Round and Square: Round and Square Syllabus 2023a

From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Friday, January 13, 2023

Round and Square Syllabus 2023a

Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Syllabic Cycles"

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On this date in Round and Square History
18 January 2015—The Accidental Ethnographer Syllabus 2015
18 January 2015—China's Lunar Calendar: 2015 01-18
18 January 2014—China's Lunar Calendar: 2014 01-18
18 January 2013—Channeling Liam: Celsius (get over it)
18 January 2012—Seinfeld Ethnography: Swimming in East River
18 January 2011—Cultural and Intellectual History Tweets: Resource Center

[a] Round RF

Round and Square Syllabus

All Classes

Spring 2023

Robert André LaFleur Office Hours:

Morse Ingersoll 206 Monday 11:45-12:30
363-2005 Wednesday 11:45-13:00

lafleur@beloit.edu ...or by appointment (just send

me an email message)

We will be reading short essays from my

blog for Mondays. These range from necessary information

for class in the first half of the term (very important) to essays

that are meant to stimulate broad thinking about our class materials.

All items are required and will be on quizzes and tests.

Week One—January 25 (Wednesday this week only)
All Classes

Syllabic Cycles—Introduction, a-d (read all four posts, not just the first one—but go quickly).
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there!

Week Two—January 30
All Classes

Quotidian Quizzes—Introduction, a-h (skim the first four posts, but read the last four carefully (they get to the heart of our course).
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there!

Week Three—February 6

All Classes
Beginnings: Introduction

Beginnings: Civil Twilight