Course Schedule

Date Reading Paper Project Post
Monday, Aug. 31
Wednesday, Sept. 2 Bach, Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar (excerpt from Kindle Preview  Beginning through “High School Dropout” Theory Think Weekly Post Check-In*
Wednesday Sept  9 Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” parts 1- 4Locke, “…Human Understanding” (this link is already an excerpted version of the super long essay) Theory Think Weekly Post
Wednesday, Sept 16(last day to drop without a W) Rousseau, Emile Theory Think Weekly Post
Monday, Sept. 21 CLASS ON  MONDAYMary Shelley, Frankenstein Part 1 Weekly Post
Wednesday, Sept 23 NO CLASS  Brainstorming Exercise #1

DUE MONDAY SEPT 28 @ 9am

Wednesday, Sept. 30 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Part 2  Brainstorming What Weekly Post Check-In
Wednesday, Oct 7 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”

Handout on Thesis, UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center

Thesis 1

Due Monday Oct 11 at 9am

Theory Think

 

Weekly Post
Wednesday,  October 14 “What is Enlightenment”  Immanuel Kant(excerpts) The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass  Chapters 1-7(excerpts) My Bondage and My Freedom  (slave narrative)  Chapters 1-2, 9-11, 20 & 21   Introduction and/or First Paragraph 1(Provisional Grade)

 

Due Monday Oct 19 at NOON

Theory Think Weekly Post
Wednesday, Oct 21 (excerpts) Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection”(Excerpt)  Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chapters 4, 20, & 21 Theory Check In

Due Monday Oct 26 at NOON

Weekly Post Check In
Wednesday, Oct 28 Black Shack Alley Joseph Zobel (Trinidad) p 61-137 “The What  + Why Check In

Due Monday Nov 2 at NOON

Weekly Post
Wednesday, Nov 4 Movie:  To Sir with Love  E.R.  Brathwaite (British) (autobiography)

“Learning to Read”  (excerpt) The Autobiography of Malcolm X 

Brainstorming  Exercise # 2

Due Saturday, Nov 7  at 10:00am

Weekly Post
Monday, Nov 9 (last day to drop with a grade of W) Thesis Exercise # 2

Due Thursday Nov 12 at 9am

Methodology Check In

Due Monday 9th at 9pm

Wednesday, Nov 11  

 

Earnest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying

Introduction and/or First Paragraph 2(provisional grade) Due Saturday November 13 at Noon Weekly Post
Wednesday, Nov 18 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban#IfHogwartswasblackKey & Peele Sketch

 

Draft(graded by peers)

Due Sunday Nov 22nd  at NOON

Weekly Post
Wednesday, Nov 25 Peer Review Weekly Post  Check In

Saturday December 28th by 10:00 am

Wednesday, Dec 2 Final Draft(graded)

Due Thursday, December 3rd at 12 noon.

Group Meetings with Professor

12:25-12:45
Belissa
12:45-1:05 MD
1:05-1:25
Ronghui
1:25-1:45
Robert
1:45-2:05
Farzana

 

Draft of Project Write Up (sans results)(provisional grade)

Due Saturday December 5th by 8 pm.

Wednesday, Dec  9 LAST DAY OF CLASS

*presentations

*evaluations

*key and peele education sketch

Presentations(graded by peers and professor)
Wednesday, Dec 16 Beginning of Exams Final Project Due(graded) by 10 pm
Saturday, Dec 19 Group/Self Project Evaluations Due(graded) by 5pm
Wednesday, Dec 23 End of Semester

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