General Honors 101: Discussion Question Schedule

Spring 2010

During the semester, each student will be responsible for posting 3-4 discussion questions for one day’s readings 24 hours in advance of that particular class meeting. These questions should be open-ended and engage the issues/ideas of the literature instead of the plot or “facts.” I will post this schedule online (using your initials). However, I would also encourage you to write it down.

ENG 280: Students will sign up for two discussion question postings and will be expected to make connections between secondary (either from that class period or any secondary article we have read) and primary readings in their questions.

Feb. 2: McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang, “Dramatic Mission”       ____________MB__________________

Feb. 4:     McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang, “The Partnered Ship” ________________AS________________

Summary Paper #1 DUE

Feb. 9:     Pohl, Man Plus, Chapters 1-7; Clynes and Kline, “Cyborgs and Space” (CD)

_______________AV_________________

Feb. 18: Pohl, Man Plus, Chapters 17-18 ________________________________

Gray, “Man Plus: Enhanced Cyborgs and the Construction of the Future Masculine” (CD)

Summary Paper #2 DUE

Feb. 23: Morrison, WE3; Gibson, “Johnny Mnemonic” (CD); two articles from CHE (CD)

_____________DM___________________

Mar. 9: Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades, Chapters 3-6 _______________ZG_________________

Haney, “The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans” (CD)

Mar. 23: Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades, Chapters 10-15 _______________DM_________________

Mar. 25: Wachowski, Matrix Comics (selected); Clark, Chapter 7, “Bad Borgs?”(CD)

Summary #3 Due

_____________KS___________________

Mar. 30: Asimov, The Bicentennial Man (CD) ________________________________

Bartneck, “From Fiction to Science – A cultural reflection of social robots” (CD)

Apr. 1: Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Chaps 1-5 _______________AV_________________

Apr. 15: Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Chapters 19 – 22. _____________________________

Hayles, “The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman” (CD).

Apr. 20: Piercy, He, She, and It, Chapters 1-14. ______________MB__________________

Apr. 29: Piercy, He, She, and It, Chapters 39-42. ________________________________

Haney, “Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It.” (CD)