The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| September 7 | Introduction |
| September 9 | T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" (Dore, 260-262) Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" (Dore, 27) Marianne Moore, "The Fish" (Dore, 55-56) Robert Frost, "A Considerable Speck" (Dore, 47) |
| September 14 | Langston Hughes, "Afro-American Fragment" (Dore, 165) and "Harlem" (Dore 206) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| September 16 | Hurston, continued. |
| September 21 | Hurston, continued |
| September 23 | Hurston, continued |
| September 28 | Hurston, continued |
| September 30 | William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" (Dore, 115), "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" (Dore, 119) and Macbeth |
| October 5 | Macbeth, continued |
| October 7 | Macbeth, continued |
| October 12 | Macbeth, continued |
| October 14 | Macbeth, continued |
| October 19 | Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed" (Dore, 215-216) Wilfred Owen, "Arms and the Boy" (Dore, 216) Dylan Thomas, "The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City" (Dore 221) Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time |
| October 21 | Hemingway, continued |
| October 26 | Hemingway, continued |
| October 28 | Hemingway, continued |
| November 2 | Mid-term Examination |
| November 4 | Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (Dore 109) Ogden Nash, "Love under the Republicans (Or Democrats)" (Dore 109-110) John Donne, "Song" (Dore, 122-123) Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| November 9 | Albee, continued |
| November 11 | Albee, continued |
| November 16 | Albee, continued |
| November 18 | Albee, continued |
| November 23 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (Dore, 100-101) Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay" (Dore, 93-94) |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| November 30 | "Fare Thee Well" (Dore 216-217) Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine |
| December 2 | Erdrich, continued --Bring draft of paper for peer-review-- |
| December 7 | Erdrich, continued --Paper Assignment Due-- |
| December 9 | Erdrich, continued |
| December 14 | Erdrich, continued |
| December 16 | Erdrich, continued William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" |
| --Final Exam during Finals Week-- | |