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Welcome to English 202/400 Online Course | Summer 2009

Instructor: Ms. Jean-Marie Venturini

This Course Is Currently Not In Session

Syllabus	Course Assignments
Student Timelines	Lecture Notes
Time Travel Movies	Paper I Resource
Time Traveler Terminology	Questions
	Group Project/Paper II Information Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D

Course Description:

This online course offers an adventurous journey into the multiple timeline theories found in literature, film, anime and television. As students, you will explore a variety of temporal narratives and discuss the significance and implications of time travel theories in an ever advancing society where Science Fiction regularly becomes Science Fact. We will also examine related issues concerning Social Responsibility, Ethics and Human Sustainability that arise in the Time Travel discourse.

This is going to be the home base for our course. Take a minute to explore the site and familiarize yourself with all the features. Since we are working collaboratively online for this course, it will be required for you to check in to this site at least once a week as well as regularly check your OTIS email . . . and now for something completely wiki!

As you post and contribute to the content of this wiki - remember this is a public forum and your comments will be open for anyone to see.

Office Hours:

Ms. Venturini (Instructor) is available between:

Monday - Friday, 10:00am - 3:00pm Standard US Pacific Time . . .

Through the wiki chatroom, email or Facebook (see below for details)

How to Contact Ms. Venturini:

Let's Chat!

Do you have any questions for me? Want to chat with your classmates?

Use the chat room! It is the quickest way to get in touch with me if you need instant or immediate help!

"Chat" Instructions:

The Chat room uses a default "gabber" name everytime you login.

Before typing, give yourself a user "chat" name so that your instructor and classmates will be able to recognize who you are.

Go to "name" and type in your username in the box.

WARNING!!! If you navigate away from the "Frontpage", you will be automatically logged out of the chat room.

Email:

You can contact me via email.

Note: I will respond to emails within 24 hours.

Facebook:

I have also created a Facebook account for our class entitled "Time Travel Narratives". This will be a discussion forum for you to chat with me (your instructor), your classmates and get to know each other a little better. I will also respond to questions and concerns that you may have about this course. My intention with using Facebook is to help us establish a community with each other as well as facilitate ourcommunication, especially as we will be working collaboratively toward the end of the semester.

Appropriate Wiki Behavior:

READ Wiki Etiquette and The Core Rules of Netiquette

if you claim another classmates ideas as your own, post information from another source without crediting the original author = your access to this site will be removed and you will consequently fail 40% of the class

Wiki Etiquette - What's Important

Remember: What you post and the quality of your posting is a reflection of you. Make sure you are presenting yourself appropriately. What you post contributes to your on-line identity. You should never publish personal information such as your phone number, address, or last name. In addition, once you publish something on-line, you cannot take it back entirely, even if you delete it. I do not want to frighten you so much as caution you to think seriously about your postings on this wiki.

Directions: How To Use This Wiki:

Clip from Spaceballs: The Movie. "When is Now?"

Navigating through time can be tricky,

And unfortunately, the same for this wiki.

The bad rhymes aside,

Make sure you go through the guide:

How To Navigate and Contribute

Course Materials:

Textbooks:		Movies:
You must purchase your course materials!	You will be unable to pass this class without these texts!	You do not need to purchase these videos, but you do need to make sure you have ready access to view them.	For those of you near Otis, these videos are available in the Otis Library.
There are two required texts for this course:		There are four required movies for this course:	In addition to the movies listed below, we will be watching other media available online.
Time Machine by H.G. Wells ISBN: 0-451-52855-7	Course Reader, Time Travel: Narrative Conundrums	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure	Donnie Darko

Can purchase through MBS Direct Textbooks	Must purchase through University Readers	Somewhere In Time	Time After Time