Schedule

The following schedule is subject to change according to the needs of the class. I will announce any changes to this schedule should the need present itself. Class meetings take place on Thursdays from 6 to 9:30pm unless otherwise noted. All on-site meetings will take place in Humanities 490.

Date On-site Lesson Online Lesson
September 5, 2013 Introduction
Course Overview
Contexts of Graduate Study
September 12, 2013 Profile of a Discipline: English
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
September 19, 2013 Interdisciplinary Critical Context Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
September 26, 2013 Foucault, continued
October 3, 2013 Research
Swales and Feak, Units Seven and Eight
Guest Presenter: Tom Ambrosi
Documentation Styles: MLA, Chicago, APA
Meet in Library 115.
October 10, 2013 Online Writing Workshop Swales and Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Units One and Three
The Mechanics of Academic Writing
October 17, 2013 Disciplines, Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity
Leavy, Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research, Chs. 1-3
Gaddis, The Landscape of History, Chs. 1-4
October 24, 2013 Leavy, Chs. 4-6
Gaddis, The Landscape of History, Chs. 5-8
Annotated Bibliography Due
October 31, 2013 Midterm online assignment (TBD) in place of virtual class meeting
November 7, 2013 Case Studies in the Environment Anthology: Ch. 5—The Paradox of Sustainable Development
November 14, 2013 Case Studies in the Environment Anthology: Ch. 9—What Is Wilderness and Do We Need It?
November 21, 2013 Case Studies in the Environment Anthology: Ch. 26—Coda
Peer Editing of Research Papers
November 28, 2013 Thanksgiving Break
December 5, 2013 Research Presentations
December 12, 2013 Final Drafts of Research Papers Due (by e-mail attachment)