AMST 3750-01, Summer 2007

Robert W. Hill, EB117

Emails: rhill@kennesaw.edu AND rhill41@gmail.com

Phone 770-423-6346

Online response writings (Nicenet and WebCT, both): twice per week for at least fifteen minutes apiece, actively engaged in written conversation with class readings, class discussion, lectures, and other students’ response writings, graded twice per term, A or F (you did it seriously or you didn’t); = 10% of course grade

Nicenet.org: 3750-01: www.nicenet.org: Class key: 7202729A86
WebCT Vista: http://vista.kennesaw.edu

Send me immediately your preferred email. Your official KSU-assigned email = yournetid@students.kennesaw.edu.

Movies right away: American Beauty; The ’Burbs; Crooklyn; Disturbia; Far from Heaven; Over the Hedge; Suburbia

Other readings, as assigned along the way: John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”; selections from such writers as Ann Beattie, John Updike; popular song lyrics; newspaper and magazine articles; scholarly articles sought, discovered, and annotated through practice with GALILEO

Essay 1 due June 23, noon; Essay 2 due July 26, 2pm (1200-1500 words, Chicago, in which case, notify me); ecopies attached as Word files to my two “external” emails; use Works Consulted (cumulative--viz., E1 Works also appear in E2’s Works Consulted); MLA format unless you inform me that you have professional needs to conform, say, to APA or Chicago Style: E1 +E2 = 80% course grade

Class meetings, 2-4:45p: (Class participation [attendance, collegial discussion] = 10% course grade)

May 31; June 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28; July 3 (ßonline class), 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24 (Last class meeting); Final examination period: July 26, 2-4pm