Jerz: Media Aesthetics


Class Topics and Due Dates


01/25/05 Course Overview

01/27/05 Intro to Aesthetics
01/27/05 Read: Various Introductory Resources
01/27/05 Read: Pygmalion Anthology

02/01/05 Intro to Blogging
02/01/05 Read: Young; Cochran
02/03/05 Read: Carver, ''Cathedral'' (Library e-reserve.)
02/03/05 Read: May,''Mike's Journal''(Selections)

02/03/05 Case Study: Blindness and Seeing

02/08/05 Perception and Truth
02/08/05 Read: Article on Plato (Postponed)
02/08/05 Read: Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave"
02/10/05 Read: Churchill, ''What Socrates Said to Phaedrus...''

02/10/05 Mediation and Mimesis
02/10/05 Read: Plato, ''Ion''
02/10/05 Read: Plato, ''Phaedrus'' (excerpt)

02/15/05 Dulce et Utile
02/15/05 Read: Plato, Republic (selection)

02/17/05 Discussion
02/17/05 Read: Aristotle, ''Poetics'' (delayed -- was 2-15)

02/22/05 Creativity and Criticism
02/22/05 Read: Pope, ''An Essay on Criticism''
02/22/05 Read: Eliot, ''Tradition and the Individual Talent''

02/24/05 Humanism and Decadence
02/24/05 Read: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Preface)
02/24/05 Read: Wilde, ''The Decay of Lying''
02/24/05 Read: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ch 1-4)

03/01/05 Ideals and Dark Doubles
03/01/05 Due: Essay 1 Draft
03/01/05 Read: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 2
03/01/05 Read: Shelton, ''The Aesthetic Realism of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray''
03/03/05 Due: Portfolio 1
03/03/05 Due: Informal Presentation 1

03/03/05 Essay 1 Workshop
03/14/05 Due: Essay 1 Revision (Monday)

03/15/05 Urban Aesthetics and Power
03/15/05 Read: McNeill, ''Skyscraper geography''
03/15/05 Read: Brooklyn Bridge & WTC

03/17/05 Expressionism
03/17/05 Read: Lang, Metropolis
03/17/05 Read: Kapek, RUR (excerpts)

03/22/05 Intelligent Artifice
03/22/05 Read: Crowther and Woods, ''Adventure''
03/22/05 Read: Weizenbaum, ELIZA

03/24/05 Discussion

03/29/05 Ars and Techne in the Academy
03/29/05 Read: Jerz, ''You Are Standing at the Beginning of a Road...''
03/29/05 Read: Powers, Galatea 2.2

03/31/05 Ars and Techne, cont'd
03/31/05 Read: Powers, Galatea 2.0 2

04/05/05 Postmodern Literary Aesthetics
04/05/05 Read: Powers, Galatea 2.0 3

04/07/05 Geek Aesthetics
04/07/05 Read: Heller, ''Adventure''
04/07/05 Read: Clarvoe, PICK UP AX

04/12/05 Cyberfeminism
04/12/05 Due: Informal Oral Presentation 2
04/12/05 Read: Laurel, Utopian Entrepreneur

04/14/05 Paper 2 Workshop
04/14/05 Due: Portfolio 2

04/19/05 Hypertext Aesthetics and Usability in Cyberspace
04/19/05 Due: Paper 2

04/21/05 Nature and Ecocriticism
04/21/05 Read: Primary Text TBA
04/21/05 Due: Copies of student-chosen readings
04/21/05 Read: Article TBA

04/26/05 Workshop

04/28/05 Formal Presentations
04/28/05 Read: Reading TBA
04/28/05 Read: Reading TBA

05/03/05 Formal Presentations
05/03/05 Read: Reading TBA
05/03/05 Read: Reading TBA

05/05/05 Formal Presentations
05/05/05 Read: Reading TBA
05/05/05 Read: Reading TBA
05/06/05 Due: Portfolio 3

05/10/05 Final Exam (1-3pm; Discussion of Term Papers)

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