LCC 1102 English Composition, Spring 2001 Optics and Aesthetics

Required Texts:
available at Georgia Tech Bookstore

Techniques of the Observer. Jonathan Crary.
Neuromancer. William Gibbons.
On-line texts on digital reserve at the library. http://www.library.gatech.edu/
   Your user ID is your student ID number and the password iswhatever
   you establish in your first online reserve session.
Class homepage http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~broglio/1102/

Grades:
(100-90 = A; 89-80 = B; 79-70 = C; etc.)
Blade Runner Paper 18%
Web Landscapes  18%
Research Paper  31%
Final Project   21%
Homework (including bibliographies, proposals) 7%
Participation 5%

Schedule (subject to change)
All written texts are from Tech's online reserve unless otherwise noted.
Texts listed on a particular day should be read for that day's class.

Introduction: Vision and Subjectivity in Blade Runner
Week 1
Jan 8 screening of Blade Runner
10 screening of Blade Runner
12 screening of Blade Runner and discussion

Week 2
15 No Class MLK
17 Blade Runner discussion based on your research
19 Jaqueline Rose on Lacan "The Imaginary"

Week 3
22 Jay "Scopic Regimes of Modernity"
Landscapes and the Kodak Moment
24 Burke from The Sublime and Beautiful, Gilpin "The Picturesque"
26 Blade Runner paper due. Kodak web site, in class

Week 4
29 Galassi "Before Photography"
31 Labbe "Romantic Visualities"
Feb. 2 Web authoring

Week 5
5 Web design.   Read http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~broglio/rc/kodak2.html
7 Labbe and Romantic texts. William Wordsworth "I wonder lonely as a cloud," "Penrith Beacon" and "Mount Snowdon" from The Prelude.  Dorothy Wordsworth from The Grasmere Journals. Texts available from class homepage under texts link.
9 Labbe and Romantic texts. Clare's & Yearsly's poetry. Texts available from class homepage under texts link.

Week 6
12 Web work on Web Landscape.
14 Web Landscapes due.  In-class discussion of project.
Techniques of the Observer
16 Crary's Techniques of the Observer ch. 1

Week 7
19 Crary ch. 2
21 Crary continued
23 Crary ch. 3

Week 8
26 Crary ch. 4
28 Library visit
Mar 2 research methods

Week 9
5-9 Spring Break

Week 10
12 Khun The Structure of Scientific Revolution, ch. 9
14 Merleau-Ponty " Cezanne's Doubt"
16 No Class

Week 11
19 Three Sources including a review of literature due.  Discuss proper format for bibliograhpy and writing a research proposal.
21  No Class
23 Six Sources with a review of literature due and Research Proposal Due.  Discuss using secondary sources in your essay.

Week 12
26 No Class
28 Research Paper due.
New Seeing, New Spaces, and New Subjectivity
30 Gibson's Neuromancer  to page 70

Week 13
Apr 2 Neuromancer to page 174
4 Neuromancer finish
6 Punday "The Narrative Construction of Cyberspace"

Week 14
9 Elmer-Dewitt "Cyberpunk"
11 Bolter and Grusin Remediation ch. 1 and 16
13 "Virtual Topographies" Mark Nunes

Week 15
16 Romantic Circles MOO
18 Romantic Circles MOO
20 "Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Text" Marie-Laure Ryan

Week 16
23 "Twenty Evocations" Bruce Sterling
25 Final Project due. Discuss projects.
27 Discuss projects

Rules:
After three unexcused absences, the grade will be lowered. A few absences due to illness or family crisis will be excused if documented to the instructor's satisfaction. University sponsored events are excused if accompanied by documentation from the appropriate authority. Over-all grade will be lowered due to excessive tardiness.
All assignments must be done and submitted at the beginning of class on the day assigned and in the assigned format.
Keep drafts and back up copy of all assignments handed in.
All work must be completed for a grade since the work assigned fulfills writing requirements.
Unless otherwise indicated by the instructor in connection with class group work, all work must be individual. Evidence of collusion (working with another student or tutor not connected with the class) or plagiarism (use of another's ideas, data, and/or statements without acknowledgment or with only minimal acknowledgment) or multiple submissions (submitting the same work for more than one class), will lead to the procedures set up by the university for academic dishonesty.
       Each student is expected to show adequate respect for diversity of opinions expressed in this course. Conversely, any conduct that disrupts the learning process may lead to disciplinary action.
Complaints about separate assignments are to be discussed with the instructor, not with the department. Complaints about the final grade should be discussed with the instructor in at least one conference soon after the next term begins. If the conference on the final grade does not resolve the problem in a valid, college-level manner, the complaint can be expressed on a form in the LCC office.
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