Syllabus
COGN 150: Poetry, Performance, and Protest
Professor: Bill Marsh
OH: Friday, 8-9am and 12:30-1:30pm
Room: MCC 125
Email: wmarsh@weber.ucsd.edu
Website: http://poperpro.blogspot.com
Overview and Objectives
In this course we will look at varied instances of poetic discourse, performance, and protest as communication activities in situated contexts. Students will explore a range of materials and examples, including political speeches and poetry, music videos, bumper stickers, digital performance art, online gaming communities, protest signage, and various ‘live’ performances such as slam poetry contests and spoken word gatherings. This course is an integrative senior seminar in Communication. We will use course materials (readings and artifacts) to revisit some of the themes, concerns, and questions relevant to the discipline of Communication. A final paper assignment will help guide this work of disciplinary integration. Overall, the course should provide some orientation for future occupations and activities in Communication or related fields.
Required Texts
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (ISBN 0226468011)
bell hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (ISBN 0415908116)
Course Packet (Postal Plus Copy Shop, Phone: 452-9933, Email: info@postalplusucsd.com)
Course Requirements
Final Paper (10-12 pages) - 50%
Midterm Writing Assignment - 25%
Class Participation - 25%
Final Paper: On a topic predetermined in conversation with me. Due on the day of our scheduled final exam. Paper should fall in the page range suggested, double-spaced, one-inch margins, Times New Roman 12 point font recommended (preferred). Use a cover page and include some kind of bibliography/reference page (both not included in page total). Cite all secondary source materials, including passages and paraphrased/summarized ideas from class readings. Avoid faulty or overzealous appropriation of outside sources, which could be construed as plagiarism. Please use either MLA or APA format for in-text citations and bibliographical information (general guidelines for both available online or in the library). Papers will be graded on all of the following: content, organization, clarity (language and mechanics).
Midterm Writing Assignment: Three to five page take-home writing assignment based on a set of questions relevant to course readings and class discussions. I will most likely give you questions to choose from, and you will write a short essay in response to one of them. The goal of this assignment is to help move you toward a final paper topic. Material generated from this assignment can be reworked into the final paper, if appropriate.
Class Participation: Includes (1) weekly attendance, (2) active participation in class discussions, (3) working with two or three other students in leading discussion (presenting the readings) one week, and (4) bringing in one or more discussion “artifacts” relevant to your week’s topic and readings. This course is a seminar, and participation is key. I understand that participation can take many forms, including but not limited to a willingness to talk in class. Therefore, find your preferred way, participate in a manner that works best for you, and get in touch with me often to review your progress in the course (door’s open, and email works).
Meetings: COGN 150: Poetry, Performance, and Protest (Marsh, Winter 2005)
Week 1 (January 7): Introductions
Ulin, “Poets Are Heard in Protest” (L.A. Times)
Kravets, “Conviction of Boy Who Wrote Death Poem Is Reversed” (L.A. Times)
Week 2 (January 14): Communication, Art, Creativity
Keywords (Williams): art, common, communication, creative
James Carey, “Introduction” and “A Cultural Approach to Communication”
Week 3 (January 21): Poetry and Democracy
Keywords: democracy
Emerson, “The Poet”
Vološinov, from Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
Silliman, “The Political Economy of Poetry”
Week 4 (January 28): Voice and Textuality
Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”
Hejinian, “Who Is Speaking” and “The Rejection of Closure”
Antin, “a private occasion in a public place”
Week 5 (February 4): Sense and Social Sensibilities
Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (part one)
Week 6 (February 11): Language, Ideology, and Subjectivity
Keywords: individual
Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (part two)
Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
Fiske, “Culture, Ideology, Interpellation”
Week 7 (February 18: Identity and Representation
Keywords: media, mediation, popular
Gamson, “The Monster With Two Heads” (from Freaks Talk Back)
McGrath, “Staging the Spectator” (from Loving Big Brother)
Week 8 (February 25): Performance and Performativity
Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (from Gender Trouble)
Austin, from How To Do Things With Words
Moser and Law, “Making Voices”
Week 9 (March 4): Protest and Resistance
Keywords: revolution, violence
hooks, Outlaw Culture (part one)
Week 10 (March 11): Conclusions / Questions
hooks, Outlaw Culture (part two)
Professor: Bill Marsh
OH: Friday, 8-9am and 12:30-1:30pm
Room: MCC 125
Email: wmarsh@weber.ucsd.edu
Website: http://poperpro.blogspot.com
Overview and Objectives
In this course we will look at varied instances of poetic discourse, performance, and protest as communication activities in situated contexts. Students will explore a range of materials and examples, including political speeches and poetry, music videos, bumper stickers, digital performance art, online gaming communities, protest signage, and various ‘live’ performances such as slam poetry contests and spoken word gatherings. This course is an integrative senior seminar in Communication. We will use course materials (readings and artifacts) to revisit some of the themes, concerns, and questions relevant to the discipline of Communication. A final paper assignment will help guide this work of disciplinary integration. Overall, the course should provide some orientation for future occupations and activities in Communication or related fields.
Required Texts
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (ISBN 0226468011)
bell hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (ISBN 0415908116)
Course Packet (Postal Plus Copy Shop, Phone: 452-9933, Email: info@postalplusucsd.com)
Course Requirements
Final Paper (10-12 pages) - 50%
Midterm Writing Assignment - 25%
Class Participation - 25%
Final Paper: On a topic predetermined in conversation with me. Due on the day of our scheduled final exam. Paper should fall in the page range suggested, double-spaced, one-inch margins, Times New Roman 12 point font recommended (preferred). Use a cover page and include some kind of bibliography/reference page (both not included in page total). Cite all secondary source materials, including passages and paraphrased/summarized ideas from class readings. Avoid faulty or overzealous appropriation of outside sources, which could be construed as plagiarism. Please use either MLA or APA format for in-text citations and bibliographical information (general guidelines for both available online or in the library). Papers will be graded on all of the following: content, organization, clarity (language and mechanics).
Midterm Writing Assignment: Three to five page take-home writing assignment based on a set of questions relevant to course readings and class discussions. I will most likely give you questions to choose from, and you will write a short essay in response to one of them. The goal of this assignment is to help move you toward a final paper topic. Material generated from this assignment can be reworked into the final paper, if appropriate.
Class Participation: Includes (1) weekly attendance, (2) active participation in class discussions, (3) working with two or three other students in leading discussion (presenting the readings) one week, and (4) bringing in one or more discussion “artifacts” relevant to your week’s topic and readings. This course is a seminar, and participation is key. I understand that participation can take many forms, including but not limited to a willingness to talk in class. Therefore, find your preferred way, participate in a manner that works best for you, and get in touch with me often to review your progress in the course (door’s open, and email works).
Meetings: COGN 150: Poetry, Performance, and Protest (Marsh, Winter 2005)
Week 1 (January 7): Introductions
Ulin, “Poets Are Heard in Protest” (L.A. Times)
Kravets, “Conviction of Boy Who Wrote Death Poem Is Reversed” (L.A. Times)
Week 2 (January 14): Communication, Art, Creativity
Keywords (Williams): art, common, communication, creative
James Carey, “Introduction” and “A Cultural Approach to Communication”
Week 3 (January 21): Poetry and Democracy
Keywords: democracy
Emerson, “The Poet”
Vološinov, from Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
Silliman, “The Political Economy of Poetry”
Week 4 (January 28): Voice and Textuality
Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”
Hejinian, “Who Is Speaking” and “The Rejection of Closure”
Antin, “a private occasion in a public place”
Week 5 (February 4): Sense and Social Sensibilities
Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (part one)
Week 6 (February 11): Language, Ideology, and Subjectivity
Keywords: individual
Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (part two)
Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
Fiske, “Culture, Ideology, Interpellation”
Week 7 (February 18: Identity and Representation
Keywords: media, mediation, popular
Gamson, “The Monster With Two Heads” (from Freaks Talk Back)
McGrath, “Staging the Spectator” (from Loving Big Brother)
Week 8 (February 25): Performance and Performativity
Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (from Gender Trouble)
Austin, from How To Do Things With Words
Moser and Law, “Making Voices”
Week 9 (March 4): Protest and Resistance
Keywords: revolution, violence
hooks, Outlaw Culture (part one)
Week 10 (March 11): Conclusions / Questions
hooks, Outlaw Culture (part two)
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