Course Objectives and requirements
English 211 Course Objectives
Department Objectives:
A--Analyze and evaluate cultural artifacts such as texts, images, and practices
B--Construct a rhetorical argument with evidence appropriate for an explicit audience and purpose
C--Use writing to persuade, inform, or engage while considering situation, audience, purpose, aesthetics, and adverse points of view
D--Practice effective research strategies, and integrate research correctly and ethically from credible sources
E--Understand and apply components of the writing process such as planning, collaborating, organizing, composing, revising, and editing
Theme-Specific Course Objectives:
F--Situate oneself as one or more of the following: creative problem-solver/composer/writer/designer/artist and be able to effectively discuss one’s own writing and aesthetic
G--Develop a familiarity with image-editing and layering/collage in academic and professional contexts
H--Explore theme readings and activities through the canon of invention
I--Enact practices of planning for innovative audience engagement (audience outside the university)
J--Be able to remediate critical ideas into multiple mediums (digital and non-digital)
Course Requirements
Participation = 10%
Project #1 = 15%
Project #2 = 15%
Weekly Activities (online or non-digital) = 20%
WeAd Visit/Response (attend any show or class attendance, or open gallery hours) = 10%
Final Project (Project #3) = 20%
Final Response and Reflection = 10%
Extra Credit
There will be two extra credit opportunities offered during the semester, which will require attendance at an activity and a response to the activity. These will be announced as events happen on campus and in the community. Though you cannot make up work after you’ve missed a class, one extra credit opportunity will replace credit for one “Weekly Activity.” You may complete both extra credit opportunities.
Required Materials
They Say, I Say by Graff and Birkenstein (required by NMSU)
Writing Matters by Rebecca Moore Howard (required by NMSU)
Reliable access to Canvas Course Site and Course Home Page
USB drive or other external drive
Additional Texts (provided online)
Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez Website: www.cruz-diez.com
Anna Marie Greco, Thesis/Case Study (.pdf document): “Participatory Exhibition Design”
Before I Die (public art and writing project) website: http://beforeidie.cc/
Public Domain and Fair Use Websites (compiled list specifically for this class)
Kurt Vonnegut “On Writing” (.pdf)
excerpt from Bootcamp Bootleg design handbook (.pdf)
excerpt from Experimental Composition Patricia Sullivan (.pdf)
excerpt from Daphne Spain’s Gendered Spaces (.pdf)
article, Virginia Burke “Why Not Try Collage” (.pdf)
excerpt from Picturing Texts, Faigley, et al (.pdf)
Final Response and Reflection
A final reflective essay will be “take home” format due in Canvas by 10:30am on 12/9. You are also required to attend our scheduled final exam time, December 9th from 10:30-12:30 in O’Donnell 242. I will show the class photographs from the audience interaction and gallery space at WeAd and we will discuss and reflect on the interactive writing experience, and writing for an audience outside the university.
Department Objectives:
A--Analyze and evaluate cultural artifacts such as texts, images, and practices
B--Construct a rhetorical argument with evidence appropriate for an explicit audience and purpose
C--Use writing to persuade, inform, or engage while considering situation, audience, purpose, aesthetics, and adverse points of view
D--Practice effective research strategies, and integrate research correctly and ethically from credible sources
E--Understand and apply components of the writing process such as planning, collaborating, organizing, composing, revising, and editing
Theme-Specific Course Objectives:
F--Situate oneself as one or more of the following: creative problem-solver/composer/writer/designer/artist and be able to effectively discuss one’s own writing and aesthetic
G--Develop a familiarity with image-editing and layering/collage in academic and professional contexts
H--Explore theme readings and activities through the canon of invention
I--Enact practices of planning for innovative audience engagement (audience outside the university)
J--Be able to remediate critical ideas into multiple mediums (digital and non-digital)
Course Requirements
Participation = 10%
Project #1 = 15%
Project #2 = 15%
Weekly Activities (online or non-digital) = 20%
WeAd Visit/Response (attend any show or class attendance, or open gallery hours) = 10%
Final Project (Project #3) = 20%
Final Response and Reflection = 10%
Extra Credit
There will be two extra credit opportunities offered during the semester, which will require attendance at an activity and a response to the activity. These will be announced as events happen on campus and in the community. Though you cannot make up work after you’ve missed a class, one extra credit opportunity will replace credit for one “Weekly Activity.” You may complete both extra credit opportunities.
Required Materials
They Say, I Say by Graff and Birkenstein (required by NMSU)
Writing Matters by Rebecca Moore Howard (required by NMSU)
Reliable access to Canvas Course Site and Course Home Page
USB drive or other external drive
Additional Texts (provided online)
Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez Website: www.cruz-diez.com
Anna Marie Greco, Thesis/Case Study (.pdf document): “Participatory Exhibition Design”
Before I Die (public art and writing project) website: http://beforeidie.cc/
Public Domain and Fair Use Websites (compiled list specifically for this class)
Kurt Vonnegut “On Writing” (.pdf)
excerpt from Bootcamp Bootleg design handbook (.pdf)
excerpt from Experimental Composition Patricia Sullivan (.pdf)
excerpt from Daphne Spain’s Gendered Spaces (.pdf)
article, Virginia Burke “Why Not Try Collage” (.pdf)
excerpt from Picturing Texts, Faigley, et al (.pdf)
Final Response and Reflection
A final reflective essay will be “take home” format due in Canvas by 10:30am on 12/9. You are also required to attend our scheduled final exam time, December 9th from 10:30-12:30 in O’Donnell 242. I will show the class photographs from the audience interaction and gallery space at WeAd and we will discuss and reflect on the interactive writing experience, and writing for an audience outside the university.