Date In-Class Activity Due for Class
Week 1
M 8/27
  • Visual analysis activity
  • Introduction to course
  • Nothing
W 8/29
  • Introduction to civic advocacy & why we are studying it
  • Discuss readings
  • Review online syllabus, schedule, & assignments
  • Read Bellah's "Pursuit of Happiness" (handout)
  • Read "In the Service of Citizenship" (PDF)
  • Read "Just Doing It" (PDF)
  • Reading Response

F 8/31

CCLI

  • Introduction to the CCLI
  • Web site analysis of materials and approaches of 2 globalization-related sites
Week 2
M 9/3
  • Class Cancelled for Labor Day
 
W 9/5
  • Reading Response
F 9/7
  • Class Cancelled for K-Day
 

Week 3
M 9/10

CCLI

  • Collaborate & discuss project ideas on MOO
W 9/12
  • Discuss article
  • Discuss different meanings of "text" and different types of analysis
F 9/14
  • Present Visual Arguments
  • Give feedback on presentations
  • Visual Argument Project Due
Week 4
M 9/17
  • Visual Argument Presentations
  • Visual Argument Project

W 9/19

  • Finish Visual Argument Presentations
 

F 9/21

  • Read Kostelnick and Roberts
  • Reading Response

Week 5
M 9/24

  • Photoshop demo and tutorial
  • Read all of Williams' Non-Designer's Design Book
  • Reading Response

W 9/26

CCLI

  • Redesign flyer using CRAP principles
  • Bring a flyer to redesign
F 9/28
  • Be prepared to deliver pitch proposals
Week 6
M 10/1
W 10/3
  • Form working groups to research organizations and decide which one you will look at
  • Discuss strategies for collecting information
 

F 10/5

  • Discuss Wysocki's article
  • Discuss Multimedia CDs as forms of argument
Week 7
M 10/8

CCLI
  • Look at Multimedia CDs as forms of argument
  • Discuss interactivity

 

 
  • 1 page analysis of 2 CDs
W 10/10
  • Discuss writing, research and ethics
  • Bring in an example of a "Neutral" document to share and discuss
  • Read Kinross' "Rhetoric of Neutrality"
  • Reading Response
 

F 10/12

  • Class cancelled for Project Research
Week 8
M 10/15
  • Class cancelled for Project Research

W 10/17

CCLI

  • Comparison of Web site communication strategies and genre
  • Read Foss' "Generic Criticism"
  • Read Varallo's "Family Photos"

F 10/19

  • Peer feedback on Research and Analysis Paper
Week 9
M 10/22
  • Discuss writing, research, & ethics
  • Discuss MLA format and citing and using sources
  • Reading pages 535-551 in the Revisions Reader
W 10/24
  • Discuss presentation evaluation criteria
  • Outlining and preparations for presentations
  • Discuss papers
  • Readings on preparing for public speaking (supplemental)

F 10/26

CCLI

  • Discuss intros & conclusions
  • Discuss presuasive techniques
  • Write intros and conclusions for presentation
  • Sign up for presentations
  • Prepare presentation outline
Week 10
M 10/29
 
W 10/31  

F 11/2

 
Week 11
M 11/5
  • Discuss how presentations went
  • Assign Final Projects
  • Look at examples
  • Discuss possibilities
  • Form groups
 
W 11/7
  • HTML and Dreamweaver Demo
F 11/9
  • Document Design
  • Read Shriver's "How Document's Engage Readers"

Week 12
M 11/12

  • Meet with other groups to get/give project feedback and ideas

W 11/14

CCLI

  • Project Workday
  • Bring project materials to class
F 11/16
  • Words and Images
  • Visual activity
  • Read McCloud's "Show and Tell"
  • Reading Response
M11/19
  • Class Cancelled for Thanksgiving Recess
 
W 11/21
  • Class Cancelled for Thanksgiving Recess
 
F 11/23
  • Class Cancelled for Thanksgiving Recess
 

Week 13
M 11/26

CCLI

  • Project Workday
  • Bring project materials to class
W 11/28
  • Document Design
  • Contextual reference
 
  • Read Lupton & Miller's "Period Styles"
  • Read Heller's "Swastika Chic"
  • Reading Response
F 11/30
  • Conferences- Class Cancelled
 
Week 14
M 12/3
  • Conferences- Class Cancelled
 

W 12/5

CCLI

  • Project Workday
  • Bring Project Materials to class
F 12/7
  • TBA
  • TBA

Week 15
M 12/10

W 12/12
  • Nothing
F 12/14
  • Class Wrap-up
  • Nothing

W 12/19