Due Date

Assignment

Explanation

Past due

Culture Post

Past due

Ode Essay

Past due

Post Critique

Revisit one of you old posts and write a critical appraisal of both the content and the form of your post.

Past due

Mimesis or Social Construction

Representation refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. Do these systems of representation reflect the world around us, as it is, mimesis, or do we construct the world and its meaning through the systems of representation we deploy? In this Social constructionist approach we only make meaning through specific cultural contexts.Hence the material world only has meaning and only can be seen by us, through these systems of representation.

Please comment, based on your readings of Chapter one in POL and our discussion in class....

Past due

Alfred Leslie painting

In a short paragraph or two, approach this painting through a semiotic lens. What is it signifying and how do you know this? Is metaphor used? Metonymy? What do you think the painter is trying to say?

Oct. 7^th

Annie Dillard essay

First draft

Oct. 14th

Semiotic Analysis of Crash

Thesis for discussion {By this time you should have competed your research, viewed the DVD, analyzed the film and have pulled your thoughts together in some sort of organizational structure—you should come to class with a thesis and some ideas about how to proceed.}

Review Comix 1 and Comix 2 Documents and with those tasks in mind, select a comic from your copious readings over the next week and bring it to work on in class.

Oct.17th

Semiotic Analysis of Crash

Thesis statement and outline emailed to me: grabiner@simmons.edu

Comix analysis

Complete and hand in.

Oct.19^th

Percepolis

read for class and prepare Iran ‘research’ presentation with your groups.

Oct.21

Semiotic Analysis of Crash

Exchange papers for peer review

Read

Chapter four of Practices of Looking,

Susan Sontag on photography in Seeing and Writing

Oct. 26

American Splendor

Present words and images for class

Oct.28

Semiotic Analysis of Crash

Return papers to each other and if you want to have Amy do an edit, get the paper to her in enough time to let you revise and finish by 11/4

Annie Dillard

Final draft

Read

bell hooks, Barthes and Memories
Re-read in Chapter 4 of POL about the notion of Technological Determinism; p. 117; think about what Sontag said, what Zola said and come prepared to discuss these ideas

Optional: Read Chapter 3, POL

Nov.4^th

Semiotic Analysis of Crash

When you will hand in final paper to me. [You may want to discuss the paper with me before you hand in the final. In this case you need to make an appointment with me so we can discuss the draft.]

SLAM

Write and post your slam poem; Turn in Crash Final

Nov. 11th

NO Class Veterans Day

Nov. 18

MFA assignment

Turn in Crash Final if you haven't already

Read Chapter 4 in Seeing and Writing

Nov. 25

NO Class Thanksgiving

Dec. 2

Read

Chapter 2 and 6 in POL

Dec. 9

Word and Image project