Syllabus and Student Guide [1]
Conference Times [2]
Weekly Discussions [3]
Grammar & Research Quizzes [4]
project 1:
Project 1 Intro [5]
Project 1 Rubric [6]
Contribution Plan [7]
Wikipedia Genre Analysis [8]
project 2:
Project 2 Intro [9]
Project 2 Rubric [10]
Edmundson: "On the Uses of a Liberal Education as Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students" [11]
Shorris: "On the Uses of a Liberal Education as a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor" [12]
Gatto: "Against School" [13]
Botstein: "Let Teenagers Try Adulthood" [14]
Aronowitz: The Knowledge Factory [15]
Kirp: "The New U" [16]
Sledd: "Marketeers, Agitators, and the Corporate University" [17]
Readings: The University in Ruins [18]
Cramer: "Review of Bill Readings' The University in Ruins" [19]
Graff: "Response to Bill Readings" [20]
Whitehead: "Universities and Their Function" [21]
sample paper questions [22]
project 3:
Project 3 Intro [23]
Project 3 Peer Review [24] (.doc)
Project 3 Rubric [25]
urban and rural spaces:
Davis: "Fortress Los Angeles" [26]
Raban: "Street People and Air People" [27]
Flusty: "Building Paranoia" [28]
Lopez: "The American Geographies" [29]
Lopez: "Borders" [30]
Abbey: "The First Morning" [31]
Didion: "Marrying Absurd" [32]
Jana: "New Blueprints for China's Skyline" [33]
Vergara: "The Ghetto Cityscape" [34] (offline)
Boehlert: "New York's Most Disliked Building?" [35] (offline)
space and commerce:
Gibian: "The Art of Being Off-Center" [36] (plain text version here [37])
Fiske: "Shopping for Pleasure" [38]
Meredith: "Big Mall's Curfew Raises Questions of Rights and Bias" [39]
Liu: "Remember When Public Space Didn't Carry Brand Names?" [40]
Gladwell: "The Science of Shopping" [41] (offline)
Willis: "Disney World: Public Use/Private State" [42] (offline)
space and race:
Staples: "Black Men and Public Space" [43]
Cockcroft and Barnet-Sanchez: "Signs from the Heart" [44]
space and gender:
Karbo: "The Dining Room" [45] (offline)
virtual spaces:
Brooks: "Oversimulated Suburbia" [46]
Wertheim: "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" [47]
Dyson: "Cyberspace for All" [48]
Pollock: "Welcome to Cyberbia" [49]
Staples: "The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware on the Web" [50]
Suler: "Identity Management in Cyberspace" [51]
Tirrell: "Dumb People, Smart Objects" [52]
temporary spaces:
Serlin: "Four Points Plans New Room Design" [53] (offline)
religious spaces:
Papas: "Islam and Women's Rights" [54]
King: "Religion and Identity" [55] (offline)