2100 Detailed Assignment Calendar

Jan M14

Intro—Watch my introductory course videos. Then watch my videos for setting up your BLOG. Be sure to give yourself a lot of time to work through this information so that your blog will be set up by Wednesday.

W16

Submit your first BLOG ENTRY telling us something about yourself and your ideas regarding our class. Then read and watch the listed web pages as preparation for reading Hero.

F18

Read Hero Part I (“The Adventure of the Hero”—Prologue and chapters 1-4, roughly 220 pages, depending on which version you are using), dividing the chapters up between now and Wednesday as best fits your schedule.

T22

Hero Part I—complete your reading of the first half of the book.

W23

Watch these videos of mine: 1 “Campbell in Our Course“; 2 “Joyful Participation in the Sorrows“; and 3 “The Nonduality of Tragedy and Comedy in Joseph Campbell.” Then write and post your first reading-response BLOG ENTRY (400-word minimum) in response to Hero Part I and my video. Be sure to post a link to your entry in our Blackboard Blog site. (See our Blog Purpose page for more guidance in getting started.)

F25

Comment on your groupmates’ blog entries. See my guidelines page.

M28

Watch Pan’s Labyrinth. •

W30

Watch the Guillermo del Toro videos (see our Pan’s Labyrinth page) along with my video on fascism.

Feb S2

Watch my video on Pan’s Labyrinth. Then write and post your second reading-response BLOG ENTRY, now in response to Pan’s Labyrinth and my video. Again, be sure to post a hyperlink to your entry in our Blackboard Blog site.

M4

Comment on your groupmates’ blog entries.

W6

Watch Avatar.

F8

Watch my Avatar and Imperialism video and my Avatar: Science vs. Voodoo video (see links in our Blackboard Avatar Module).

M11

Watch my Avatar and Unobtanium video (see links in our Blackboard Avatar Module).

W13

Post your BLOG entry on the movie and my videos.

F15

M18

Finish reading the Black Panther graphic novel A Nation Under Our Feet volume 1.

W20

F22

M25

Post your Black Panther graphic novel blog entry and watch my instructional video.

W27

Watch the Black Panther film and respond to your blogmates’ posts.

Mar F1

Watch my Black Panther film video on African American representations of Africa. There is no blog assignment for the movie. Instead, I will look for your take on the movie in your midterm Synthesis Paper.

M4

Watch my video on Duty in Black Panther (see Blackboard for the link).

W6

Paper 1 Preparation—working on your own

F8

SYNTHESIS: PAPER 1 Due

10-17

SPRING BREAK

REMINDER: Be sure to go to the specific work webpages (by clicking on the titles of books and movies) for more information and links regarding your assignments. This page is simply for keeping track of due dates.

M18

Matrix 1: Watch movie

W20

Write open topic blogpost for Matrix 1

F22

There is no groupmate blog response due this week for Matrix 1. Continue reading Campbell’s Hero.

M25

Hero II (“The Cosmogonic Cycle”)

W27

Hero II

F29

Hero II

Apr M1

Finish reading Neuromancer

W3

Read informative links and then write blog entry on Neuromancer

F5

Respond to blog entries on Neuromancer

M8

Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions

W10

Blog entry for Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions

F12

Respond to Blogmates

M15

Return to Source: Philosophy and The Matrix

W17

The Animatrix 

F19

Blog Entry 

M22

Blog Response  

W24

Final Paper Prep  

F26

Final Paper Prep  

May W1

Finals Week—SYNTHESIS: PAPER 2 Due May 1 at 5 p.m.