(Updated Nov 20, 2019) 

(SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Dates: Objectives: Assignments:
 

Week 1: Aug 29

  

Introductory discussion, terminology, and course plan.

 •  Introduction to class, definitions, OpenLab

•  Read “The Captive” by Borges

•   Homework:  Read “The Black Cat” by Poe

•   Homework:  Read “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne

•   Homework: Read “The Lottery” by Jackson

•  Homework: Journal 1: 300 words on which of the three stories you liked the best and why
 

Week 2: Sept 5

 

 No Class No Class
 

Week 3: Sept 12

 

 

 

 

 

 Discussion of Narrative; Gothic Fiction •  Due: Questionnaire (Journal 1)

•  Discuss definition of gothic; discuss readings and methods

• Homework: Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman

• Homework: Read “Incident at Owl Creek Bridge” by Bierce

• Homework: Prepare for Quiz 1, covering definitions and readings
 

Week 4: Sept 19

  

Beginning Essay 1; Gothic Fiction

 •  Due: Quiz 1

•  Discuss readings and methods (narration)

• Homework: Reading Borges and Marquez

•  Homework: Journal 2
 

Week 5: Sept 26

 

  

Essay 1; Modern Fiction

 • Due: Journal 2

•  Discussion TBA

• Homework: Reading  Faulkner and Melville

• Homework:  Journal 3 (TBA)
 

Week 6: Oct 3

 

  

Essay 1; Modern Fiction

  •  Due: Journal 3 

•  Discussion TBA

•  Homework: read Ellison and Joyce and Kafka

•  Homework: prepare for Quiz 2
 

Week 7: Oct 10

  

Modern Fiction

  

•  Due: Quiz 2 

•  Discussion TBA

•  Homework:  readings Stein and Hemingway

•  Homework:  Work on draft of Midterm Essay

 

 
 

Week 8: Oct 17

 

  

Modern Fiction

  

 

•  Due: Draft of Midterm Essay

•  Homework: reading Dos Passos
 

Week 9: Oct 24

 

  

Modernism/realism

 •  Due: Final Draft of Midterm Essay

•  Discussion TBA

•  Homework:  read Ha Jin and E.L. Doctorow

•  Homework:  Journal 4: which of the two stories is more realistic and why? (300 words)
Week 10: Oct31

 

 Modernism/realism •  Due: Journal 4

•  Discussion TBA

•  Homework:  read Tony Parsons  

•  Homework: Prepare for Quiz 3 (Jin, Doctorow, Parsons and the terms globalization and realism)
Week 11: Nov 7 Begin Cyberpunk/Sci Fi •  Due: Quiz 3

•  Discussion Parsons

•  Homework:  read  Bradbury and Cheever

• Homework:  Bring in two questions from the readings (no need to turn in)
Week 12: Nov 14 Cyberpunk/Sci Fi •    Discussion Cyberpunk and Sci Fi. Ethics.

•  Homework: Read Gibson 

 
Week 13: Nov 21  

Cyberpunk/Sci Fi

 •    Discussion Cyberpunk and Sci Fi. Ethics.

•  Discuss Gibson

•  Homework: Read Cherryh

        Write Draft of Final Essay (Journal 4/5)
Week 14: Nov 28 Thanksgiving  

No Class

 
 

Week 15 Dec 5

 

  

Cyberpunk Fiction

 •  Due: Draft of Final Essay/Peer Review (Journal 4/5)

•  Discuss readings and Final Essay

•  Homework:  TBA
 

Week 16: Dec 12

 

  

Cyberpunk Fiction

 •  Discuss readings and Q & A over Final Essay

•  Review for Final Exam
 

Week 17: Dec 19

  

Final Exam

 •  DUE: Final Essay

•••••Final exam in class•••••

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