Reading/Course Schedule

READING SCHEDULE

*Schedule subject to change. You are always encouraged to read ahead, as sometimes the reading load is heavier than other times. Please look ahead and plan wisely for these times.

Week One - TIME TRAVEL

M 2/5 Course Introductions

HW: purchase all books; read up to page 75 in Kindred

W 2/7 

HW: read to page 125 in Kindred

Week Two

M 2/12 

HW: read to page 200 in Kindred

W 2/14 Essay #1 Introduction

HW: HW: finish Kindred; read this four page excerpt from Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Week Three - AI/THE SINGULARITY

M 2/19 

HW: read up to page 75 in The Stepford Wives

W 2/21 

HW: complete Essay #1 rough draft

Week Four

M 2/26 Essay #1 Rough Draft (bring two printed copies to class for Workshop)

HW: finish The Stepford Wives

W 2/28

HW:  complete Essay #1 final draft

Week Five

M 3/5 watch Advantageous; Essay #1 final draft due on Moodle only

HW:

W 3/7 watch Advantageous

HW: read "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

Week Six - Dystopias, Surveillance, & Totalitarian Regimes

M 3/12 Introduce Essay #2

HW: read A Handmaid's Tale to page 75

W 3/14

HW: read up to page 228 in Handmaid's Tale over the break; work on Essay #2 rough draft over the break

Week Eight

M 3/ 19 SPRING BREAK

W 3/21 SPRING BREAK

Week Nine

M 3/26 

HW: finish A Handmaid's Tale; complete rough draft of Essay #2 for workshop (bring 2 copies to class Wednesday)

W 3/28 Essay #2 Rough Draft workshop

HW: complete final draft of Essay #2

Week Ten

M 4/2  Essay #2 due; Black Mirror

HW: read The Hunger Games to page 100

W 4/4 introduce Report from the Future

HW: read the Hunger Games to page 200

Week Eleven

M 4/9

HW: read The Hunger Games to page 300

W 4/11

HW: finish The Hunger Games

Week Twelve - Climate Change 

M 4/16

HW: read up to page 58 in Annihilation

W 4/18 Black Mirror

HW: read up to page 119 in Annihilation

Week Thirteen

M 4/23

HW: finish Annihilation

W 4/25 
HW: Report from the Future Analytical Essay and Creative Component due 4/27 by 6 pm on Moodle 



Week Fourteen


M 4/30 Presentations

W 5/2 Presentations

Week Fifteen

M 5/7 Presentations; Evals; Party

Final paper due via Moodle by May 11th at 6 pm.