Instructor: Todd P. Armstrong
ARH 232D/North Lounge, Center for International Studies
tel: x3052/x4716; e-mail: armstron@grinnell.edu
office hours: MW, 1-2; TTh, 10-12 and by appt.
September
October
November
December

August

Sunday, August 25

First Tutorial Meeting: Introductions
Discussion of Registration at Grinnell
Sign up for advising sessions

Monday, August 26

Tutorial Advising Sessions

Tuesday, August 27

Tutorial Advising Sessions

Week I

Thursday, August 30

Introduction to Tutorial
Discussion of Academic Honesty
Discussion of Course Requirements
Discussion of first assignments:

Academic Honesty Exercise (Due Tuesday, Sept. 4)
First Discussion Board Assignment.

FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT (for Tuesday, September 4):

NB: For the Utopia readings you will divide into working pairs, each of which will present one of the reading selections in class.

Catriona Kelly (ed.) Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-1940: "Introduction" (ix-xxx); "New Worlds" (1-5); "Visions of Art" (49-51)

Selections from Utopias:
Mikhail Kuzmin "On Beautiful Clarity"
Olga Rozanova "From 'The Principles of the New Art and the Reasons Why It is Misunderstood"
Osip Brik "The So-Called Formal Method"
Dziga Vertov "Seeing Like a Camera"
Vladimir Mayakovsky "From 'How to Make Verses'"