how to use this class schedule

Very important note: This is the official Class Schedule. and you absolutely do need to Bookmark or Favorite this page because you will be looking at it often.

All links to assignments, due dates, and lists of weekly readings are on this page. DO NOT expect the due dates to all be on Canvas. We use Canvas only for Announcements, the Grade Book, and the Discussion Board.
This page is the central hub for all of the class content. Everything is incredibly easy to get to from this page.

Read the Lectures and ALL weekly Readings at the beginning of each week; you are expected to understand them for the Discussions and Writing Assignments that week.

If you have any questions or are unsure about something, please email me at JRCORBALLY@GMAIL.COM; (not on Canvas, and not to the school email; both are unreliable)

what's below in the left column?

  • Links to the Weekly Lectures
    Read these at the beginning of the week.

  • Links to the Weekly Discussion Topics
    Posts are due Fridays before midnight, and
    replies are due Sundays before midnight.

  • Links to Writing Assignments
    with due dates listed.

Important: due dates are not optional.

what's below in the right column?

  • A list of the Week's Readings. Read these at the beginning of the week; all are required.
    Most readings are found on our site or in the Files section of Canvas.

  • You can also find several of the readings (especially the older ones) online, in public libraries (many have free-to-borrow e-books), or in online bookstores.

Important: Please always be looking ahead. This class moves very quickly, and the readings, assignments, papers take time to do well (and you want to do well).

WEEK 1 (2/5 - 2//9)
Faster!

  • Lecture 1

  • Orientation Quiz (due 2/7)
    Yes, this is Wednesday!
    Feel free to turn this in early

  • Discussion 1 (due 2/9, Friday).
    Note: discussion posts are usually due Fridays,
    Replies continue through Sundays
Reading:

IMPORTANT! Day 1 be sure you do the ONLY module on our Canvas site; it is the class Orientation.
That is how you will get the answers to the Orientation Quiz.

  • Candide

    At least get a good start on it; it's very fun! :)

This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page.

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT TRANSLATIONS: I will post an Announcement about translations Week 1. Yes, some are much better than others; the ones in the Norton editions are excellent, but most are NOT yet in public domain. I'll share some thoughts in the Announcement and copy it on the Week 1 Discussion board.
WEEK 2 (2/12 - 2/16)
Comedy, Comedy? 		Reading:
  • Candide (continued)
This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page.
WEEK 3 (2/19 - 2/23)
Storm and Stress 		Reading:
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
Note: also read discussion of Kant's "Antinomies of Reason" in the Online Readings

Sorrows... can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page.

WEEK 4 (2/26 - 3/1)
Don't Confuse Romanticism with Love Paper 1 (due 3/1, Friday)
Note: essays are typically due on Fridays 		Reading:
  • The poetry of Heine and Hugo (some samples are in this week's Lecture; others can be found online)
The following Online Readings page. Yes, I know that our class does not cover British Literature, but these are likely to be poems many in the class are familiar with,
and they are excellent examples of poems with elements of Romanticism, and many are probably already familiar to you.
WEEK 5 (3/4 - 3/8)
Reshuffling a Fairy Tale 		Reading:
  • "The Queen of Spades"
This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page;
WEEK 6 (3/11 - 3/15)
Life as Art 		Reading:
  • "A Simple Heart"
This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page;
It is also in the Files Section on Canvas.
WEEK 7 (3/18 - 3/22)
Survival of the Fittest 		Reading:
  • Woyzeck
This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page;
It is also in the Files Section on Canvas.
WEEK 8 (3/25 - 3/29)
The Symbolists paper Paper 2 (due 3/27, WEDNESDAY) NOTE: Thursday and Friday are holidays;
however, any paper turned in Friday
will NOT be late..
Reading:
  • The poetry of Baudelaire (to correspond with this week's lecture) can easily be found online.
Note: also read in the Online Readings. Yes, once again, some of these are British or American (off limits to us...sort of),
but they show just how far-ranging "modernism" (and things such as existentialism) really are.
WEEK 9 (4/1 - 4/5)
Spring Break

  • NO CLASSES!
Reading:
  • SPRING BREAK! Have a great, safe holiday (and remember to come back :)
WEEK 10 (4/8 - 4/12)
Modernism? 		Reading:
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author
This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page;
It is also in the Files Section on Canvas.
WEEK 11 (4/15 - 4/19)
Life as an Insect in the Modern World 		Reading:
  • Metamorphosis

This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page

Note: I recommend you watch the movie Kafka;
however, it is hard to find (it's on VHS)

WEEK 12 (4/22 - 4/26)
"Reality is so unreal; it's like an elevator, going no-where" paper Paper 3 due (4/26, Friday)
 Reading:
  • The poetry of Rilke, Akmahtova, Lorca
This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page, but the poems corresponding top the lecture are easy to find online.
WEEK 13 (4/29 - 5/3)
Coffee-in-the-Lobby Films 		Reading"

You are only responsible for reading and discussing one of these, but both are super!

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

This can be found online; one link is available in our Online Readings page;
It is also in the Files Section on Canvas. Note: I recommend you watch the movie if you can find it streaming. I've actually seen it on YouTube before.

Note: I recommend you watch the movie Rashomon
WEEK 14 (5/6 - 5/10)
Catch Your Breath

  • no lecture

  • no discussion

  • If you have the time and want to get a head start on the remaining reading,
    I recommend you start the novel (you have several to choose from) for Week 16's discussion :)

WEEK 15 (5/13 - 5/17)
Surrealism and Magical Realism 		Reading:
  • "The Garden of Forking Paths"
  • "Death Constant Beyond Love"

Both stories can generally be found online; they are also in the Files section on Canvas.

Note: also read analysis of "Death Constant Beyond Love" in the Online Readings

Note: I recommend you rent and watch the movie Run Lola Run; you might even find it streaming; if so, please share with the class :)
WEEK 16 (5/20 - 5/24)
It's all in how you look at things

  • no lecture

  • no discussion
paper Paper 4 (due 5/24, Friday) 		Reading:
  • No additional readings while you finish up Paper 4 (if you need to do Paper 4)
    • You may like to get started on next week's reading if you want to do the final Extra Credit discussion.
WEEK 17 (5/27 - 5/31)
Can you Judge a Book by its Cover? 		Reading:

After you check out this week's lecture you will want to read one of the following:

  • Eye in the Sky, by Philip K. Dick

OR any one work of fiction by by Haruki Murakami, for example:

  • Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
  • Dance, Dance, Dance, note: this continues some material from earlier works, but it can definitely be read by itself.
  • Kafka on the Shore
  • 1Q84, warning: released in the U.S. as a single volume, it was originally a trilogy in Japan. So it is long. It is, however, that made Murakami famous outs of Japan.
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
  • The Elephant Vanishes, note: this is a collection of short stories; you are welcome to write about one or two stories if you like.
Final Week - Good luck on all of your finals! :)
No late work will be accepted after Friday 5/31. I need to get grades in.