COURSE CALENDAR FOR AML 4213 Summer B 2011

Date

Lectures

Topics & Readings

Assignment Due Dates/Instructions
&
Miscellaneous Reminders

Please note: each week below is divided into two blocks to help you apportion your study time.

Prof = lectures. Click on them. They are required reading.

NR=Not Ready=I haven’t completed the lecture yet.

All E-texts (click on them), professor lectures, and our major authors/books (the ones ordered for the course) are required reading.

Especially in a summer term, things can get very busy—so pay attention to the ebb and flow of the workload and apportion your time accordingly!

Week 1: June 27-July 3
(see below as well)

Prof: Vespucci, etc.

click on above

The “Discovery”

E-text: Columbus

E-text: Vespucci

E-text: Montaigne

E-text: on Vespucci

E-text: on Columbus—just read Columbus part

Week one continues below!!!! Each block (1/2 week) equals what would be a week Fall or Spring term.

CLICK THE "Prof...." LINKS TO THE FAR LEFT FOR MY LECTURES. YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THESE BEFORE, DURING, AND/OR AFTER YOU READ OUR MAIN AUTHORS (IT'S UP TO YOU, ACCORDING TO YOUR LEARNING STYLE).

THE E-TEXTS ARE MANDATORY READING.

DID YOU FORGET TO TAKE THE DIAGNOSTIC EXAM???!!!! IT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 11:59pm 7/5

Week 1:

continued

Prof: Tempest

click on above

IMAGINING THE NEW WORLD

Shakespeare, The Tempest

The Wiki. article below is better than the intro. to our edition (which I found meandering and thus not required reading).

E-text: on Utopia

E-text: on Renaissance

E-text: on Great Chain

E-text: Wiki on Tempest (you can skip/skim sections on “Afterlife” etc—various interpretations 18th century+)

Required Diagnostic (grade doesn’t count) Exam Instructions:
1-Hour, to be taken b/w Saturday July 2nd 9:00pm & Monday July 4th 11:59pm

DID YOU FORGET TO TAKE THE DIAGNOSTIC EXAM???!!!! IT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 11:59pm 7/5

Remember to contribute to the Discussion Groups; and remember to cut-and-paste your substantial postings in an accumulating file, which you will turn in at the end of the semester.

I cannot emphasize too strongly: Discussion Group participation is equivalent to attending class; it is very easy to procrastinate on this, and, as it is a major requirement, you will not pass the course if you don’t submit postings throughout the semester per the instructions on the Syllabus.

Week 2:

July 4-10 (see below as well)

Prof: Puritan

click on above

PURITAN COMMUNITIES & BELIEFS

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E-text: Winthrop

E-text: Bradford

E-text: on Puritans

DEAR SOME STUDENTS: SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CHECKING YOUR EMAIL WITHIN THE BLACKBOARD SYSTEM FOR IMPORTANT MESSAGES. AND SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN READING OR INITIATING POSTS. YOU GET TO BOTH AREAS OF THE SYSTEM BY CLICKING ON THE ICONS ON THE FAR LEFT OF THE BLACKBOARD MENU. WE’RE NOW IN THE SECOND WEEK, AND VERY SOON THE “SOME” SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH “ZERO”!

Required Online Exam#1 Instructions:
1-Hour, to be taken b/w
Saturday July 9th 9:00pm & Monday July 11th 11:59pm

Week 2:

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Film: either “The Black Robe” or “The Mission”

The “Black Robe” is a fictional but historically accurate depiction of relations b/w a Quebec Catholic priest and a northern Indian tribe family. “The Mission”—also fictional, but historically accurate—is about an adventurer turned penitent, involved in a South American Catholic mission.

It would be nice to read actual native American selections, but such requires somewhat “intensive”
anthropological prepping (not practical in the summer term context). So these film representations of Indian “otherness” will have to suffice.

These—along with the 2 films at the end of the semester—should be commonly available via Netflix, Amazon, etc.

You may (if you like film and have some expertise in writing about film from other classes) elect to write on either for the major essay for this course

Week 3:

July 11-17 (see below as well)

Prof: Rowlandson

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17TH/18TH-CENTURY NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITY & ASSIMILATION

Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity ..." (in Journeys)

I suggest that you read the first pages of the editor’s introductory historical material, pages 13-20, before you read Rowlandson's narrative, pages 31-65 (the preface by a Puritan minister immediately before can be skipped); and the last pages of the introduction 21-26, after you read her work.

Week 3:

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Prof. Equiano

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Equiano, The Life of...: Editor’s Note or Introduction (not the Preface written by Equiano himself!!!); Chapters I-III, IV (first several pages), V, VII-VIII, X-XI, XII (first several pages; last several pages), & Preface (Preface only makes sense after you've read the narrative)

E-text: on Equiano #1/read 1^st “next” links

E-text: on Equiano #2/read only after reading Equiano per se (CORRECTED LINK)

Important: Please remember that although some lag time is acceptable (working students often post on the weekend following the week's readings) in respect to the Discussion forums, being chronically out of season is not acceptable. To mix the metaphor: you don’t want to join the party, when the party has moved on to another locale.

Week 4:

July 18-24 (see below as well)

Prof. Ashbridge

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GREAT AWAKENINGS: DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE--SELF AND NATION MAKING

Ashbridge, Autobiography (in Journeys book)

Read the introductory material on Quakers in our edition (121-23) before reading Ashbridge's account (147-70).

Read the remaining interpretive material (119-21 & 124-29, skipping the too technical 130-44) after you read Ashbridge. You do not need to read the secondary accounts, from friends and husband, that follow Ashbridge's memoir.

Please note July 21^st Thursday is the last day to drop the course with a DR grade.

Reminders:

--drop date above

--Exam#2 Instructions below

--Essay Instructions below

--Some of you are not reading important messages in the internal Blackboard system

--Some of you are falling behind in the Discussion Postings. I see the postings the same as attendance; you don't post on time (within a rough window) = you are not attending class. I cannot emphasize too strongly that chronic out-of-season postings will guarantee a low grade on this portion of the course.

--Some of you I intuit are not reading my lectures, which are required. A number of questions on Exam#2 will be testing whether the lectures have been read. So take note, and read them, please!

Week 4:
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Prof. Franklin

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Franklin, Autobiography of B. Franklin (Parts One & Two)

E-text: on Franklin

Again: Please remember that although some lag time is acceptable (working students often post on the weekend following the week's readings) in respect to the Discussion forums, being chronically out of season is not acceptable. To mix the metaphor: you don’t want to join the party, when the party has moved on to another locale.

Instructions for Essay: Due Tuesday July 26^th Midnight

Required Online Exam#2 Instructions:1-Hour, to be taken b/w Saturday July 23rd 9:00pm & Monday July 25th 11:59pm

Week 5:
July 25-31 (see below as well)

Prof. Wieland

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THE DANGERS OF INDEPENDENCE: AMERICAN GOTHIC

Brown, Wieland (do not read Memoirs of Carwin)

Read complex/dense Fliegelman introduction only after you’ve read the novel, as it assumes that you have read the novel).

Week 5:

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Wieland continued

Week 6:
Aug 1-7 (see below as well)

Prof: Crev. & DeToc.

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E-text: Crevecoeur.

E-text: DeTocqueville