Schedule

Though due dates are unlikely to change, the reading schedule is tentative. We’ll adjust, add detail, and update readings as we go along, so please check back often. I will also mention changes in class.

All readings will be on the course site except:

  • Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala. W.J. Johnson translation (Oxford World Classics) 10.95 on Amazon
  • Shakespeare, Four Tragedies (Penguin Classics) 9.99 on Amazon

 

January

Date Readings Activities / Preparation Deadlines
T 31 * Intro to course, site, and each other

* Wideman’s “Stories”

 

February

Date Readings Activities / Preparation Deadlines
Th 2 / Online Post “Recipe of Yourself”
T 7 Cosmogonies: selections from “Hymn to the Aten” and Enuma Elish * Discussion genres, meaning, and interpretation

* Close reading practice
Th 9 / Online Cosmogonies cont’d: selections from Hesiod’s Theogony and the Popol Vuh * Annotate Theogony or Popol Vuh with hypothes.is

* Select few lines and write and post one paragraph analysis
T 14 Plato, selections from Phaedrus

Discussion and activities on rhetoric, truth, and persuasion

 Close Reading I Due
Th 16  / Online Post everyday example of rhetoric (image, tweet, ad) with analysis
T 21 Sophocles, Antigone Make collective presentation, sign up on “Situating Antigone” post
Th 23 / Online Sophocles, Antigone Read and Annotate with Hypothes.is Antigone Parts I & II
T 27 Sophocles, Antigone Finish reading and annotating Antigone (parts III, IV & V)

In class: finish “situating Antigone” presentation, discussion question Antigone, individual feedback Essay 1

 

March

Date Readings Activities / Preparation Deadlines
Th 2 / Online Post either:

  • answers to 3 discussion questions from handout (addt’l “how is Antigone relevant today?”, or
  • mini-essay on Aristotle’s Tragedy or role of the Chorus (see handout)
T 7 Ovid, Metamorphosis (“Echo and Narcissus”) In class: discussion and close looking activity Dali’s “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” Revised Close Reading I Due
Th 9 / Online The Thousand and One Nights Read: “The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad”

Post: paragraph on item from “Situating Thousand and One Nights” (sign up on post)
T 14 The Thousand and One Nights SNOWDAY – works moves to Thursday + comment on each others’ posts
Th 16 / Online The Recognition of Sakuntala, Acts 1-2  Compare translations of either:

  • The Story of the Merchant and the Demon
  • The First Old Man’s Tale
  • The Second Old Man’s Tale
  • A story of your own choice!
T 21 The Recognition of Sakuntala, Acts 1&2 In Class:

  • discussion and exploration of “Orientalism” in 1001 Nights adaptations
Th 23 / Online The Recognition of Sakuntala, Acts 3-5  For online post:

  • Analyze selection from the play in relation to concepts of rasa, kama, or dharma. Use citations.
 Email Close Reading II Proposal 
T 28 The Recognition of Sakuntala, Acts 5-8 In Class:

  • How to do research mini-tutorial
  • Close reading Sakuntala Act I
Th 30 / Online Group peer review Close Reading II with hypothes.is Draft Close Reading II Due (post on site)

 

April

Date Readings In-Class Deadlines
T 4 WordPress workshop and group brainstorming and planning Close Reading II Due (in class and as email attachment) 
Th 6 / Online For Spring Break: Art selfie project
T 11 Spring Break
Th 13 Spring Break Sign up for final project group (Due Fri 14)

 
T 18 Spring Break
Th 20 Monday schedule – no class  Art Selfie Post (Due Fri 21)
T 25 T’ang Poetry, introduction, poetry of Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu See email/post on how to sign up for post or annotations.

In-class: discussion Tang Poetry, set up Final Project
Th 27 / Online Scholarly Edition: Intros and Architecture Site Due (deadline Sunday at noon)

 

May

Date Readings In-Class Deadlines
T 2 Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I & II Discussion Hamlet

Check in Final Project Group work
Th 4 / Online Proposal and outline Commentary / Lens essay due (online class) 
T 9 Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III – V Individual consultation on lens essay

Close reading To Be or Not to Be soliloquy
Th 11 / Online Peer Review Commentary Essay in Google Docs First draft Lens essay due (peer review I). Send to group members and to instructor for draft exchange with parallel class
T 16 In Class: group presentations on scholarly edition
Th 18 / Online Final work on Scholarly Edition with group Second Draft Lens essay due (peer review II for instructor’s feedback)
Th 25 Scholarly Edition Due (online) (finish lens essay, review and complete annotations, intro, and site design–post everything online!)