June 21

Introduction to the Course
Module 1: Introduction to The Enlightenment

Attendance Verification

June 22

Module 2: Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-16

June 23

Module 3: Voltaire, Candide, chapters 17-conclusion

June 24

Module 4: Saikaku, from Life of a Sensuous Woman

June 25

Module 5: Introduction to Romanticism
Module 6: Blake, poetry

June 28

Module 7: Keats, poetry

Discussion Forum 1 primary post

June 29

Module 8: Whitman, poetry

June 30

Module 9: Douglass, Narrative of the Life . . ., chapters 1-7

Discussion Forum 1 secondary posts

July 1

Module 10: Douglass, Narrative of the Life . . ., chapter 8-appendix

July 2

Module 11: Tagore, "Punishment"

Paper 1

July 5

Module 12: Yeats, poetry

Discussion Forum 2 primary post

July 6

Module 13: Introduction to Modernism
Module 14: Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Exam 1

July 7

Module 14: Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Discussion Forum 2 secondary posts

July 8

Module 15: Akhmatova, "Requiem"

July 9

Module 16: Négritude
Module 17: Senghor, poetry

July 12

Module 18: Introduction to Existentialism

July 13

Module 19: Borowski, "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"

July 14

Module 20: Marquez, "Death Constant Beyond Love"

July 15

Module 21: Mahfouz, "Zaabalawi"

Discussion Forum 3 primary post

July 16

Module 22: Walcott, "As John to Patmos"; "The Sea is History"

July 19

Module 23: Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman

July 20

Module 23: Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman

Discussion Forum 3 secondary posts

July 21

Module 24: Heaney, "Digging"; "Requiem for the Croppies"; "The Tollund Man"; "Punishment"; "Clearances"; "Keeping Going"

Paper 2

July 22

EXAM 2