The Syllabus
The Assignments
Convert the Claim - How to Own Your Education
- Course Goals
- Grading Criteria
- Self-Evaluations
Analysis - Reading Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror
"Allegory of the Cave" - "Black Mirror Reflections" - "Intimacy and the Evolution of Technology" -
Cartesian Dualism - "Souls in Silicon" - "Just a Head"
- Literary & Critical Analysis
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Semiotics & Visual Analysis
Argument - The Tangled Inter-webs We Weave
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" - "The Heterotopia of Facebook" - The Social Network
"The Phenomenology of Terror" - "When the Machine Stops"
- Persuasive Purposes
- Ethical Perspectives
- Logical Fallacies
- Rhetorical Sentence Strategies
Annotated Bibliography
- Conducting Research
- Evaluating Sources
Term Paper