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WEBCT ORIENTATIONS
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This page contains information about the assignments you should be working on each week and when those assignments are due. All assignments [unless otherwise noted] are due by 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time [PST] on the date listed in the schedule. You need to complete your readings, view lectures, and submit assignments on time- late work not accepted.

**NOTE: ORIENTATION, MIDTERM and FINAL exams are ON-CAMPUS

Week one 1/27

On Campus Orientation 2/2 room B268 from 1:00-3:00 pm

Orientation Assignment - DUE 2/2 11:55 pm PST
Journal #0 = 5 points / Discussion Questions #0 = 5 points / Responding to group #0 = 5 points / Quiz #0 = 5 points

Week two 2/3
Theme: Vernacular Chinese Literature

Journal #1 - Monkey (pgs 8-37) - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #1: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture #1 Novels & History - DUE Wednesday

Discussion #1 - DUE Wednesday

Response #1 - DUE Friday

Week three 2/10
Theme: Neoclassicism

Journal #2 - Racine’s Phaedra 362-402 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #2: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture #2 Drama - DUE Wednesday

Discussion #2 - DUE Wednesday

Response #2 - DUE Friday

Week four 2/17
Theme: Satire, Mock Epic, and Baring one's soul

Journal #3 - Swifts Proposal & Pope’s Rape of the Lock pgs 430-433, 483-510 AND Rousseau’s Confessions 660-670- DUE Monday

View Lecture #3 Satire, Epic & Mock Epic- Due Monday

Handbook Reading #3: pgs DUE Wednesday

Discussion #3 - DUE Wednesday

Response #3- DUE Friday

Want some extra credit? Post a rough draft of your midterm report paper by 10 am Friday of week 7 and get 10 bonus points! Your instructor will give you feedback to help you get a better grade!

Week five 2/24
Theme: Temptation & Salvation

**Quiz #1 Due Mon-Fri 10 am PST
quiz does not include week 5 readings - you may take the quiz 2 times and the scores will be averaged.

Journal #4 - Goethe’s Faust 678-693, 709-716, 733-755 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #4: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture #4 Faust Part II- DUE Wednesday

Discussion #4 - DUE Wednesday

Response #4- DUE Friday

Week six 3/2
Theme: Romanticism and Poetry

Journal #5 - Blake 780-788, Coleridge 811-815, Keats 825-826, 828-830,  Tennyson 883-887, Browning 908-911, Heine 844-845, Leopardi 846-848, Hugo 850-856, Whitman 980-987, Dickinson 1049-1051 & 1056, Baudelaire 1380-1388 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #5: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lectures #5 Poetry & British Romanticism and #6 Romanticism in France & Germany - Due Wednesday

Discussion #5 - DUE Wednesday

Response #5- DUE Friday

Week seven 3/9

Theme: Anti-Romanticism

Journal #6 - The Novel: Madame Bovary first half 1084-1200 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #6: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture #7 Flaubert's Madame Bovary - Due Wednesday

Discussion #6 - DUE Wednesday

Response #6- DUE Friday

Extra credit Due Friday: Post a rough draft of your midterm report paper by 10 am Friday of week 7 and get 10 bonus points! Your instructor will give you feedback to help you get a better grade!

Week eight 3/23
Theme: Realism

Journal #7 - Madame Bovary second half 1201-1301 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #7: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture #8 Realism - Due Wednesday

Discussion #7 - DUE Wednesday

Response #7- DUE Friday

Week nine 3/30

**MIDTERM on-campus 4/5 B268 from 1:00-3:00 pm

STUDY FOR MIDTERM EXAM!

Midterm Report DUE at Midterm Exam - no late papers accepted!

Week ten 4/6
Theme: Rise of Psychology

Journal #8 - Tolstoys Ivan Illyich pgs 1418-1459 and Freud’s Dora pgs 1611-1631- DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #8: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lectures #9 Death Psychology and Lecture #10 Freudian Psychology - Due Wednesday

Discussion #8 - DUE Wednesday

Response #8- DUE Friday

Week eleven 4/13
Theme: Modernism & the Fantastic

Journal #9 -Ichiyo’s Child’s Play 1804-1836 and Kafka’s Metamorphosis  1996-2032 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #9: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lectures #11 Modernism & 12 Fantastic - Due Wednesday

Discussion #9 - DUE Wednesday

Response #9- DUE Friday

Week twelve 4/20
Theme: Middle Eastern Comedy

Journal #10 - The Sultan’s Dilemma 2277-2336 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #10: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture3 #13 Sultan's Dilemma - Due Wednesday

Discussion #10 - DUE Wednesday

Response #10- DUE Friday

Want some extra credit? Post an outline of your literary analysis paper by 10 am Friday of week 14 and get 10 bonus points! [Must include title, thesis statement, topic sentences, main points bulleted, and restated thesis conclusion, bulleted points conclusion] Your instructor will give you feedback to help you get a better grade!

Week thirteen 4/27
Theme: Detective Stories, Politics & The Self

**Quiz #2 Due Mon-Fri 10 am PST
quiz does not include week 13 readings - you may take the quiz 2 times and the scores will be averaged.

Journal #11 - Garden of Forking Paths 2411-2421, The Guest 2570-2582 & Drunken Woman 2800-2809 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #11: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lectures #14 Detective Stories and #15 Guest & Drunken Woamn - Due Wednesday

Discussion #11 - DUE Wednesday

Response #11 - DUE Friday

Week fourteen 5/4
Theme: Modern African Lit & Colonialism

Journal #12 - Death & The Kings Horsemen 3021-3071 - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #12: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lectures #16 Death & King's Horsemen - Due Wednesday

Discussion #12 - DUE Wednesday

Response #12 - DUE Friday

Extra Credit Due: Post an outline of your literary analysis paper by 10 am Friday of week 14 and get 10 bonus points! [Must include title, thesis statement, topic sentences, main points bulleted, and restated thesis conclusion, bulleted points conclusion] Your instructor will give you feedback to help you get a better grade!

Week fifteen 5/11
Theme: Theatre of the Absurd

Journal #13 - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - DUE Monday

Handbook Reading #13: pgs DUE Wednesday

View Lecture #17 Theatre of the Absurd

Discussion #13 - DUE Wednesday

Response #13 - DUE Friday

Week sixteen 5/18
Theme: Research Paper

Journal #14 - Rough Draft of Literary Analysis Paper [must include title, introduction with thesis, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and solid conclusion] - DUE Monday

View Lecture #18 How to get an A on your Literary Analysis paper - Due Wednesday

Discussion #14 - DUE Wednesday

Response #14 - DUE Friday

Week seventeen 5/25

**Final Exam on-campus 5/31 rm B268 from 1:00-3:00 pm

STUDY FOR Final EXAM!

Literary Analysis Paper DUE at Final Exam - late papers not accepted!