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Thursday, August 27, 2009
HONS 1301 H03 "The Mother Earth Chronicals" (MEC)
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
HONS 1301 H03 "The Mother Earth Chronicles" Fall, 2009
HONS 1301 H01
“The Mother Earth Chronicles”
Sophomore Seminar
Dr. Susan Tomlinson
201B McClellan Hall
742-1828
susan.tomlinson@ttu.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Link to the course website can be found on this homepage: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/sutomlin
Required reading:
Books:
Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood)
Sue Hubble (A Country Year)
Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)
Course packet (available from Copytech)
Pattiann Rogers (‘Suppose your Father Was a Redbird;” “Geocentric”)
Gretel Ehrlich (“The Solace of Open Spaces”)
Mary Oliver (Wild Geese;” In Blackwater Woods”)
Annie Dillard (“Heaven and Earth in Jest;” “Chapter Three” from The Writing Life)
Rebecca Solnit (“The Blue of Distance”)
Course Description
“The Mother Earth Chronicles” is a fun, gentle, thought-provoking exploration of literary works about nature, environment, and landscape. In this course, you can expect to cover a wide and diverse range of topics about living with “Mother”—everything from bees, to homesteading, to white water rafting—and the cultural ideas and values that spring from the human relationship to nature. We will focus our efforts on literature written by women, a traditionally underrepresented source of nature writing.
This is also an excellent opportunity to practice writing in a workshop/tutorial format; if you’ve always thought that writing is a boring, excruciating, mind-numbing, pointless exercise in formulaic drivel and pap, well then, you’ve never done any writing like this. This is a reading and writing intensive course focused on developing writing skills through workshops and/or tutorials.
This course satisfies the Texas Tech University core curriculum requirement in humanities.
From the TTU catalog: “The objective of the humanities in a core curriculum is to expand the student’s knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behaviors, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Through study in disciplines such as literature and philosophy, students will engage in critical analysis and develop an appreciation of the humanities as fundamental to the health and survival of any society.”
Course Purpose Statement: Students graduating from Texas Tech University should be able to: think critically, demonstrate an understanding of the possibility of multiple interpretations, cultural contexts, and values.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to;
Learning Outcomes
Assessment Methods
· Evaluate events, ideas, and artistic expressions in terms of multiple cultural contexts and value systems.
· Guided discussion
· Written work (see below)
Think critically about the human relationship to the natural world
· Guided discussion
· Written work (see below)
Read and discuss in a scholarly manner (courteously and critically) works by woman that present ideas about the human relationship to the natural world
· Guided discussion
· Written work (see below)
Write clearly and critically about these works and this relationship
· Written work (see below)
· Editorial workshop participation
Format/Schedule
The course will be divided into themes about the natural world and our relationship to it. We will explore what people have to say about each of these by examining and imitating various genres. There usually will be short weekly writing assignments which we will read and discuss in workshop format, followed by more intense discussions and readings in small group tutorials (time to be arranged for each group). Students will be responsible for providing copies of their writing for each member of their tutorial group, as well as a copy for the instructor. These are due at the beginning of each tutorial.
Students are expected to check the course website for each week’s assignment. A link to the course website can be found on this homepage: www.webpages.ttu.edu/sutomlin
Grading:
Grades will be weighted in the following manner:
40% Weekly written work (includes tutorial work)
20% Midterm and final papers (10% each)
20% Discussion
20% Workshop participation
Late work:
Because we will be having workshops each Tuesday, work that is turned in past that deadline can’t be discussed by the class. I will accept late work for a grade, but there will be an automatic deduction of 20% if it is turned in anytime during the week following the deadline. Late work will not be accepted later than one week following the deadline.
Discussion and workshop participation:
After the second week of class, students will be selected at random each week to lead the class in discussion. The student is expected to have read the material thoroughly and prepared with questions. If a student is found unprepared to lead when chosen, it will result in an automatic grade of 0 for that day’s discussion grade.
All students are expected to contribute to the discussion and workshop. At the end of each class period, I will assign a grade for that day’s work.
Midterm and final papers:
Students will select a weekly paper to expand and polish for each of their midterm and final assignments. Students are encouraged to submit a preliminary draft of the work for suggestions/edits from me no later than ten days before the due date for the final draft.
Midterm papers due: October 15, beginning of class
Final papers due: December 14, 1:30 PM
Accommodation for Disabled Students:
Any student who, because of a disability, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor at her office (McClellan Hall 201 B) as soon as possible to request necessary accommodation. Students should present appropriate verification from Student Disability Services (Access TECH). No requirement exists that accommodations be made prior to completion of the approved university process.
Student Absence for Observation of Religious Holy Days
A student who is absent from classes for the observation of a religious holy day shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an assignment scheduled for that day within a reasonable time after the absence if, not later than the fifteenth day after the first day of the semester, the student had notified the instructor of each scheduled class that the student would be absent for a religious holy day.
Academic Integrity (TTU O.P. 34.12)
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, misrepresenting facts, and any act designed to give unfair academic advantage to the student or the attempt to commit such an act. The university definitions of academic dishonesty and policies for dealing with it are laid out in the Code of Student Affairs and in University Operating Policy 34.12. You should be familiar with these definitions.
Cheating of any form, but especially plagiarism (i.e., the representation of someone else’s work or ideas as your own) will be dealt with harshly. At a minimum, the offending essay will receive a grade of 0, which will be averaged into your overall grade. Flagrant or repeated cases of plagiarism may result in a grade of F for the course. All cases of cheating will be reported to the appropriate academic dean and to the Honors College dean, who may take additional disciplinary action as they see fit.
“The Mother Earth Chronicles”
Sophomore Seminar
Dr. Susan Tomlinson
201B McClellan Hall
742-1828
susan.tomlinson@ttu.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Link to the course website can be found on this homepage: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/sutomlin
Required reading:
Books:
Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood)
Sue Hubble (A Country Year)
Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness)
Course packet (available from Copytech)
Pattiann Rogers (‘Suppose your Father Was a Redbird;” “Geocentric”)
Gretel Ehrlich (“The Solace of Open Spaces”)
Mary Oliver (Wild Geese;” In Blackwater Woods”)
Annie Dillard (“Heaven and Earth in Jest;” “Chapter Three” from The Writing Life)
Rebecca Solnit (“The Blue of Distance”)
Course Description
“The Mother Earth Chronicles” is a fun, gentle, thought-provoking exploration of literary works about nature, environment, and landscape. In this course, you can expect to cover a wide and diverse range of topics about living with “Mother”—everything from bees, to homesteading, to white water rafting—and the cultural ideas and values that spring from the human relationship to nature. We will focus our efforts on literature written by women, a traditionally underrepresented source of nature writing.
This is also an excellent opportunity to practice writing in a workshop/tutorial format; if you’ve always thought that writing is a boring, excruciating, mind-numbing, pointless exercise in formulaic drivel and pap, well then, you’ve never done any writing like this. This is a reading and writing intensive course focused on developing writing skills through workshops and/or tutorials.
This course satisfies the Texas Tech University core curriculum requirement in humanities.
From the TTU catalog: “The objective of the humanities in a core curriculum is to expand the student’s knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behaviors, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Through study in disciplines such as literature and philosophy, students will engage in critical analysis and develop an appreciation of the humanities as fundamental to the health and survival of any society.”
Course Purpose Statement: Students graduating from Texas Tech University should be able to: think critically, demonstrate an understanding of the possibility of multiple interpretations, cultural contexts, and values.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to;
Learning Outcomes
Assessment Methods
· Evaluate events, ideas, and artistic expressions in terms of multiple cultural contexts and value systems.
· Guided discussion
· Written work (see below)
Think critically about the human relationship to the natural world
· Guided discussion
· Written work (see below)
Read and discuss in a scholarly manner (courteously and critically) works by woman that present ideas about the human relationship to the natural world
· Guided discussion
· Written work (see below)
Write clearly and critically about these works and this relationship
· Written work (see below)
· Editorial workshop participation
Format/Schedule
The course will be divided into themes about the natural world and our relationship to it. We will explore what people have to say about each of these by examining and imitating various genres. There usually will be short weekly writing assignments which we will read and discuss in workshop format, followed by more intense discussions and readings in small group tutorials (time to be arranged for each group). Students will be responsible for providing copies of their writing for each member of their tutorial group, as well as a copy for the instructor. These are due at the beginning of each tutorial.
Students are expected to check the course website for each week’s assignment. A link to the course website can be found on this homepage: www.webpages.ttu.edu/sutomlin
Grading:
Grades will be weighted in the following manner:
40% Weekly written work (includes tutorial work)
20% Midterm and final papers (10% each)
20% Discussion
20% Workshop participation
Late work:
Because we will be having workshops each Tuesday, work that is turned in past that deadline can’t be discussed by the class. I will accept late work for a grade, but there will be an automatic deduction of 20% if it is turned in anytime during the week following the deadline. Late work will not be accepted later than one week following the deadline.
Discussion and workshop participation:
After the second week of class, students will be selected at random each week to lead the class in discussion. The student is expected to have read the material thoroughly and prepared with questions. If a student is found unprepared to lead when chosen, it will result in an automatic grade of 0 for that day’s discussion grade.
All students are expected to contribute to the discussion and workshop. At the end of each class period, I will assign a grade for that day’s work.
Midterm and final papers:
Students will select a weekly paper to expand and polish for each of their midterm and final assignments. Students are encouraged to submit a preliminary draft of the work for suggestions/edits from me no later than ten days before the due date for the final draft.
Midterm papers due: October 15, beginning of class
Final papers due: December 14, 1:30 PM
Accommodation for Disabled Students:
Any student who, because of a disability, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor at her office (McClellan Hall 201 B) as soon as possible to request necessary accommodation. Students should present appropriate verification from Student Disability Services (Access TECH). No requirement exists that accommodations be made prior to completion of the approved university process.
Student Absence for Observation of Religious Holy Days
A student who is absent from classes for the observation of a religious holy day shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an assignment scheduled for that day within a reasonable time after the absence if, not later than the fifteenth day after the first day of the semester, the student had notified the instructor of each scheduled class that the student would be absent for a religious holy day.
Academic Integrity (TTU O.P. 34.12)
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, misrepresenting facts, and any act designed to give unfair academic advantage to the student or the attempt to commit such an act. The university definitions of academic dishonesty and policies for dealing with it are laid out in the Code of Student Affairs and in University Operating Policy 34.12. You should be familiar with these definitions.
Cheating of any form, but especially plagiarism (i.e., the representation of someone else’s work or ideas as your own) will be dealt with harshly. At a minimum, the offending essay will receive a grade of 0, which will be averaged into your overall grade. Flagrant or repeated cases of plagiarism may result in a grade of F for the course. All cases of cheating will be reported to the appropriate academic dean and to the Honors College dean, who may take additional disciplinary action as they see fit.
HONS 3304 "Bones, Botanicals, Birds: Natural History Illustration" Fall, 2009
HONS 1304 H01
“Bones, Botanicals, Birds:
Science and Natural History Illustration”
SYLLABUS (Fall 2010)
TR 2:00-3:20
Instructor: Dr. Susan Tomlinson
201B McClellan Hall
742-0036 ext. 239
susan.tomlinson@ttu.edu
Office Hours: TR 3:30-4:30; TWR 12:30-1:30
Teaching Blog: http://doctortteaching.blogspot.com/
Materials:
Required:
tracing paper pad
Bristol board pad
(smooth paper)
Art kit from Varsity Bookstore
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the history and tradition of illustrating nature and science, including the contributions of John James Audubon, Titian Peale, Roger Tory Peterson, and others. We will also learn and practice basic illustration techniques, ranging from initial sketches in the field and lab to final product in the studio. This course focuses on drawing and painting techniques as associated with science and nature illustration; students are expected to draw and paint. Required field trips. Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts core curriculum requirements.
Visual and Performing Arts Core Curriculum Objectives (TTU Catalog)
The objective of the visual and performing arts in a core curriculum is to expand the student’s knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behaviors, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Through study in disciplines such as the visual and performing arts, students will engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an appreciation for arts as fundamental to the health and survival of any society.
Competency Statement:
Students graduating from Texas Tech University should be able to: construct, present, and defend critical and aesthetic judgments of works in the creative arts.
Expected learning outcomes for this course are:
1) Identify and describe a body of works (individually and collectively) in the creative arts.
2) Explain and differentiate creative works as expressions of values within cultural and historical contexts.
3) Analyze and summarize aesthetic principles that structure creative works.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Methods
1) Identify and describe a body of works (individually and collectively) in the creative arts. 1) discussion-directed journal entries
2) mid-term and final papers/projects
3) short analysis responses
2) Explain and differentiate creative works as expressions of values within cultural and historical contexts. 1) discussion-directed journal entries
2) mid-term and final papers/projects
3)short analysis responses
3) Analyze and summarize aesthetic principles that structure creative works. 1) discussion-directed journal entries
2) mid-term and final papers/projects
3) short analysis responses
4)Demonstrate drawing basics such as: perspective, proportion, tonal value Drawing, paintings, and journal entries
5)Draw organisms in various formats (i.e., botanical illustration, field guide pages, ecological study) Drawings and paintings
Assignments and Grading
Students will be assigned and expected to complete the following illustration projects:
• 2 natural history studies (20 pts each):
o zoological
o botanical
• 2 pastiches in the manner of 2 natural history/scientific illustrators, accompanied by a short essay response for each, detailing how they are “in the manner of” that illustrator (20 pts each)
• Field sketchbook/notebook (20 pts)
• Midterm: Sample field guide plate with corresponding natural history/identification notes (40 pts)
• Final: a final painting/drawing project of an organism in an environmental setting (40 pts)
Work will be graded on the basis of accuracy, thoroughness, and artistic merit.
Midterm due: October 12
Final project due: Tuesday, December 14, 1:30 pm
Field Trips:
We will be going outside from time to time to do some field drawing. Students are expected to check the teaching blog for each week’s assignment and location of the class.
http://doctortteaching.blogspot.com/
Please check the weather forecast and dress accordingly.
_________________________________________________________________
Accommodation for Disabled Students:
Any student who, because of a disability, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor at her office (McClellan Hall 201 B) as soon as possible to request necessary accommodation. Students should present appropriate verification from Student Disability Services (Access TECH). No requirement exists that accommodations be made prior to completion of the approved university process.
Student Absence for Observation of Religious Holy Days
A student who is absent from classes for the observation of a religious holy day shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an assignment scheduled for that day within a reasonable time after the absence if, not later than the fifteenth day after the first day of the semester, the student had notified the instructor of each scheduled class that the student would be absent for a religious holy day.
Academic Integrity (TTU O.P. 34.12)
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, misrepresenting facts, and any act designed to give unfair academic advantage to the student or the attempt to commit such an act. The university definitions of academic dishonesty and policies for dealing with it are laid out in the Code of Student Affairs and in University Operating Policy 34.12. You should be familiar with these definitions.
Cheating of any form, but especially plagiarism (i.e., the representation of someone else’s work or ideas as your own) will be dealt with harshly. At a minimum, the offending essay will receive a grade of 0, which will be averaged into your overall grade. Flagrant or repeated cases of plagiarism may result in a grade of F for the course. All cases of cheating will be reported to the appropriate academic dean and to the Honors College dean, who may take additional disciplinary action as they see fit.
“Bones, Botanicals, Birds:
Science and Natural History Illustration”
SYLLABUS (Fall 2010)
TR 2:00-3:20
Instructor: Dr. Susan Tomlinson
201B McClellan Hall
742-0036 ext. 239
susan.tomlinson@ttu.edu
Office Hours: TR 3:30-4:30; TWR 12:30-1:30
Teaching Blog: http://doctortteaching.blogspot.com/
Materials:
Required:
tracing paper pad
Bristol board pad
(smooth paper)
Art kit from Varsity Bookstore
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the history and tradition of illustrating nature and science, including the contributions of John James Audubon, Titian Peale, Roger Tory Peterson, and others. We will also learn and practice basic illustration techniques, ranging from initial sketches in the field and lab to final product in the studio. This course focuses on drawing and painting techniques as associated with science and nature illustration; students are expected to draw and paint. Required field trips. Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts core curriculum requirements.
Visual and Performing Arts Core Curriculum Objectives (TTU Catalog)
The objective of the visual and performing arts in a core curriculum is to expand the student’s knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behaviors, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Through study in disciplines such as the visual and performing arts, students will engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an appreciation for arts as fundamental to the health and survival of any society.
Competency Statement:
Students graduating from Texas Tech University should be able to: construct, present, and defend critical and aesthetic judgments of works in the creative arts.
Expected learning outcomes for this course are:
1) Identify and describe a body of works (individually and collectively) in the creative arts.
2) Explain and differentiate creative works as expressions of values within cultural and historical contexts.
3) Analyze and summarize aesthetic principles that structure creative works.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Methods
1) Identify and describe a body of works (individually and collectively) in the creative arts. 1) discussion-directed journal entries
2) mid-term and final papers/projects
3) short analysis responses
2) Explain and differentiate creative works as expressions of values within cultural and historical contexts. 1) discussion-directed journal entries
2) mid-term and final papers/projects
3)short analysis responses
3) Analyze and summarize aesthetic principles that structure creative works. 1) discussion-directed journal entries
2) mid-term and final papers/projects
3) short analysis responses
4)Demonstrate drawing basics such as: perspective, proportion, tonal value Drawing, paintings, and journal entries
5)Draw organisms in various formats (i.e., botanical illustration, field guide pages, ecological study) Drawings and paintings
Assignments and Grading
Students will be assigned and expected to complete the following illustration projects:
• 2 natural history studies (20 pts each):
o zoological
o botanical
• 2 pastiches in the manner of 2 natural history/scientific illustrators, accompanied by a short essay response for each, detailing how they are “in the manner of” that illustrator (20 pts each)
• Field sketchbook/notebook (20 pts)
• Midterm: Sample field guide plate with corresponding natural history/identification notes (40 pts)
• Final: a final painting/drawing project of an organism in an environmental setting (40 pts)
Work will be graded on the basis of accuracy, thoroughness, and artistic merit.
Midterm due: October 12
Final project due: Tuesday, December 14, 1:30 pm
Field Trips:
We will be going outside from time to time to do some field drawing. Students are expected to check the teaching blog for each week’s assignment and location of the class.
http://doctortteaching.blogspot.com/
Please check the weather forecast and dress accordingly.
_________________________________________________________________
Accommodation for Disabled Students:
Any student who, because of a disability, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor at her office (McClellan Hall 201 B) as soon as possible to request necessary accommodation. Students should present appropriate verification from Student Disability Services (Access TECH). No requirement exists that accommodations be made prior to completion of the approved university process.
Student Absence for Observation of Religious Holy Days
A student who is absent from classes for the observation of a religious holy day shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an assignment scheduled for that day within a reasonable time after the absence if, not later than the fifteenth day after the first day of the semester, the student had notified the instructor of each scheduled class that the student would be absent for a religious holy day.
Academic Integrity (TTU O.P. 34.12)
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, misrepresenting facts, and any act designed to give unfair academic advantage to the student or the attempt to commit such an act. The university definitions of academic dishonesty and policies for dealing with it are laid out in the Code of Student Affairs and in University Operating Policy 34.12. You should be familiar with these definitions.
Cheating of any form, but especially plagiarism (i.e., the representation of someone else’s work or ideas as your own) will be dealt with harshly. At a minimum, the offending essay will receive a grade of 0, which will be averaged into your overall grade. Flagrant or repeated cases of plagiarism may result in a grade of F for the course. All cases of cheating will be reported to the appropriate academic dean and to the Honors College dean, who may take additional disciplinary action as they see fit.
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