ENGL 698 materials: Grad Thesis
new media installations and grants
Note to Self
Wednesday
Jan182012

WEEK ONE:

M (1/9):

INTRODUCTION TO CLASS, SYLLABUS, AND UNITS

 

W (1/11):

 

WATCH: video walkthrough of Locating London’s Past

 

VIEW: MAP OF THE ATLANTIC , 1703

 

BRITISH AMERICAN EARLY PLANTATIONS

F (1/13):

 

 

READ THEMES OF RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (INTRODUCTION)

 

***YOU MUST VIEW STAGE BEAUTY (2004) BY NEXT WED!!!

WEEK TWO: M (1/16)

 

 

HOLIDAY 

 

 

 

W: (1/18)

 

WATCH: CONVERSATION ON STAGE BEAUTY

 

GO OVER POSTING TO DOSCUSSION BOARD

 

YOU MUST HAVE VIEWED STAGE BEAUTY BY TODAY!

F (1/20)

 

READ FOUCAULT’S OF OTHER SPACES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M (1/23):

 

READ: INTRODUCTION TO OROONOKO

 

 READ: SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE

 

POST THIS WEEK BY FR

 

 

W (1/25):

 

OROONOKO

F (1/27)

 

 OROONOKO

 

ENGLISH DEPT FACULTY RETREAT – WE DO NOT MEET IN CLASS !!!!

 

WEEK FOUR:

 

M (1/30) FINISH OROONOKO

 

READ: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF 18TH-CENTURY LONDON

 

 

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

W (2/1)

 

VIEW AND CHOOSE AN IMAGE FROM SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS DATABASE

F (2/3)

 

VIEW HOGARTH’S FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY

 

VIEW AND READ: HOGARTH’S AESTHETICS

 

WATCH: “ON THE QUESTION OF THE ANIMAL

 

WRITING WORKSHOP

 

WEEK FIVE: M (2/6)

 

READ:INTRO, ROBINSON CRUSOE

 

LECTURE ON “ENLIGHTENMENT” AND CRUSOE

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

W (2/8)

 

READ: ROBINSON CRUSOE

F (2/10)

 

READ: ROBINSON CRUSOE

 

Presentation

 

 

WEEK SIX: M (2/13)

 

READ: ROBINSON CRUSOE

 

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

W (2/15)

 

READ: ROBINSON CRUSOE

 

 

F (2/17)

 

 

READ: THE SECOND LIFE OF DANIEL DEFOE

 

READ: MARX ON DEFOE

 

CLASS WILL MEET ONLINE ONLY:

 

PROFESSOR AT PHILADEPLPHIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

 

WEEK SEVEN: M (2/20)

 

READ: WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA CAN LEARN FROM JON STEWART

 

READ: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

W (2/22)

 

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

 

 

 

F (2/24)

 

 

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

 

Presentation

 

HANDOUT MIDTERM OVERVIEW SHEET/PROMPTS

 

 

WEEK EIGHT: M (2/27)

 

 

READ: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

 

 

 

W (2/29)

 

 

PRACTICE/OVERVIEW FOR MIDTERM

F (3/2)

 

DISTRIBUTE IN CLASS PORTION/AT HOME MIDTERM ESSAY

 

 

WEEK NINE:  M (3/5)

 

 

MIDTERM DUE BACK

 

WATCH: FILM AND ADAPATIONS OF GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

 

 

 

W (3/7)

 

FINISH:  GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

F (3/9)

 

 

TBA, CHOOSE A CRITICAL ESSAY OR RESOURCE

 

Presentation

 

 

WEEK TEN: M (3/12)

HOLIDAY

 

SPRING BREAK

W: (3/14)

 

 

__________________________________

F (3/16)

 

_____________________________

WEEK ELEVEN M (3/19)

 

READ: EQUIANO

 

“MEDIATING RELIGION” LECTURE

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

 

W (3/21)

 

EQUIANO

 

READ: THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

F (3/23)

 

EQUIANO

 

HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATES, 1791

 

Presentation

 

WEEK TWELVE: M (3/26)

 

READ: READING JANE AUSTEN IN WARTIME

 

***VIEW PERSUASION THIS WEEK

 

PROJECT MAP DUE

W (3/28)

 

IN CLASS: EXCERPTS FROM FILM

 

READ: AUSTEN’S HISTORICAL CONTEXT

 

F (3/30)

 

READ THE BREAKUP 2.0

Presentation/ overview in preparation for closing sequence of course

WEEK THIRTEEN: M (4/2)

 

READ: PERSUASION

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

W (4/4)

 

READ: PERSUASION

F (4/6)

 

STUDENT HOLIDAY – NO CLASSES

WEEK FOURTEEN: M (4/9)

 

READ: PERSUASION

 

 

POST THIS WEEK

 

 

W (4/11)

 

READ: PERSUASION

F (4/13)

 

READ: PERSUASION

 

Presentation

 

WEEK FIFTEEN: M (4/16)

 

PRESENTATONS WEEK

W (4/18)

 

F (4/20)

 

CLASS WILL MEET ONLINE ONLY: PROFESSOR AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY

WEEK SIXTEEN: M (4/23)

 

PRESENTATIONS WEEK

W (4/25):

 

LAST DAY OF CLASSES

F (4/27)