Unit #1 (Weeks 1-6):

Week 1: Complete Check-In Tests and Tasks. Introduction to Course—What Is Literary Theory?: Dobie, Chap. 1. Begin reading The Pooh Perplex.

Week 2: Traditional Approaches (Historical, Biographical, Genre): Dobie, Chap. 2.

Week 3: Formalism (Russian and New Criticism): Dobie, Chap. 3.

Week 4: Psychological Criticism (Freud, Jung, Jungian Influences on Lacan and Frye): Dobie, Chap. 4.

Week 5: Marxist Criticism: Dobie, Chap. 5.

Week 6: Reader-Response Theories: Dobie, Chap. 7.

End Week 6: Try to match The Pooh Perplex articles with the critical approaches in Dobie. Drafts of Analyses #1 and 2 due (put in Drafts Dropbox in Unit I OR bring to short conference with Dr. Schmidt.

Proposed Live Session 10/2

Analyses #1 and 2 due 10/10

Complete half of MyHeritage Teaching Lit/Reading Journal entries.

Unit #2 (Weeks 7-12):

Week 7: Feminist Criticism and Queer Criticism: Dobie, Chap. 6. Start reading The Postmodern Pooh.

Week 8: Deconstruction a la Derrida: Dobie, Chap. 8.

Week 9: Cultural Studies and the New Historicism: Dobie, Chap. 9.

Week 10: Postcolonial and Multicultural Approaches: Dobie, Chap. 10.

Week 11: Green Criticism (Eco-Criticism): Dobie, Chap. 11.

Drafts of Analyses #3 and 4 due (put in Drafts Dropbox in Unit I OR bring to short conference with Dr. Schmidt. Draft of Journal Article Review due.

Try to match up The Postmodern Pooh articles with the critical approaches in Dobie.

Proposed Live Session 11/6

Week 12: Analyses #3 and 4 due 11/14. Journal Article Review due 11/14.

Complete remaining half of MyHeritage Teaching Lit/Reading Journal entries.

Unit #3 (Finishing Up):

Week 13: Reading and Teaching Literature Journal Due 11/21.

Week 14: Work on Individual Presentations. Graduate students will choose one text to present as if teaching the text in class, acknowledging and discussing multiple perspectives on it (three approaches). Undergraduate Students will choose one of their Analyses to present as if teaching this aspect of the text in addition to the "Traditional Approaches" to it in class. Arrange Presentation with Dr. Schmidt (may combine presentation with presentation/seminar for another literature course).

CLASS CONCLUDES:

Week 15 (or Finals Week if Dr. Schmidt offers a date then): Teaching Demonstration

Proposed Live Session 12/4: Teaching Demonstrations

Week 16: Final Paper Due 12/8.