Dr. Mary E. Martin

ENGL 328  Fall  2013

Please remember the schedule may change;  please make note of the changes.

 Remember--always complete a one page journal response to all assigned readings.

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Aug 21

Introduction.

What is Expressive Arts, and how does it function as a tool for veterans?

What is PTSD?

Activity:  group poem

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Aug 26

 Read:  Part One in PTSD Handbook, pp. 1-47.
Activity:  visual response to reading

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Aug 28

 Read:  Excerpt from Shaun McNiff's book, Trust the Process.
 Review handout on poetry from John fox's Poetic Medicine.
Share responses to previous class's visuals.

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Sept 2

 Read:  Excerpt from Barbara Ganim's book, Art and Healing.
Share poems written from Fox's assignment.
Create visual response collage to the poems.
Assign presentations

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Sept 4

 Guest Speaker:  Tyrone Hart, counselor for the VA Clinic in Columbia, SC

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Sept 9

Read: in PTSD Handbook, pp. 51-77.

Group one presentation

In-class activity: writing

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Sept 11

 Directed Journal prompt:  What stories have helped you to live/survive?
Read:  From PTSD Handbook, pp.78-88.
Brene Brown-Ted Talk-"The Power of Vulnerability"

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Sept 16

Read from PTSD Handbook, pp.91-136.

Directed Journal response:  How do you deal with loss?  How do you deal with pain?

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Sept 18

 Group 2 presentation.

Assigned reading from Warrior Writers.

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Sept 23

 Guest Speaker:  Darren Ritzer, a veteran who has written about PTSD, and is a faculty member of Winthrop's Psychology Dept.

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Sept. 25

 Group 3 presentation.

Activity:  writing and visuals.

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Sept. 30

 Planning for veterans welcome day.
Background on the Viet Nam War and the veterans of that war.

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Oct 2

 Welcome Day for visiting veterans

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Oct 7

 Assigned reading from Warrior Writers

and Excerpt from book, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

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Oct 9

 Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  writing and visuals

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Oct.  14

Fall Break

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Oct 16

 Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  Writing and visuals

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Oct 21

 Read:  from PTSD Handbook, pp. 137-156
Activity:  fort building? 
will review the Tim O'Brien story

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Oct 23

 Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  labyrinth workshop; class and veterans  meet at the oratory, two blocks from Winthrop on Charlotte Ave.
     

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Oct

28

 Group 4 Presentation
Read:  from PTSD Handbook, pp. 159-210
in-class activity

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Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  Native American Flute music presented and performed by veteran Adrian Bailey

 

 

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Nov 4

 Read: from PTSD Handbook, pp.211-264

Reading from Warrior Writers

Final paper assignment posted.

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Nov 6

 Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  Drum to be held at the Shack on Winthrop Lake.

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Nov 11

 Read:  from PTSD Handbook, pp. 265-308.

In-class activity expressive arts activity from book.

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Nov 13

 Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  Gary Walbrun with Guitars for Veterans

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Nov 18

Read:  from PTSD Handbook, pp.309-361.

More expressive arts  activities from book.

 

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Nov 20

Expressive Arts activity with veterans:  Warrior Yoga with Sara Cain.

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Nov

25

  Read: from Warrior Writers

Expressive Arts activity in class.

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Dec 2

 Preparation for celebration at final exam time at the Little Chapel.

Final paper due at exam time.

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Dec 3

 Study Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exam schedule available at http://www.winthrop.edu/recandreg/calendars/default.htm