(Follow this schedule to keep pace for course completion; feel free to go faster.)

Weekend #1 (or Month #1 of Semester or Weeks 0-2.5 of Summer Session)

I. Pre-Assignments for Weekend #1:

We will divide the material into three units. If a classroom version of the class is available, it is held over three weekends. The first unit/weekend will concentrate on shorter readings, the second unit/weekend on longer readings, and the third unit/weekend on American/British texts. Only undergraduate students are required to attend the third weekend, but graduate students are responsible for this material.

For Weekend #1, read as much as you can of the following, making sure to read a poem or two from each of the poets:

3rd edition version. If you have the 4th edition, the page numbers are wrong and some readings may change.

Volume D
Matsuo Basho, Buson, etc., 613++

Volume E
Friedrich Holderlin, 342++
Charles Baudelaire, 466++
Stephane Mallarme, 509++
Paul Verlaine, 515++
Arthur Rimbaud, 521++
Ghalib, 587++
Rabindranath Tagore, 889++—skim and pick out one of these poets (Holderlin through Tagore) to discuss in one of your Forum entries.

Anton Chekhov, 845++

Oral Lit, 915++

Volume F
Rainer Maria Rilke, 533++
Federico Garcia Lorca, 575++
Pablo Neruda, 583++
Leopold Sedar Senghor, 676++
Derek Walcott, 939++
Seamus Heaney 973++

Lu Xun, 242++
Akutagawa Ryunsuke 303++
Jorge Luis Borges, 487++
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 853++
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 986++
Nawal El Saadawi, 1104+|
Salman Rushdie, 1129++

II. Follow-up Assignments:

Forum/Discussion Followup for Online Students

Spring 15-Week Semester: 2/8
SP1 8-Week Term: 1/25
SP2 8-Week Term: 3/22

Paper #1

Spring 15-Week Semester: 2/9
SP1 8-Week Term: 1/28
SP2 8-Week Term: 3/23

Weekend #2 (or Month #2 of Semester or Weeks 2.5-5 of Summer Session)

I. Pre-Assignments for Weekend #2:

For Weekend #2, read as much as you can of the following. Try to read at least SOME of each text if you cannot finish all in time. NOTE: If you wish to make your presentation on a text Weekend #2, please be prepared to present or post your work prior to this time. If an online student, you must post your presentation during Week 3 for a "Weekend #2" reading or during Week 6 for a "Weekend #3 reading.

Volume D
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 352++

Volume E
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 99++
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 631++
Henrik Ibsen, 778++
Higuchi Ichiyo, 905++

Volume F
Franz Kafka, 207++
Samuel Beckett, 763++
Chinua Achebe, 825++

II. Follow-up Assignments

Forum/Discussion Followup for Online Students

Spring 15-Week Semester: 3/22
SP1 8-Week Term: 2/15
SP2 8-Week Term: 4/11

Paper #2

Spring 15-Week Semester: 3/23
SP1 8-Week Term: 2/16
SP2 8-Week Term: 4/12

Weekend #3 (or Month #3 of Semester or Weeks 5-7.5 of Summer Session)

I. Pre-Assignments for Weekend #3:

A. Prepare Presentation (if not presented during Weekend #2). Notify Prof. Mendez or Dr. Schmidt via e-mail of the text you will present/teach. If an online student, you must post your presentation during Week 3 (5 for 15-week course) for a "Weekend #2" reading or during Week 6 (9 for 15-week course) for a "Weekend #3 reading.

B. For Weekend #3, read as much as you can of the following. Try to read at least SOME of each text if you cannot finish all in time.

Volume D
Jonathan Swift, 265++

Volume E
William Blake, 330+
William Wordsworth, 345++
Samuel Coleridge, 360++
Percy Shelley, 395++
John Keats, 403++
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 421++
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning, 437++
Christina Rossetti, 490++
(You do not need to read all of these British Romantics, but must select one British Romantic poem for discussion in Forum)

Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself,” 446++
Emily Dickinson, 480++

Volume F
William Butler Yeats, 518++
Wallace Stevens, pp. 1896++
T. S. Eliot, 537++

Doris Lessing, 727++
Alice Munro, 911++
Leslie Marmon Silko, 1029++
Toni Morrison, 1172++

II. Follow-up Assignments and Final Due Dates

Final Opportunity for Online or In-Person Presentation of Seminar Leader Assignment

Spring 15-Week Semester: 4/26
SP1 8-Week Term: 2/28
SP2 8-Week Term: 4/26

Forum/Discussion Followup for Online Students

Spring 15-Week Semester: 4/27
SP1 8-Week Term: 3/1
SP2 8-Week Term: 4/27

Paper #3

Spring 15-Week Semester: 4/28
SP1 8-Week Term: 3/2
SP2 8-Week Term: 4/28

ALL ASSIGNMENTS DUE