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).