last updated: Wed, May 1, 2019 8:05 PM
NOTE: bCourse assignments are usually not listed on this Session Details page. Refer to your bCourse calendar feed or our bCourse homepage.
Seating format: Open seating.
Before class: Check for announcements. ◆ Read the course syllabus and "Syllabus Highlights" on Sonic: Pages for Cal students. ◆ Read key portions of Syllabus 2. ◆ Bring questions.
In class: I will cover some of the details of navigating this class but my comments do not substitute for reading the course syllabus and Syllabus, Part 2.
After class: *There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session.
Seating format: Sit with your group—bCourse group 190124. bCourse group assignments appear in multiple places and it depends on what app, what device, and what website you are using. Be active—solve this problem and determine your group membership. I made group "190124" (=Jan 24, 2019) early in January. If you joined class later, you may not yet be in a group.
Before class: Check for announcements. ◆ If you read "Active Learning" on Sonic: Pages for Cal students ahead of time, the in-class exercise will be easier.
In class: EX190124 InC Active Learning, a small group exercise with a submission at the end.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session. However, there is yet another assignment that works with Syllabus 2 material due soon. This one is done outside of class and is much more challenging. You should read the instructions ASAP. See bCourse.
Friday might be the deadline for all students to drop classes without a fee. Maybe you should check, if this is relevant to you.
ATTENDANCE NOTE: Only those students who have not yet received a "completed" for "EX190127 Credible / Interesting / Useful analysis" are required to attend. The others need not come to class. I will grade these as submissions arrive but probably will not grade after Monday 1PM. I might have a chance to grade one early Tuesday morning. Submit or resubmit early if you want to be free from conferencing with me on this day.
Seating format: We begin as a group, then I will meet with students individually in the room, with others waiting in the hall.
Before class: Check for announcements. See the note above. This session is in order to help others complete the analysis exercise, required before the Thursday session.
In class: I will take general questions, then work with students individually.
After class: After this session, be sure to complete the bCourse assignment having to do with analysis. This is a "front door" assignment and must be completed before the next class session or you will not receive credit for the work associated with that session or any other work in the course until it is completed satisfactorily. This class is founded on the principles of that assignment and cannot proceed without those skills in at least rudimentary form.
Seating format: We will sit in one large circle.
Before class: Check for announcements. Complete the bCourse assignment due for this session—research about the advent of haiku and your thinking on why haiku developed.
In class: Students will present what they have learned and what they think are credible reasons for why haiku developed.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day. Next week is a VERY heavy reading schedule. Take a look and plan your week accordingly. This will be the greatest volume of work for any week during the course but I expect it to be completed with care.
Friday might be the deadline for all students to add classes without a fee. Maybe you should check, if this is relevant to you. Also, next Wednesday Feb 13 might be the final deadline for adding or dropping classes. I will make extra time on this Friday and next week Monday or Tuesday to discuss the class with you if you wish. Email me (don't message me), and use in the subject line "Add/drop."
This is a very heavy reading schedule. Take a look and plan your week accordingly.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Read Koji KAWAMOTO, The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, Meter (U of Tokyo Press, 1991/trans. 2000). "Chapter 2: The Poetics of Haiku," the sections titled "The expressive capacity of seventeen syllabus" and "Hyperbole and oxymoron." The second of these is quite difficult. Allow considerable time. In other words, because I delayed the work on this reading by one day to do a basic workshop with some students, we are reading DOUBLE for this session.
In class: We will work with this material in class. If you feel that you understand it very well already and are ready to be tested on it for the midterm, you do not need to come to class.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Read Koji, KAWAMOTO, The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, Meter (U of Tokyo Press, 1991/trans. 2000). "Chapter 2: The Poetics of Haiku," the sections titled "Stylistically reserved base sections," "Orienting significance,"shizukasaya," and "Conclusion." AND (on bCourse) "Haiku Techniques according to Janine Reichhold."
In class: We will work with this material in class. If you feel that you understand it very well already and are ready to be tested on it for the midterm, you do not need to come to class. However, if I make any comments in class about the upcoming test, please do not ask me later what I said.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes in preparation for the midterm.
I think Wednesday is the deadline for undergraduate students to add/drop classes. You should check your schedules. I will make extra time Monday or Tuesday to discuss the class with you if you wish. Email me (don't message me), and use in the subject line "Add/drop."
Seating format: There will be a seating chart.
Before class: Check for announcements. Study for the text by reading and outlining Kawamoto. We use him to find techniques in haiku, so questions such as "What is 'coming and going'?" or "What is the technique of 'different perspectives'?" or I will show a poem taken from Kawamoto and ask you to say what technique it is an example of. In addition, you should memorize the 20+ techniques that Reichhold lists. For extra credit, you should look for crossovers between Kawamoto and Reichhold. ... All this was said in class on Friday.
In class: Midterm 01 on Kawamoto and Reichhold.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session for this session.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Read the material in the folder "Basho" except that "Genjuan" is optional (but short). Read Ueda for the principles. Get the basics of the bio, the big picture. Read the poems AND commentaries to them. The "companion" file provides the poems in Japanese and some additional notes by me. Make some notes as to techniques you found in them. Be ready to described the eight principles, say what "transpersonal poetry" is, and talk about the poems via the eight principles of Ueda, the principles of Kawamoto, and/or the principles of Reichhold.
In class: We will discuss the folder material, your understanding of Ueda's eight principles, and your identification of techniques within the poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day. That is important. Basho is one of our three major poets.
Seating format: Semicircle.
Before class: Check for announcements. Also ....
Review the Basho material:
Read:
In class: Expect that the assigned reading from before (Basic bio questions, Ueda, kireji) are spot checked by drawing cards. If this does not go well, the content will be included in the midterm. Expect there to be similar "big picture" questions of Buson's life. Then we will discuss some of the poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Semicircle.
Before class: Check for announcements. Lorem.
In class: lorem
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: There will be a seating chart.
Before class: Check for announcements. Study the materials in the bCourse folder "Biographical material for Midterm 02."
In class: Midterm 02 — Biography and style of Basho, Buson, and Issa.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. This is the first of the core assignments (TAPs) for this course, that will continue for quite a while now. Allow extra time to get situated with this type of work.
In class: We will discuss your TAPs on the poems you submitted, among the assigned poems.
After class: bCourse assignments are not listed here—see your bCourse calendar feed or our bCourse home page. *There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day if you have them.
Seating format: Open seating.
Before class:
In class: We will discuss the poems using your submissions.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating.
Before class:
In class: We will discuss the poems using your submissions.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class:
In class:
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Also, read these Session Details. Prepare the poems as usual, and submit the TAP.
In class: We will discuss the Basho poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Also, read these Session Details. Prepare the poems as usual, and submit the TAP.
In class: We will discuss the assigned poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Also, read these Session Details. Prepare the poems as usual, and submit the TAP.
In class: We will discuss the assigned poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Read the notice at Week 10 with regard to changing your grading option.
I think Friday, April 5 is the deadline for undergraduate students to change grading options. You should check your schedules. I will make extra time during the week to discuss the class with you if you wish. However, I will not be able to tell you "minus-plus" estimates. In other words, I can say whether it seems you are on track for an "A-range" grade or a "B-range" grade, etc., and I can also in most cases tell you whether you would have a passing grade in the P/NP option. Also, I will need two to three days notice in order to take a good look at your grade before we meet. I won't discuss this matter without a prior notice. Think ahead please. Email me (don't message me), and use in the subject line "Grade option."
Seating format: You will be writing haiku. You can sit with a group of your choosing or by yourself. If you sit with a group, the group can submit one poem as a group, or members of the group can submit poems. In other words, sitting with a group can be a collective submission or just a way to talk about poems before submitting. Nothing is graded. You will write several poems.
Before class: Check for announcements. Nothing else is due.
In class: We will view a video, discuss some of the haiku in it, and write similar haiku. Time permitting, we will write haiku on a kadai selected by me or the class, and write haiku using the kigo generated by the saijiki projects.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session.
* It is possible that I will need to leave class at 10:25-30 on this day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class:
In class: We will discuss the assigned poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class:
In class: We will discuss the assigned poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
* I will need to leave class at around 10:30. We have a special structure for the day.
Seating format: Sit with your presentation partner and begin to share your submissions right away, then look at the notes I uploaded, and shape your presentation. Once presentations begin, devices should again be closed and you should be taking hand-written notes so that you can complete the assignment that you will work on between 10:45-11:00, to be submitted at 11. *Group presentation order was decided randomly. I regret that I will miss some of the presentations.
Before class:
In class:
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements.
In class:
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements.
In class: We will work with the Ora ga haru poems.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Otherwise there is nothing to do in preparation for this class.
In class: We will discuss the not-yet-discussed poems from both Day 1 and Day 2 of Issa. Therefore, there is nothing due.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements.
In class: We will cover on screen your submissions. I might quiz the content of the assigned Wiki page.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating (unless changed, check ahead).
Before class: Check for announcements. Lorem.
In class: lorem
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session except consolidate your notes for the day.
Seating format: Open seating.
Before class: Check for announcements. Otherwise there is nothing to do.
In class: I'm not sure what I will do for this session yet. But whatever it is, it will be relaxed and will not ask you to work hard. I have a few ideas but it depends on how much time I have in the morning to put things together.
After class: There is nothing in particular that you are expected to do after this session for this session.
Lorem.
Seating format: predetermined
Before the test — Details as to how best to prepare for the final exam, if any, will be delivered to you as bCourse announcements and/or places on the bCourse assignment page for the final.
During the test — The test process will be here, or given as an announcement, once decided.
After the test — The final will not be returned, nor will there be any feedback on it except for the grade. The grade result will be reported to bCourse.