Reading and Assignment Schedule (Subject to Change)

Week 1: Aug. 30

Introductions to each other and class

Week 2: Sept 6

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Hallett and Karasek, Folk and Fairy Tales, xv-181
• Handouts (available through Educator (Course Materials/Handouts/FairyTales) or in the English Dept. Office Copy Room
  • Donkeyskin
  • Arab Cinderella
  • Trites Little Mermaid ("Disney's Sub/Versions")

Week 3: Sept. 13

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Hallett and Karasek, Folk and Fairy Tales,183-end
• The Watertower
• The Diamond Age (pages 1-53)

Week 4: Sept. 20

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Off With Their Heads, Preface-Chapter 5
• Hoffman, Struwwelpeter
• Article: "Civilizing Manners and Mocking Morality," on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v020/20.2metcalf.html
• The Diamond Age (pages 53-105)

Week 5: Sept. 27

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Off With Their Heads!, Chapter 6-end
• The Diamond Age (pages 105-149)
• Article: "Complexity Theory" (in Educator or English Office)

Not required reading, but you might want to look at the following sites regarding nanotechnology:

• http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2004/05/what_is_nanotec.html
• http://www.nanotech-now.com/introduction.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

Also not required reading, but this site provides a basic synopsis as well as a list of terms and characters in The Diamond Age:

• http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=21014
  

Week 6: Oct. 4

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• The Diamond Age (pages 150-197)
• Article: "Future as Past" (in Educator or English Office)
• Handouts (available through Educator (Course Materials/Handouts) or in the English Dept. Office Copy Room
  • Zipes Chapters 1 and 2

Week 7: Oct. 11

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Remainder of The Diamond Age
• Article/Book Chapter: "Geography’s conquest of history in The Diamond Age": http://spot.colorado.edu/~toakes/Diamond.html

Week 8: Oct 18

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Handouts (available through Educator (Course Materials/Handouts) or in the English Dept. Office Copy Room
  • Arab Folktales
  • Yiddish Folktales
  • Afro-American Folktales

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Descendants of Darkness

Week 10: Nov 1

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (all)

Week 11: Nov. 8

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Skellig

Week 12: Nov. 15

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• Abstract Due
• The Witches

Week 13: Nov. 22

• Thinker due by Monday at 10:00 p.m.
• The Golden Compass
  

Week 14: Nov. 29

• Presentations (Conference Style)

Week 15: Dec. 6

• Presentations (Conference Style)
• Article-length paper due

Week 16: Finals Week

• Presentations (Conference Style)