FYS - Water, water every where - Fall 2008
Tentative Syllabus
Last updated: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:51 AM
| Date | Topic/Event |
| Wed 8/27 | Welcome to FYS |
| Mon 9/1 | Labor Day - No class |
| Wed 9/3 | Third Anniversary of Katrina and intro to the 1927 flood Read: Rising Tide, Prologue (pp 13 - 17) Paper #1 Due |
| Mon 9/8 | Engineering on the Mississippi River in the 19th century Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 1-3 (pp 19 - 54) Reading Response due |
| Wed 9/10 | 19th century engineering, continued Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 4-6 (pp 55 - 92) Read: Fatal Flood on reserve in Library (1 hour long) Reading Response due |
| Mon 9/15 | Using the Library electronic resources |
| Wed 9/17 | LeRoy Percy and Greenville, Mississippi Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 7 - 12 (pp 93-168) Read: LeRoy Percy's 1907 speech reprinted in Outlook magazine Reading Response due |
| Mon 9/22 | The floods of 1922 and 1927 Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 13 - 16 (pp 169 - 210) Reading Response due |
| Wed 9/24 | The flood in New Orleans Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 17 - 20 (pp 211 - 258) Reading Response due |
| Sat 9/27 | Season of Service Project Norton Library Park |
| Mon 9/29 | Herbert Hoover's role Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 21 - 23 (pp 259 - 290) Reading Response due |
| Wed 10/1 | Slight detour: Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi Coast |
| Thurs 10/2 | Norman Johnson Lecture 5:30 pm, Hindle Auditorium |
| Mon 10/6 | The response in Greenville Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 24 - 27 (pp 291 - 336) Read: Lanterns on the Levee, pp 225 - 284 Reading Response due |
| Wed 10/8 | The response in New Orleans and Hoover's actions Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 28 - 33 (pp 337 - 395) Paper #2 Due Friday, 10/10 Reading Response due |
| Mon 10/13 | Fall Break - No class |
| Wed 10/15 | iMovie training session Read: Rising Tide, Chapters 34 - 35 (pp 396 - 422) |
| Mon 10/20 | Lasting effects of the 1927 Flood Student reports on Mississippi Coast communities Using Library media resources |
| Wed 10/22 | The Timeline of Katrina Read: Interactive Katrina timeline from the Sun-Herald Read: Katrina timeline from the Times-Picayune Watch : Timeline of the levee breaks in New Orleans Read: Chapters 1-2 of The Digital Storytelling Cookbook. Pay particular attention to the part on interviewing in Chapter 1. Bring to class: Your Paper #1 |
| Mon 10/27 | Dinner at President Crutcher's House, 6:00 - 7:00 pm |
| Images from Katrina Sample Documentaries Watch: At the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling, Examples-Places, the short documentaries on the El Dorado Ballroom and Texas Southern University Viewing Response due |
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| Wed 10/29 | Degradation of wetlands in Louisiana Watch: The Rise and Disappearance of Southest Louisianna from the Times-Picayune. This is a Flash movie that will take about 10 minutes to go through. Be sure to click on every option (e.g. The screen with "Levees & Jetties", "Canals & Channels", etc. Read: Drowning New Orleans by Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, October 2001 Read: Protecting New Orleans by Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, February 2006 Reading Response due |
| Mon 11/3 | Viewing of When the Levees Broke Acts I & II, 6:30 pm, Knapton Lecture |
| Hurricane Preparedness Read: Unnatural Disaster: Executive Summary published in 2005 by the Center for Progressive Reform. Download: The full report Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, from the same site. The footnotes are remarkable. Read: In storm, N.O. wants no one left behind, by Bruce Nolan in the Times-Picayune, July 24, 2005. You can access this through the Library's electronic resources. Reading Response due Advising Week |
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| Wed 11/5 | Preview Documentaries and Election Talk |
| Mon 11/10 | The Immediate Response in New Orleans Watch: When the Levees Broke, Acts I and II, on reserve in Library, if were not able to attend on 11/3 Viewing Response due Course Registration Week |
| Wed 11/12 | When the Levees Broke Watch: When the Levees Broke, Acts III, on reserve in Library Viewing Response due |
| Mon 11/17 | Gumbo and red beans & rice in Mansfield! |
| Screening and discussion of Documentaries Documentary Due |
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| Wed 11/19 | Some predictable, and unpredictable, environmental impacts Read: The Environmental Effects of Hurricane Katrina, testimony by the National Resources Defense Council to the United States Senate, October 6, 2006 Listen: FEMA Trailers May Be Making Residents Sick, NPR, October 31, 2007 Listen: Makers Of Katrina Trailers Testify, NPR, July 9, 2008 Read: Fuming over formaldehyde, by Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2008 Reading and Listening Response due |
| Mon 11/24 | The Army Corps of Engineers Read: From " A Citizens’ Guide to the Corps" at the Corps Reform Network Chapter 1: Inside The Corps: The Corps’ History and Structure and Chapter 4: The Corps and Congress: Project Politics and Funding Read: The Letter From Team Louisiana, the Letter From Secretary Bradberry, and the Executive Summary of the Team Louisiana report The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System during Hurricane Katrina at the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development site Read: Gettin' Pumped? by Adam Lynch in the Jackson Free Press, April 23, 2008 Read: EPA Kills Yazoo Pumps Project by Adam Lynch in the Jackson Free Press, September 3, 2008 Reading Response due |
| Wed 11/26 | Thanksgiving - No class |
| Mon 12/1 | Challenges on the Mississippi Coast Read: The Battle for Biloxi, by Jim Lewis in the New York Times Magazine, May 21, 2006 (available through the Library electronic resources) Read: Prepared remarks from Bill Stallworth, Executive Director, East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center, to subcommittees of the House and Senate Committees on Homeland Security Reading Response due |
| Wed 12/3 | What now? Read: The following columns by Chris Rose in the Times-Picayune: We're having Mardi Gras and that's final, December 13, 2005 Cry me a New Year, January 1, 2006 Not in my pothole, September 15, 2006 Survive this, September 20, 2006 Thank you, whoever you are, November 23, 2006 A new dawn, December 31, 2006 Do you see what I see?, January 1, 2008 Reading Response due Paper #3 Due Friday 12/5 |
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