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Office Hours
 WED 11:00-1:00 PM
THU 12.30-1.30 PM
in BOYLAN 4304

COURSE EMAIL ADDRESS  itamspring17@oggi-domani.com

BLOG http://itamspring17.blogspot.com/

REQUIREMENT 1: EMAIL POLICY
Open this document and comply with the requirements about a professional email account and the communication protocol.
I will ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND RESPOND to messages that comply with this policy.

REQUIREMENT 2: WRITE A STATEMENT and SEND IT VIA EMAIL
(You can work on Requirement 2 ONLY if you have completely finished Requirement 1)
Send an email message to the course email address with the following subject: *I RECEIVED THE SYLLABUS* (and don't misspell "receive," please)

1. INTRODUCTORY JANUARY 31
    
2. Assignment 0 (sent out via email)
    
3. Assignment Feb 10  (THIS FILE INCLUDES THE NOTES OF THE JANUARY 31 LECTURE) graded and returned
    
4. LECTURE and ASSIGNMENT DUE FEBRUARY 18 graded and returned
    
5. LECTURE and Assignment due FEB 26
   graded and returned
    
6. LECTURE and assignment due MARCH 5
   graded and returned
    
7. LECTURE and assignment due MARCH 13
   graded and returned
    
8. LECTURE and assignment due MARCH 20
   graded and returned
    
9. LECTURE and assignments due MARCH 27
   graded and returned
    
10. LECTURE and assignment due APRIL 3
    graded and returned
     
11. LECTURE and assignment due APRIL 20
    graded and returned
     
12. LECTURE and assignment due MAY 1
    graded and returned
     
13. LECTURE and assignment due MAY 8
    graded and returned
     
14. LECTURE and assignment due MAY 15
     
15. Assignment and test due May 22

* Issues with missing assignments?
Email me immediately. 

QUIZZES / TESTS
Cartoons
Shorts
Salvetti
THE ITALIAN
SON OF ITALY
L'EMIGRANTE
The Way They Lived
CHRIST IN CONCRETE

 

COURSE MATERIALS

USEFUL STUFF

1. Example of good note taking
2. This is how I take notes
3. More of my note-taking
4. More notes
 

ON WRITING

1) every text (book, article, photo, film, whatever) triggers FIRST an immediate emotional response.  Make a note of your FIRST IMMEDIATE emotional reaction. This is the raw material.
Write it down if it helps. EX: curious to find out more, intrigued, repulsed, fascinated and repulsed at the same time, bored, offended, pleased, tickled, annoyed etc. etc. etc.

2) At the end of reading/screening a text we are left with a DIFFUSED sensation: pleasure, anxiety, anger, pain, sympathy, empathy, antipathy, you name it. Make a note of the TONE of your emotional state.

3) Reflect back and report: what was your FIRST emotional response? What was the DIFFUSED sensation left?  In between FIRST and DIFFUSED there was some THINKING.  This thinking is MENTAL PROCESSING.

4) Last stage: THOUGHTS become IDEAS. Ideas are thoughts that are communicable, that you can translate into language that others can understand.  That requires ARGUMENTS. ARGUMENTS illustrate your ideas, ideas that derive from thoughts, which, in turn derive from the chaos of emotions.

5) You can describe the process, or you can focus on the thoughts, or the emotions. But in order to do so, you must have AN IDEA of what you are talking about.

6) It's very very simple. It's the simplest and best way to write, because you write about things you know, namely YOURSELF and the way your emotions become ideas. If you write FROM INSIDE OUT, you cannot go wrong. But you must start there.

READING

1. Get close to the text.

2. Read slowly at first. Sound the words in your mind. If necessary, "lip read" to slow yourself down.

3. Take notes of whatever strikes you. Make it a dialogue with yourself: a word you don't know; a sharp idea; a revealing detail; your mood; your guesses; a personal memory. Write down the page number.