LECTURE CALENDAR
The calendar provides links to lecture notes, study questions (SQ), and other resources. The reading assignment for each lecture should be completed before the lecture. Assigned chapters from the Writer's Handbook should be read for seminar discussions.
M/W and M/W/F seminars begin on Monday, Jan. 4; Tu/Th seminars begin on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Failure to attend the first meeting of your seminar will count as an unexcused absence.
| Dates | Lecture Notes | Reading Assignments | SQ/Resources |
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| Week 1 Mon. Jan. 4, Tues. Jan. 5 |
Prof. Alice Fahs |
Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Preface through Ch. 8 | |
| Wed. Jan. 6, Thurs. Jan. 7 | Prof. Alice Fahs The Civil War and Historical Contingency: Emancipation and Black Soldiers |
Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Ch. 9-Appendix, and other writings (Reader 53-62); Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (Narrative 119-147); Jacobs, "Life Among the Contrabands" (Reader 63-68); Fahs, "Picturing the Civil War 3: African American Soldiers" Handbook Ch. 24: Analyzing Visual Images |
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| Week 2 Mon. Jan. 11, Tues. Jan. 12 |
Prof. Alice Fahs |
Louisa May Alcott, excerpts from Hospital Sketches (Reader 69-87); Fahs, "Picturing the Civil War 1" and "Picturing the Civil War 2: Sentimental Soldiers" Handbook Ch. 14: Historical Analysis, Ch. 15: Analyzing Primary Sources |
Start ESSAY 3 |
| Wed. Jan. 13, Thurs. Jan. 14 | Prof. Alice Fahs |
Poems by Walt Whitman (Reader 88-97) and poems by Emily Dickinson (Reader 98-101) Handbook Ch. 21: Integrating Quotations and Citing Sources |
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| Week 3 Mon. Jan. 18, Tues. Jan. 19 |
No lectures Monday or Tuesday. Campus will be closed Monday for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday; Tuesday seminars will meet. |
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| Wed. Jan. 20, Thurs. Jan. 21 | Prof. Alice Fahs |
Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "A Tough Tussle" (Reader 108-112); Fahs, "Picturing the Civil War 4: The Memory of the War" | |
| Week 4 Mon. Jan. 25, Tues. Jan. 26 |
Prof. Alice Fahs Love, War, and Memory: Robert Duncan, Ned Fahs, and the Crisis of World War II |
Robert Duncan, "Passage over Water" (Reader 113); "The Homosexual in Society"; "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" (online); "A Spring Memorandum" (online); "The Structure of Rime XI" | |
| Wed. Jan. 27, Thurs. Jan. 28 | Prof. Rodrigo Lazo |
UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Gonzales, "Memorandum for the President" (Reader 175-178); Dershowitz, "Tortured Reasoning" (Reader 179-195); Scarry, "Five Errors" (Reader 196-202) Handbook Ch. 16: Writing Opinion Pieces |
SQ: Dirty Wars (I) Friday Forum: Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "The Ghosts of 1900: China's Boxer Rising and the First Global War" 11am, BS3 1200 |
| Week 5 Mon. Feb. 1, Tues. Feb. 2 |
Prof. Rodrigo Lazo |
Said, "Introduction," Orientalism; Fletcher and Stover, "Pushed to the Breaking Point" (Reader 146-167); "The Depositions: Prisoners Speak. Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees" (Reader 168-174) | SQ: Said's Orientalism |
| Wed. Feb. 3, Thurs. Feb. 4 | Prof. Rodrigo Lazo |
Scarry, "Three Simultaneous Phenomena in the Structure of Torture" (Reader 114-121); Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians | SQ: Coetzee |
| Week 6 Mon. Feb. 8, Tues. Feb. 9 |
Prof. Rodrigo Lazo |
Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians | |
| Wed. Feb. 10, Thurs. Feb. 11 | Prof. Rodrigo Lazo |
Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians Viewing: The Official Story (UCI email login required.) Handbook Ch. 11: Analyzing Film |
Midterm in last seminar meeting of Week 6 |
| Week 7 Mon. Feb. 15, Tues. Feb. 16 |
No lectures Monday or Tuesday. |
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| Wed. Feb. 17, Thurs. Feb. 18 | Prof. Rodrigo Lazo |
Marchak, "El Proceso" (Reader 122-141); Partnoy, "A Conversation Under the Rain" (Reader 142-145) Suggested reading: Partnoy, The Little School (excerpts) |
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| Week 8 Mon. Feb. 22, Tues. Feb. 23 |
Prof. Michael Szalay |
Viewing: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (UCI email login required) Handbook Ch. 17: Analyzing Television and Media Convergence |
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| Wed. Feb. 24, Thurs. Feb. 25 | Prof. Michael Szalay |
Viewing: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (UCI email login required) | Start ESSAY 4 |
| Week 9 Mon. Feb. 29, Tues. March 1 |
Prof. Michael Szalay |
Viewing: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (UCI email login required) | |
| Wed. March 2, Thurs. March 3 | Prof. Michael Szalay |
Al-Arian, "TV's Most Islamophobic Show" (Salon.com) Viewing: Homeland S.1 Ep. 1 (on Amazon, iTunes, and [temporarily free] Hulu) |
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| Week 10 Mon. March 7, Tues. March 8 |
Prof. Michael Szalay |
Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (1-171); Thussu, "War as Infotainment" (Reader 258-273) | |
| Wed. March 9, Thurs. March 10 | Prof. Michael Szalay |
Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (172-307) |
