HUM 401 — The California Canon
The Canon · 2 units · Required core — everyone takes it
The Two Registers
- Catalog register: Literature of California — Steinbeck, Didion, Chandler, Thompson.
- Teaching frame: Surf and skate cinema as founding myth; the place SDIT lives, read as a text.
Outcomes Served
- Articulation
- Breadth of Mind
What This Course Is About
The laboratory this institution lives in, read as literature — from the Salinas Valley to the Z-Boys, the state that keeps inventing the future and writing it down.
The Made Thing
A made response defended in seminar.
The Daily Path
One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.
- Day 01 — to be written
- Day 02 — to be written
- Day 03 — to be written
- Day 04 — to be written
- Day 05 — to be written
- Day 06 — to be written
- Day 07 — to be written
- Day 08 — to be written
- Day 09 — to be written
- Day 10 — to be written
- Day 11 — to be written
- Day 12 — to be written
- Day 13 — to be written
- Day 14 — to be written
- Day 15 — to be written
Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.