COURSE SCHEDULE: ENG 1121, Spring 2014

Prof. Graves

Tuesday, January 28: Introduction and Syllabus Review
Thursday, January 30: Introduction to Critical Writing

Unit One: What do humans want?

Tuesday, February 4
Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”
Charles Simic, “Fork”
Dave Eggers, “What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes”
Thursday, February 6
Shakespeare sonnet set
Tuesday, February 11
Mad Men (pilot episode)
O’Henry, “The Last Leaf”
Thursday, February 13
Jonathan Safran Foer, excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Don DeLillo, “Videotape”
Tuesday, February 18
Ursula K. Le Guin, “Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?”
Thursday, February 20: NO CLASS
Unit Two: Are humans good?
Tuesday, February 25
Chapters 2 and 10 from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Thursday, February 27
John Hersey, excerpt from Hiroshima
Tuesday, March 4
American Beauty
Thursday, March 6
Tennessee Williams, This Property is Condemned
Tuesday, March 11
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Thursday, March 13
Introduction to Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Tuesday, March 18
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Thursday, March 20
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Unit Three: What is humanity?
Tuesday, March 25
Salvador Plascencia, excerpt from The People of Paper
Thursday, March 27
Frank Miller, Batman: The Killing Joke
Tuesday, April 1
Frank Miller, Batman: The Killing Joke
Thursday, April 3: Midterm
Tuesday, April 8
Richard Hugo, “Letter to Simic from Boulder”
Thursday, April 10: Midterm grade conferences
Tuesday, April 15 & Tuesday, April 22: SPRING BREAK
Thursday, April 24
Phillip K. Dick, excerpt from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Tuesday, April 29
Blade Runner
Thursday, May 1
Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Unit Four: Human values
Tuesday, May 6
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Thursday, May 8
Matt Johnson, excerpt from Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery
Tuesday, May 13
Elizabeth Bishop, “At the Fishhouses,” “One Art”
Emily Dickinson, selection of poems
Gregory Corso, “Marriage”
Thursday, May 15
Donald Barthelme, “The Balloon”
Tuesday, May 20: Final Review
Thursday, May 22: Final Exam