Tentative schedule of reading and writing assignments. All reading assignments are from Reading Culture unless otherwise indicated. Assignments are due on the day listed. Readings and relevant responses assigned for virtual classes are due before you log onto the WebBoard. The virtual class consists of completing assigned tasks online, reading other posts and responding to those posts. You may participate in the virtual class any time between Wednesday noon through Friday noon for the equivalent of a class period.You may either scroll down to see the assignments for each week, or you may click on the week number below to jump to the assignments for that week.
Weeks
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Tuesday, January 21 Introduction to course
Virtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 1
• Obtain ASUrite Account at Computing Commons 1st floor (if you don’t already have one)Forum 1: Logon to the WebBoard for this class at: http://english.asu.edu:8080/~goggin
• Read “Introduction” pp. 1-4; “Images” pp. 173-79
Respond to prompts given. (If you have trouble logging on, see handout on how to use the WebBoard)
The visual literacy exercise for Forum 1 is at http://www.public.asu.edu/~mdg42/101forum1exe.html
Tuesday, January 28
• Read “Reading Websites” pp. 87-89; “Sex as a Symbol in Fashion Advertising” pp. 186-191; “Analyzing Signs and Sign Systems” p. 192DUE: Course Description/Syllabus Pledge (see p. 4 of Course Description/ Syllabus)
• Respond to prompt 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) on p. 193.
Responses to readingVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 2
• Read “In the Shadow of the Image” pp. 180-185; “Visual Essay: Public Health Messages” pp. 204-09Forum 2: In your post, consider how Berger’s checklist on p. 192 might be adapted to analyze a webpage. (Rewrite/adapt his checklist so that it may be used to analyze a website; turn it in at the next onsite class meeting.) Follow other prompts on the WebBoard.
• Respond to prompts 1 and 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion) on p. 185; and to prompts 1-3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 209.
• Do invention work for project #1 (see project assignment #1)
Tuesday, February 4
• Read; “Beauty and the Beast of Advertising” pp. 193-96; “Visual Essay: It’s a Woman Thing” pp. 196-202DUE: Adaptation of Berger’s checklist on p. 192 to analyze webpages
• Respond to prompt 3 (“Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 203
• Review the posts from Forum 2; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of the post so you can locate it in class.
• Continue working on Project #1
Responses to readingVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 3
• Read “The Look of the Page” pp. 225-228; “Rewriting the Image” pp. 211-214Forum 3 In your post, consider how the “Suggestions for Reading” a printed text as an image on pp. 225-26 might be rewritten and adapted for reading a web page as an image. Rewrite/Adapt the checklist (on 225-226) to make it more relevant for analyzing web pages; post your revised checklist on the WebBoard. Respond to other prompts on the WebBoard.
• Respond to prompt 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 228; and to prompts 1 and 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 215
• Continue working on Project #1
Tuesday, February 11
• Read “Period Styles” pp. 216-24DUE: Draft of Project #1
• Respond to prompts 1 and 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) on p. 224
• Review the posts from Forum 3; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the readings and posts from the last virtual class
Responses to readingsVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 4
• Continue working on Project #1 (revising and editing based on peer responses)Forum 4: Consider the ways in which the assigned readings we have covered so far relate to the paper you are writing for Project 1. Post the connections you have found between your reading and writing, and respond to other prompt(s) provided on the WebBoard
Tuesday, February 18
• Review the posts from Forum 4; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class.DUE: Final Draft of Project #1Virtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 5
• Read the Introduction to “Public Space” in Chapter 6 pp. 271-73. Read brief paragraph “Checking out the Web” p. 287. As it suggests, surf the web for virtual malls, and based on your examination of two or more of these sites, respond to the question posed at the end of the paragraph (e.g., “What would you say constitutes a ‘mall’ space, virtual or not?”) Be prepared to discuss your response in our next onsite class.Forum 5: Post your response to what constitutes a ‘mall’ space, virtual or not. Follow other prompts on the WebBoard.
Tuesday, February 25
• Read “Work” pp. 368-70; read (but do not do the tasks listed in) “Fieldwork Project” pp. 412-13; and “Collaborating on an Observation of Public Space” pp. 311-12; read “The Cocktail Waitress” pp. 407-412DUE: Responses to reading.
• Respond to prompt 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 412
• Review the posts from Forum 5; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the posts from the last virtual classVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 6
• Read “Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power and Resistance” pp. 283-86; “Big Mall’s Curfew Raises Questions of Rights and Bias” pp. 288-291Forum 6: Respond to prompts on the WebBoard.
• Respond to prompts 1 and 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 286 and to prompt 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 291
• Do Invention work for Project #2 (See assignment for Project #2)
Tuesday, March 4
• Read “Remember When Public Space Didn’t Carry Brand Names?” pp. 305-307; “Claiming Interpretive Space” pp. 308-310DUE: Responses to reading assignments
• Respond to prompt 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 307, and prompts 1 and 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 310
• Review the posts from Forum 6; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the reading and posts from the last virtual class
• Continue working on Project #2 (fieldwork)Virtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 7
• Read “Fortress Los Angeles” pp. 292-97; and “Signs from the Heart” pp. 298-304Forum 7: Respond to prompts on the WebBoard
• Respond to prompts 1 and 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 297; and to prompt 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) pp. 304-05
• Continue working on Project #2 (fieldwork)
Tuesday, March 11
• Review the posts from Forum 7; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the readings and posts from the last virtual classDUE: Draft of Project #2Virtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 8
• Continue working on Project #2 (revising and editing based on peer responses)Forum 8: Consider the ways in which the assigned readings we have covered so far relate to the paper you are writing for Project 2. Post the connections you have found between your reading and writing, and respond to other prompt(s) provided on the WebBoard.
No Classes March 16-23
Week 10 Historicizing Space Tuesday, March 25
• Read “History” pp. 415-17; “Oral History” pp. 484-86; “More than Just a Shrine” pp. 418-21DUE: Final Draft of Project #2
• Review the posts from Forum 8; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the readings and posts from the last virtual classVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 10
• Read “Perspectives” pp. 441-42; “The Tragedy of Vietnam pp. 442-44; “God’s Country and American Know-How” pp. 444-51Forum 10: Respond to Prompts on the WebBoard
• Respond to prompt 1 (under “Suggestions for Discussion) p. 451
• Do invention work for Project #3
Tuesday, April 1
• Read “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places” pp. 453-56; “Private First Class Reginald ‘Malik’ Edwards” pp. 457-465DUE: Responses to readings
• Respond to prompt 1 on p. 456 and to prompt 1 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 465
• Continue working on Project #3
• Review the posts from Forum 10; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the readings and posts from the last virtual classVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 11
• Read “Photographing History” pp. 475-79; “Reading American Photographs” pp. 479; and “Reading Photographs for History” p. 480Forum 11: respond to prompts on the WebBoard
• Respond to prompt 1 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 480
• Continue working on Project #3
Tuesday, April 8
• Review the posts from Forum 11; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the readings and posts from the last virtual classDUE: Draft of Project #3
Responses to readingsVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 12
• Read “Making a Memory of War” pp. 466-73Forum 12: Consider the ways in which the assigned readings we have covered so far relate to the paper you are writing for Project 3. Post the connections you have found between your reading and writing, and respond to other prompt(s) provided on the WebBoard
• Respond to prompt 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 474
• Continue working on Project #3 (revise and edit according to peer response)
Tuesday, April 15
Review the posts from Forum 12; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the readings and posts from the last virtual classDUE: Final Draft of Project #3
Responses to readingsVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 13
• Read “Silence to Words” pp. 141-50Forum 13: respond to prompts on the WebBoard
• Respond to prompts 2 and 3 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 150
Tuesday, April 22
• Read “Lewis Hine and the Social uses of Photography” pp. 403-05DUE: Responses to readings
• Respond to prompts 1 and 3 on p. 406
• Review the posts from Forum 12; select one post that strikes you in some way (it confirms, challenges, extends, contradicts, etc. your own position). Make a note of it so you can locate it in class. Be prepared to discuss the reading and posts from the last virtual classVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon): Forum 14
• Do invention work for Project #4Forum 14: respond to prompts on the WebBoard
• Read “What High School Is” pp. 111-17; “Note-Passing” pp. 136-39
• Respond to prompt 1 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) p. 117 and to prompt 2 (under “Suggestions for Discussion”) pp. 139-40
Tuesday, April 29
Workshop for Portfolio Analysis AssignmentDUE: Draft of Project #4
Responses to readingsVirtual Class (Wednesday noon--Friday noon ): Forum 15
• Continue working on Project #4 (revise and edit according to peer response); draft portfolio analysisForum 15: Consider the ways in which the assigned readings we have covered so far relate to the paper you are writing for Project 4. Post the connections you have found between your reading and writing, and respond to other prompt(s) provided on the WebBoard
Tuesday, May 6
Final Workshop for Portfolio AnalysisDUE: Final draft of Project #4
Portfolio Analysis
