| Voices from the Workplace (Work Crew Profile) - Week 1 | |||
| Aug | Today | Next Class | Other Work |
Mo:: 22nd Triad Day |
How to Read Writing/Thinking |
• Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description" [handout] W/T |
Read the core course Policies and Requirements & take notes listing crucial details & policies. Expect a quiz. Print out, fill out, and return the Student Questionaire. Browse the rest of the course site/syllabus, especially our first project; note your questions. |
| We:: 24th | Writing/Thinking 1 Due Syllabus & Questions; Planners & Notebooks Method: Thick Description Work Crew Profile Project in brief |
• Interview with Delores Dante (WIA 47) • William Morris, "Useful Work Versus Useless Toil" (WIA 146) W/T |
|
| Fr:: 26th | No Class |
|
|
| Voices from the Workplace (Work Crew Profile) - Week 2 | |||
| Aug/Sept | Today | Next Class | Other Work |
| Mo:: 29th | Writing/Thinking 2 Due Analytical Tools: Useful Work vs. Useless Toil First impressions of your crew |
• Interview with Mike Lefevre (WIA 41) • Karl Marx, "Alienated Labour" (WIA 249) W/T
|
|
| We:: 31st | Writing/Thinking 3 Due The Alienated Worker Portraits of workers (& their self-analysis) via Studs Terkel Work Porfolio 1: Looking ahead |
• Dan Faulkner-Bond [handout] |
|
| Th:: 1st | TRIAD COMMON SESSION "So You’re In College, Now What?" |
||
| Voices from the Workplace (Work Crew Profile) - Week 3 | |||
| Sept | Today | Next Class | Other Work |
| Mo:: 5th | Writing/Thinking 4 Due *Take-aways from Thursday night A Profile of Wilson Working Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control |
• Hesiod, from "Works and Days" (WIA 167) • Plato, from The Republic (WIA 172) W/T |
Write a 300-word pre-draft sketch: what's the (analytical) story you want to tell about your work crew/work crew experience? |
| We:: 7th | Writing/Thinking 5 Due DUE: Pre-draft sketch Plato's Body of Work: A Work Instinct? |
Complete your workshop draft and make a copy |
|
| Th:: 8th | TRIAD COMMON SESSION "past PRESENT future" |
||
| Fr:: 9th | No Class |
|
|
| Voices from the Workplace (Work Crew Profile) - Week 4 | |||
| Sept | Today | Next Class | Other Work |
| Mo:: 12th | DUE: Profile, Workshop Draft (2 copies) Peer Workshop *Take-aways from Thursday night |
• John Locke, from Second Treatise of Government (WIA 202) W/T |
|
| We:: 14th | Writing/Thinking 6 Due The Natural State of Property? Revision |
• Adam Smith, "Of the Division of Labour" from Wealth of Nations (WIA 215) W/T |
|
| Th:: 15th | Required Service Trip: MANNA (6-8pm on site) Meet at 5:40pm |
|
|
| Fr:: 16th | DUE:
Profile, Final Draft |
|
|