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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: December 7, 2005
Latest Update: December 14, 2005
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

Topic of the Week:

Naked Space Spills Over, As It Should

I'm afraid to push too hard. They changed the radiation treatment, and I turned slightly green. No problem. We took the Naked Space to a Redondo Beach elementary school Tuesday, where the special education children had a splendiferous time and made great boxes and cards. We learned so much from your experiences and the Exhibit on November 29th that we were able to pull it off without a hitch. And Sunday we'll go to the Tupperware party, and I'll try not to turn green and slide to the floor. Without them, we never could have done the interactive performance of this semester's Naked Space.

Pat is coming out to help me put up grades on learning records next Monday. Hope we can get them all up, but I promise to hang in there until we're done. But it might take several days.

Brenda, I was so proud when you just went into my office and sat down at my about-to-be-moved desk and sent a note to all of us on transform-dom. You guys don't realize how cool it is to see you take the computer naturally, as though it's what everybody is doing.

I'm hoping to be in next week. I'm really not sick - no pain - but the treatment is making me so woozy, I feel like I'm drunk. My mother is right. I never have normal side effects with medical treatment. I'm happy as a lark - just not able to drive like this, and am scared to push too far to stay at the computer and write for too long. But I did finish the painting I promised Susan of all our asses blocking the hall so poor Larry Rosen from psychology had to come and ask me formally if you could please leave a path in the hallway. Well, yeah. So I yelled something about moving asses in the hallway and Michael took over and managed traffic. I guess psychology never taught them to just say, "excuse me, could I please pass?" Yeah, Buscaglia and I would have something to say about that in Love 1A. But never mind. It's the Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa, whatever season and we wish you all Merry Tuches in the Hallways as you spill over with joy and peace.

I'll try to put up the rest of this issue as the green and woozy fade away. love and peace, jeanne

NEWS, Announcements, and

Current Events Discussion Topics:

We don't have an office anymore. They moved us out last week, while I was having a reaction to the radiation therapy. All our stuff got moved across the hall, but it's in no condition for immediate use. So communicate with me over the site and transform_dom. Pat's coming up on Thursday, and we plan to put up the grades. Check learning records starting Thursday, December 15, after radiation therapy. We hope to get moved into the office across the hall by late January. jeanne

For Pat's brithday, Pat and Jeanne spent all day creating these art pieces for the Tupperware Party on Sunday, December 13. We thought you'd like to share them. jeanne

Pat's Happy Mother-In-Law

jeanne's Happy Mother-In-Law

A Conversation on The Art of Engagement: Peter Selz and Henry Hopkins

Much to write on this as soon as grades are up. jeanne

The Ecstasy Exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art through February 20.

"Ecstasy" is the trippy, messy, highly entertaining survey put together by Paul Schimmel of the Museum of Contemporary Art here. It sprawls through the Geffen Contemporary, the museum's cavernous warehouse in Little Tokyo, which too often begs for attention but is now jammed with blissed-out mobs.

Famous People and Concepts We Should Have Heard Of, But Often Haven't.

People


• Helnwein - Austrian artist who is deeply engaged and uses his art to convey his messages. Compared to Beuys, who despised the commodification of art.

• Botero - Colombian artist who could not help himself - he had to paint the violence he witnessed in his own country.

Concepts:

• Definitions of different kinds of discourse.

• The painting of torture and terror

Jeanne's Lectures for Fall 2005

• Lectures, Lecture Notes, Text Lectures

  Fall 2005:

  • Fall 2005 Letters to My Students: jeanne's World and Welcome to It
  • Application Lectures on Current Events in Chronological Order
  • Lecture Notes in Class Order
  • Text Summaries in Text Order
  • Self Tests in I. Activites Order; II. Class Order and; III. Text Order
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  Lectures Posted for Week of November 6, 2005

  • Defending Imperial Nudity Op-Ed Column in the New York Times on November 4, 2005. Backup Discussion up soon, I hope. Remind me to tell you about Montesquieu. jeanne

  Lecture Notes

  Index of Lecture Notes for Fall 2005

  • Lectures Posted for Week of November 6, 2005:

    • Topic of Week for November 6.

  Text Lectures

• Index for Text Lecturers

• Text Lectures Posted for Week of November 6, 2005:

  • Up soon.

  Discussion Pieces from Transform_dom

• Index for Discussion Pieces

• Discussion Pieces Posted for Week of November 6, 20 05:

  • Evaluation of Naked Space - Discussion based on Shirley Dunn's comments.

  • How Our Vote Counts

  • Felons Voting Suggestions appreciated. You guys are right in the middle of this one. jeanne

  • I don't have time to upload it separately, but would like to know what your reactions were to Matt's post on Jenny? What message did Mevysen convey about jeanne's response? How would you suggest we handle unanticipated responses in the naked space, with an eye to preserving both community and a meaningful focus on substantive discipline - i.e. focus on theory in its applications to practice? Mevysen suggested that it was not by accident that Matt fell into this naked space. I'd like us to continue that thought.

  Self Tests Posted for Week of November 6, 2005

  • Self-Test on Reliability and Validity in Musical Understanding Statistical terms and music appreciation, all in one. Have fun. jeanne

  • Self Test on Ecstasy Exhibit Understanding how artists approach politics, philosophy, ideology.

  • Self-Test on Naked Space Evaluation How will we know that our naked space is accomplishing the goals it set itself in the process of the semester?

  • Self-Test on How Our Vote Counts

  Visual Sociology

  • Safety Nets: Social Security
    
    New York Times lead article on Thursday, November 24, 2005, photo by Jeff Topping, Getty Images

    Academic Support and Resource Links

    • A Range of Sources on Global Info

      Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times - The National Review
      Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
      Wall Street Journal - The Weekly Standard - The Nation - The Cato Institute (Libertarian)
      BBC NEWS | Americas - truthout - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
      Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - La Opinion - The Washington Post
      Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor - Palestine Report

      Indymedia - Mother Jones - BBC News - New Profile - KPFK Progressive Radio
      Progressive Sociologists Network Environmental Working Group - Mirror of Justice

    • Mentoring

      Graduate Exams Study

      • University of Chicago Prelim Study
      • Revised Syllabi for jeanne's Fall 2005 Classes
        
      • Instructions for Tutoring and Learning Records Requests

        Some older files not yet revised for Fall 2005, but useful.

      • How to Navigate the Web Site
        
      • Mentoring Help for New Students with Frequently Asked Questions
        
      • Mentoring Help for Returning Students with More Frequently Asked Questions
        
      • Shared Reading Suggestions
      • Learning Styles

      • Home Page for transform-dom You can read all the messages on Transforming Dominant Discourse from this page. Just click on messages in the left hand frame. You can read the messages, even if you're having difficulty signing up.

      Preparing for Graduate Study:

    • Test Prep Preview Joshua L. Stewart, recommended this site because it has free practice tests. If you're thinking of taking the GRE, the LAST, or any other graduate entry test, this might be a good place to gather some early information. Joshua suggested it for Praxis Practice, but a quick first look suggests they don't mean by praxis what we do. Check it out, anyway, if you have some spare time. jeanne

  • Resource Literacy

    Using Academic Language Effectively

    Merriam-Webster Dictionary Search:

    and Careers

    • Resumes:

      • College Journal Resume Suggestions . . . Backup

    • Letters of Recommendation:

      • Letters of Recommendation: How to get me to respond to your request. Many of you need letters. If you will follow this format, I can do them quickly and make them good.
      • Dog Letters If you do not give me adequate information, but do manage to get my attention, you may end up with a dog letter. That is a letter that says that you work well with people, that you are enthusiastic, that you persist at getting things done, and that everyone likes you. Of course, my dog gets along well with people, brings his ball to them, is enthusiastic, and persists at getting them to take his ball. Everyone likes my dog. That's a dog letter. It's so general it could be about my dog. jeanne

    • Career Options You Might Not Have Considered

      • visual media and their interdependence with other means of knowing to understand that we are not totally rational creatures deciding things apart from our feelings and values. Wolfowitz (new President of the World Bank to aid developing countries AND principle advocate of the Iraq War) might feel very differently when he is exposed to visual and aural images of the poor developing countries that have not before been his primary concern. So we want to know how best to present those developing countries visually. And we might find that we can have a career doing that sort of thing, so it does reflect on us as individuals. Added April 2, 2005.

    Sneaky Strokes and Flying Good Dogs

    Flying Dog is also a painting by Zhang Kai. Best I've ever come across to illustrate our site with magic numbers and unicorns and whipped cream cats and now, flying dogs, oh, and Faupel's Flying Fish.:

    • Icons and acronyms and what they mean in Internet Speak

    • Index of Nice Things We've Said to Each Other

    • Flying Good Dogs: Whenever something happens in class that works out well, that inspires you, that helps in studying, whatever, take a few minutes to send us an e-mail. We'll post it where all of us can learn from it, including other teachers.

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