E.K. Sparks
Engl 356/ SF
SF Points: Spring
2005
Keep track of your points
on Blackboard
How
to make up unit points
Complete
schedule of quiz days
Grade
Scale
Unit
Points (Reading quizzes, journals, poems, cognitive maps)
30 points total
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Friday Jan 10: Send J#1 – intro
to self and course -- to listserv by midnight.(This journal is worth one
point. It must be at least 250 words)
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Unit 1: Thematics, Genre, Definitions,
Wells (4 pts possible) Days 2-7
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Unit 2: Utopias, Gilman, and Early
Origins of SF (4) Days 8-12
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Unit 3: Hard SF, Dooms, Future
History, Heinlein (4) Days 13-19
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Unit 4: Softer SF, Time Travel,
Psionics, Dick (4) Days 21-25
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Unit 5: New Wave and Delany (3)
Days 27-28
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Unit 6: Le Guin, Women, and Tiptree
(5) Days 30-35
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Unit 7: CyperPunk, Brin,
Robinson (5) Days 35-45
Web
Page Projects
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Class Portfolio Page
10 pts (5 points due Feb 14 + 5 points at End)
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Class Day page 15
pts (All materials due within two weeks of class day)
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Group Website 35
pts (5 for proposal, 5 for presentation, 25 for project)
Final Exam Essay
10%