Calendar

Complete all assigned reading before coming to class. Please keep in mind that all reading assignments are subject to change. All page numbers refer to the editions I have ordered. For some readings, you will access the text through Reserves Direct (RD).

—–Week 1—–

Aug. 30 Th

• Introductions and Syllabus

—–Week 2—–

Unit One: Cyberspace

Sep. 4 T

• Neuromancer, chapters 1-5
• They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction

Sep. 6 Th  

• Neuromancer, chapters 6-12
• TSIS, chapter 1

—–Week 3—–

Sep. 11 T

• Neuromancer, chapters 13-18
• TSIS, chapters 4 and 11

Sep. 13 Th 

• Neuromancer, chapters 19-24
• Reading and Writing about Literature (RWL), chapter 2

—–Week 4—–

Sep. 18 T 

• Bring Thesis to Class
• Sherryl Vint, “Cyberpunk: Return of the Repressed Body” (RD)
• Thomas Foster, “Meat Puppets or Robopaths?” (RD)
• RWL, “The Writing Process,” and “Writing about Stories,” 21-28; 72-75, 92

Sep. 20 Th

• Rough Draft 1 Due
• RWL, “Peer Editing and Workshops,” and “Tips for Writing About Literature,” 38-42
• Peer review workshop

—–Week 5—–

Unit Two: Factories

Sep. 25 T 

• Paper 1 Due
• TSIS, chapters 2 and 3

Sep. 27 Th

• Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (RD)
• RWL, “Using Quotations Effectively,” 42-49

—–Week 6—–

Oct. 2 T

• Herman Melville, “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” (RD)
• TSIS, chapter 8

Oct. 4 Th

• Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times (watch in class)
• RWL, “Drafting the Paper,” 29-32

—–Week 7—–

Oct. 9 T

• Karen A. Weyler, “Melville’s ‘The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids’: A Dialogue about Experience, Understanding, and Truth” (RD)
• Judith Fetterley, Commentary on “Life in the Iron Mills” (RD)
• TSIS, chapter 12

Oct. 11 Th

• Rough Draft 2 Due
• RWL, “Revising and Editing,” 32-37

—–Week 8—–

Oct. 16 T        

• Fall break, classes canceled

Oct. 18 Th   

• Paper 2 Due
• Class canceled

—–Week 9—–

Unit Three: Photography

Oct. 23 T 

• Bellocq’s Ophelia, 1-24
• RWL, “Writing about Poems,” 96-100, 102, 107

Oct. 25 Th

• Bellocq’s Ophelia, 25-48
• TSIS, chapter 7

—–Week 10—–

Oct. 30 T  

• TSIS, chapter 5
• Invention workshop
• Secondary reading, TBD (RD)

Nov. 1 Th

• Annette Debo, “Ophelia Speaks: Resurrecting Still Lives in Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia” (RD)
• Debora Rindge and Anna Leahy, “‘Become What You Must’: Trethewey’s Poems and Bellocq’s Photographs“
• Rough Draft 3 Due
• Draft workshop

—–Week 11—–

Nov. 6 T

• Meet in Woodruff Library Room 312
  
• Rough Draft 3 Due
• Draft workshop
  
• Paper 3 Due

Unit Four: Frankenstein

Nov. 8 Th   

• Paper 3 Due
  
• RWL, “Writing a Literary Research Paper,” “Finding Sources,” “Evaluating Sources,” and “Working with Sources,” 130-138
• Frankenstein, Preface and Letters
  
• Frankenstein, Chapters 1-7 (i.e. Volume I)
  
• TSIS, chapter 12

—–Week 12—–

Nov. 13 T

• Frankenstein, Chapters 1-7 (i.e. Volume I)
  
• TSIS, chapter 6
• Frankenstein, Volume II

Nov. 15 Th

• Frankenstein, Volume II
  
• TSIS, chapter 10
• RWL, “Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism,” 140-143
• Frankenstein, Volume III

—–Week 13—–

Nov. 20 T

• Frankenstein, Volume III
  
• Secondary Reading, TBD (RD)

Nov. 22 Th

• Thanksgiving Break

—–Week 14—–

Nov. 27 T   

• Frankenstein app (read and explore for at least 75 minutes)
• RWL, “Writing the Paper,” 139-142

Nov. 29 Th 

• Frankenstein app (read and explore for at least 75 minutes)
• Preliminary Bibliography Due

—–Week 15—–

Dec. 4 T  

• First 3 pages of essay due
• Work on group projects

Dec. 6 Th

• Rough Draft 4 Due
• Revision workshop

—–Week 16—–

Dec. 11 T

• Paper 4 Due
• Work on group projects

—–Finals—–

Dec. 18 T

• Final Exam: Group Project Presentations, 4:30-7:00pm
• Reflection Assignment Due