As you prepare for your presentations next week, we will read one secondary text about Italian travelers and conduct an exemplary class discussion on Thursday. This will model to you what it means to critically engage with a text, to focus on argument and evidence, and to link a secondary text with primary material. The… Read more »
In this course we have so far followed the experiences of a rather privileged traveler, a white, highly-educated male whose main fear was that his pseudonym might be uncovered. As we engage with what he saw, how he evaluated the sites, attractions, and people, it’s easy to forget that traveling is always connected with borders… Read more »
Thanks for sharing some of your thoughts last class. You offered some pretty good takes on what we have done and also challenging questions. I addressed some in class and would like to address another one here. With regard to what we will be doing “after Goethe” keep in mind that all of our activities will… Read more »
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How do individual steps and phases fit into the overall trajectory of our course? Take a look at the slides I presented in class today: Lead101 project overview from GuGra
Here’s the link to a document that describes in detail the annotated bibliography assignment and the upcoming presentations. Please read it carefully and let me know immediately if you have any questions. Zotero/Annotated Bibliography assignment
#asclead101rome Tweets
What do we need to research in more depth? Goethe’s Italian Journey covers a lot of ground. Not only literally in terms of the miles he travels from Carlsbad to Rome but also metaphorically in terms of his frequent references to geology, culture, and history, to name a few. In order to build our web application,… Read more »
Here is the slideshow I used in class today: Brief overview of Goethe's Bio from GuGra
In our second reading segment, Goethe is quickly approaching Rome via Venice, Bologna, and Florence. As we read and tweet this section, please make sure you switch hashtags: #asclead101padua. The groups should continue their posting of text excerpts and summaries on the google spreadsheet. Here’s an embedded twitter feed for #asclead101padua that captures our reading… Read more »
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