BBB 12/9

Don't forget that your final project must be turned in no later than next Tuesday at 1:30 PM. There will be a milk crate outside my office door (201B McClellan Hall) in which you can put your stuff.

You must also turn in your journals, your past work for this semester, and your binoculars.

You will not receive a grade for this course until the binoculars are turned in. If I am not around, leave them at the front desk. Be sure your name is attached to the binoculars so that you will receive credit.

You can pick up your materials at the start of the spring semester (and please do).

Have a safe and happy school break!

Lit of Place 12/7

We will meet at the Windmill Museum for our last class. Try to be there no later than 2:15 to start. Remember that Sarah will be giving her presentation on Home Cafe, and we will be discussing the Anthony Bourdain chapter from A Cook's Tour.

The address for the Museum is 1701 Canyon Lakes Drive. The easiest way to get to it is to drive east on 19th, past I-27, until you get to Canyon Lakes Drive. May Simmons Park will be on your right (it is a playa lake). Turn LEFT on Canyon Lake Drive and the museum is at the top of the hill.

If you plan to ride your bike, you will have to approach the museum from the north; Stay OFF 19th, as there is construction going on and it would be very dangerous to ride a bike down that road right now.

See you tomorrow!

Lit of Place at Home Cafe

Food as Place

Lit of Place 11/30

Meet outside the Honors College at 2 with your bikes. We'll be riding first to Home Cafe and then to HollyHocks.

The reading is available in the HC.

Cheers.

Lit of Place 11/15

Eureka, y'all! I have found the perfect essay for Wednesday's class. Much in it to talk about. Copies will be available at the front desk of the Honors College after 2 PM on Monday.

We will meet at the Child Development Research Center at the start of class for Natalie's presentation. Bring your bicycles so we can go over to the architecture building afterward for Sarah's talk.

BBB 11/15

Don't forget that your skins drawings are due at the start of class tomorrow. The bird skins are available to check out in the Honors College. Ask for them at the front desk. You MUST take them to the student forum to draw them. They are not allowed to leave the building.

Tomorrow we start the final project, a field guide page. Come prepared with photos of animals, insects, or plants you you wish to create a page for.

LIt of PLace 11/3

Here is a link to directions to Eastlawn Memorial Gardens. We'll meet on the back (east) side, near the mausoleum. Enter from the lake side, along Canyon Lakes Drive; there will be a big double gate.

The book chapter from The Last Great Necessity is in the Honors College at the front desk. Connor and Neil will be presenting. The discussion on the book chapter will be on the influence of the American Parks Movement on cemeteries.

BBB 10/28

Meet today in the classroom to finish the bird drawings. These, along with the essay, will be due at the start of class next Tuesday.

For the essay: discuss how your drawing fits into either the artist/naturalist or naturalist artist category, what these terms mean historically, and why your drawing fits in a particular category. Describe/explain any aesthetic decisions you've made regarding composition, style of drawing, etc.

Essay should be 2-3 pages, double spaced, with references.

Lit of Place 10/28

Rmember to turn in your misterm by this Friday!

Four visions of "Main Street":

Read the essays provided, think about what we observed on Wednesday in the Depot District, and keep all of this in mind when we meet at my house again next Wednesday to watch the remainder of "The Last Picture Show."

Discussion will follow the movie.

Lit of Place 10/26

I’ve decided that I just can’t spend $150 on the Cactus Theater to show a movie. My inner frugal person just won’t let me. So instead, I think we’ll all meet at the usual time in front of the Honors College with our bikes tomorrow, then ride to the Depot District, where Steven and Christine can give their presentations. After that, we can all ride to my house and watch the movie for the remainder of the time for class.

Popcorn will be served.

BBB 10/24

Well, it looks like we'll have at least a few ducks and geese to draw at Leroy Elmore park, so meet at Tech Terrace (or Leroy Elmore) at 1:30 today or tomorrow. Bring your art kits and binoculars.

Lit of Place 10/21

Prompt from yesterday:

Do you think you could do an experiment in local eating like Barbara Kingsolver's? Wh or why not? What would it look like if you tried it (that is, what sort of parameters would you have)?

We'll meet next week with our bicycles in front of the Honors College. Barry Lopez will be joinning us for a ride to the Depot District where we will watch a screening of "The Last Picture Show" at the Cactus Theater. Christine and Steven will be presenting. Discussion will follow the screening. There is no reading assignment.

Freshmen: Remember to get something in to me by no later than noon on Monday so I can post your mid semester grades.

BBB 10/21

Don't forget that we're meeting in the classroom today. Bring your bird photos, bristol board, tracing paper, and prismacolor pencils.

Lit of Place 10/17

Meet at Tech Terrace Park on Wednesday. We will car pool to the South Plains Food Bank farm. Please bring a plate, fork, and knife with you.

BBB 10/17

Meet in front of McClellan Hall on Tuesday for a bird walk. Bring your binoculars.

Lit of Place 10/7

Here are three prompts:

1) Define "place."

2) Ian Frazier had an unusual list of things that described the Great Plains; William Least Heat-Moon wanted to make a "deep map" of it. If you were to make a deep map of Lubbock, what would it include?

3) In the readings by Rolvaag and Weaver, immigrants to the Great Plains experienced both prejudice and difficulty assimilating. What role did fear play in both these things? Are there parallels to today?

There is an additional reading for next week ("Leaving Vinland" by Diane Heuter Warner) that is available in the Honors College at the front desk. Meet in front of the HC with your bikes, and we will pick up where we left off this week with David Campos taking us downtown to do a presentation on the Lubbock tornado.

BBB 10/7

NOTICE: The final version of the botanical drawing is due at the beginning of class next Thursday. It should include the common and latin name of the plant, and one piece of natural history information.

We will meet in class and then go outside.

LIt of Place 10/6

Greetings, all. I seem to have picked up a stomach bug and don't think it is advisable for me to try to ride my bike downtown. David was scheduled to present on the Lubbock tornado--we'll just move that to next week. I would like to meet briefly with you today outside the HC to discuss where you are on your papers for this class and to give you a prompt if you need one.

This also gives us an additional week for reading related to David's talk, so I will prepare a handout to supplement what was in your reader and try to get that to you by Friday.


Cheers!

Lit of place 10/4

David Campos will be giving his presentation on Wednesday on the Lubbock tornado. Meet at the Honors College at 2 with your bikes; we will ride downtown.

For your reading: "Another Tornado Dream" by Denise Low, in your reader. We will be doing some writing exercises in class following the discussion.

Office hours 9/28

I am having a lunch meeting today and may not be in for office hours. If need to speak with me, let me know and we can try to arrange something.

Lit of Place 9/27

Meet with your bikes in front of the Honors College at 2 PM on Wednesday. We will be riding to the International Cultural Center. James Atwood will be talking about globalization and cultures.

For your reading: ""Home-founding" by Rolvaag, and "A Gravestone Made of Wheat" by Will Weaver. These are in your reader.

These two short pieces of fiction all deal with the idea of immigration and assimilation, which will tie into the presentation.

BBB 9/27

Meet in the classroom tomorrow to continue working on your botanicals.

BBB 9/21

Don't forget, we are meeting in the classroom today and Thursday to work on our botanical illustrations. Bring your notebook, bristol board, tracing paper, graphite pencils, and any photographs, etc you'll need to work on your drawing.

BBB 9/16

We are meeting again at the Tech Gardens (across from the Rec). We will be working on more sketches in preparation for our first botanical drawings.

Next Tuesday we will meet in the classroom.

Lit of Place 9/16

Greetings everyone. Here is our reading assignment for next week:

"Great Plains" by Ian Frazier
"Atop the Mound" by William Least Heat-Moon

Both of these can be found in the first section of your reader. "Atop the Mound" came from Least Heat-Moon's book, PrairyErth, in which he explores the idea of creating a "deep map" of a place. What do you think he means by this? How do these essays/chapters relate to that idea (use specific examples where possible)?

We will meet at Lubbock Lake Landmark next week (click the link for a map). If you would like to ride a bike over there with me, I will be leaving from the front of the Honors College at 2 PM. It will take us about half an hour to ride, so everyone else can meet in the parking lot atop the hill at the Landmark at 2:30. Please let me know if you are riding so that I will know to wait for you.

Obed Hernandez-Gomez will be doing  the first class presentation.

I'd like to go ahead and start scheduling the class meetings/locations. Here are the dates that we will need to fill in:

Place as Home:
Sept 29
Oct 6, 13, 20

Place as Other:
Oct 27
Nov 3, 10, 24
Dec 1

We will have to double up on some of these days, so you might get together with a partner and choose a place you can present a story together. Also, if you'd like to present a story at Caprock Canyon on our field trip day (October 16th), we can accomodate that. Please be thinking about these dates and the locations/stories you'd like to choose, and be prepared to tell me on Wednesday of next week.

Cheers!

BBB 9/14

Don't forget! We are meeting at the Tech Gardens today, across from the Rec.

BBB 9/7 update

Meet on Thursday at Engl/Phil courtyard for more perspective drawing.

Lit of PLace 9/7

Meet tomorrow with your bikes in front of the English building.

Bones Botanical Birds 9/7

We are meeting today at the English Philosophy courtyard. Be there, or be square.

We're baaaack!

Greetings all, and welcome to Dr T's Teaching Page. Look here for updates about your classes with me this fall. I will see you in class, anon. In the meantime, here's a short report from my own summer vacation: Maine writers

Landscapes 5/8

Reminder: The Honors College is closed on Saturdays. So If you are turing in your project today, you may leave it in the milk crate outside the front door at my house.

Fieldcraft 5/5

Don't forget: final post is due by May 10, 7:30 AM.

Also, don't forget to turn in your journals and binoculars to me sometime before May 14. Make sure your name is on the bins, and turn them in at the Honors front desk if I am not around.

Landscapes 5/3

Final Project: Design your own landscape. Will it be a coffee house? A cemetery? A park? A school? A neighborhood? A front yard?

You decide.

Provide at least two drawings, with an explanation of the design and why you chose the element you did. Refer to the readings this semester to support your design choices (source all material). The accompanying explanation should be 3-5 pages.

Project is due no later than May 8, 4:30 PM, but you may turn it in sooner than that.

Class on May 4: Read the chapter from Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in your course packet.

Class will meet in my backyard at 5 PM. Enter at the west side gate (driveway side). Bring a lawn chair or other seating.

Landscapes 4/26

Meet at Tech Terrace Park tomorrow at 2:20. Read for discussion: "The History of the American Lawn" by Virginia Scott Jenkins and "Why Mow?" by Michael Pollan, both in your course packet. Bring your journals, art kits, and bicycles.

Fieldcraft 4/19

Meet at LLL. Bring your wildflower and bird guides, binoculars, and journals.

Landscapes 4/19

Remember to meet tomorrow at the TTU gardens, north of the Rec. Bring your art kits. No readings are due.

I'll bring your journals and papers and meet you there at 2.

Fieldcraft 4/13

Meet tomorrow either at:

1) 1:45 at the Honors College at 1:55 with your bikes to ride over to the Museum together

or

2) 2:10 at the back door of the NSRL (the one that faces the Ranching Heritage Center, on the SE corner of the building, next to the International Cultural Center).

Landscapes 4/11

Greetings everyone! I am still working on your midterms and won't have them all graded by tomorrow. So I'll aim for Tuesday--I'll bring them to class when we meet at Memorial Circle, so you don't need to worry about ]icking them or your journals up.

The reading is in your course packet. Read the chapter from the book, Paradise by Design.

See you Tuesday at Memorial Circle, 2 PM!

Fieldcraft 4/6

Meet at LLL tomorrow at 2:20 to finish planting trees.

Landscapes 4/5

Hi everyone. Remember that we are meeting at the Lubbock Cemetery tomorrow. Here is a map to the cemetery's back entrance, marked with a red "X". Take 19th to MLK blvd. Turn right on MLK. Turn left at the north entrance of the park. Take the loop around the park to the back side of the cemetery, on the south side of the lake.

Do NOT take 34th, as it does not go through. Do NOT try to Mapquest Lubbock Cemetery, because you will end up in the wrong place.

Click on the map to enlarge it if you need to.

Don't forget to bring your final draft of the midterm, plus your letter and drawing(s) from the NRHC.

NOTE: If anyone needs a ride, let me know. I can carry 2 more in my car. Email me and I'll send you my address.

Fieldcraft 4/2

Skins preparation: Today, 1-5, BIOL 406

Fieldcraft 3/30

We WILL be planting trees tomorrow. Matthew recommends that you bring digging boots (or sturdy shoes) gloves, and water.

Also, Burr Williams from the Sibley Nature Center in Midland will be joining us. After class, I will be taking him to Rosa's, on 4th. Everyone in the class is welcome to join us.

Also, Nic has suggested riding to the Landmark this afternoon, and idea I heartily endorse if you are unafraid of the winds that are being predicted for this afternoon. I will not be joining you, however, since I will be taking Burr to dinner...

Fieldcraft update 3/23

We will not be able to plant trees tomorrow at LLL. We will go ahead and meet there nayway and work on an assignment. The weather looks cold and rainy, so come prepared to be outside in it.

Landscapes update 3/23

Meet next week at the Ranching Heritage Center at 2 PM. We will continue to workon the drawings of our structures. Once you have it where you want it, draw objects on the inside of the structure, or an interior room of it.

Read the two essays on homesteaders in your course packet; excerpts from Leaning into the Wind, and the chapter from Pioneer Women. We will discuss these at the end of class next week. they should form the basis of your understanding of everyday life as a homesteader.

After you have finished your drawings and readings, you will return to the RHC and write a letter to the people/person who lived in/used the structure. Consider questions you might like to ask and what you'd like to say about your own life...

There will not be a journal due next Monday (3/29). I will edit your midterm drafts and hand them back to you on Tuesday. You should be working on your drawings for the midterms this week. Final draft of the midterm will be due on 4/6, along with your sketches and letter for the RHC.

Landscapes Midterm parameters 3/15

• You should make an "argument" of some kind regarding some part of Lubbock, based on readings and discussion in class so far--that is, there should be a thesis that you re promoting and supporting arguments for it.
• The paper should be roughly 4-5 pages, 12 pt font, one inch margins.
• Include 2-3 drawings. These may be from old photographs.

Turn in the rough draft on Tuesday, March 23.

Fieldcraft 3/10

Scott Trevey and Matt McEwen talking about the restoration process

Scott Trevey describing then re-emergence of netleaf hackberry after the Siberian elms have been removed

A prescribed burn of mesquite brush

Homework: Start your blog and email me the link. One of your first posts should be about today's visit to the Landmark and what you learned.

Landscapes 3/10

Homework:

• Continue working on your midterm. First draft of the written part is due March 23.
• Read "The Trouble with Wilderness by Cronon" for discussion on that day.
• Meet at the the Honors College at 2PM with your bikes on that day and we will ride to the National Ranching Heritage Center together.
• There is NO jorunal assigment, so journals do not need to be turned in on March 22.
• Have a great Spring Break!

Landscapes 3/9

Greetings everyone,

I've been a bit ill this morning, but seem to be feeling better now. I am reluctant to cancel class, but if this is a virus, I'd also not care to pass it to you right before spring break. So I'm going to watch things for a couple of more hours and then make a call one way or another. Expect to be told by noon whether or not we will still be meeting class.

In the meantime, I need to get a copy of Cronon's essay to you. If we meet this afternoon, no problem; but if we don't you can pick up a copy of the essay from the blue milk crate outside my door at your convenience, starting tomorrow. Either way, read it over spring break and we'll discuss it on the following Tuesday.

I'd also planned to discuss your ideas for the midterm today, but if that is not possible, then please email a short description of what you plan to write about by tomorrow. If you'd like to further brainstorm about it, then let me know, and we'll figure out a way to meet.

In then meantime, check your emails around noon to see what the status for today's class will be.

Cheers,

Dr T

UPDATE: I'm feeling a lot better, so see you around 2:20.

Fieldcraft 3/6

Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge:

Meet next week at LLL. For homework, tally up your life list in your journal.

Landscapes 3/5

Greetings, all! Sarah informs me that Cronon's essay, "The Trouble with Wilderness" may not be in the course packet. It may have been inadvertently left out, so let me check on that when I get to the office and let you know if that's the case. If it is, I'll figure out a way to get some copies to you ASAP.

In the meantime, the homework assignment is to read that for discussion next week and to work on your midterm. Other than that, there is no journal assignment for this week.

We are meeting at Lubbock Lake Landmark next Tuesday at 2:20. Here is a link to directions and a map:

Lubbock Lake Landmark

Landscapes 3/1

Miracle of miracles, it looks like tomorrow will be a pretty day. Meet outside the Honors college with your bikes, prepared to look for Main Street. We'll have a short discussion about Jenny Price's "Nature and the  Mall," then go a-journaling. Make sure your bikes are in working condition.

Byt the way, the first "Main Street" in your course packet was by Stilgoe from Outside Lies Magic, the second was by Oldenburg, from The Great Good Place.

Fieldcraft 2/24

Here we all are at Buddy Holly's grave. A beautiful day. Finally.

No class on Wednesday of next week. We will meet outside the Honors College on Saturday, March 6th, at 9AM for a trip to Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge. Bring a sack lunch, water, sunscreen/hat, appropriate clothing, bins, field guide, and journaling gear. We will return approximately 3PM.

Homework for this week: We've now seen a variety of places to bird in LBB: Tech Terrace, LLL, Buddy Holly Park, MLK Park, and LBB cemetery. Go out and find some birds and journal your results. Work on identification and note-taking. More is better. Journals will be due next Wednesday, in the milk crate outside my office door, by 5 PM.

Fieldcraft 2/23

Here is a map to Lubbock Cemetery's back entrance, marked with a red "X". Take 19th to MLK blvd. Turn right on MLK. Turn left at the north entrance of the park. Take the loop around the park to the back side of the cemetery, on the south side of the lake.
Do NOT take 34th, as it does not go through. Do NOT try to Mapquest Lubbock Cemetery, because you will end up in the wrong place.

Click on the map to enlarge it if you need to.

Bring your bins, field guides, and journaling gear.

Fieldcraft 2/23

Meet tomorrow at the Lubbock Cemetery, rear entrance. Park near the Mausoleum. If the gate to the rear entrance is closed, wait there in your cars until I arrive, then I will lead you to the front entrance to the cemetery. Dress for the weather, as we will be walking around looking at birds.

No assignment for homework this week, but you will be turning in journals to me tomorrow.

Landscapes 2/22

Hi everyone—

Snow again tomorrow, so we’re out of luck on our bike ride. Meet in the classroom tomorrow and we’ll have a discussion of the readings, go voer what you discovered on your coffee-shop forays, and follow up with a drawing exercise.
Cheers,
Dr T

Landscapes 2/16

Homework: Go to five coffeehouses in LBB and journal about the following:

• How do they compare to the Viennese and English coffeehouses that Oldenberg describes?
• What historical aspects are present?
• How do they compare to each other?
• How does the physical landscape affect the ambience of each?
• What are the clientele like and how is that related to the ambience?
• Describe the physical landscape and your own aesthetic response to it? What works/doesn't work, and why?

Make sketches and write text to illustrate your arguments.

For next week:

Read the last two essays in the course packet, both titled "Main Street."
Meet at the Honors College at 2 PM, with your bikes aired up and ready to roll.

Fieldcraft 2/16

Greetings all. Remember that we are meeting at Buddy Holly Park tomorrow at 2:20. Bring your binoculars, journal, and field guide to the birds.

We will meet at the parking lot at the north end of the park. Go north on University, past the Clovis Highway (Highway 84) until you come to some lakes on your left and right. (These are Lakes 1 and 2 of the Canyon Lakes system.) Turn left into the entrance of the park just north of the lake on your left. Follow this road until the end of the lake, just before the road "Ts" at the access road to Loop 289. There will be a parking lot on your left and a waterfall on your right (the waterfall may not be running, though). We will meet up in the parking lot.

Here is a link to a map for directions to the park: Buddy Holly Park

We will car pool from there. Looks like it will be a pretty day, but bring plenty of layers, just in case.

Photos from Fieldcraft

Okay everyone, here is the link to the clearinghouse:

Nature Blog Network

And one of my faves:

Pencil and Leaf

Landscapes 2/9

Here ya go:

The truth is, in real life I would just "eyeball" it. Here is what you know: the steps get smaller in height and depth as they recede, so you simply account for this as you draw your lines on the top edge going back to the vanishing point. Et voila.

Reading: "Classic Coffee Houses." Make notes for discussion in your journal. 

Other than that there is no homework this week (because you will be slammed with it next week), so do NOT turn in your journals on Monday.

Meet at the Outdoor Pursuits Center with your bikes next Tuesday for class.

Fieldcraft 2/9

Greetigns all,

We will meet in the Visitor's center of Lubbock Lake Landmark tomorrow. I'll do a short power poiint presentation and talk about journals/blogs, introduce you to the tprinciples of perspective, and then we will go outside to do some drawing, so dress in multitudes of layers and bring something to sit on so you don't have to sit ont he frozen ground.

Journals are due at the end of class, to be returned by noon on Friday.

LAndscapes 2/8

Greetings all--

It looks like the weather will be uncooperative again tomorrow, so we'll meet in the classroom. I'll also wait in the courtyard of the English Philosophy complex to catch any straggles who miss this post or my email, so if I am not in the classroom right away, please wait for me.

Fieldcraft 2/7

On Wednesday in class we learned about:

• mesoscale climate influences that create the prairie in which we live (30 N latitude and rain-shadow desert)
• short grass, mixed grass, and tall grass prairies and why they are where they are
• the 100th Meridian and what it represents in terms of rainfall and subsequently what will grow here
• how the prairie got its name
• what species of grasses form the foundation of each of the three types of prairie

Homework: find a photo of the prairie and send me a link to it. Do  a couple of pages of free-writing in your journal about it and some of your thoughts now that we've had some class discussion about the prairie

Finish the homework assignment from the week before (the one that got delayed by the ice storm and the inability to pick up your journals at school: drawing the geese and a photo of the pigeon).

Journals will be due at the end of class on Wednesdays for the remainder of the semester. I will return them by Friday noon.

Fieldcraft 2/2

Tomorrow we are meeting at Lubbock Lake Landmark. The weather is supposed to be rainy and cold (~33 F), so dress apropriately (warmly and with rain gear) and bring something to sit on so that you will stay warm and dry as you sketch and write.

We will meet at the start of class inside the interpretive center.

Landscapes 2/2

Reading for next week: "The Problem with Place in America" by Oldenburg, in your course packet.

Make notes for discussion in your journal.

Also for the journal (to be turned in next Monday before noon): sketch five pages of well drawn trees over the next few days, using the principles of tree growth that we learned today in class. Make notes on what you are drawing and write about what you are learning/observing about the trees as you draw them. Use narrative to describe your response to the experience and what you've learned.

Fieldcraft 1/29 Weather update

Greetings all. 

The weather for today does not suggest that there will be much of a thaw. Roads may be clear in some places and hazardous in others, so while I expect that roads on and around the campus may be fine, I'd rather not pressure anyone to come in just to pick up a journal (coming in for a class may be a different matter). So we'll adjust to the weather conditions and say that the journals can be picked up on Monday. Go ahead and do as much of the homework assignment as you can before Wednesday (certainly it shouldn't be difficult to finish prepping the journal, and you can find a photo of a pigeon and begin working on it), and you can finish up the rest of the homework sometime next week. The journals will be available by noon today for anyone who wants to his/hers for the weekend. 

Cheers, Dr T

Weather conditions UPDATE 


Greetings again, all. Since the University has canceled Friday classes, the Honors College building may will be closed. We will now go fully into Plan B for the Journals. You can pick them up first thing Monday morning from the blue milk crate outside my office door.

Cheers and have a fun and safe weekend!

Dr T

Fieldcraft 1/28

Homework:

• Finish prepping field journal (pocket, scale, daily log reminders)
• Find one good photo of pigeon and draw it well
• Draw two pages of geese

Journal availability update: Well, the office was closed this afternoon because of the storm, and I don't know what tomorrow morning will bring, weather-wise, but I have the journals here at home with me and hope to have them back at school by 10 AM tomorrow. Fingers crossed. If the weather goes bad again and it is too dangerous for people to get out to campus to pick them up, we'll go to plan B, which consists of me bringing them in on Monday. If that happens, we will roll this week's assignment over to next week. 

Landscapes 1/26

Homework:

• Two landscapes, two moments of stillness recorded as they are happening. One landscape and moment of true stillness, to recorded immediately following.
• One perfect square
• Thoughts on Stilgoe's essay and our subsequent discussion

Next week: meet at the English Philosophy courtyard. Bring your drawing kits. We will be drawing trees.

Fieldcraft 1/25

Sorry about the late post, y'all--I thought I had done it!

Homework due: create three "maps" of three different days. Be sure to include your daily log.

Turn your journal in to the milk  crate outside my office door before noon. If it is a few minutes late because you have to walk all the way across campus between classes to get it there, it won't be a problem, but try not to make it too late.

Meet in the classroom in the English building. We will begin class by prepping your journal, then we will move outside to draw, pending the weather. Bring your art kit and your bins.

Landscapes 1/22

Homework: read the first essay in the course packet, 'Beginnings," by Stilgoe. Here are some reading prompts:

1) Why the bicycle?

2) What are we looking for whe we, as Stilgoe says, "get outside"?

3) Have you noticed any of things he mentions rpior to this essay?

4) Why don't we notice things? How can we train ourselves to do so?

5) Is there value in exploration?
Meet on top of the hill at Urbanovski Park next Tuesday, at 2 PM.

Turn your journals in before noon on Monday.

There seems to be some confusion about whether you had a journal assignment due this week, for which I take full responsibility. Some of you have already turned yours in--if you have not turned on in, don't worry about it. I will NOT grade those turned in this week and they are available for pick up at anytime.

First journal assignment will be due next Monday, at which time I will grade your comments on the reading prompts.

Fieldcraft 1/13

Homework:

• note in journal: time, place, location, weather and birds
• What kind of gull did we see?
• Sketch and note differences in the dove eyes
• Read "The Mappist"; make notes on the short story in your journal and prepare for discussion.
• Reading prompts: What is the short story about? What does Lopez want us to think about?

Next week: meet at Urbanovski park; bring art kit, binoculars, and field guide.

Turn your journals in before noon on Monday.

Fieldcraft 1/13

Hey y'all, check out what's in store for Fieldcraft this semester: Lesser Prairie Chicken

HONS 3304 H01 (Landscapes) and NHH 1302 (Introductory Fieldcraft)

Greetings, all! Welcome to a new semester. Here are links to the syllabi:

Landscapes

Introductory Fieldcraft

Go ahead and read them before class to get a jump on what to expect. See you in class!


NHH 1302 (Fieldcraft) will meet Wednesday, January 13, at 2 PM, in ENGL 361. Wear comfortable shoes for walking and dress for the weather.


HONS 3304 (Landscapes) will meet January 19, at 2 PM in ENGL 301. Wear comfortable shoes for walking and dress for the weather.