Required Books: Avital Ronell, The Telephone Book; Friederich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter; Sigmund Freud, Three Case Studies. Additionally, you will need to purchase a xerox packet of the following essays and chapters: Derrida, The Postcard, footnote about a crank call from "Martini" Heidegger on p. 21; Dr. Daniel Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, pp. 45-113; Bernard Siegert, Relays, pp. 199-204; Freud, "The Uncanny"; Kittler, "Romanticism--Psychoanalysis--Film: A History of the Double" and "The World of the Symbolic." (Info on packet forthcoming.) You'll also need to buy or rent a copy of The Ring, The Mothman Prophecies, or Feardotcom. Walmart (on Archer near 34th) has a number of copies of The Ring DVD for 14 dollars.

All three books may be purchased at Goering's Bookstore 1717 NW 1st Avenue
Tel. 352-377-3703 http://www.goerings.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

You can also try ordering online through Amazon.com, half.com, etc.

Email Ettiquette: Many students use email addresses that give no indication of their names. If your email address does not indicate your name, please be sure to give your name in the subject heading of all your email messages to me, and please also indicate that you are taking English 4133 (unless the subject heading of your message makes this clear). (I teach other courses as well.)

Also, and this is VERY IMPORTANT, please make sure that if you have you do not currently access your gatorlink email account that you have all email from that account forwarded to your current email acount. I will be emailing you all through a class listserv, and this listserv uses your "@ufl.edu" gatorlink email address. I will be sending several emails a week, so make sure that you are able to get them. If you have any trouble receiving email from me or sending email to me, contact 392-HELP to resolve the problem.

PLEASE NOTE that the webpages for this course are tentative and will be probably be revised (possibly regularly) during the semester. You may wish to print out a copy, but do check back with the website before each class to double check for changes.

The current version of this website is the binding one.

PLEASE FILL OUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE and email it back to me by the end of tomorrow, Wednesday, August 27.

1. Leading class. Though this class is relatively large, I will not run it as a lecture. Instead, I will ask 2-3 of you, in consultation with me, to lead class discussions for one week of classes. I will talk with you in advance about how to prepare and I will of course also participate in discussion. To get credit for this part of the course, you must email me and the other students leading discussion your notes and questions (at least two pages) 24 hours before the class you'll lead.

2. Discussion Questions. This format can work extremely well, but it can only work and work well if all of you are equally prepared for discussion and only if you in fact do participate in class. You should be just as prepared to discuss on days you are not leading discussion as on days you are. Tothis end, I will ask all of you to come up with five discussion questions about each of the readings and each of the films assigned each class. I will then post these questions with your names on the course website before class. The day you lead class, you need not do the discussion questions.

2. No unexcused late work will be accepted.

3. All assignments (double spaced) must be electronically delivered to me (in Microsoft Word, preferably, but Wordperfect is OK, too) at [email protected]. If that is not possible, please copy your text into an email and send me the email.

4. Attendance--includes completing the assigned work for each class and being to class ontime. Your physical presence in class is not enough for you to be counted as present. I demand your full consciousness and participation, and I demand that you arrive on time. If you come to class late or if you come to class without having completed the assignment for that class, I will count you as absent. You may miss up to two classes for whatever reason without offering an explanation to me. If you are absent from 1-2 times, in other words, do not give me an excuse. None is needed. Any additional absences, unless excused by your physical, legal, or mental incapacitation (you are at a hospital in a coma, in jail, or in a mental hospital) will result in, at my discretion, a reduction of your final grade for the course or failing the course. Funerals, colds, etc., are all covered by the two absences. An excuse (of the sort stated in the parentheses in the preceding sentence) is required only should you miss more than two classes. If you miss more than two classes and want me to excuse you for missing an additional class, it is your responsibility to contact me to let me know. I need to hear from you by email or phone (email is best) within 3 days of a missed class beyond the allowed two classes for the excuse to be considered valid. If you miss an excused class, you must complete any make up work for it within one week of the missed class.

5. Please arrive to class on time. It's just a common courtesy to me and to your fellow students. Lateness is not excused, and late arrivals will be counted as absent.

6. Please be sure to bring the assigned reading(s) to class the day we are discussing it or them. We'll be reading a lot of difficult material very closely, and it will be essential that you have the text open in front of you.

7. All films will be screened Tuesday evenings E1E3 (7:20 - 10:10 p.m.) in Turlington 2322, but you are of course free to watch them on your own.

8. It is your responsibility to check the schedule webpage before each class and complete all assignments on time. If you miss work and do not contact me to ask about an excuse, you will not receive credit, nor will I notify you.

9. UF policy mandates that all students have acess to a computer. You will need to access a computer and your email daily, and if you have a problme doing so on a particular day, it is responsibility to let me know in class and turn in any assigned work due on paper at the beginning fo the class it is due.

10. Extra credit work is not an option, nor is make up work for unexcused classes.

11. If you miss a conference or other appointment to see me in person and then miss it without having cancelled at least 24 hours in advance, I won't reschedule the appointment.

12. Grades

Your final grade will be based on the following:

i. Questionnaire (pass / fail). Due August 27.

ii. Leading classes 20 percent (pass / fail). (The days you lead class, you need not do the discussion questions.) To get credit for this part of the course, you must email me and the other students leading discussion your notes and questions (at least two pages) 24 hours before the class you'll lead.

iii. Discussion questions for each class (pass / fail) and class participation 20 percent. To pass the course (get higher than an "F"), you must pass this part of the course. Passing this part of the course means completing at least ninety percent fo the discussion questions. Moreover, each set of discussions must be thoughtful contributions, not perfunctory exercises, in order to receive passing credit. If there is no assignment listed on the next class assignment webpage, just do the three questions for each of the assigned readings and / or film on the schedule page and email them to me at [email protected] by midnight the day before the class during which we'll discuss the reading(s) or film. Please remember to put your name at the bottom of the email, after the three (or more, depending on the number of readings) questions. (The day you lead class, you need not do the discussion questions.)

iv. Film clip annotation (due September 11). 10 percent. Tutorial on imovie and image capturing from DVDs. Read the imovie pages in advance at http://www.image.ufl.edu/help/imovie/. See also the Bryn Mawr webpages on Writing with Film.

v. Annotated bibliography 10 percent (due November 4)

vi. Final project (10-12 page research essay) 40 percent:

It includes the following, which you will turn in along with your final draft aloing with a portfolio (prospectus, schedule for notes on films and articles, draft, responses to your draft by two students; copies of your four articles and your notes). Please turn in everything by email except your xeroxed articles. Leave these in my Department mailbox.

a. Prospectus (1-2 pages) (due November 13)

b. Schedule for c and d below: email me what you will be doing for c and d (due November 25)

c. Notes on four articles and two films (due December 2 and December 4) (Email me your articles and your notes)

d. Notes on two additional articles and an additional film (due December 4) (Turn in copies of your articles and your notes)

e. Research Paper Draft (due December 9)

f. Your comments on drafts of two other students (must be emailed to the student and cc'd to me). (due 11)

g. Final draft and portfolio (prospectus, schedule for notes on films and articles, draft, responses to your draft by two students; copies of your four articles and your notes) due December 17.

All parts (a-g) of the final project (final research paper and and portfolio) must be completed and turned in on time for you to receive credit. All parts of the course (i-vi above) must be completed and turned in on time to pass the course.

Plagiarism. I expect that all written work turned in by you will be your own. Be sure to cite all outside sources, if you use any, and to attribute any quotations you use to their source(s). To learn how to reference source material properly, go to Diana Hacker's online Research and Documentation guide (Bedford Books/St. Martin's Press), which includes a section on citing electronic sources. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism, a violation of the University's policies on academic honesty, and will result in an "F" for the course. If you have any questions about how to cite or quote secondary works or about what is or is not plagiarism, please ask me for clarification BEFORE you turn in your written work. You will not be penalized for asking, and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have.