English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 02 – Engaging This episode applies to Week 1 and discusses: Empoword – Engaged Reading (459 – 466) (Appendix Coursepack) How to Read / How to Write How to be In Class and Online Hybrid Course Expectations How to do Well in this Course

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 01 – Introductions This episode applies to Week 1 and discusses: The Welcome Survey The Course Website The Course Outline The Course Schedule Coursepacks and other readings There’s a video walkthrough for: Discussion Board expectations Activity Prompts Blackboard

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 15 – Will Straw, Jonathan Sterne, and Why Understanding Representation Matters This episode applies to Weeks 12 and 13 and discusses: Will Straw: “Embedded Memories” (Appendix Coursepack) Jonathan Sterne: “Out with the Trash: On the Future of New Media” (Appendix Coursepack) Thinking about using literary discussions to think about larger cultural … Continue reading "Episode 15 – Straw, Sterne, and Why Understanding Representation Matters"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 14 – Jennifer Adams and Frank O’Hara This episode applies to Week 11 and discusses: The Archivist The Everyday, absence and presence, public and private Jennifer Adams: “Recovering a Trashed Communication Genre: Letters as Memory, Art, and Collectable” (Appendix Coursepack) Frank O’Hara: “Steps” (Coursepack) Frank O’Hara: “A Step Away from Them” … Continue reading "Episode 14 – Adams and O’Hara: Everyday Cultural Capital"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 13 – Stuart Hall and The Archivist Walkthroughs This episode applies to Week 9 and discusses: Stuart Hall: “Encoding / Decoding” (Appendix Coursepack) Context for Stuart Hall’s Encoding / Decoding Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot (walkthrough #1) Emily Hale and T.S. Eliot (walkthrough #2)

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 12 – The Exhibit Assignment and Essay #2 This episode applies to Week 8 and discusses: The Exhibit Assignment Draft of 7 – 10 objects due not later than Oct. 31 Creative application of symbols and themes coming out of this course Thinking about how we encounter representation (or “re-presentation”) Essay … Continue reading "Episode 12 – Exhibit Assignment & Essay #2"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 11 – Introducing Theme: Readings by Kari Kraus and Laura Agnes Millar This episode applies to Week 6 and discusses: Laura Agnes Millar: “What are Archives?” (Appendix Coursepack) How the text acts as a kind of archive Thinking about how we (and texts) contextualize, organize, and label Themes provide context for … Continue reading "Episode 11 – Introducing Theme: Reading by Kraus and Millar"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 10 – The Second Coming This episode applies to Week 5 and discusses: W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” Oppositions, dichotomies, and paradoxes How we understand the past when its mythologies are rendered unstable or unreliable Ambiguity in symbolism without fixed meaning World War I and how socio-cultural lenses apply to close … Continue reading "Episode 10 – The Second Coming"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 05 – Literary Terms (Part I) This episode applies to Week 2 and discusses: Literary Terms I walkthrough a few of these emphasizing what’s important about each, touching upon: Character Figurative Language First-Person Narrative Genre Image Setting Signal Symbol Text

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 04 – “Casey at the Bat” and Literary Terms This episode applies to Week 1 and discusses: Literary Terms “Casey at the Bat” imagery (introducing figurative language) poetic devices plot (narrative – rising action) speaker (narrator) character (Casey and all the other baseball players) descriptive language (used to apply the players) … Continue reading "Episode 04 – Casey at the Bat"