Timothy L Pagaard: Welcome
Welcome
Curriculum vitae
Reading list /
Listening & viewing
Who matters
What matters
Transportation
"A passing Brahmin priest once asked the Buddha whether he was a god, a spirit, or an angel. None of these, the Buddha replied: 'I am awake!'"
--Karen Armstrong
What you'll find in this site
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I teach English--that is, rhetoric and literature--at Cuyamaca College. You can use this site to learn about my college, my courses, and me. The opinions posted on my site are mine alone and those of the authors and speakers cited. Inclusion here does not imply the endorsement of Cuyamaca College.
I'm anxious to hear your opinions...
...especially when they differ from mine, whether you are enrolled in a class of mine or not. Such conversations are the entire point of an institution of higher learning. Click here.
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Tim.Pagaard@gcccd.edu | Office B-173
My schedule this term, class times and office hours
How do you pronounce Pagaard?
Everything in this site is certifiably phræsti.
What
does "phræsti" mean?
When my son Greg was learning to talk, he came up with an all-purpose adjective, "phræsti" (sounds like frosty, rhymes with nasty; the spelling is my guess). Phræsti could mean anything he liked, as in "Dad, that's a phræsti truck!" (good) or "Ick, I feel phræsti" (bad). At the time I thought this was a useful invention, and I still do. So most of what I do or think can be safely classified as phræsti. Look for this mark on all fine elements of my site.
Finding your way around the site
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Click My courses above to access my course pages. Click Cuyamaca College for information about my college, and click English department for more about our rhetoric and literature programs and the rest of the Communication Arts department.
Clicking the Resources link above will lead you to useful college services, such as tutoring and the library, as well as a range of aids to help you with writing and other assignments for my courses. A feature you'll find particularly helpful is a lengthy selection of "A" essays submitted by past students of mine.
Finally, be sure to Sign in via the fourth link above to send me your contact information. If you've been in my classes before, please update your information this time.
To read about my work experience and educational preparation click Curriculum vitae at left. Find out which ideas and words, sounds and images, move me the most by clicking Reading list / Listening and viewing. Click Who matters to see art pieces I have created of people who are important to me--and a few other things. In What matters you'll find essays and cartoons about issues and events that are shaking our world and others that are just plain interesting.
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Tools
Necessary software
Many pages in this site are in Portable Document Format (PDF); you can open them only if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. To get Acrobat Reader for free click this link or the "Acrobat" link at the right of any page in this site. PDF files are fully accessible and printable regardless of your operating platform, the applications or fonts you have installed, etc. Acrobat Reader is already installed on all computers on campus.
Other links at right will help you to update your browser and to view Flash documents found on this site--all also free.
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Are you paying too much for your textbooks?
The Los Angeles Times reports on a new study confirming your suspicions about the publishing industry: Click here. The Cuyamaca College student newspaper, the Coyote Express, studied the pricing practices of our own Barnes and Noble: Click December '02, April '03. The first of these provides a useful list of purchasing alternatives that will help you save money.
Copyright Ron Cobb, 1968. All rights reserved.
