Tim
Hacker
Humanities
Building, Room 130B
731/587-7283
Courses
for Fall semester, 2002:
English
111
Sections
AC2 and 36: Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, 8 – 8:50 a.m.
Section
29: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
11 – 11:50 a.m.
Extraordinary
Minds
The
core text of these sections is a book called Extraordinary Minds. Extraordinary Minds, by the Harvard
psychologist Howard Gardner, profiles four people who have made a mark because
of their creative works: Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Mahatma Gandhi. We will read what Gardner has to say about
each of them as a representative of a different category of exceptional
people. Then we’ll learn more about
each of those categories by seeing a movie, “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” and
by reading a biography of Einstein, a set of articles about creativity and
women, and Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Our writing assignments—involving the college-level
critical thinking strategies of summarizing, analyzing, and comparing and
contrasting—will be suggested by the gap between what Gardner has said and what
we have seen for ourselves.
Students
in section 36 will be joined, via interactive television, by students from
Camden Central High School who are taking the course for dual high school and
college credit.
To
learn about course policies and procedures, including how students earn their
grade, please see the course description.
For a day-to-day schedule of course activities, assignments, and links
to reading guides, please see the course syllabus.
Honors
English 111 (ENG 111H)
Section 02:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
The
Human-built Environment
This
is a course for anyone who spends a lot of time in buildings such as homes,
schools, offices, restaurants, and churches . . . in other words, this is a
course of interest to everyone. We will
begin by learning why the places we live in make us feel happy or sad, secure
or vulnerable, by reading Claire Cooper Marcus’s House as a Mirror of Self. We’ll use the tools it gives us to write
about our own homes or dorm rooms. Then
we’ll expand our focus to public buildings and public spaces: we’ll read the book Community by Design
and articles by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critics Robert Campbell and
Blair Kamin. With the knowledge we gain
from these exercises we will do a service-learning project: research and report writing for governmental
and non-governmental agencies in nearby communities, including Main Street
Fulton of Fulton, Kentucky.
Students
enrolling in Honors English 111 must have a score of 28 or above on the English
portion of the Enhanced ACT.