ENGL 2100 - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CULTURAL KIND
Schedule

Course Schedule


Since this class is wholly online, you have much greater flexibility in managing the time you put into this course. Rather than assigning a specific date for your completion of each module, I will list the modules due for each week, and you are free to complete them at the times of your choosing during that week. For our purposes here, each week ends on Friday at midnight.

Introductory materials about literary or intellectual periods or movements are in green.
Individual authors and their works are in blue..
Discussion posts and papers are in red..
Exams and their availability are in yellow.

Week
(date)		 Modules (and their quizzes) Due Other Material Due

1
8/21

Introduction to the Course
Module 1: Introduction to The Enlightenment
Module 2: Voltaire, Candide 1
          (Norton Anthology vol. D, pp. 372-432:::chapters 1-16)

2
8/28

Module 3: Voltaire, Candide 2
          (Norton Anthology vol. D, pp. 372-432:::chapters 17-29)

3
(9/4)

Module 4: Saikaku, from Life of a Sensuous Woman
          (Norton Anthology vol. D, pp. 658-678)

4
(9/11)

Module 5: Introduction to Romanticism
Module 6: Blake, "The Lamb"; "The Tyger"; "The Chimney Sweeper"; "The Chimney Sweeper"
          (Norton Anthology vol. E, pp. 313, 315, 317, 319)

Discussion Forum 1
primary posts

5
(9/18)

Module 7: Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci"; "To Autumn"
          (Norton Anthology vol. E, pp. 362, 369)
Module 8: Whitman, from "Song of Myself"; "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
          (pdf available on D2L)

Discussion Forum 1
secondary posts

6
(9/25)

Module 9: Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 1
          (Norton Anthology vol. E, pp. 213-274:::preface-chapter 8)

Module 10: Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 2
          (Norton Anthology vol. E, pp. 213-274:::chapter 9-appendix)

7
(10/2)

Module 11: Tagore, "Punishment"
          (Norton Anthology vol. E, pp. 867-872)

Discussion Forum 2
primary posts

8
(10/9)

Module 12: Yeats, "When You Are Old"; "Easter 1916"; "The Second Coming"; "Leda and the Swan"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 550, 552, 553)

10/9: Exam 1 Available

Discussion Forum 2
secondary posts

9
(10/16)

Module 13: Introduction to Modernism
Module 14: Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 568-571)

PAPER 1

10
(10/23)

Module 15: Akhmatova, "Requiem"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 588-595)
Module 16: Négritude

11
(10/30)

Module 17: Senghor, "Black Woman"; "Prayer to the Masks"
          (pdf available on D2L)
Module 18: Existentialism

Discussion Forum 3
primary posts

12
(11/6)

Module 19: Borowski, "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 699-711)
Module 20: Marquez, "Death Constant Beyond Love"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 911-915)

Discussion Forum 3
secondary posts

13
(11/13)

Module 21: Mahfouz, "Zaabalawi"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 866-874)
Module 22: Walcott, "As John to Patmos"; "The Sea is History"
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 889, 898)

PAPER 2

14
(11/20)

Module 23: Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
          (Norton Anthology vol. F, pp. 950-996)

Discussion Forum 4
primary posts

15
(12/4)

Module 24: Heaney, "Digging"; "Requiem for the Croppies"; "The Tollund Man"; "Punishment"; "Clearances"; "Keeping Going"
          (pdf available on D2L)

Discussion Forum 4
secondary posts

12/10

12/9: Exam 2 Available

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