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![]() ENGL 220 PASSPORT I/EYEGASM The "Death of the Book," the Digital Humanities, and the Self[ie] in Literature, Film, Art, Photography and the World Wide Web William A. Nericcio | memo@sdsu.edu
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![]() Let me underscore that you have absolute intellectual freedom in our eyegasmilicious advanced seminar, BUT to receive these delicious rights you must also succumb to the reasonable responsibilities outlined in this, our class passport. After all, we want to have a blast, be the best literature/film studies class on the West Coast, even (take that Stanford! Eat my dust MIT)! But to do that, we need some peace and quiet--a safe asylum within which to forge our imaginative eye/I-sensitive imagination, to amp our lucid literary and cinematic hallucinations. So, then, read these laws carefully and thoroughly, so when you walk into GMCS 333, the Eyegasmatorium!, you will know what to do and what not to do! STATUTE 1.111_READ_READ_READ: When you enter this room for class you will
have finished
the reading that appears on the
day-to-day
class calendar! FINISHED (not started, not skimmed, not glanced)! Coming
to a university literature/film/cultural studies class
without doing
the reading is like a gardener trying
to raise roses without getting her/his hands filthy
with shit, a surgeon trying to operate without a
scalpel,
a fireman without an ax, a streetwalker without, er,
well, I better stop
there. Do the readings.
Do them twice if you can MAKE the time! I know, you
are saying to
yourself, "they don't make me read in my other
classes" or some other
sort of nonsense..... well here, you must! Please think
twice about joining us if you have not finished the
readings--the quality
of our class depends upon your dedicated work and your
relentless and independent
curiosity. Without your periodic intellectual
donations, the class is likely
to evolve into a boring, even painful waste of
time.
STATUTE 1.311893
Zed-BogieViperCell:
STATUTE 1.499556 Charlie-Delta_Thief:
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![]() Other Requirements!!!! WRITING AND EXAMINATIONS You will be asked to write TWO Analytical
Imagination
Challenges, 3-5 page essays, during the
course of the term. Please note that you will never be
compelled
to write about something you absolutely loathe. Please
see me or your amazing GTAs during office
hours as brainstormings essay topics is totally cool.
There
will be an Imagination Challenge
In-Class Festival (aka, the
FINAL EXAM) on the last regularly
scheduled day of class: Thursday, May 7,
2015. Your final is absolutely
comprehensive; it assumes you have read all the books
and screened all
the movies that are part of our required work. If you
do the work, the
final is a breeze--even "fun" if you can believe it.
If you slack off,
you will find the Imagination
Challenge In-Class Festival as
enjoyable as having dinner with the Here Comes
Honey Boo-Boo clan!
One social media site for this class,
Facebook-based, is located here.
If you are a member of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s mad
experiment, then you are expected to post
class-related links, images,
videos, articles, etc at least ONCE a month or 5 total
for the whole
semester. If you have not bought into Zuckerberg’s mad
experiment
and stay away from Facebook like the plague, you
have a second
choice--you can directly submit a posting to the Eyegasm Tumblr
Ar[t]chive. I, too, will be posting course-related materials
to our Facebook
and Tumblr sites from time to time—feel free to follow
the page
and make suggestions for additions/deletions. If
both Facebook and
Tumblr remain alien to your consciousness, you can
send your suggested
links/images/videos to me via email to memo@sdsu.edu;
however, I
don’t promise that I will post ALL of your forwarded
materials. I
will try, however, to see that some of them make their
way to the
fabulous internets. QUIZZES, ATTENDANCE, and CINETREKS... There will also be several In-class Panic-Inducing Challenges otherwise known as CHECK-YOU-DID-THE-READING QUIZZES You can expect these miserable quizzes from time to time, the number of quizzes depending on how many of you are nostalgic for high school. In other words, if everyone acts like a talented university student, we will enjoy FEW if any quizzes during our semester.
Miss MORE than three classes during the term and
your grade will decay
in an ugly way. EXAMPLES: your hard-earned A- will
morph into a B-;
your "gentleman's C" will appear on the webportal as
a "D." Ditching
this class too often will be as fun as a case of
flesh-eating
virus. Do
you receive any second chances in this class on the off chance you miss
a quiz, blow an assignment, or generally screwup altogether? Luckily,
your eccentric Professor is a recovering Catholic, and believes in the
wonders of absolution--from time to time we will have out-of-class
cineTREK assignments; these can be used to atone for an extra-absence,
a missed quiz, or some other lapse you may engage in during the term.
OFFICE HOURS
Why not? I expect you to visit me in office hours at least once during the semester. Additionally, you are encouraged and welcome to visit your GTAs. At SDSU, it's easy to fall through the cracks, to feel that you are nothing but a Red ID# or some warm pile of sentient flesh filling a seat. In order to convince you that the Professor teaching you is occasionally human, please make a point during the semester to take the time to introduce yourself in person. My office hours will be on Tuesdays before class from 9:40 to 10:40 and Thursdays from 12:30pm to around 2:30 or so in Arts and Letters 273 (if I am not there, look for me in the SDSU Press office, AL 283). If these hours are inconvenient, do not hesitate to call me at 619.594.1524 either to schedule an appointment or discuss your questions via telephone. My email address is: memo@sdsu.edu |
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