ENGL 2333.002 Tentative Schedule - Spring 2005

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Week One

1/13

• Course Introduction
• Neoclassicism

Week Two

1/18

• Descartes Reading

1/20

• "Monster Culture" condensed

Week Three

1/25

• Tartuffe Acts I-II
  
  • Molière

1/27

• Tartuffe Acts III-V
  • GW1
• Draft of first short essay due (write on one of the following: Descartes' seperation of the body and soul, or Tartuffe as monster, or the woman's body in Tartuffe)

Week Four

2/1

• Romanticism
• Frankenstein Introduction, Author's Introduction, Preface, Chapters 1-7
• xxvii

2/3

• Presentation-Facilitation: Mary Wollstonecraft & A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  • Lara Schoen, Maria Hemenez & Leslie Whitehouse
• Frankenstein Chapters 8-19
  • Monster Culture Frankenstein
• First short essay due (write on one of the following: Descartes' seperation of the body and soul, or Tartuffe as monster, or the woman's body in Tartuffe)

Week Five

2/8

• Frankenstein Chapters 20-24
  • Frankenstein Framed

2/10

• Frankenstein
• Presentation-Facilitation: Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
  • Anna Burke, Kim Watts, Amanda Buehne & Joanna Hodges
• Second short essay due (write on one of the following: The Monster as Self, Women, Men & Marriage, The Education of Women & Monster

Week Six

2/15

• Presentation-Facilitation: The Abolition Movement
  • Tracye Spears
• Poetry Guide
  • Free Verse Definition
• Leaves of Grass
  • Starting from Paumanok
  • map of Paumanok
  • Paumonak

2/17

• Presentation-Facilitation: Matthew Brady, Photographer
  • Taps
  • Dianna Kocian, John Hattenbach, Michael Maldonado & Robert Streight
• Poetry Guide
  • Free Verse Definition
• Leaves of Grass
  • Song of Myself

Week Seven

2/22

• Poetry Guide
  • Free Verse Definition
• Leaves of Grass
  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Page 128)
  • Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Page 200)
  • As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life (Page 205)
  • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Page 264)

2/24

• Poetry Guide
  • Free Verse Definition
• Leaves of Grass
  • The Sleepers
    • 1855 version
    • 1881 version
• Midterm Study
  
• Third short essay due (write on one of the following: Whitman's celebration of the everyday people, the presence of body in Whitman or Whitman's conjuring locations)

Week Eight

3/1

• Midterm Examination
  • Midterm Study
  
  

3/3

• Presentation-Facilitation: The Armory Show of 1913
  • Collin Gray, Sarah Smelley, Jackie Walley & Zachary Hasdorff
• Modernism
• Their Eyes Were Watching God Foreword, Chapters 1-8
  • Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 Links
    

3/6

• 8pm "Their Eyes Were Watching God" on ABC

Week Nine

3/8

• Presentation-Facilitation: The suffragette movement
  • Margaret Vela, Monica Alaniz, Nicole Arce & Sal DeLoera?
• Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 9-16
  • "Black Vernacular/How it feels to Be Colored Me" (handout)
    • Language
  • Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 Links
    

3/10

• Presentation-Facilitation: Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay & Jean Toomer
  • Corinne Lewis, Crystal Trevino, Katrina Johnson & Gavon Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 17-19, Afterword
• Hurricane
  • Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 Links
    
• Fourth short essay due (write on one of the following: Black vernacular, Janie's Growth or Hurston's Pear Tree symbolism)
  
  

SPRING BREAK

3/12-3/20

Week Ten

3/22

• Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • High John de Conquer Links
    
  • High John de Conquer (handout)
  • Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 Links
    

3/24

• Presentation-Facilitation: Abstract Expressionism
  • Melinda Sherman, Joe Miller, Mayra Esquivel & Patrick Daugherty
• Achebe Links
• "An Image of Africa" by Chinua Achebe
  
• "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
• An Image of Africa

Week Eleven

3/29

• Presentation-Facilitation: Colonial Africa
  • Abby Ianniello, Angela Oates, Laura Lopez & Terry Gomez
• Things Fall Apart Chapters One-Six
  • Things Fall Apart Study Guide

3/31

• Presentation-Facilitation: Apartheid
  • Eric Kimura & Scott Allen
• question
• Things Fall Apart Chapters Seven-Thirteen
  • Things Fall Apart Study Guide
    

Week Twelve

4/5

• Presentation-Facilitation: The Free Speech Movement
  • Charles Cullins, Trey Turnbough, Nicholas Garza & Derek Gammon
• Things Fall Apart Chapters Fourteen-Twenty-Five
  • Things Fall Apart Study Guide

4/7

• Presentation-Facilitation: Music or poetry from the women's movement (late 1960s to present)
  • Casey Mihalov, Katherine Desantis & April Kincheloe
• Things Fall Apart
  • Things Fall Apart Study Guide
• Fifth short essay due (write on one of the following: Didactic Animal Tales, Okonkwo’s children or Women of Umuofia)
  

Week Thirteen

4/12

• Presentation-Facilitation: 1968
  • Haydee Rivera, Gerald Garza, Tina Phe & James Anderson
• postmodernism

4/14

• Presentation-Facilitation: Punk: 1975-85

notes

• Leah Drachenberg, John Lockman, Travis Tielke & Daniel Gonzales

• Less Than Zero Pages Epigraphs-57
  • Less Than Zero text
    • Bret Easton Ellis Links
    • Afraid to Merge
      

Week Fourteen

4/19

• Presentation-Facilitation: photo bloggers
  • Nick Moncada & Sergio Perez
• Less Than Zero Pages 58-108
  • Less Than Zero text
• also read The Santa Ana by Joan Didion
  • Wind
    • Bret Easton Ellis Links
      

4/21

• Less Than Zero Pages 109-158
  • Less Than Zero text
    • Bret Easton Ellis Links
      

Week Fifteen

4/26

• Less Than Zero Pages 159-209
  • Less Than Zero text
    • Bret Easton Ellis Links
    • Culture and Bodies
      

4/28

• Less Than Zero
  • Less Than Zero text
    • Bret Easton Ellis Links
      
• Sixthshort essay due (write on one of the following topics concerning Less Than Zero: The Musical text; Bodies and Monsters; The Fluidity of Spatial Location, Time, & Clay)
  

Week Sixteen

5/3

• Final Review
  

5/5

• Final Examination 8:00 A.M.-10:30 A.M. CI 106
  

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