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Please consult the Spring 2022 Calendar for all important dates at Baruch.
This is a flipped classroom! You will be expected to have done the readings, watched the lecture, and filled out your exit ticket for each module before every Tuesday meeting. All module instructions and lecture videos, transcripts, and slides are available via the main menu, under Modules.
All readings below, except for given PDFs, are featured in the anthology.
NB: You will see ** notes beside some of the readings: these are designed to inform you of something about the text that may be triggering to some (much like film age ratings). I adhere to trauma-informed pedagogy, which means that, in this course, should you decide not to participate in a module whose text you may find triggering, you will still be able to obtain full credit in the class provided that you have participated in at least 8 modules out of 10 and have satisfied the rest of the criteria outlined in the contract-grading section of the syllabus. If you are still unable to complete one of your minimum of 8 modules for trauma-related reasons, please let me know and we will find a solution.
| Date | Readings |
|---|---|
| First meeting: February 1st, 8:30-9:30 am | Intro meeting: I’ll walk you through the course info. |
| Tuesday, Feb 8th: no meeting (that Tuesday behaves as a Friday — see Baruch calendar) | |
| Module 1 (Meeting: Tuesday, Feb 15th) | – “The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas” (8 pages). – Candide, by Voltaire, 1759 (full text – 57 pages). *mild parodical and satirical violence; some racism* +Complete the Intro Survey by Feb 15th (see Module Page 1). |
| Module 2 (Meeting: Tuesday, Feb 22nd) | – “An Age of Revolutions” (13 pages) – Confessions, Book 1, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1723 (24 pages inc. author intro) *mild sexual references* + We’ll talk about project proposals due in two weeks. |
| Module 3 (Meeting: Tuesday, March 1st) | – “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” by William Wordsworth, 1798 (6 pages inc. author intro). – “La belle dame sans merci,” by John Keats, 1820 (4 pages inc. author intro), PDF here. |
| Module 4 (Meeting: Tuesday, March 8th) Due March 8th, 11:59 pm: Project proposal, by email. | – Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1830-86 (all poems featured in the NA, 5 pages inc. author intro). *some references to mental illness, death, and guns* |
| Module 5 (Meeting: Tuesday, March 15th) | – “At the Crossroads of Empire” (6 pages) – “Kabuliwala,” by Rabindranath Tagore, 1894 (7 pages inc. author intro) + We’ll talk about your presentations which start next week. |
| Module 6 (Meeting: Tuesday, March 22nd) Short presentations about project topics in class | – “Realism Across the Globe” (6 pages) – “A Simple Heart,” by Charles Flaubert, 1877 (whole novella of 26 pages inc. author intro). *references to social class, death and hardship* |
| Module 7 – Part 1 (Meeting: Tuesday, March 29th) Short presentations about project topics in class | – Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, 1891, Acts I and II (37 pages inc. author intro). *references to guns* |
| Module 7 – Part 2 (Meeting: Tuesday, April 5th) Short presentations about project topics in class | – Hedda Gabler, Acts III and IV (21 pages). *references to guns* |
| Module 8 (Meeting: Tuesday, April 12th) | – “Modernity and Modernism” (9 pages) – A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf, 1929, Chapter 2 (9 pages inc. author intro). + We’ll talk about your project outlines due next week. |
| Spring Recess: April 15th – 22nd | |
| Module 9 (Meeting: Tuesday, April 26th) Due April 26th, class time: Project outlines for in-class peer-review. Due May 2nd, 11:59 pm: Revised outline, by email. | – “Postwar and Postcolonial Literature” (5 pages) – “Zaabalawi,” by Naguib Mahfouz, 1961 (9 pages inc. author intro) |
| Module 10 (Meeting: Tuesday, May 3rd) | – “Contemporary World Literature” (7 pages) – “The Headstrong Historian” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2009 (12 pages inc. author intro) *references to slavery, death, some graphic language* + I’ll give you feedback on your outlines. |
| Final project workshop 1: Tuesday, May 10th Finished project due Tuesday, May 10th, 11:59 pm to my email Blackout day: no cameras on | Focus: Thesis statements (+Q&A) |
| [Last day of class] Final project workshop 2: Tuesday, May 17th Blackout day: no cameras on Self-assessment form due Tuesday, May 17th, 11:59pm | Focus: Argument structure + Self-editing (+Q&A) + I’ll give you feedback on your finished project |
Revised final project due Friday, May 20th, 11:59 pm to my email. |