SAMPLE READING/WRITING
SCHEDULE
Please note:
Assignments are to be read on the day they appear on the syllabus.
This schedule is subject to change.
If you are absent on a day when changes in the syllabus are made, it
is your responsibility to find out what the assignment is.
Reading quizzes will be frequent and unannounced--and may not be made
up.
Mon, Aug 28 Hello. Introductions.
Wed, Aug 30 Genesis 1-3 (course
packet)
Mon, Sep 4 Labor Day.
Wed, Sep 6 Genesis and "The Speech of Aristophanes" from Plato's
Symposium (course packet)
Mon, Sep 11 The Book of Job
Wed, Sep 13 The Book of Job
Mon, Sep 18 Sophocles, Antigone
Wed, Sep 20 Antigone
Mon, Sep 25 Plato-Socrates,
The Apology
Wed, Sep 27 The Apology
Mon, Oct 2 Draft of Paper
#1 due for peer review.
Plato-Socrates "Parable of the Cave" from The Republic (course
packet)
Wed, Oct 4 Revision of Paper
#1 due. (Please include previous draft, peer review sheet, and final
draft placed on top.)
Begin Hesse, Siddhartha (Chapters 1, 2 & 3)
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Mon, Oct 9 Columbus Day recess
Wed, Oct 11 Hesse, Siddhartha
Mon, Oct 16 Hesse, Siddhartha.
Wed, Oct 18 Campbell, "The Confrontation of East and West in Religion" (course
packet)
Prepare
for student-lead discussions of essays from course packet (handout
forthcoming). Choose from "Mirrors" by Lucy Grealy; "Beauty:
When the Other Dancer is the Self" by Alice Walker; "Who Am I?" by
Ken Wilbur; "Self- Actualizing and Beyond" by Abraham Maslow; "Existentialism" by
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mon, Oct 23 Student-lead discussions
Wed, Oct 25 Student-lead discussions
Mon, Oct 30 Chopin, The Awakening
Wed, Nov 1 Paper #2 due for peer review. Chopin, The Awakening
Mon, Nov 6 Chopin, The Awakening
Wed, Nov 8 Revision of paper #2 due.
Mon, Nov 13 Wright, Black Boy
Wed, Nov 15 Wright, Black
Boy
Mon, Nov 20 Wright, Black
Boy
Mon, Nov 27 Hillman, The Soul's Code
Wed, Nov 29 Hillman, The Soul's Code
Paper #3 due for peer review.
Mon, Dec 4 Hillman, The Soul's Code
Wed, Dec 6 Revision of paper #3 due. Final words---review of course.
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMINATION:
(Meet in our regular classroom). Section 1: Wed., Dec. 13--10:30-1:15
Section 2: Wed., Dec. 13--1:30-2:45
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