English 103 Critical Thinking Schedule

Instructor: Ann Warren
Office Hours: On Zoom, by appointment. Please email me to make an appointment.
E-Mail: annw708@gmail.com

Course Schedule: Week 1
Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5
Course Schedule: Weeks 6-9
Course Schedule: Weeks 10-15
Course Schedule: Final Exam

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1 Feb. 6-12 INTRODUCTION But What If We're Wrong? Playing with Ideas Go to Lecture 1 Go to Discussion Questions 1	Reading: Klosterman, Introduction (starting on page 1) and "A Brief Examination..." Lecture 1 Check out the Canvas Discussion Board for this class to do Discussion Question 1. Click on the link below to get to the LACCD portal, sign in, and then click on the link for Canvas in the right column. This will take you to the Canvas dashboard. From there, click on the square with the name of our class. Once you've entered the class, you will find the "Discussions" link on the left side of the screen: LACCD portal
Week 2 Feb. 13-19 What Comes First? Then What? Reading Strategies Go to Lecture 2 No Discussion Questions due this week	Reading: Klosterman, "A Quaint and Curious Volume..." Lecture 2 Mike Matas: a Next Generation Digital Book (TED Talk) The 25 Best Inventions of 2016 Future Technology: 22 ideas about to change our world Most Influential Fiction of the 20th century (essay in Files on Canvas, Readings for Week 2)
Week 3 Feb. 20-26 Show Me a Picture Go to Lecture 3 Go to Discussion Questions 2	Reading: Klosterman, "But That's the Way I Like it..." Lecture 3 Inside the Making of Sgt. Pepper The 50 albums that changed music McBride, "Hip-Hop Planet"
Week 4 Feb. 27-Mar. 5 What Do You Mean I'm Wrong?! Go to Lecture 4 Go to Discussion Questions 3	Reading: Klosterman, "Merit" Lecture 4 Website Only Stocks Items that last a lifetime Goodbye ABCs What Objective Criteria..." How do we Judge..."
Week 5 Mar. 6-12 How Do I Say This...? Go to Lecture 5 No Discussion Questions due this week Paper 1 due	Reading: Klosterman, "Burn Thy Witches" Lecture 5 Framing 101: How to Take Back... Understanding Trump
Week 6 Mar. 13-19 Let's Try This a Different Way Go to Lecture 6 Go to Discussion Questions 4	Reading: Reading: Klosterman, "Burn Thy Witches" Lecture 6 Is Our Universe the Only Universe? (TED Talk) You are a Simulation...(TED Talk)
Week 7 Mar. 20-26 Is It a Conspiracy or a Dream? Go to Lecture 7 Go to Discussion Questions 5	Reading: Klosterman, "The World that is Not There" Lecture 7 How Internet Conspiracies Go Viral Truth vs. Perception vs. Reality (TED Talk) Working with Historians The Historiography of the American Revolution The Neural Code and Dreaming Can Our Dreams Solve Problems While we Sleep?
Week 8 Mar. 27-30 The Demise of TV No Lecture this week Go to Discussion Questions 6	Reading: Klosterman, "Don't Tell Me What Happens..." What Television Will Look Like... What is the Future of Television?
********** HOLIDAYS/SPRING BREAK March 31-Apr. 9 ***********
Week 9 Apr. 10-16 The Future of Sports No Lecture this week No Discussion Questions due this week Paper 2 due	Reading: Klosterman, "Sudden Death (Over Time)" The Real-Life Whiplash Voices: Better Ways to Teach What the NFL Will Look Like... Simmons vs. Gladwell: The Future of Football Barry, "Representing a Country is a Great Feeling" Boyd, "When Smush Parker Saved the World" (article in Files on Canvas, Readings for Week 9) Video Game Culture How Video Games Affect the Brain
Week 10 Apr. 17-23 History and Democracy No Lecture this week Go to Discussion Questions 7	Reading: Klosterman, "The Case Against Freedom" Why Teach History? Why Study History? This is What Democracy Looks Like (TED Talk) Are We Wrong to Think We're Right? (TED Talk) Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me (TED Talk)
Week 11 Apr. 24-30 But What if We're Right? No Lecture this week Go to Discussion Questions 8	Reading: Klosterman, "But What if We're Right?" Klosterman, "Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass" Emotional Intelligence The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil The Singularity Isn't Near Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop... How the Internet Gets Inside Us
Week 12 May 1-7 This is Your Space No Lecture this week Paper 3 due	Reading: To Be Determined
Week 13 May 8-14 More of Your Space No Lecture this week No Discussion Questions due this week	Reading: To Be Determined
Week 14 May 15-21 Wrapping It Up No Lecture this week Go to Discussion Questions 9	Reading: No new Readings This Week
Week 15 May 22-28 CATCH YOUR BREATH WEEK	No reading assignment for this week
Week 16 FINAL PROJECT Final Project due	The final project is due on or before midnight on the night of Tuesday, May 30. No late projects will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.