College of DuPage - English 1101
Sample Schedule
Hesford, Rhetorical Visions: Reading and
Writing in a Visual Culture
(Book order ISBN: 0536428212)
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COURSE OBJECTIVES:
In English 1101, students should learn
1.) To approach writing as a process;
2.) To develop and support a thesis in an organized essay;
3.) To examine and respond to the ideas and strategies in the writings of others;
4.) To foster proficiency with the language itself in terms of grammar, style and usage.
ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE:
Week One: Introduction to Course (Chapter One)
Diagnostic Essay Due
Week Two: Chapter Two: Reading and Writing Rhetorically
Week Three: Familial Gazes: Reworking the Family Album
Readings:
Chapter Three (pp. 57 – 74)
Kingston, “Photograph of My Parents”
Hooks, “In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life”
Kuhn, “Remembrance”
Week Four: Familial Gazes: Reworking the Family Album
Readings:
Hirsch, “Reframing the Human Family Romance”
Olds, “Looking at Them Asleep”
Olds, “I Go Back to May 1937”
Paper One Due: Familial Gazes
Week Five: National Gazes: Witnessing Nations
Readings:
Chapter Four (pp. 159 – 181)
Sturkin, “The Image as Memorial”
Taylor, “Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11”
Week Six: National Gazes: Witnessing Nations
Readings:
Kozol, “The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans”
Morales, “Child of the Americas”
Kaplan, “The Rusted Iron Curtain”
Paper Two Due: National/Local Gazes
Week Seven: Traveling Gazes: Shaping Mobile Identities
Readings:
Chapter 5 (pp. 273 – 286)
Lutz and Collins, “The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes”
Images: Travel to India
Hockenberry, “Walking with the Kurds”
Kinkaid, “A Small Place”
Week Eight: Traveling Gazes: Shaping Mobile Identities
Readings:
Trask, “Tourist, Stay Home”
Nakamura, “Where Do You Want to Go Today?”
Kuenz, “It’s a Small World After All”
Paper Three Due: Identities and Differences
Week Nine: Student Conferences
Week Ten: Consumer Gazes: Made in the USA?
Readings:
Chapter 6 (pp. 369 – 378)
Enloe, “The Globetrotting Sneaker”
Kernaghan, “An Appeal to Walt Disney”
Espada, “Coca-Cola and Coco Frio”
Espada and Nike Corp., Letters
Week Eleven: Consumer Gazes: Made in the USA?
Readings:
On Barbie Poems
Schnur, “Barbie Does Yom Kippur”
Paper Four Due: Advertising Lifestyles
Week Twelve: Doing Research
Readings:
Chapter 8 (pp. 573 – 597)
Week Thirteen: Documentary Gazes: Representing History
Readings:
Chapter 7 (pp. 467 – 482)
Ignatieff, “The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid”
Zelizer, “Conveying Atrocity in Image”
Paper Five Due: Research Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography
Week Fourteen: Student Conferences
Week Fifteen: Documentary Gazes: Representing History
Readings:
Coles, “The Tradition: Fact or Fiction’
Fischer, “Moore’s Lore Re-Evaluates Gun Culture”
Paper Six Due: Research Project on Theme from Textbook
Week Sixteen: Culminating Activities or Final Exam