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Part I: Reading for Discussion

W Jan 12 A Sampling of Modern Poetry [Readings Book B]

F Jan 14 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, Introduction, Preface, Walton's Letters, and Chapters 1-8 [Introduction in Readings Book C]

M Jan 17 Frankenstein, Chapters 9-17 [Introduction in Readings Book D]

W Jan 19 Frankenstein, Chapters 18-24 [Introduction in Readings Book E]

Video: Nova: Cracking the Code of Life, approx. 60 minutes [study questions Readings Book F]
Wed. Jan 19 at 4:15 and 7:00pm in Korb Classroom
Thur. Jan 20 at 4:15 and 7:00pm in Korb Classroom

F Jan 21 Nova: Cracking the Code of Life (video) [Introduction in Readings Book F]

Part II: The Industrial Revolution

M Jan 24 LECTURE: The Industrial Revolution (Michelle Rhoades)

W Jan 26 Pre-industrial Poems: Stephen Duck, "The Thresher's Labour"; Mary Collier "The Woman's Labour"; William Blake, "London" and "The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young"; Jonathan Swift, "A Description of a City Shower" [Readings Book G]

F Jan 28 Charles Babbage, selections from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures [Readings Book H]

M Jan 31 Friedrich Engels, selections from The Condition of the Working Class in England [Readings Book I]

W Feb 2 Elizabeth Gaskell, selections from Mary Barton [Readings Book J]

F Feb 4 Labor Issues: Wool Weavers' Petition; Letters from the Swing Riots; Chartist Petition [Readings Book K]

M Feb 7 The Woman Question: selections from texts by The Female Political Union of Newcastle upon Tyne, Joseph Heinrichs, Louise Otto, and Friedrich Engels [Readings Book L]

W Feb 9 John Stuart Mill, "Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisser-faire or Non-interference Principle" from The Principles of Political Economy [Readings Book M]

F Feb 11 Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, and "Estranged Labor" from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 [Readings Book N]

M Feb 14 Ruskin, "Modern Manufacture and Design" and selections from The Seven Lamps of Architecture [Readings Book O]

W Feb 16 Reflection Day

F Feb 18 Lenin, selections from Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism [Readings Book P]

M Feb 21 William Morris, selections from News from Nowhere [Readings Book Q]

Part III: Mexico

W Feb 23 LECTURE: Past and Present in Mexico (Rick Warner)

F Feb 25 Popul Vuh [Selections in Readings Book R] and Broken Spears Chapter 1

M Feb 28 Broken Spears Chapters 2-10 [Introduction in Readings Book S]

W Mar 2 Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain (selections); Town Plan and Images of Mexico City [Readings Book T and images on VMR]

F Mar 4 Carlos Fuentes, "Chac Mool" [Readings Book U]

SPRING BREAK

M Mar 14 Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs [Introduction in Readings Book V]

W Mar 16 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros (art) [Introduction in Readings Book W and images on VMR]

Video: "Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda/Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman."(1995)
Wed. Mar 16 at 4:15 and 7:00 pm in Korb Classroom
Thurs. Mar 17 at 4:15 and 7:00 pm in Korb Classroom

F Mar 18 Sabina Berman, Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman (film) [Introduction in Readings Book X]

M Mar 21 Reflection Day

Part IV: Mexicans in the US

W Mar 23 Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit [Introduction in Readings Book Y]

F Mar 25 Between the Lines (selected letters from migrants), images from the border, and murals from East LA [Readings Book Z and images on VMR]

M Mar 28 Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street [Introduction in Readings Book AA]

Video: Lone Star (1996) approx. 120 minutes
Mon. Mar 28 at 4:15 and 7:00 pm. in Center Hall 216
Tues. Mar. 29 at 4:15 in Korb Classroom and 7:00 pm in Center Hall 216

W Mar 30 Film: Lone Star [Introduction in Readings Book BB]

Part V: Aspects of African-American Experience

F Apr 1 LECTURE: African American Freedom Struggles and America's Color Lines (Sarah Thuesen)

M Apr 4 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [Introduction in Readings Book CC]

W Apr 6 W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, "The Forethought", Chapter 1, first sentence of Chapter 2, Chapter 13. [Introduction in Readings Book DD]

F Apr 8 Booker T. Washington, "Awakening of the Negro" and "Atlanta Exposition Address" [Readings Book EE] and W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 3

M Apr 11 LECTURE: The Harlem Renaissance (Joy Castro)

W Apr 13 Poetry, Music, and Art [Readings Book FF and VMR]

F Apr 15 Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" [Readings Book GG]

M Apr 18 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Prologue and Chapter 1 [Readings Book HH]

W Apr 20 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapters 1-3, 7, 9 (pp. 150-153) [Introduction in Readings Book II]

Video: Eyes on the Prize (1986, selections edited by C&T staff, 2002), approx. 90 minutes
A film guide detailing the selections and giving some study questions is in Readings Book JJ.
Wed. April 20 at 4:15 and 7:00 pm. in Korb Classroom
Thurs. April 21 at 4:15 and 7:00 pm. in Korb Classroom and 7:00 P.M. in Center 216

F Apr 22 Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and Eyes on the Prize [Readings Book JJ]

M Apr 25 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapters 10, 11, 13, 14 [Introduction in Readings Book KK]

W Apr 27 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapters 17, 19, and Epilogue (pp. 435-450, 461-463) [Introduction in Readings Book LL]

F Apr 29 Henry Louis Gates, selections from Colored People [Readings Book MM]

Final Exam Thursday May 5th, 9:00 am

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