Syllabus!

Aug 28: Introduction, 4 Habits of Effective Writing

Sep 2: 2-3 Minute Introductions
Sep 4: Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense”; Style, Lesson 1; Writing Analytically, 12-24

Sep 9: Nietzsche; Style, 34-52
Sep 11: Freud, “On Dreams,” p. 5-32

Sep 16: Freud, p. 33-76
Sep 18: Freud; Thesis workshop

Sep 23: Poems by Wallace Stevens; Writing Analytically, Chap 2; Style, 152-155
Sep 25: Poems by Frost, Dickinson, Creeley

Sep 30: Writing Analytically, Chap. 3; exercise on binaries; PAPER 1 DUE
Oct 2: DuBois, “The Souls of Black Folk,” p. 1-35

Oct 7: DuBois, p. 36-50; Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Address”; Style, Lesson 5,
Oct 9: DuBois, p. 51-110

Oct 14: DuBois, p. 111-175; Style, pg 91-102
Oct 16: DuBois, p. 176-216

Oct 21: Poems by Hughes, Toomer, Brooks, Baraka
Oct 23: William Pope L., “The Black Factory”

Oct 28: Burnett, Killer of Sheep (film); Draft of Paper 2 Due (4 copies)
Oct 30: Peer Editing

Nov 4: Duras, “The Lover,” p.3-45; PAPER 2 DUE
Nov 6: Duras, p. 46-117; Style, Lesson 7

Nov 11: No Class – Veterans Day
Nov 13: Duras

Nov 18: Cortázar, “Blow Up” (maybe other stories, too); Writing Analytically, p. 120-136
Nov 20: Antonioni, “Blow Up” (film)

Nov 25: Cortázar, Antonioni; Writing Analytically, chapter 7
Nov 27: No Class – Thanksgiving Break

Dec 2: Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”
Dec 4: Woolf; Style, Lesson 12; Draft of Final Paper Due (4 copies)

Dec 9: Wrap up; Peer Edits
FRIDAY, Dec 12: FINAL PAPER DUE BY 3pm in MAILBOXES, 7408 Dwinelle