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spring week-by-week schedule

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Spring Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

FIRST SPRING MEETING: Noon, Tuesday, April 3, Sem2, E4115.

Week 1 (April 2)

No Monday meeting.

Visio

Form groups.
"Video Divina," Illich, "Ascesis," Buber, Meetings ("My Mother," pp. 21-3; "My Father," pp. 26-8; "The Walking Stick and the Tree," pp. 49-50; "Samuel and Agag," pp. 62-5; "Books and Men," pp. 71-3; three sentences on pp. 8-9 beginning, "These 'events and meeting'...).

Complete Self Evaluation (see handout)
and Academic Advising self-assessment form.
Yoga

Arrive on time & wear comfortable clothes.
Bring yoga journal & color pens/markers/crayons to construct body maps.

Body theme: Yoga as an invitation to welcome and inhabit the body.
Boccio: pp. 1-7
Farhi: What is yoga? pp. 4-7
Van Kooten image: Some treat the body as a cushion.
Spring yoga handout with readings.
BRING EVERY WEEK: Body Maps that we make this morning.

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Sister Lucy & Julie Barrett Ziegler.

Portfolio checklist distributed.

Seminar

The program syllabus, "Video Divina," Illich, "Ascesis," Buber, Meetings ("My Mother," pp. 21-3; "My Father," pp. 26-8; "The Walking Stick and the Tree," pp. 49-50; "Samuel and Agag," pp. 62-5; "Books and Men," pp. 71-3; three sentences on pp. 8-9 beginning, "These 'events and meeting'...)
Ivan Illich, "Ascesis"

DYAD WORK:

Week 2 (April 9)

Visio

Berger, G, and Iyer, "Imagining Canada."

Ways of Seeing

DUE: Mind Map (on the readings done BEFORE class). See Heather's comments on mind maps and the mind map laws.
Yoga

Body theme: Introduce eye focus; principles of root and rise.
Yoga nidra (Heather)
Legends for body maps, body map

Boccio: Many yogas, pp. 8-10.
Klein: p. 27.
Van Kooten image: Flower of awareness.

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Steven Hendricks on G and cubism.

Ways of Seeing (visio)

Seminar

Berger, G, and Iyer, "Imagining Canada."

DYADS: body maps

Week 3 (April 16)

MONDAY SEMINARS: Guest, Matt Hamon, on criticism

Visio

Illich & Duden, "Guarding the Eye..." (2001) and "Scopic Past..." (1998) papers available on David Tinapple's website. Also read two papers by Lee Hoinacki. Click that link for annotations of seven selections on reserve in the library.

Natural vision warm-up (Heather).

Live image?

DUE: Answers to the Five Questions
DUE: Mind Map
Yoga

Body theme: Introduce Drishti with yoga poses.
Farhi: Ten living principles, pp. 7-16.
Van Kooten image: Drishti--concentrating on one point, what do you see?

 
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Lee Hoinacki

Seminar

Illich & Duden, "Guarding the Eye..." and "Scopic Past...," selections by Lee Hoinacki TBA

DYADS: body maps

Week 4 (April 23)

Visio

Miss Kate

Duden, Disembodying Women
Errata sheet prepared by Lee Hoinacki

DUE: Mind Map

 
Yoga

DUE (8:45 AM): Response/image essay #1. Assignment here.
Body theme: Explore image of spirals; beginning pranayama; ujayi breath
Farhi: What are asanas and why practice them, pp. 16-20.
Klein, pp. 83, 107.
Anusara image: Inner and outer spiral.
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Richard Weiss on computer vision

Seminar

Duden, Disembodying Women

DYAD: body maps

Week 5 (April 30)
PORTFOLIO REVIEW: Peer groups review portfolios. Fill out portfolio review forms and submit them to each student's faculty. Form will include a chance to note colleagues who might be at risk of receiving less than full credit.
DUE: Mid-quarter self evaluation (see handout), with portfolio (download portfolio checklist here).

Visio

Student presentations

Yoga

Body theme: Explore image of loops
Boccio: The Buddha's yoga, pp. 13-23.
Klein: p. 139.
Anusara image: Loops.

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Student Presentations

Seminar

Student presentations

DUE: Mid-quarter self evaluation.

Week 6 (May 7)

Visio

Mind map viewing (first hour)

Miriam (woods, rest of the time)

Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

DUE (8:45 AM): body map assignment with anticipation of community service.
Body theme: Imagery to work with blocks in the body and facilitate movement of energy.
Boccio: The yoga practice and the Four Noble Truths, pp. 25-31.
Klein: pp. 62-64.
Van Kooten image: Block in the body.

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Reflection on Response Essays/Images

Hayley (photo transfer)

Seminar

Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

DYAD: body maps

Week 7 (May 14)

MONDAY: See room change, which applies for the remainder of the quarter.

Visio

Classen, The Color of Angels, Introduction, chapters 3 & 5 (on reserve), Howe, Empire of the Senses, chapter 8, pp. 147-163.
Irigaray, "Divine Women," from Sexes and Geneologies (handed out in class)
Irigaray, The Way of Love,
>con't students: "Thanks to Difference" and "Rebuilding the World"
>new students: "Being with the Other" and "Thanks to Difference"

Visio divina with Katy Blackman


Yoga

Body theme: Feeling into the back body; Pranayama: Viloma breath
Boccio: The Eightfold Paths, pp. 33-39.
Klein: pp. 140-141, 177.
Van Kooten image: Wings of the back body.

Yoga nidra with Heather

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Cannibal Tours - O'Rourke
In and Out of Africa - Barbash and Taylor

Sarah on Sensuous Scholarship
The Instructions of Dua-Khety (web)
About a Scribe, notes from the Louvre exhibit (web)
Thoth, God of the Slash, Seth Warren on Plato's Phaedrus (web)
Plato's Supplements, excerpts from Derrida's Dissemination
The Vision Quest in the West, or What the Mind's Eye Sees, Stephen Tyler
Sensuous Scholarship, Paul Stoller
Cannibal Tours, Dennis O'Rourke (film, TESC Lib)
In and Out of Africa, Lisa Barbash and Lucien Tayler (film, TESC Lib Reserve)

 
Seminar

DUE: Mind Map (note change)

Classen, The Color of Angels, Introduction, chapters 3 & 5 (on reserve), Howe, Empire of the Senses, chapter 8, pp. 147-163.
Irigaray, "Divine Women," from Sexes and Geneologies (handed out in class)
Irigaray, The Way of Love,
>con't students: "Thanks to Difference" and "Rebuilding the World"
>new students: "Being with the Other" and "Thanks to Difference"

DYAD: body maps
DUE:Independent Leanring Contract and first set of annotations. SUBMIT ILC ONLY to your seminar leader. See assignment here.

Week 8 (May 21)
MONDAY: Seminar from 11:30-12:30. Then, Chris Canty, pilgrimage to India followed by short Visio Divina by Heather & Sarah.
DUE: Final self evaluation available for peer review.

Visio

Mind map viewing, then

Visio Divina with Derek Hain

Caputo, On Religion, chapters 1, 2, & 5 (on reserve).

DUE: Mind Map

 
Yoga

Body theme: Working with nature's images in asana
Boccio:The Eightfold Paths, pp. 39-47.
Klein: pp. 159-160.
Van Kooten image: Daphne tree: Root and rise.

DUE (8:45 AM): Response/Image Essay #2

Tuesday All-Program Meeting

Evening Cal Anderson lecture by Martha Nussbaum in Tacoma. Link is to announcement and driving directions (Adobe Reader required.)

This lecture is in lieu of the 3:30-5:30 all program meeting.

Martha Nussbaum, "Tagore, Dewey, and the Imminent Demise of Liberal Education"
Rabindranath Tagore, "The Wrong Heaven"
Rabindranath Tagore, "The Parrot's Tale"
Also see entries on links page.
Seminar

10:45-11:45 Martha Nussbaum in Longhouse 1007C.

 

Week 9 (May 28)
DUE: Final self evaluation to faculty: (1) hard copy along with colleague reviews and (2) email as attachment (make sure the attachment is compatible with MS-Word, i.e., that the file has a .doc suffix).

MONDAY: Memorial Day, School is closed

Visio

Klocek, "Heartfelt Thinking" from The Seer's Handbook (handout)

Heather& Seamus
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,
http://www.rantcollective.com/article.php?id=74

DUE: Mind Map

Yoga

Body theme: Life takes you beyond your edge
Boccio: Learning dharma from a tree, pp. 247-249.
Klein: p. 196.
Van Kooten image: Life takes you beyond your edge.

 
Tuesday All-Program Meeting

DUE: Pilgrimage: Encounters with the foreign/body map assignment (assignment here).

Bill
Seminar

DYAD: body maps
DUE: Peer-reviewed, carefully edited self evaluation (see handout and the faculty evaluation template: for students entering spring, students entering winter, and students entering in the fall), hardcopy and e-mail.

Week 10 (June 4)

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH POSTERS and PORTFOLIO REVIEW this week
Faculty will return comments on self evaluations by Monday.
DUE: Final self evaluation, revised in response to faculty comments. Due Thursday at noon or at your evaluation conference, whichever is earlier.

MONDAY, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM: Poster Sessions

12 noon - 2 PM PORTFOLIO REVIEW

Week 10 portfolio review checklist
Yoga

Celebration in the body.
Van Kooten image: Power transcends beyond the skin.

Evaluations

 
Evaluations

 

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