3,2,1 - Fall Semester!
My fall semester starts tomorrow. Y'all it is going to kick.my.ass.
I'm going to be taking two courses: a french-driven rhetoric course, and an online communities research course. I'm still(!) reading for my oral exams. I'm leading a research group in our lab. And I'm teaching my transformative works course. *bounces around*
For reasons that will remained unexamined at this juncture, I'm last-minuting my syllabus for the term, and I've been toying around with the first set of readings. I have a rhetoric textbook, of course, but should I do that, or should I do something more fun?
I was thinking LOLcat Wasteland for the first day of classing, but that might be too much, considering they haven't (I'm guessing) read The Wasteland. Maybe part of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for a quick comparison?
I'm thinking, though, of having the reading for over the weekend be Diana Gabaldron's pearl-clutching and eventual reveal. :D <-- evil grin.
That will get them online and in the communities, and force them to gain some cognizance of the parameters of the argument, y?
(In other exciting news, summer semester is almost over. I spoke to the Dean of Students office yesterday, and they were really pleasant. They're referring my problem student to judicial affairs and mental health services.)
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I'm going to be taking two courses: a french-driven rhetoric course, and an online communities research course. I'm still(!) reading for my oral exams. I'm leading a research group in our lab. And I'm teaching my transformative works course. *bounces around*
For reasons that will remained unexamined at this juncture, I'm last-minuting my syllabus for the term, and I've been toying around with the first set of readings. I have a rhetoric textbook, of course, but should I do that, or should I do something more fun?
I was thinking LOLcat Wasteland for the first day of classing, but that might be too much, considering they haven't (I'm guessing) read The Wasteland. Maybe part of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for a quick comparison?
I'm thinking, though, of having the reading for over the weekend be Diana Gabaldron's pearl-clutching and eventual reveal. :D <-- evil grin.
That will get them online and in the communities, and force them to gain some cognizance of the parameters of the argument, y?
(In other exciting news, summer semester is almost over. I spoke to the Dean of Students office yesterday, and they were really pleasant. They're referring my problem student to judicial affairs and mental health services.)
This entry was originally posted at http://concinnity.dreamwidth.org/13787.html. Comment wherever you like.