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Schedule
8/20 Diagnostic Essay
8/22 Introduction to the Course
Remembering the Past: History and Cultural Memory
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
–William Faulkner
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8/24 Review of diagnostic essay; Reading Critically, Writing a Summary (HH 264-74); reread Yoder’s “The Battle over the Battle Flag” (handout)
8/27 Horwitz, from Confederates in the Attic (e-reserve)
8/29 St. George, "Placing Race at Jefferson's Monticello" (e-reserve)
8/31 Baldwin, “R.M.S. Titanic” (MR 498-509); Hardy, “Convergence of the Twain” (handout); Reading Critically (HH 131-51)
9/3 Labor Day--no class
9/5 Hersey, “A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima” (MR 509-21); Connor, “The U.S. Was Right” and Alperovitz, “The U.S. Was Wrong” (handouts) Distribution of Essay Assignment 1, Critical Analysis
9/7 Historical accuracy in film--The Patriot and A Knight's Tale
9/10 Lightman: Selections from Einstein’s Dreams: pp. 3-7, 23-27, 38-42, 117-27
9/12 Writing Workshop: Drafting an Essay (HH 3-26)
9/14 Workshop continued: Writing Strong Paragraphs (HH 97-130)
9/17 Conferences–regular class meeting canceled; bring outline
or synopsis of Essay 1
Living with the Past: Historical Artifacts
9/19 Stilgoe, “Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places” (handout)
9/21 Scenes from Antiques Roadshow and The 1900 House Paper I due
9/24 Lightman, Selections from Einstein’s Dreams: 75-84, 102-06, 167-71
9/26 Field Trip; Destination TBA
9/28 Discussion of Field Trip and related writing assmt.; Distribution of Assmt. 2, Descriptive Essay
10/1 Writing Workshop: Writing a Descriptive Essay, Composing Effective Sentences (HH 73-76; 378-89)
10/3 Workshop continued: Effective Sentences (HH 582-89, 608-21)
10/5 Peer Edit, Writing Lab. Bring Draft of Essay 2 on
disk. Class will meet in HC 3116
Remembering Childhood and Adolescence
“The Child is the Father of the Man”
–William Wordsworth
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10/8 Hampl, “Grandmother’s Sunday Dinner” (MR 34-37); Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” (MR 154)
10/10 Carver, “My Father’s Life” (MR 85-93); Larkin, "This is the Verse" (handout); Paper 2 Due
10/12 Gilmore, “My Brother, Gary Gilmore” (MR 100-11); Ruark, “Locking Up” (handout)
10/15 Dillard, “So This Was Adolescence” (MR 199-202); Prager, "Our Barbies, Ourselves" (handout); Distribution of Assmt. 3, Narrative
10/17 Selections from Einstein’s Dreams: 8-12, 28-32, 61-65, 70-74, 133-37, 158-62, 172-76
10/19 Jung, "The Personal and the Collective Unconscious" (e-reserve)
10/22 Writing Workshop: Writing a Narrative, Cutting Wordiness (HH 69-72; 390-98)
10/24 Workshop continued: Choosing the Right Word (HH 464-79)
10/26 Peer Edit, Writing Lab. Bring Draft of Essay 2 on disk. Class will meet in HC 3116
10/29 Class canceled
Imagining the Future
“Big Brother Is Watching You”
–George Orwell
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10/31 Macaulay, Review of “Southey’s Colloquies” (handout); Yeats, "The Second Coming" (MR 817)
11/2 Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams: 13-22, 55-60, 85-89; Paper 3 Due
11/5 Norman Bel Geddes’ “Futurama” and other popular visions of the future; readings TBA
11/7 Kolata, “A Clone Is Born” (MR 618-32)
11/9 Samuelson, “Technology in Reverse” (MR 641-44); Grunewald, “Monsters of the Brave New World (MR 755-60)
11/12 Dyson, “Cyberspace: If You Don’t Love It, Leave It” (MR 644-48); Elmer-DeWitt, "Cyberpunk" (handout); Distribution of Assmt. 4
11/14 Span, “Women and Computers: Is There Equity in Cyberspace?” (MR 649-60)
11/16 The Future in Film: Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and The Matrix Optional revised essay due
11/17-11/25 Thanksgiving Break
11/26 Farrell, “The Triple Revolution” (e-reserve); Morrison and Schmid “The Global Market” (e-reserve)
11/28 Writing Workshop: Critical Analysis Redux, Agreement (HH 131-38, 534-45)
11/30 Conferences–regular class meeting canceled; bring rough draft of Essay 4
12/3 Conferences–regular class meeting canceled; discussion of overall course performance; Essay 4 Due
12/5 Course evaluations; exam review
12/7 Final Exam, Part I. Class will meet in Computer Lab, HC 3143.
12/10 Final Exam, Part II 11:00-1:30