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Wanderings in Psychogeography

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Discussion-based seminar exploring the history, present, and future landscapes of psychogeography, an invented and inventive inquiry into the interaction of place, memory, experience, and human consciousness. Maps the center and edges of this elusive field and explores potential new directions for the principles discovered or invented in class. Readings include classic and more recent texts, novels, essays, poems, reviews, films, and other works of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction. Students undertake their own psychogeographic wanderings and complete a final "carto-imagino-synthetic" project to document, describe, map, and otherwise "make sense of place" through these techniques.

Spring 2004 · Advanced Writing Seminar

Topics

  • Today we will discuss the grants that you found and talk briefly about grant-writing strategy. Also, we will begin to look at your submitted writing.
  • We will hear from Keith Hamilton, a DUSP faculty member and visiting fellow from Harvard about his I-Neighborhood project - a project for which you will write the press release.
  • In-Class Writing Workshop
  • Today we will hear from Tim Shevlin, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy.

Readings

  • Kliment, Steve. “Why Writing Matters: An Introduction.” In Writing for Design Professionals. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 11-14. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • The KSG Communications Program. PAE Policy Analysis Exercise: The Writing Guide 2001-2002. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
    Listed reading
  • Kliment, Steve. “Principles of Writing for Impact.” Chapter 1 in Writing for Design Professionals. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 15-32. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Writing in School. ” Chapter 7 in Writing for Design Professionals. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 109-125.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Job Prospects.” Chapter 8 in Writing for Design Professionals. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 126-135. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • Kane, Thomas S. “Introduction.” In The New Oxford Guide to Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 3-14. ISBN: 0195090594.
    Listed reading
  • Newman, Richard K., Jr. “Developing Persuasive Arguments.” In Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure Strategy and Style. 4th ed. Gothenburg: Aspen Publishers, 2001, pp. 271-283, 285-307. ISBN: 0735520046.
    Listed reading
  • Kliment, Steve. “Job Prospects.” Chapter 8 in Writing for Design Professionals . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 136-140. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • Behling, John H. “Notes on Grantsmanship.” In Guidelines for Preparing the Research Proposal. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984, pp. 74-81. ISBN: 0819137332.
    Listed reading
  • Associated Grant Makers : Resource Center orientations are held approximately four times a month. These free, hour-long sessions provide an introduction to the Resource Center and available resources for grant maker research, including the AGM Grant Makers Directory , FCSearch, Guidestar, the AGM Annual Reports files, and print materials in the Janet C. Taylor Library. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Parsons, Wayne. “Models Maps and Metaphors.” In Public Policy: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis. Northampton, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1996, pp. 57-64. ISBN: 1852785543.
    Listed reading
  • 5 · Press Releases · We will hear from Keith Hamilton, a DUSP faculty member and visiting fellow from Harvard about his I-Neighborhood project - a project for which you will write the press release. · Kliment, Steve. “Writing for the Media.” Chapter 10 in Writing for Design Professionals . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 152-168. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • 7 · Graphics · In-Class Writing Workshop · Kliment, Steve. “Graphics: Medium for the Message.” Chapter 14 in Writing for Design Professionals . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 194-205. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • Today we will discuss the video - Meltdown and Three-mile Island and we will think about the following questions:
    Listed reading
  • Kliment, Steve. “On Your Feet.” Chapter 13 in Writing for Design Professionals . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 189-193. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Graphics: Medium for the Message.” Chapter 14 in Writing for Design Professionals . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 194-197. ISBN: 0393730263.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None G (Fall) 3-0-9 units

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