Syllabus!

Jan 21: Introduction, Writing Analytically, Chapter 1 (5 Analytical Moves)

Jan 26: 2-3 Minute Introductions
Jan 28: Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”

Feb 2: Nietzsche; Style, Chapter 3
Feb 4: Nietzsche; Emerson, “Self-Reliance”

Feb 9: Emerson
Feb 11: Emerson; Poems by Whitman (will be posted on blog); Writing Analytically, Chapter 4

Feb 16: ACADEMIC HOLIDAY
Feb 18: Whitman (grab the poems here)

Feb 23: Whitman, Langston Hughes, Style, 152-155 (quotations); Writing Analytically, Chapter 7
Feb 25: Whitman, Hughes, Emily Dickinson
Feb 27: PAPER 1 DUE BY 3PM IN MAILBOXES, 7408 Dwinelle

March 2: Jean Toomer, Cane, p. 1-35; Style, Lesson 5
March 4: Cane, p. 39-78

March 9: Cane p. 81-116; Style, pg 91-102
March 11: Cane

March 16: LeRoi Jones, Dutchman; Writing Analytically, Chapter 14
March 18: Dutchman

March 23- 27: Spring Break

March 30: Nina Simone and John Coltrane; Draft of Paper 2 Due
April 1: Peer editing

April 5 (Sunday): Film Screening, 6pm, Room TBA. PAPER 2 DUE AT 6PM
April 6: Discuss film; Writing Analytically, Chapter 6
April 8: Discuss film

April 13: Adorno and Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”
April 15: Adorno and Horkheimer; Style, Lesson 7

April 20: Adorno and Horkheimer
April 22: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, p. 1-63

April 27: Lot 49, p. 64-119; Writing Analytically, Chapter 11
April 29: Lot 49; p. 120-152

May 4: Jimi Hendrix, “Are You Experienced?” and “Star-Spangled Banner”
May 6: Poems by Claudia Rankin; Style, Lesson 12;
May 8: 5 page draft of Final Paper Due (e-mailed to members of your group and to both Ben and Hui-hui by 8pm)

May 11: Wrap up; Peer Edits
FRIDAY, May 15: 8-10 PAGE FINAL PAPER DUE BY 3pm in MAILBOXES, 7408 Dwinelle