SCHEDULE

WEEK 1WEEK 6WEEK 11
WEEK 2WEEK7WEEK 12
WEEK 3WEEK 8WEEK 13
WEEK 4WEEK 9WEEK 14
WEEK 5WEEK 10WEEK 15

WEEK ONE, 8/29

Introductions

To Listen:

In Class:

WEEK TWO, 9/5

Wild Aesthetics

To Read:

To Respond:

  • Write a one paragraph definition (each) of the picaresque, the beautiful and the sublime (cite whatever sources you use; feel free to google around) and provide  a contemporary (from now) example of each from any genre (pop culture, literature, film, place, anything–can use links or images etc). Submit to Google Drive. Title it: Last, First WK _ 

In Class

  • Guest Cultural Report on “The Arctic Sublime” by Emily Travis, PhD Student UC Santa Cruz 

WEEK THREE, 9/12

WILD PLACES: OUTSIDE / INSIDE

To Read:

To Respond:

WEEK FOUR,  9/19

Wild Places:

Inside / Outside

To Read: 

To Respond:

GRAD LAB 1: AESTHETICS

WEEK FIVE, 9/26

Wild Places:

Nature / City

To Read:

To Watch:

To Respond:

In Class:

WEEK SIX, 10/3

Wild Subjects

To Read:

To Respond:

In Class:

WEEK SEVEN, 10/10

Class Canceled | PG&E Shut Down

WEEK EIGHT, 10/17

Wild Images

To Read:

To Watch:

To Respond:

  • Write 2 pages (or more if you feel inspired but 2 are required) in which you consider the material object (cup, urn, poem, poet, etc) and conceptions of beauty in one or more of the assigned readings or film submit it to Google Drive 

In Class:

  • LIBRARY VISIT HELLER RARE BOOK ROOM

WEEK Nine, 10/24

Wild Animals

To Read:

To Respond:

  • Write at least two pages in which you consider the ways in which the animal functions in one or more of the assigned poems; submit it to Google Drive

In Class:

 

10/25 GRADUATE LAB TWO: DISABILITY STUDIES 

 

WEEK TEN, 10/31

Gothic Wilderness

To Read:

To Respond:

  • Write at least two pages on what you think about how 2 more more of the assigned readings engage the idea of the gothic; be sure to use close readings of textual examples to support and pay attention to how form works with content.

In Class:

WEEK ELEVEN, 11/7

NO CLASS, KIRSTEN AT A CONFERENCE

To Do:

  • Copy a Romantic poem of your choice onto this document by 3:59 pm.
  • Read all of your colleagues’ poems by SUNDAY at 11:59 PM and write a sentence of what you appreciate about the poem or connection you can draw (you can use the class time to read and respond).

To Respond: *you may take until Sat at 11:59 pm for these if you prefer

WEEK TWELVE, 11/14

BE-WILDERED BODIES | BODIES IN PAIN 

To Read:

To Respond:

In Class:

 

WEEK Thirteen, 11/21

WAYWARD WILDS

To Read:

 

MERMAID BALLAD

To Respond:

WEEK FOURTEEN, 11/28

THANKSGIVING, NO CLASS | WAYWARD WILDS 2

To Read:

READ AS CATCH UP FOR PGE CANCELLED CLASS WEEK BUT NO RESPONSE DUE

12/1 GRAD LAB 3: ANIMAL CAPITOL

WEEK FIFTEEN, 12/5

Wildness

To Read:

To Listen:

To Watch:

To Respond:

  • Submit a response of at least THREE pages to  Google Drive in which you consider the  WAYWARD WILDS readings for this week or last. Consider the ways in which wildness can be politicized, dismissive, empowering; use at least one reading from each of the two days of assignments.

In Class:

  • Discuss Wayward Wilds

FINAL EXAM

Tuesday, December 17 4:00 pm–6:30 pm (you need to put a copy of your presentation here by 3:45 (more to come on this 12/6) and then between 4:00 and 6:30; you will make a brief comment on each presentation including a detail you most appreciated! The comments are due by 12/18 at 5 pm PST.