Fall 2005: ENC 1102: Argument & Persuasion: Invoking the Professional Voice
Extra Credit
Various extra credit assignments will be added. All extra credit is due before December 5. For these assignments, please type up a response to one of the choices below and either email me with your write-up or print it out and turn it in.
- For 1 extra credit entry, write 250 words on an "Evening with Hans Christian Andersen. In memory of this remarkable artist, this event weaves together Andersen's shadow-crossed biography, presented by John Cech, with readings from Andersen's works by Gregg Jones. The event will take place on Thursday, November 17th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library's Downtown oHeadquarters. Meeting Room A. Refreshments will be served. For further information contact the Center for Children's Literature and Culture, 4365 Turlington. Phone: 392-6650, ex. 290, or see the Alachua County Library District website here.
- Write 250 words on Minami's presentation on Samurai Films on November 7, 4pm, Emerson Hall, room 201. This counts for 2 extra credit entries.
- Write 250 words on the Eighth
Ulam Colloquium by Louis Nirenberg* Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences on The Maximum Principle
Date and Time: 4:00 - 4:55pm, Monday, November 14, 2005
Room: 121 Little Hall Refreshments: After the lecture in LIT 339. Counts for 1 extra ,credit entry. - Write 250 words on FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival hosts its second annual event next weekend, November 11-13, 2005. While last year's festival was a competitive event, this year's festival is a curated affair, with three filmmakers coming to Gainesville to show one program of their own short experimental films and videos and a second program of work that influenced them. The invited filmmakers are Bill Brown (programs on Friday, Nov. 11), Deborah Stratman (programs Saturday, Nov. 12), and Scott Stark (programs Sunday, Nov. 13). More details about the filmmakers and programs on the FLEX website: www.flexfest.org
- Write 250 words about Rosa Parks. This counts as 1 extra credit block (1 absence or quiz). If you write more, it will count as additional extra credit blocks (500 words=2 blocks).
- Write 250 words on the lecture by video and installation artist Judith Barry, November 1, 2005 at 7 p.m. at the Harn Museum of Art. Judith Barry will speak about her work using slides and film clips. Barry’s work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, film/video, sculpture, photography, and new media. Counts for 1 extra credit block (1 absence or quiz).
- Write 250 words about HURRICANE KATRINA & THE RACIAL DIVIDE
Wednesday, October 26th @ 7:30pm at The Institute of Black Culture
Presented by The Black Graduate Student Organization (BGSO), Black Student Union (BSU), Caribbean Student Association (CaribSA), and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW).
Join us for an important discussion about Race and Hurricane Katrina. We will be addressing issues concerning government response, media coverage, relief efforts, intersections among race, class, and poverty, gentrification and the re-building of New Orleans. We will also be discussing what we can do to help.
Panelists will include UF student leaders and faculty (including Dr. Terry Mills, Dr. Malini Schueller, and Dr. Michael Leslie).
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Angelique Nixon, BGSO President, at angelnix@ufl.edu. Feel free to forward this invite to those who may be interested in attending. - Write 250 words about what the cultural knowledge that you think it would be useful for all college instructors to possess. Would your focus be on music, film, television, comics, books, politics, what? Which particular texts or genres and why? As an instructor, I'm fairly young and yet fairly un-hip, so this information will actually be useful for me in prepping for other classes and perhaps even for ours, so please share suggestions. This will count as either 1 board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about Professor James Shapiro's (from Columbia) presentation "The Jew's Daughter," on Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:30PM, Norman H. Lipoff Hall, Hillel, 2020 W. University Avenue. This will count as either 1 free board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words on one of the presentations at the "Translation Routes" conference, October 14-15. This will count as either 1 free board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about the Harn Museum Exhibit (runs until October 30) Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmartre. This exhibit showcases the substantial holdings of lithographs, posters and drawings by the great French modernist at the University of Illinois's Krannert Art Museum. Featured in the Harn exhibit are some of Toulouse-Lautrec's best-known prints, including Moulin Rouge - La Goulue (1891), his first lithograph and poster. The exhibition is organized along five themes representing key facets of the artist's printmaking career: Early Work, Nightlife, Theatre and Music, The Fine Art Print and Advertising. This will count as either 1 free board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about banned books based on this
article, or based on one of the most commonly banned books (if
you've read one of them, and many are great books, so hopefully you
have). This will count as either 1 board post or 1 fee absence.
Most Frequently Banned Books:
- “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier for sexual content, offensive language, religious viewpoint, being unsuited to age group and violence
- “Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, offensive language and violence
- “Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture” by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy and political viewpoint
- Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey, for offensive language and modeling bad behavior
- “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, for homosexuality, sexual content and offensive language
- “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones, for sexual content and offensive language
- “In the Night Kitchen” by Maurice Sendak, for nudity and offensive language
- “King & King” by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, for homosexuality
- “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou, for racism, homosexuality, sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group
- “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, for racism, offensive language and violence
- Write 250 words about "Notes From a Career in Teaching" by MURRAY SPERBER [Section: The Chronicle Review Volume 52, Issue 3, Page B20; you do need to be on campus or to log in through the Library Proxy in order to read it]. The article is about how professors dress, and the author argues that professors should dress in a manner most comfortable for them so that they can best teach classes. What do you think about this argument? In addition to your opinion on this issue, do you have any dressing tips for professors, who often dress snazzily or often dress un-snazzily (like me)? This will count as either 1 board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about "The Net Generation Goes to College" by Scott Carlson [Section: Information Technology Volume 52, Issue 7, Page A34; you do need to be on campus or to log in through the Library Proxy in order to read it]. This will count as either 1 board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about any article in The Chronicle of Higher Education or any article from Inside Higher Education. This will count as either 1 board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about 1 or more of these Picasso images:
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- Write 250 words about the Special Collections Library's Display of Blondie comic strips. This will count as 1 board post or 1 free absence.
- Write 250 words about one of the comics in special collections. This will count as 1 free board post or 1 free absence.
- Attend 1 panel of the EGO conference (1 hour) and write 250 words about it. This will count as 1 board post or 1 free absence.
