
Transforming Texts; Assassination Rhapsody's Transformations:
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TB: 157-161. Asssassination Rhapsody (in packet): "The Revolver." 7-18.
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W 3-25 |
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Experimental films & Music videos | ||
R 3-26 |
Transforming "images" | TB:161-175. |
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Response 9 |
T 3-31 |
Assassination Rhapsody |
AR:19-43. |
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Web Assignment 5
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W 4-1 |
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Web workshop |
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R 4-2 | Finish Reading Assassination Rhapsody |
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Response 10 | |
T 4-7 |
Project Part 3 Reading Review (Indecisive Individuals) Project Part 3 Q& A |
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W 4-8 |
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R 4-9 |
Individual Conferences; Reading Test |
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Participation Review; Response 11 |
T 4-14 |
Project Part 3 Presentations
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Project Three Due
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W 4-15 |
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R 4-16 |
Course Review; Evaluations |
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Response 12 | |
T 4-21 | Derek Pell: Assassination Rhapsody; Putting it all Together |
TB: 346-348; |
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W 4-23 |
Work on Final |
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Final Project Due Tuesday, April 28. |