English 3700 schedule, spring 2011

Updated 3/30/11

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Thursday, January 6  

Course syllabus
2000-4000 grades and grading
What is fiction?

Introduction to course
Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-5
Monday, January 10

Student info form (online)
Drop/add ends

   
Tuesday, January 11 Snow day: class canceled Snow day: class canceled Snow day:
class canceled
Thursday, January 13   Golden rules 6-10
Daniel Defoe overview
Moll Flanders
v-viii, 1-80
 
Tuesday, January 18

 

Nuggets 1-10
Moll Flanders
80-160
 
Thursday, January 20

 

Quotes and documentation 1-3
Moll Flanders
160-248

 
Tuesday, January 25   Quotes and documentation 5
Jane Austen overview
Pride and Prejudice
1-61 (chaps. 1-17)
 
Thursday, January 27

 

Pride and Prejudice 61-132 (chs. 18-34)
  (Vol. 1, ch. 18-Vol. 2, ch. 11)
 
Tuesday, February 1   Word problems
Pride and Prejudice
132-96 (chs. 35-47)
  (Vol. 2, ch. 12-Vol. 3, ch. 5)
Bleak House 3-45 (chs. 1-4)
 
Thursday, February 3

 

On plagiarism
Pride and Prejudice
196-262 (chs. 48-61)
  (Vol. 3, chs. 6-19)
 
Tuesday, February 8

 

Charles Dickens overview
Bleak House
45-150 (chs. 5-12)
 
Thursday, February 10 Winter weather: class canceled Winter weather: class canceled Class canceled
Tuesday, February 15   Bleak House 150-364 (chs. 13-29)  
Thursday, February 17

 

Bleak House 365-472 (chs. 30-37) Paper 1 assigned
Tuesday, February 22 Paper proposals due Bleak House 472-636 (chs. 38-53)  
Thursday, February 24   Bleak House 636-770 (chs. 54-the last) Discuss midterm
Tuesday, March 1     Midterm
Wednesday, March 2 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
   
Thursday, March 3

 

Gustave Flaubert overview
Madame Bovary
1-77 (chs. 1.1-2.5)

 

Friday, March 4 Paper 1    
Monday, March 7-
Saturday, March 12
Spring break Spring break Spring break
Tuesday, March 15   Madame Bovary 77-162 (chs. 2.7.-2.15)  
Thursday, March 17   Madame Bovary 163-247 (chs. 3.1-3.11)  
Tuesday, March 22   Fyodor Dostoyevsky overview
Crime and Punishment
1-71 (chs. 1.1-1.7)
 
Thursday, March 24   Crime and Punishment 72-166 (chs. 2.1-3.1)  
Tuesday, March 29   Crime and Punishment 167-249 (3.2-4.3)

   

Thursday, March 31   Crime and Punishment 249-343 (4.4-5.5) Paper 2 assigned
Tuesday, April 5 Paper 1 corrections Crime and Punishment 344-430 (chs. 6.1-Epilogue 2)  
Thursday, April 7 Paper proposals due  Leo Tolstoy overview
Death of Ivan Ilych
15-63 (chs. 1-12)
On research
Tuesday, April 12   Mark Twain overview
Huck Finn
1-72 (chs. 1-16)
 
Thursday, April 14   Huck Finn 72-155 (chs. 17-29)  
Tuesday, April 19 Paper 2 Huck Finn 155-220 (chs. 30-the last)  
Thursday, April 21   Joseph Conrad overview
Heart of Darkness
1-72
 
Tuesday, April 26   Franz Kafka overview
The Metamorphosis
11-52
Discuss exam
       
Final exam
Thursday, April 28
10:30-12:30
 
Paper 2 corrections    

Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.  I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.