Syllabus: Classes Description

Week 1

Tues Jan 20
Introduction.
Thurs Jan 22
3 Min. Presentations

Week 2

Tues Jan 27
Nietzsche, “On truth and Lying in the Extra Moral Sense”
Diagnostic Essay Due
Copies of WA Ch. 1 & 2

Thurs Jan 29
Nietzsche, “On truth and Lying in the Extra Moral Sense”

Week 3

Tues Feb 3
Book III of the Republic

Thurs Feb 5
Diderot
STYLE p.33-73
Exercise 3.6 due ( 2,4,7,8,10,11,13,14)
Exercise 4.4 due ( 6,7,8)

Week 4

Tues Feb 10
This is not a Pipe
Thurs Feb 12
This is not a Pipe
WA Ch. 4
Passage-Paraphrase-Analysis due

Week 5

Tues Feb 17
This is not a Pipe
WA Ch. 5 & 6
Thesis and claims-outline due 

Thurs Feb 19
Reading: Sergei Eisenstein
Movie: The Battleship Potemkin

Week 6

Tues Feb 24
Movie: The Battleship Potemkin
Draft Midterm Paper due, Distribute Copies to your editors.
Thurs Feb 26
Peer Editing Workshop
Review WA Ch. 2 Commenting on a Draft

Week 7

Tues Mar 3
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Midterm Paper due, in class
Thurs Mar 5
Austin, How to do things with Words

Week 8

Tues Mar 10
Austin, How to do things with Words
Thurs Mar 12
Austin, How to do things with Words
STYLE 91-108
Exercise 6.1 Due.

Week 9

Tues Mar 17
Austin, How to do things with Words
Proposed Final Paper Topic due
Review WA Ch. 6
Thurs Mar 19
Romeo Castellucci
STYLE 111-130
Exercise 7.4 Due.

Week 10

Tues Mar 31
Amulet
Paragraph about Topic due
WA 8
Thurs April 2
Amulet

Week 11

Tues April 7
Amulet
STYLE 131-159
Exercise 8.1 Due (1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10,11)

Thurs April 9
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Paper Abstract and Annotated bibliography due
WA Ch. 12

Week 12

Tues April 14
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Outline draft due (2 copies) 

Thurs April 16

Fanon, The Language of the Negro

Week 13

Tues April 21
Presentations
Revised Outline due (one copy) 

Thurs April 23
Presentations

Week 14

April 28

Presentations
Final Paper Draft due in class with Revised Outline. Distribute your copies to you editors. 

April 30
Peer Edit Workshop

Week 15

Tues May 5
Optional In-class office hours...revise final papers
Thurs May 7
Conclusion
Final papers due in hard copy in class