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Course Packet. (Far
Better Service on
Hillel Place).
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories (Dover
Thrift).*
Ibsen, Henrik. Hedda Gabler (Dover Thrift).*
Melville, Herman. Bartleby and Benito Cereno (Dover Thrift).*
Poe,
Edgar A. The Goldbug and Other Tales (Dover Thrift)*
Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Refrence (Bedford/St. Martin).**
* I ordered these books at
Shakespeare &
Company on Hillel Place.
** The handbook is available both at
Barnes & Noble (Boylan Hall basement) and Shakespeare &
Company, at a discounted price.
SYLLABUS.
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M, Jan.
28 Introduction
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W, Jan. 30 Theme #1:
In-class
essay
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M, Feb. 4
Thurber, "The
Greatest Man in the World" (course packet)
Goodwin, The
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (course packet
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| W, Feb.
6 Perkins,
Confession
of an Economic Hit Man (course packet) |
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M, Feb. 11 Theme #2: Role
(minimum: 600 words)
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W, Feb.
13 Hochschild, King
Leopold's Ghost (course packet)
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W, Feb. 20
Melville, "Benito
Cereno"
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M, Feb.
25 Melville,
"Bartleby
the Scrivener"
Topic of
research
paper due
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W, Feb.
27 Theme #3: Impact of the individual
(minimum: 600 words)
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M, March 3 Library visit
(Archives and Special Collections, Room 130)
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W, March 5
Poe, "Imp of
the
Perverse" (course packet), "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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M, March 10 Preliminary
bibliography of research paper due
Poe, "Fall of the House of Usher," "Ligeia"
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W, March
12 Poe, "The
Black
Cat"
Research journal due
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M, March
19 Theme #4:
In-class essay (on Melville &
Poe)
Working bibliography due
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W, March 26
Darby, "How
Organizations Socialize Individuals into
Evildoing"
(course packet)
Your
question/topic/thesis for research paper due
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M, March 31 Frankl, Man's Search for
Meaning (course packet)
Bowker, Fatal Deception
(course packet)
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W, April 2
Didion, The Year of
Magical Thinking (course packet)
Preliminary
notes
for research paper due
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M, April 7
Theme #5: Impact of external force (minimum:
600 words)
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W, April 9
Thoreau, Walden
(course packet)
Plan/outline
for
research paper due
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M, April 14
Hawthorne, "Young
Goodman Brown"
Draft of reserach paper de
(3-4 pages acceptable)
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W, April 16
Hawthorne, "Rappaccini's Daughter," "The
Birthmark"
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April 28 Themes #6-7: Research paper due (minimum:
7-8 pages) |
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W, April 30 Theme #8:
In-class essay (on Hawthorne and Thoreau)
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M, May 5
Ibsen, Hedda
Gabler, Act I
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W, May 5
Ibsen, Hedda
Gabler, Act II
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M, May 12 Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Act III
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W, May 14 Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Act IV
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10:30-12:30, M, May 19
In-class theme #10/final (on Hedda
Gabler)
Last day to hand in late and revised papers: Noon, Wednesday, May
28
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