REMEMBER: You are responsible for printing out a hard copy of the readings each week. Please make sure to come to class with the readings in hand!

 Week One

Tuesday, August 30

• Introduction, Review of Syllabus
• Readings to Discuss: “Happiness” by Raymond Carver (handout)
• Writing Diagnostic

Thursday, September 1

• Readings to Discuss: Poem Packet (handed out on Tuesday, August 30)           

Week Two

Tuesday, September 6

• Readings to Discuss: Selections from Aristotle’s Ethics (selections from Book One)
• Writing Due: Entry for Class Lexicon (semester-long dictionary): All entries will be posted on our class wiki. You must select one word or phrase that you are not familiar with, but interests you, and write a paragraph defining it. Do not do any research—this paragraph should reflect a definition or understanding you came to through your reading experience. We will continue to update and edit these definitions through out the entire semester.

Thursday, September 8

• Readings to Discuss: Selections from Aristotle’s Ethics (selections from Book Ten)
• Writing Due: Response Paper 1 (1-2 pages typed, to be handed in)

Week Three

Tuesday, September 13

• Readings to Discuss: Gilbert, Chapter Two: “The View from In Here” (pages 31-59); Ehrenreich, “Introduction” (pages 1-13)
• Writing Due: Entry for Class Lexicon (semester-long dictionary)

Thursday, September 15

• Readings to Discuss: Plato, from The Republic, Book One (pages 1-36)
• Writing Due: Entry for Class Lexicon (semester-long dictionary)

Week Four

Tuesday, September 20                       

• Readings to Discuss: Plato, from The Republic, Book Seven (pages 225-258)
• Writing Due: Response Paper 2  (please post on the Blog by Monday, September 19, no later than 5PM)

Thursday, September 22

• Readings to Discuss: Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Chapters I and II (pages 1-16)
• Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice)

Week Five

Tuesday, September 27

• Readings to Discuss: Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Chapters V and VI (pages 41-79)
• Writing Due:ROUGH DRAFT, Paper #1 Due (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 COPIES to class)
• Peer Review/In-class Writing Workshop

Thursday, September 29  NO CLASS

Week Six

Tuesday, October 4  NO CLASS (classes follow a Friday schedule)

Thursday, October 6

• Readings to Discuss: Gilbert, Chapter Eight: “Paradise Glossed” (pages 165-188)
• Writing Due: Radical Revision of Rough Draft, Paper #1 Due (3-5 pages typed, bring 2 COPIES to class)

Week Seven

Tuesday, October 11

• Writing Due: Radical Revision #2
• In-Class Paper Workshop

Thursday, October 13

• Readings to Discuss: Gilbert, Chapter Nine: “Immune to reality” (pages 189-211); Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”

• Writing Due: Free Blog Post  (Please post on the blog no later than 10PM on Wednesday, October 12)

Week Eight

Tuesday, October 18

• Readings to Discuss: Ehrenreich, Chapter Six: “Positive Psychology…” (pages 147-176); Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
• Writing Due: FINAL DRAFT, Paper #1 Due (3-5 pages typed)

Thursday, October 20

• Readings to Discuss: Ehrenreich, Chapter Seven: “How Positive Thinking…” (pages 177-194); Hawthorne, “The Birth-mark”
• Writing Due: Response Paper 4  (1-2 pages typed)

Week Nine

Tuesday, October 25

• Readings to Discuss: Carver, “Cathedral”; Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
• Writing Due: Entry for Class Lexicon (semester-long dictionary)

Thursday, October 27

• Readings to Discuss: Brown, “Forgiveness”; Munro, “Too Much Happiness”
• Writing Due: ROUGH DRAFT, Paper #2 Due (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 COPIES to class)

Week Ten

Tuesday, November 1 NO REGULAR CLASS PERIOD—Please come to my “Office”—VC7-290K at your assigned time and ** be sure to bring your most current draft of Paper 2**

Thursday, November 3

• Film: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Week Eleven

Tuesday, November 8

• Readings to Discuss: Ellison, “Living with Music”; Davis, “Happiest Moment” and “Happy Memories”
• Writing Due: FINAL DRAFT, Paper #2 Due (3-5 pages typed)

Thursday, November 10

• Readings to Discuss: Selections by Audre Lorde
• Writing Due: Response Paper 5  (Please post on the blog no later than 10PM on Wednesday, November 9)

Week Twelve

Tuesday, November 15                                   

• Readings to Discuss: Selections by Audre Lorde & Gertrude Stein
• Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice)
  

Thursday, November 17

• Readings to Discuss: Selections by Gertrude Stein
• Writing Due: Response Paper 6  (Please post on the blog no later than 10PM on Wednesday, November 16)

Week Thirteen

Tuesday, November 22

• Readings to Discuss: Selections by Gertrude Stein

Thursday, November 24            NO CLASS—HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Week Fourteen

Tuesday, November 29

• Readings to Discuss: Bernstein, “The Difficult Poem”; Selections by Myung Mi Kim and Joan Retallack
• Writing Due: Digital Project Proposals (Please post to the blog no later than Monday, November 28, 12PM)

Thursday, December 1

• Readings to Discuss: Selections by Anne Waldman
• Writing Due: ROUGH DRAFT, Paper #3 Due (5-7 pages typed, bring 3 COPIES to class)

Week Fifteen

Tuesday, December 6  NO REGULAR CLASS PERIOD—Please come to my “Office”—VC7-290K at your assigned time and bring your most recent draft of Paper #3 and your digital project

Thursday, December 8

• Readings to Discuss: Selections by Eileen Myles
• Presentations of Digital Projects, Part 1
• Writing Due: FINAL DRAFT PAPER #3 (5-7 pages typed)

Week Sixteen

Tuesday, December 13

• Readings to Discuss: TBD
• Presentations of Digital Projects, Part 2

LAST CLASS/ Grades

Good Luck!