HELLO
My name is Fereshteh and I'll be your instructor for CAS 100, the first
year writing seminar. The title of the class is "Salt Stories", which
refers to the old salt industry that once made Syracuse famous. It's a
class about contemporary site-specific and public art practices. If
that means nothing to you, that's ok! We're going to be talking about this
for the next few months so by the end of the year you will know a lot
more. Along the way we will read and write about critical theory,
philosophy, news articles, maps, and a whole assortment of other media.
BOOKS
In addition to writing and getting out to experience the city and art
projects, you will have reading to do. I know that the books haven't
arrived at the bookstore, but it's no problem because we will be reading
articles at first. I'm sure you are all quite busy with settling in to
your new home, but meanwhile please check out the Blackboard site for
our course. There, under READING, I've posted the first articles we will
be reading for class. They are PDFs that you can download and print
out. You don't have to read them yet, but please make sure you can access
Blackboard by the first day of class.
http://blackboard.syr.edu/
USE YOUR REGULAR NETID AND PASSWORD TO SIGN IN
For the first week we will use Blackboard, but once everyone has their blogger account set up we will usually use Blogger for course updates and assignments.
FIRST DAY
What should you bring to class on the first day? Please bring a
notebook (bound, spiral, binder, it's up to you), a writing utensil, and an
open mind.
I'm looking forward to meeting you all soon! Please email me if you
have any questions before Monday.
Take care,
Fereshteh
