Until I get some "issues" resolved with Benedictine's FTP server, we're going to use the copy of our syllabus that I posted to The Mackerel Wrapper class blog when I updated it a couple of weeks ago. Scroll down past my cat's fake Kenyan birth certificate to Aug. 7, and keep scrolling through the COMM 317 syllabus till you get to ours. It's *slugged "COMM 207 syllabus." Catchy, huh?
We'll go over it in class. Syllabuses (please note correct plural in AP style) are kind of like the safety instructions you get from a flight attendant, when they chirp, "In the unlikely event of an emergency landing ..." and go on to show you where the exits are located and how to inflate your life jacket. Absolutely, fundamentally boring, but good to know if unlikely events arise.
And sometimes unlikely events do arise.
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* "Slugged" is old-fashioned newspaper jargon for the little tagline you put in the upper lefthand corner of a story to identify it. It comes from the same word as the slugs that people used to try to put in coin-operated vending machines. It means a little chunk of metal, and in our business it dates back to the days of hot metal type. We'll learn lots of neat little tidbits like that.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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