Following is a general schedule, subject to change; specific assignments will be given at the end of each class. Items with an asterisk will be available in .pdf form on the blog; please bring downloads or printouts to class.

1/29	Introduction
1/31	Jean-Baptiste Molière, Tartuffe
2/5	Tartuffe
2/7	Feng Menglong, “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger”
2/12	NO CLASS—COLLEGE IS CLOSED
2/14	Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
2/19 2/20	NO CLASS—COLLEGE IS CLOSED TUESDAY TREATED AS A MONDAY: Keats, selections
2/21	Keats and Wordsworth
2/26	Wordsworth and essay writing workshop
2/28	Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave
3/5	Douglass
3/7	Douglass
3/12	Pushkin, “The Queen of Spades”
3/14	Charles Baudelaire, selections
3/19	Paper workshop
3/21	REVIEW	PAPER #1
3/26	MIDTERM
3/28	Tagore, “Punishment
4/2&4	SPRING BREAK
4/9	Tanizaki, “The Tattooer”
4/11	Yeats, selections
4/16	Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
4/18	Kafka
4/23	Jorge Luis Borges, “Garden of Forking Paths”
4/25	Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
4/30	Achebe
5/2	Achebe
5/7	Naguib Mahfouz, “Zaabalawi”
5/9	Isabel Allende, “And of Clay We are Created”
5/14	Salman Rushdie, “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”
5/16	LAST CLASS DAY: REVIEW	Paper #2

       tbd:        FINAL EXAM