ComS 100B Critical Analysis of Messages, Fall 2009, Dr



ComS 100B Critical Analysis of Messages, Fall 2009, Dr. Stoner

Tentative Course Calendar | |

|Monday |Wed |

|Theme: Criticism as Process | |

| |Meeting 2 |

|Meeting 1 |9/2 |

|8/31 |What Do Critics Analyze and Why? |

|Course Introduction |Learning to Control Responses |

|Receive Pre-test Text and begin working on it. | |

| | |

|Assignment: Read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in textbook. |Assignment: |

|(Note: “Assignment” describes what you will do to prepare for|Study Chapters 1, 2 |

|the next class session.) |Explore the course web page: |

| | |

| |Read Chapter 3, Four Kinds of Critical Thinking-- focus on Description; read |

| |Classical Tools Overview and Chapter 9 Classical Tools: Ancient Rhetoric |

| |Meeting 3 |

|9/7 Labor Day CAMPUS CLOSED |9/9 |

| |Pre-test Essay Due at class time |

| | |

| |Quiz #1 on Syllabus, course web page; Chapters 1, 2 in textbook. Bring Scantron|

| |form 882-4-6 or as a last resort, form 881-E |

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| |Thinking Descriptively |

| | |

| |Assignment: Read Chapter 10 Classical Tools: New Rhetoric |

|Meeting 4 |Meeting 5 |

|9/14 |9/16 |

|Thinking Analytically |Thinking Interpretively and Evaluatively |

| |Quiz #2 (Chapters 3, 9, 10) |

| | |

| |Assignment: Read Chapter 4 The Process of Description; choose a text for study |

| |#1; bring it to next class sessions. |

|Meeting 6 |Meeting 7 |

|9/21 |9/23 |

|We start first study together |Working in the Library |

|Doing Description: Internal and External (context) | |

| |Assignment: Read Chapters 5 The Analysis Process and Chapter 11The Narrative |

|Assignment: Read Research Tips on WebCT |Paradigm |

|Meeting 8 |Meeting 9 |

|9/28 |9/30 |

|Doing Analysis |Doing Analysis |

| |Quiz #3 |

|Assignment: Read Chapter13 Burkeian Analysis | |

| |Assignment: Read Chapter 6 The Process of Interpretation and Appendix 2 Student |

| |Essay “Response to the Death of a Princess...” |

|Meeting 10 |Meeting 11 |

|10/5 |10/7 |

|Doing Interpretation |Doing Interpretation |

| | |

|Assignment: Read Socio-Political Tools Overview and Chapter |Assignment: Read Chapter 8 Writing Your Ideas and Appendix 1 Student Essay |

|14 Ideological Approaches |“Barbara Jordan’s Keynote Address....” |

| Theme: Criticism as Product | |

| | |

|Meeting 12 |Meeting 13 |

|10/12 |10/14 |

|Quiz #4 | |

|Criticism as Product: Teaching Others How the Text Works |Essay #1 DRAFT DUE TODAY |

| |Begin Presentations (7) |

|Meeting 14 (half way) |Meeting 15 |

|10/19 |10/21 |

|Presentations (7) |Presentations (7) |

| | |

|Assignment: Start working on second study |Assignment: Prepare characterization of second text |

|Meeting 16 |Meeting 17 |

|10/26 |10/28 |

|Presentations completed (7); |Developing Theory |

|Discuss revisions |RE-TAKE QUIZ #4 |

| |Assignment: Read Chapter 7 The Process of Evaluating |

|Assignment: Revise Essay #1; bring text you selected for | |

|second study to class; Review possible texts for study #2 on | |

|SacCT | |

|Meeting 18 | |

|11/2 |Meeting 19 |

|Revisions of Essay #1 Due; be sure to staple original and my |11/4 |

|comments to the revision |Doing Analysis |

| |Quiz #5 Move to next session |

|Developing Theory Further | |

| |Assignment: Read Chapter 17 Visual Communication and do progress report |

|Assignment: Read Chapter 15 | |

|Feminist Approaches | |

|Meeting 20 | |

|11/9 |11/11 Veterans’ Day CAMPUS CLOSED |

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|Doing Analysis | |

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|Quiz #5 Moved from last Wed. | |

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|Progress Report Due | |

|Read Chapter 8 | |

|Meeting 21 | Meeting 22 |

|11/16 |11/18 |

|Doing Interpretation and Evaluation |Putting It All Together |

| |Quiz #6 |

|Assignment: Do second progress report | |

| |Assignment: Complete essay #2–a complete essay is required |

|Meeting 23 |Meeting 24 |

|11/23 |11/25 |

| |Response to Colleague Due |

|Essay #2 DRAFT Due | |

|Bring 2 copies of the essay (1 for your colleague and 1 for |Bring 2 copies of your response (1 for your colleague and 1 for instructor) |

|instructor) | |

| |Prepare for Final Exam: assignment received |

|Assignment: Respond to colleague’s essay | |

|Meeting 25 |Meeting 26 |

|11/30 |12/2 |

|Meetings with Instructor Schedule below |Meetings with Instructor Schedule below |

|Meeting 27 |Meeting 28 |

|12/7 |12/9 |

| |Essay #2 Due |

|Writing Day |Summary of Experience and Applications of learning |

| |Course Evaluation |

|Final Exam: December 18, 2009 |

|10:15 AM-12:15 PM. |

|Note the start time is different from the regular class sessions. |

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