Course Outline: English 250

Spring 2005

MWF 9:00-9:50

DATE / MONDAY / WEDNESDAY / FRIDAY
Week 1
1/30-2/4 / Introduction to course / “Reading Blind” (1989) by Margaret Atwood (843-846)
“Happy Endings” (1983) by Margaret Atwood (21-23) / Appendix 1: “Storytelling Before the Emergence of the Short Story” (983-994)
Week 2
2/7-2/11 / “Young Goodman Brown” (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (329-338)
Commentary: Herman Melville (898-900), Edgar Allan Poe (921-923) / “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe (687-693)
Commentary: D. H. Lawrence (893-894) / “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) by Herman Melville (532-558)
Week 3
2/14-2/18 / Appendix 2: “A Brief History of the Short Story” (995-1002)
Appendix 3: “The Elements of Fiction” / “The Necklace” (1884) by Guy de Maupassant (524-530)
Commentary: Kate Chopin (861-862) and Guy de Maupassant (896-898) / “The Story of an Hour” (1894) by Kate Chopin (157-158)
“Desiree’s Baby” (handout or online link)
Week 4
2/21-2/25 / “The Yellow Wall-paper” (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gillman (305-318)
Commentary: Gilbert & Gubar (873-875) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (876-879) / ESSAY 1 DUE
Introduction to the novel
Frankenstein (Preface and Introductory Letters) / Frankenstein (Chapters 1-17)
Week 5
2/28-3/4 / Frankenstein (Chapters 18-21) / Frankenstein (Chapters 22-Conclusion)
 / Film clips, Multi-media presentation & overview of research assignment
Week 6
3/7-3/11 / MIDTERM EXAM / “Araby” (1914) by James Joyce (397-402) / “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (1926) by D. H. Lawrence (481-492)
DATE / MONDAY / WEDNESDAY / FRIDAY
Week 7
3/14-3/18 / “Sweat” (1926) by Zora Neale Hurston (357-366)
Commentary: Zora Neale Hurston (965-973) / “A Rose for Emily” (1931) by William Faulkner (268-275)
Commentary: William Faulkner (867-868) / “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927) by Ernest Hemingway (340-343)
REVISION OF ESSAY 1 DUE
Week 8
3/21-3/25 / SPRING BREAK / SPRING BREAK / SPRING BREAK
Week 9
3/28-4/1 / “The Chrysanthemums” (1938) by John Steinbeck (707-714)
PROPOSAL DUE / “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (1961) by Richard Wright (820-830)
Commentary: Richard Wright (934-935) / CLASS CANCELED
Week 10
4/4-4/8 / “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (1955) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (300-304) / “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1955) by Flannery O’Connor (658-669)
Commentary: Flannery O’Connor (907-915) / “The Lesson” (1972) by Toni Cade Bambara (49-54)
Week 11
4/11-4/15 / “A Small, Good Thing” (1983) by Raymond Carver (81-98)
Commentary: Raymond Carver (941-949) / “The Management of Grief” (1988) by Bharati Mukherjee (583-596)
ESSAY 2 DUE / Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison
Week 12
4/18-4/22 / Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison / Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison / Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison
Week 13
4/25-4/29 / Beloved (1988) by Toni Morrison / Oral Presentations / Oral Presentations
Week 14
5/2-5/6 / Oral Presentations / Oral Presentations / Oral Presentations
Week 15
5/9-5/13 / Oral Presentations / Oral Presentations / Oral Presentations
TERM PAPERS DUE

Final Exam: Tuesday, 5/17/05 8:00am-10:30am