Schedule of
Readings Readings
not marked with one of the following icons are from required
books for the course
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CLASS
1:
Apr. 3 |
INTRODUCTION:
Cyborgs and the Gothic
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- Notes
for class 1: provisional definitions of the gothic,
the cyborg, and the hybrid
- Film clips for
viewing: The Stepford Wives; Lawnmower Man;
Terminator
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I:
Dangerous Hybrids of the Human and Nonhuman |
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CLASS 2:
Apr. 5 |
The
eye and the simulation
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- READ
through the web page: http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/courses/warner/english122tg/
- E.T.A. Hoffmann, "The
Sandman"
- Questions
on "The Sandman"
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CLASS 3:
Apr. 10 |
The
Uncanny Network of Unconscious Memory & Workshop 1: Team Brainstorming
Meeting
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- Initial Team Brainstorming
on Topic:
Come to class
with a topic ideas you might want to work on. This will help us
to form teams.
- Freud, "On the
Uncanny"
- Class 3 notes
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CLASS
4:
Apr. 12 |
Web
Authoring Workshop 2: Place:
Phelps 1525 (P200 lab)
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We
meet at the Phelps Hall Instructional Computing Lab (each member
of the class will receive an IC sticker so they can get easier access
to the machines during the quarter)
UCSB Campus
Map
Learning
the Basics
- starting
web page composition
- entering
your content (bring your wordprocessing file with questions and
links)
- making a link to a
URL (=universal resource locator) somewhere on the Web
- adding
an image
- uploading
your page to the server
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CLASS 5:
Apr. 17 |
:The
crime of invention:
Science versus Culture
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CLASS 7:
Apr. 24 |
:
The
catastrophe
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Apr. 25 |
Web
Editing: Workshop 3
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- Time:
4-5:30PM, Phelps 1525
- Teams
bring: project links (Web URLs); content; images; etc. for developing
into web content.
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CLASS 8:
Apr. 26 |
Workshop:
using Metacollege.com to allow Team collaboration
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- Chris Schedler will lead a workshop showing
how each team can use their own Metacollege.com to 1: do real
time chats; 2: carry on threaded discussions; 3: upload resources
(text, images, and web pages) to your team metacollege site. We
will use the six studio machines to practice these skills.
- Meeting Place: South
Hall, 2509, the Transcriptions Studio
(toward the South Hall Tower)
- Question
for on-line discussion: if you were Frankenstein at the
moment of your experiment's success, when the monster stares through
the bed curtains at you, how would you behave so as to avoid the
disaster that befalls Frankenstein? I am asking each student
in the class to post their answer to the course email address
(engl122tg@humanitas.ucsb.edu).
You may develop your response by responding to the answers of
others. Have fun!
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CLASS 9:
May 1 |
The
Rights of Cyborgs: an ironic political myth:
a
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Screening:
May 2
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Screening:
Blade Runner
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- Time:
4-6:30PM, South Hall 2635
- Pizza will be served
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CLASS 10:
May 3 |
Blade
Runner
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- Blade
Runner, Dir.
Ridley Scott (1982)
- Class
Notes
- Philip
K. Dick: Preface (Defining Science Fiction)
- Short
(2-3 pages) paper due by Sunday May 7th, for posting to team web
sites. Each student should email me the 2-3
paper (within the email, or as an attachment to email). This will
enable me to put your papers in the Student materials part of
the website. Also, one team member should send me the url for
your site.
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II:
The Pleasures and Dangers of Simulations, Virtual Reality, and Being
Jacked In |
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CLASS 11:
May 8 |
Development of Team Sites I: Critical Issues
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- Using short essays develop your team web-site
- Toward a well-focused web-site: texts, contexts and critical
issues
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CLASS 12:
May 10 |
Development
of Team Sites II: Link Base for your Page |
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CLASS 13:
May 15 |
Cyborg
Body Language: Adding images to
your page
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May 16 |
Film
Screening II
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- Alien (1979)
Dir: Ridley Scott
- South Hall 2635
- Pizza will be served
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CLASS 14:
May 17 |
Dangerous
Mothering: Alien (Dir. Ridley Scott) |
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III:
Caught in The Network: The World at Risk |
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CLASS 15:
May 22 |
The
Cyborg and the Detouring of Oedipal Desire
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CLASS 16:
May 24 |
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- Dracula; quiz question
on first 8 chapters (112 pages)
- Each
student: two annotated links (in paper form)
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CLASS 18:
May 31 |
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- Dracula
notes
- Each
student hands in discussion of a one critical question from their
web page (in
paper form) and
a copy of the first draft of the team web site "overview"
(which defines the scope and focus of the web-site)
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June 1 |
Film Screening
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- The Matrix
- 4-6PM
South Hall 2635
- Pizza
may be served
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CLASS 20:
June 7 |
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- Web Show; quick presentation of all teams websites.
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