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Syllabus 2000 - 2001
The Good Life: M 4-6 PM
sschuman@oregon.uoregon.edu
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sschuman/goodlife/
October
23: "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning
30: "No-name Woman," Maxine Hong-Kingston
November
6: "A Hunger Artist," Franz Kafka
13: "Rebellion," Fyodor Dostoevsky
20: "Apology," Plato
27: "Crito," Plato; Paper #1 due: 1 page (250 words, typed)
December
4: Book I, Iliad, Homer
Winter Vacation
January
8: Book XXIV, Iliad, Homer (rewrite paper #1 due)
15: MLK day: No class
22: Antigone, Sophocles
29: Book I, Aeneid
February
5: Book IV, Aenied
12: Inferno, Cantos 1-3, Dante
19: Parent's day: no school (paper #2, 2 pages)
26: Inferno, Cantos 4-5, Dante (paper #2 due)
March
5: "General Prologue," Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
12: The Merchant of Venice, Acts 1 and 2, Shakespeare
19: The Merchant of Venice, Acts 3-5, Shakespeare
Spring Vacation
April
2: Book IV, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (rewrite paper #2 due)
9: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
16: Frankenstein
23: Frankenstein
30: "Bartleby the Scrivener," Herman Melville
May
7: Beloved, Toni Morrison
14: Beloved
21: Beloved
28: Memorial Day: No Class (paper #3 due, 3-4 pages)
June
4: Beloved, Toni Morrison
11: Last Class
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