Course Schedule (subject to change as needed):

Week 1:

Check-In Task and Introductions on MyHeritage.

Meeting #1: 6/5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Readings for Meeting #1: #1 (Sartre), #2 (Sartre), #3 (Camus), #4 (Sartre), #5 (Heidegger), and begin #6 (Kafka).

Topics: Existentialism (Basic Tenets). Free Will and the Existential Emotions. Existential Ethics. Phenomenology (Basic Tenets). Interpretation as the Basic Human Act. Hermeneutics and Its Influence on Critical Theory in Literature and the Arts. Being-in-the-World and Being-Towards-Death. Existentialism and Post-Modernism: The Absurd, The Other, The Existential "Hero"/"Anti-Hero," Angst and Other Existential Crises.

Online Students Begin Reading Responses.

Week 2:

Continue Readings for Meeting #1 and #2.

Week 3:

Meeting #2: 6/19 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Readings for Meeting #2: Finish #6 (Kafka), #7-11 (Stevens), #12 (Levi-Strauss), # 13 (Derrida), #14 (Akutagawa), #15 (Barth), #16-17 (Borges), and #18 (Martin).

Topics: Quick Review of Meeting #1. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. Deconstructionism. More Post-Modernism: Uncertainty, Black Humor, Intertextuality, and Self-Referentiality.

Online Students Continue Reading Responses.

Week 4:

All Students Begin Reflective Posts on MyHeritage.

Week 5:

Paper #1 Due for ALL Students (only paper for 1-credit students!)

Week 6:

All Reading Response Assignments Due for Online Students

Week 7:

All Reflective Posts on MyHeritage Due.

Week 8:

Paper #2 Due for All 2 or 3-Credit Students