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
Week 1
Mon. Jan. 4, Tues. Jan. 5

Prof. Alice Fahs

Douglass (I)

Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Preface through Ch. 8

SQ: Week 1

Image gallery

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
Week 2
Mon. Jan. 11, Tues. Jan. 12

Prof. Alice Fahs

“A Harvest of Death”: The Civil War as a Crisis in Meaning

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

SQ: Week 2

Start ESSAY 3

Wed. Jan. 13, Thurs. Jan. 14

Prof. Alice Fahs

The Civil War and Representation

Poems by Walt Whitman (Reader 88-97) and poems by Emily Dickinson (Reader 98-101)
Handbook Ch. 21: Integrating Quotations and Citing Sources
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.
Wed. Jan. 20, Thurs. Jan. 21

Prof. Alice Fahs

The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture

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

Dirty Wars
(view online)

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

Constructing Terrorism
(view online)

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

Barbarians (I)

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

Barbarians (II)

Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Wed. Feb. 10, Thurs. Feb. 11

Prof. Rodrigo Lazo

Argentina's Dirty War
(view online)

Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Viewing: The Official Story (UCI email login required.)
Handbook Ch. 11: Analyzing Film

SQ: The Official Story

Film clips

Midterm in last seminar meeting of Week 6

Week 7
Mon. Feb. 15, Tues. Feb. 16

No lectures Monday or Tuesday.
Campus will be closed Monday for the Presidents' Day Holiday; Tuesday seminars will meet.

Wed. Feb. 17, Thurs. Feb. 18

Prof. Rodrigo Lazo

From Argentina to the War on Terror

Marchak, "El Proceso" (Reader 122-141); Partnoy, "A Conversation Under the Rain" (Reader 142-145)

Suggested reading: Partnoy, The Little School (excerpts)

Week 8
Mon. Feb. 22, Tues. Feb. 23

Prof. Michael Szalay

The Cold War

Viewing: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (UCI email login required)
Handbook Ch. 17: Analyzing Television and Media Convergence
Wed. Feb. 24, Thurs. Feb. 25

Prof. Michael Szalay

The Manchurian Candidate

Viewing: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (UCI email login required)

Film clips

Start ESSAY 4

Week 9
Mon. Feb. 29, Tues. March 1

Prof. Michael Szalay

Welcome to the unconscious...

Viewing: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (UCI email login required)
Wed. March 2, Thurs. March 3

Prof. Michael Szalay

From Cold War to War On Terror

Al-Arian, "TV's Most Islamophobic Show" (Salon.com)
Viewing: Homeland S.1 Ep. 1 (on Amazon, iTunes, and [temporarily free] Hulu)
Week 10
Mon. March 7, Tues. March 8

Prof. Michael Szalay

Immediacy

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

Sport

Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (172-307)

Final exams will be held in seminar classrooms and scheduled according to seminar times.