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Course Schedule
Tentative Course Schedule
Readings listed are all in the Course Packet, and they follow in the order in which we will read them. The heading “Preparation For,” means that you should come to class with that assignment completed. If you do not understand an assignment, please be sure to ask. The average reading assignment for a given class is designed to take three to six hours. Writing and revision time for essays and projects will add to this time.
Week One, September 3: Introduction
Preparation For Class
If you receive your packet before class begins, please take time also to review the material in the Course Packet listed under Writing In This Course and Week 1. If it arrives a day or two late, you will not need to worry about week one readings. They are so short that we can put them on the screen.
You have several small assignments to do between this week and next. They are tasks designed to make sure that we are all prepared to get moving at a good pace. See the sheet entitled “Getting Started,” which you will find at the end of this syllabus. This will lead you along the path.
Please look for some course materials posted at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit. (Look under Course Resources.) Follow the index for the appropriate subject. The subjects follow in the order in which we cover them.
Week Two, September 10: The Vision Of Love
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Short Medieval Selections, including the pieces on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Dante. La Vita Nuova (The New Life).
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Take Course Survey On-Line. See Blackboard Instructions.
Return Sheet Titled “Getting Started.”
Week Three, September 17: Chaucer And The Structures Of Love
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed Under Week Three, Especially
Chaucer. General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Course Packet.
Chaucer. The Miller’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales. Course Packet.
Chaucer. The Book of the Duchess. Course Packet.
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Week Four, September 24: The Limits Of Allegory
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Boccaccio. “The Tale of Griselda.” Course Packet.
Petrarch. Completion of “The Tale of Griselda.” Course Packet.
Chaucer. Completion of “The Tale of Griselda.” Course Packet.
Mirandola. “On the Dignity of Man”
Luther. Speech at the Diet of Worms. (“Here I Stand”)
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Quiz #1 Will Be Given. It will cover mostly Dante, Chaucer, and Griselda, and there may be a question or two on the short medieval selections. There may also be an art or general history question or two.
Week Five, October 1: The Renaissance World
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Montaigne. “Of Repentance.”
Shakespeare Sonnets 18 and 130.
Petrarch. Selections.
Plot Summaries of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Selections from Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act I
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Week Six, October 8: Shakespeare’s Ironic Vision
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today Especially
Ovid. The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
Read Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Acts II-V
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Course Project Proposal Due. Please Submit This Via Blackboard. Please be sure to post your Project Proposal on the Discussion Board on Blackboard so that others in the class can give you some feedback. When you go to Blackboard, you will see a Forum on the Discussion Board labeled Course Proposals. Simply open a new thread and add your proposal. The Course Project Proposal is an informal piece of writing that explains in one or two paragraphs what you think you would like to explore in your Course Project. Remember that there are several pages of handouts at the beginning of the Course Packet to help you select and develop your topic.
Week Seven, October 15: Twisted Visions
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Michelangelo. Poetry.
Cervantes. Don Quixote. Selections.
Donne. Poetry. Selections.
Marvell. “To His Coy Mistress.”
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Quiz #2 Will Be Given. It will cover A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Luther, Mirandola, Don Quixote, and the poems of Donne, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. There may also be an art or general history question or two.
Week Eight, October 22: Justifying The Ways Of God To Man
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Milton. Paradise Lost. Selections.
Pope. Essay On Man.
Barker. Selections.
Read Voltaire. Candide, Chapter 1.
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Course Project Update Due. Please Submit This Via Blackboard. You will find a separate Forum on the Discussion Board labeled Project Update. Submit your work there. The Update is simply an informal way of explaining how your project is coming along. You may, for example, have found that your topic is shifting away from the original idea. Or you might note that your subject has led you to consider some things you had not previously considered.
Week Nine, October 29: The Bright and Dark Sides of the Enlightenment
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence.
Read Voltaire. Candide (Entire Work).
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Quiz #3 Will Be Given. It will cover Pope, Milton, Barker, Keats, Blake, Jefferson, and the beginning of Candide. There may also be an art or general history question or two.
Course Project Bibliography Due. Please Submit This Via Blackboard. You will find a separate Forum on the Discussion Board labeled Course Project Bibliography. Submit your work there. Simply list whatever sources you have found related to your topic. List the name of the source and the author. Say also what is useful about the source. (Yes, you can continue to add and delete sources as you continue.)
Week Ten, November 5: Romanticism And Its Limits
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Keats. “Ode On A Grecian Urn.”
Blake. Poetry Selections.
Wordsworth. “Tintern Abbey.”
Read Shelley. Frankenstein. Chapters 1-12.
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Course Project First Paragraph Due. Please Submit This Via Blackboard. You will find a separate Forum on the Discussion Board labeled First Paragraph. Submit your work there. Though your first paragraph may change between this point and your final draft, gathering together the ideas for your first paragraph will give you the focus that you will need.
Week Eleven, November 12: Playing God?
Preparation For Class
Read Shelley. Frankenstein. Chapters 13-24.
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Quiz #4 Will Be Given. It will cover Candide, Keats, Wordsworth, Blake, and the first half of Frankenstein. There may also be an art or general history question or two.
Course Project Outline Due. Please Submit This Via Blackboard. You will find a separate Forum on the Discussion Board labeled Outline. Submit your work there. You need not follow the formal outline pattern very carefully, but your outline should give a clear indication of where your project is headed.
Week Twelve, November 19: The Crisis In Western Thought
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Maupassant. “The Necklace.”
Gilman. “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Neitzsche. “The Madman.”
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Course Project Due. Please Submit This Via Your Center.
There Will Be No Class On November 26
Week Thirteen, December 3: Modernism & Postmodernism
Preparation For Class
Read Selections in Course Packet Listed For Today, Especially
Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
Stein. “Portraits of Three Artists.”
Naylor. “Cora Lee.”
Read and View Selections for This Week at http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/introlit
Quiz #5 Will Be Given. It will cover the second half of Frankenstein, Maupassant, Gilman, Nietzsche, Marx, Wollstonecraft, Freud, and Darwin, as well as Eliot, Stein, and Naylor. There may also be an art or general history question or two.
Week Fourteen: December 10: Finishing
If all goes well, we will cover the last of our course material in Week 13. Chances are, though, we will run a bit behind schedule. So we will likely use the beginning of the course to finish anything we have not yet completed. After this, we will complete the quiz.
I hope we can take a significant part of this class period for students to give presentations of course projects. Those not in Machias can call in at the appropriate time. We can handle any illustrations or graphics you have from the broadcast (UMM) site.
Week Fifteen: December 17: Finishing--Just In Case
If all goes well, we will not have class this week. It is during the final exam period at UMM and at most other campuses. If, however, we have to miss a week of classes due to weather, illness, or technical difficulties, we will use December 17 for our final class meeting.
© 2003 Gerard NeCastro
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