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Week Fourteen
Tuesday, November 27
Readings to Discuss: Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem” (Vol. F, p.568-575)
Mahmoud Darwish, “Identity Card” (Vol. F, p.893-895)
Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Vol. F, p.736-751)
Writing Due: Rough Draft, Paper #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please bring 3 copies to class)
Oral Presentation (Part 5): Bryan, Slav, Hieu, Kristina
Thursday, November 29
Readings to Discuss: Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Vol. F, p.602-632)
Oral Presentation (Part 6): Naotaka, Jose, Levin, Heidi, Mike
Week Fifteen
Tuesday, December 4
Rough Draft Workshop–Paper 2
Thursday, December 6
Readings to Discuss: Cathy Park Hong, Dance Dance Revolution
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
Tuesday, December 11
Readings to Discuss: Cathy Park Hong, Dance Dance Revolution
Writing Due: Post two final exam questions by 12PM on Sunday, December 9.
Thursday, December 13 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
Tuesday, August 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)
- Writing Diagnostic
Thursday, August 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)
Week Two
Tuesday, September 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)
Thursday, September 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
Tuesday, September 11
- Readings to Discuss: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (Chapters 1-14, Vol. D, p.355-377)
- Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice)
Thursday, September 13
- Readings to Discuss: Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (Chapters 15-30. Vol. D, p.377-413)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log)
Week Four
Tuesday, September 18 NO CLASS
Thursday, September 20
- Readings to Discuss: “Early Modern Chinese Vernacular Literature” (Vol. D, p.415-420); Wu Cheng’En, from Journey to the West (Chapter 1, Vol. D, p.424-436); The Heart Sutra (handout)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log)
Week Five
Tuesday, September 25 NO CLASS
Thursday, September 27
- Readings to Discuss: Wu Cheng’En, from Journey to the West (Chapter 53-55, 98-100, Vol. D, p.459-496)
- Writing Due: Rough Draft, Essay #1 (3-5 pages typed, bring 3 copies to class)
Week Six
Tuesday, October 2
- 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)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log)
Thursday, October 4
- Readings to Discuss: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Vol. E, p. 293-321)
- Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #1 (3-5 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft)
Week Seven
Tuesday, October 9
- Readings to Discuss: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapters, 1-10, Vol. E, p.236-280)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log)
Thursday, October 11
- Readings to Discuss: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapters 11-Appendix, Vol. E, p.281-293); William Blake, “London” (Vol. E, p.340); William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much With Us” (Vol. E, p.369)
- Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice)
Week Eight
Tuesday, October 16
- Readings to Discuss: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Defense of Poetry” (Vol. E, p.401-403); John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (Vol. E, p.406); Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portugese (Vol. E, p.426-427)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log)
Thursday, October 18
- 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); Paul Verlaine, “The Art of Poetry” (Vol. E, p.518-519); José Martí, “I am an Honest Man” (Vol. E, p.520-521)
Week Nine
Tuesday, October 23 MID-TERM EXAMINATION
Thursday, October 25
- Readings to Discuss: Ghalib, all selections (Vol. E, p.587-601); Pandita Ramabai, all selections (Vol. E, p.611-623)
Week Ten
Tuesday, October 30
- 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)
- Oral Presentation (Part 1)
Thursday, November 1
- Readings to Discuss: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Vol. F, p.210-241)
- Oral Presentation (Part 2)
Week Eleven
Tuesday, November 6
- 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)
- Oral Presentation (Part 3)
Thursday, November 8
- 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)
Week Twelve
Tuesday, November 13
- Readings to Discuss: Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem” (Vol. F, p.568-575); Mahmoud Darwish, “Identity Card” (Vol. F, p.893-895); James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Vol. F, p.736-751)
- Writing Due: Blog (Reading Log)
- Oral Presentation (Part 5)
Thursday, November 15
- Readings to Discuss: Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Vol. F, p.602-632)
- Writing Due: Rough Draft, Paper #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please bring 3 copies to class)
- Oral Presentation (Part 6)
Week Thirteen
Tuesday, November 20
- Readings to Discuss: Ryu Murakami, Audition (pages 7-71)
- Oral Presentation (Part 7)
Thursday, November 22 NO CLASS—HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Week Fourteen
Tuesday, November 27
- Readings to Discuss: Ryu Murakami, Audition (pages 72-133)
- Writing Due: Final Draft, Essay #2 Due! (5-7 pages typed, please hand in your previous drafts along with the final draft)
Thursday, November 29
- Readings to Discuss: Ryu Murakami, Audition (pages 134-190)
Week Fifteen
Tuesday, December 4
- Readings to Discuss: Cathy Park Hong, Dance Dance Revolution (pages 17-58)
- Writing Due: Blog (Free Choice)
Thursday, December 6
- Readings to Discuss: Cathy Park Hong, Dance Dance Revolution (pages 59-120)
Week Sixteen
Tuesday, December 11 FINAL EXAMINATION
Good Luck!