Date |
Class Activities | Homework Due | Other Readings + Links |
T 1/22 |
Course + student intro. Hugo Award; Nebula Award | If you can, please read and bring a copy of T. Godwin, "The Cold Equations" to class | |
T 1/29 |
What is SF? Beautiful Dreamer & H. Lauer, Roamin' in the Gloamin'; I'm my Own Grandpa by Ray Stevens; "Charlie X" | Read Asimov (282), Bradbury (73), Heinlein (551), Le Guin, Rabkin, Suvin, "On the Poetics;" Vint and Bould |
Anderson, Atheling, Butor, Masri (1), Warrick; |
T 2/5 |
Utopias before 1900: Bacon, Marx; Klee's/Benjamin's Angel of History | Read Bacon; Marx, Manifesto (ch. I & II); Csicsery-Ronay, "Marxist;" Jameson (876); Position Paper (PP) #1 due hard copy for instructor, Bb/online copy for students in class | Ferns, Kincaid, Price |
T 2/12 |
Free Write: Jameson Ann. Bib.; We: Utopia/Materialism, Narrative Structure, Linguistic Style, Gender | Read Zamyatin 1-129, Arendt (850) | Zamyatin, Letters |
T 2/19 |
Review; We |
Read Zamyatin 130-end; Cowan; and then read one article from
A Collection of Critical
Essays, ed. Gary Kern (1988): Collins, Cooke, Ehre,
Gregg, Kern, Layton, Parrott, Proffer, or Ulph; PP #2
due |
Beauchamp; McCarthy |
T 2/26 |
Brave New World: Timeline, Religion, Lit., Consumer Culture, Family, Sci. Progress, BM, Water, Death, Shakespeare, Community | Read Huxley 1-157 | Peller |
T 3/5 |
Brave New World; Research Questions? | Read Huxley 158-231; Adorno; Horan; PP #3 due | Buchanan; Deery; De Koster; Gottlieb 55-87, 266-85; Huxley, BNW Revisited; Matter; K. Miller; Smethurst |
Spring Break |
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T 3/19 |
Parable of the Sower: SF? Race/Ethnicity; Disaster Narratives (Sontag); Women's Writing; Pain; Religion; Research Questions | Read Butler 1 -149, Sontag (1002) | Donawerth, Frankenstein's, 1-41; Donawerth and Kolmerten; Helford, Jackson; Reid 120-35 |
T 3/26 | Parable of the Sower | Read Butler 149 - end, Agustí, Moylan; PP #4 due | Baccolini, Green, J. Miller, Zaki |
T 4/2 | The Uncanny in The Sandman; Cyborg Manifesto | Read Bresnick, Baudrillard (pdf, not Masri), Freud (427), Haraway (455), Hoffmann (195), & Jung (186); PP #5 due | Castein, Minsky (1211), Moskowitz, Tartar, Todd |
T 4/9 |
Meet in Sprague 203 for Lib. Tutorial; FW: Cyberpunk?; Csisceray-Ronay: the Beautiful Soul; Dick; Tiptree; Male/Female Writing; & Cyborgs | Read Dick, "Second" (296) and "Nature;" Tiptree (342); Csicsery-Ronay, "Cyberpunk" | Capek (235) Freedman, 30-86; Reid, 170-81; Sterling |
T 4/16 |
Butler, "Bloodchild" & Disc. of Pos. Paper Portfolio, Research Projects | Position Paper Portfolio due as hard copy and please upload a file w/all Position Papers to Bb/Assignments/Safe Assign + read Butler, Bloodchild (120) | |
T 4/23 |
Research/Reading day (no class) | Ann. bibl. rough draft due on Blackboard | |
T 4/30 | Peer editing of essays; Flowers for Algernon (1110) | Rough draft due in class and on Bb if you want instructor's feedback; Final version of Ann. Bibl. due; Read Keyes | |
T 5/14, 5:30-7:30 |
Final Essay due in 352 DI | Please simply staple everything together, or use a binder clip. No cover pages or folders, please. |
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585-608. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2906690
Todd, Jane Marie. “The Veiled Woman in
Freud's "Das Unheimliche".” Signs
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