REVISED Schedule of Readings & Assignments (as of 4/14/2013)
Week Twelve
Monday, April 15
- Readings to Discuss: Virginia Woolf, all selections (Vol. F, p.336-371), Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” (Vol. F, p.1145-1146)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
- Oral Presentation (Part 3): Soyoung, Katie, Sue, Shirley
Wednesday, April 17–NO CLASS!
- Writing Due: Revisions of Paper #1 (include all past drafts)–leave in my mailbox in the English Dept (VC Building, 7th Floor)
Week Thirteen
Monday, April 22
- Readings to Discuss: Jose Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Vol. F, p.489-496), Nawal Wl Saadawi, “In Camera” (Vol. F, p.1106-1115)
- Oral Presentation (Part 4): Rey, Mark, Ruiqi, Rilda
Wednesday, April 24
- Readings to Discuss: Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Vol. F, p.736-751); Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem” (Vol. F, p.568-575), Mahmoud Darwish, “Identity Card” (Vol. F, p.893-895)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
- Oral Presentation (Part 5/6): Kitty, Dave, Jaesung
Week Fourteen
Monday, April 29
- Readings to Discuss: Hanan Al-Shaykh, “The Women’s Swimming Pool” (Vol. F, p. 1165-1171), Junot Diaz, Drown (Vol. F, p. 1240-1249)
- Oral Presentation (Part 7): Leesha, Aminata, Pasqual
Wednesday, May 1
- Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
- Writing Due: Rough Draft, Paper #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please bring 3 copies to class)
Week Fifteen
Monday, May 6
- Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
- Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 8
- Readings to Discuss: Arkadii Dragomoshenko, Dust
- Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft) **I do NOT accept papers by email**
Week Sixteen
Monday, May 13
- Readings to Discuss: Arkadii Dragomoshenko, Dust
Wednesday, May 15
- FINAL EXAMINATION
Good Luck!
Tentative SCHEDULE OF READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS
Read selections for the day they appear on the syllabus; always bring your book to class.
Week One
Monday, January 28
- Course Introduction, Review of Syllabus
- Readings to Discuss: Samuel Johnson, from “A Dictionary of the English Language” (Vol. D, p.104), Benjamin Franklin, “Letter to Joseph Priestly” (Vol. D, p.128)
Wednesday, January 30
- Readings to Discuss: “The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas” (Vol. D, p.91-104), Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment” (Vol. D, p.105-113)
- Writing Diagnostic
Week Two
Monday, February 4
- Readings to Discuss: Mary Wollstonecraft, from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (Vol. D, p.133-136), Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (Vol. D, p.315-320)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 6
- Readings to Discuss: Sor Juana Inées De La Cruz, “Poem 145,” “Poem 164,” “Philosophical Satire: Poem 92” (Vol. D, p.262-264), Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man” (Vol. D, p.344-351)
Week Three
Monday, February 11
- Readings to Discuss: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (Chapters 1-14, Vol. D, p.355-377)
- Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 13
- Readings to Discuss: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (Chapters 15-30. Vol. D, p.377-413)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
Week Four
Monday, February 18
- NO CLASS (President’s Day)
Wednesday, February 20
- Readings to Discuss: “Early Modern Chinese Vernacular Literature” (Vol. D, p.415-420), Cao Xueqin, from The Story of the Stone (Chapters 1-3, Vol. D, p. 517-553)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
Week Five
Monday, February 25
- Readings to Discuss: Cao Xueqin, from The Story of the Stone (Chapters 17, 96-98, 119-120, Vol. D, p. 553-583)
Wednesday, February 27
- Readings to Discuss: Cao Xueqin, from The Story of the Stone
- Writing Due: Rough Draft, Essay #1 (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 copies to class)
Week Six
Monday, March 4
- Readings to Discuss: U.S. Declaration of Independence (Vol. E, p.18-21), Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Vol. E, p.21-23), Jean Jacques Dessalines, Liberty or Death (Vol. E, p.37-39), Simón Bolívar, Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of this Island (Vol. E, p.44-49), Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments (Vol. E, p.50-52)
Wednesday, March 6
- Readings to Discuss: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Vol. E, p. 293-321)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
Week Seven
Monday, March 11
- Readings to Discuss: “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Vol. E, p. 293-321)
Wednesday, March 13
- Readings to Discuss: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapters, 1-10, Vol. E, p.236-280)(Chapters 11-Appendix, Vol. E, p.281-293)
- Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #1 (3-5 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft) **I do NOT accept papers by email**
Week Eight
Monday, March 18
- Readings to Discuss: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapters 11-Appendix, Vol. E, p.281-293)
- Writing Due: MidTerm Questions–Everyone should post at least 2 potential questions for the midterm. (POST BY SATURDAY 12PM)
Wednesday, March 20
- MID-TERM EXAMINATION
- SONNET CHALLENGE: John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (Vol. E, p.406), William Blake, “London” (Vol. E, p.340), William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much With Us” (Vol. E, p.369), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portugese (Vol. E, p.426-427)
Week Nine
Monday, March 25
- SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 27
- SPRING BREAK
Week Ten
Monday, April 1
- SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, April 3
- Readings to Discuss: Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (Vol. E, p.448-453), Emily Dickinson, “258”, “303”, “341”, “712” (Vol. E, p.483-484, 487-488), José Martí, “I am an Honest Man” (Vol. E, p.520-521), Ghalib, all selections (Vol. E, p.587-601)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
Week Eleven
Monday, April 8
- Readings to Discuss: Tanizaki Jun’Ichiro, “The Tattooer” (Vol. F, p.78-84), Lu Xun, “Diary of a Madman” (Vol. F, p.242-253)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
- Oral Presentation (Part 1):
Fabian, Luis, Yanni, Dave, Alex
Wednesday, April 10
- Readings to Discuss: Rabindrath Tagore, “Punishment” and “Kabuliwala” (Vol. E, p. 889-904)
- Oral Presentation (Part 2): Joe, Duyen, Xiaoying, Michelle
Week Twelve
Monday, April 15
- Readings to Discuss: Virginia Woolf, all selections (Vol. F, p.336-371), Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” (Vol. F, p.1145-1146)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
- Oral Presentation (Part 3): Soyoung, Katie, Sue, Shirley
Wednesday, April 17–CLASS CANCELLED!!
Week Thirteen
Monday, April 22
- Readings to Discuss: Jose Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Vol. F, p.489-496), Nawal Wl Saadawi, “In Camera” (Vol. F, p.1106-1115)
- Oral Presentation (Part 4):
Rey, Mark, Ruiqi, Rilda
Wednesday, April 24
- Readings to Discuss: Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Vol. F, p.736-751)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log): Group 1 Posts, Group 2 Comments
- Oral Presentation (Part 5): Kitty, Karen, Lihua, Tenzing
Week Fourteen
Monday, April 29
- Readings to Discuss: Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem” (Vol. F, p.568-575), Mahmoud Darwish, “Identity Card” (Vol. F, p.893-895)
- Oral Presentation (Part 6): Xiaoshi, Tina, Jaesung
Wednesday, May 1
- Readings to Discuss: Hanan Al-Shaykh, “The Women’s Swimming Pool” (Vol. F, p. 1165-1171), Junot Diaz, Drown (Vol. F, p. 1240-1249)
- Oral Presentation (Part 7): Leesha, Aminata, Pasqual
- Writing Due: Rough Draft, Paper #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please bring 3 copies to class)
Week Fifteen
Monday, May 6
- Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
- Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice): Group 2 Posts, Group 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 8
- Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
- Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft) **I do NOT accept papers by email**
Week Sixteen
Monday, May 13
- Readings to Discuss: Arkadii Dragomoshenko, Dust
Wednesday, May 15
- FINAL EXAMINATION
Good Luck!