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English 4430 schedule, fall 2024

Updated 10/3/2024

This schedule is tentative.

Focus
Dates
Readings
Assignments

 Introduction

Aug. 14-16

– Course syllabus
– 2000-4000 grades and grading

– Student info form (online)
– Complete "Start Here" items in D2L

 Drop/Add ends
Aug. 20
 

Crime and Punishment, Part One

Aug. 16-24

– Dostoevsky overview
– Prefatory notes, pp. vii-xi
– Part One, chapters 1-7, pp. 1-62

– Plagiarism pledge (in D2L)
– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion 1 (in D2L)
Crime and Punishment, Parts Two and Three

Aug. 25-31

– Simple stuff
– Golden rules
– Crime and Punishment, Parts 2-3, pp. 63-194		 – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion 2 (in D2L)
Crime and Punishment, Parts Four and Five Sept. 1-7

– Nuggets
– Crime and Punishment, Parts 4-5, pp. 195-303

 – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
Crime and Punishment, Part Six & Epilogues I-II Sept. 8-14 – Quotations
– Crime and Punishment, Part 6 & Epilogues, pp. 304-80		 – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
The Idiot unit 1 Sept. 15-21

– The Idiot, pp. ix-xxix, 1-109 (Part 1, chs. 1-10)
– Joseph Frank introduction to The Idiot
– Gutenberg version, Trans. Eva Martin (1915)
– Other possible editions

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
– Critical response corrections

The Idiot unit 2 Sept. 22-28 – The Idiot, pp. 109-265 (Part 1, ch. 11-Part 2, ch. 9) – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
– Critical response corrections 
The Idiot unit 3 Sept. 29-Oct. 7 – The Idiot, pp. pp. 265-414 (Pt. 2, ch. 10-Pt. 3, ch. 9) – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
– Critical response corrections 

The Idiot unit 4

 Oct. 7-13 – The Idiot, pp. pp. 414-564 (Pt. 3, ch. 10 to the end)

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
Midterm Oct. 14-15   – Midterm exam
Last day to withdraw with "W" Oct. 16  
Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych Oct. 15-19 – The Death of Ivan Ilych – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
Anna Karenina unit 1 Oct. 20-26 – Anna Karenina, pp. vii-xx, 1-156 – Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)
Anna Karenina unit 2 Oct. 27-Nov. 2 – Anna Karenina, pp. 156-321

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)

– Formal paper assigned
Anna Karenina unit 3 Nov. 3-9 – Anna Karenina, pp. 321-483

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)

– Paper proposal due
Anna Karenina unit 4 Nov. 10-16 – Anna Karenina, pp. 483-643

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)

– Paper proposal due
Anna Karenina unit 5 Nov. 17-23 – Anna Karenina, pp. 643-806

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)

– Paper due
  Nov. 25-29: Thanksgiving break
Winding up, or down Dec. 1-4 TBA

– Possible critical response
– Threaded discussion (in D2L)

– Paper due
Final exam Dec. 5-7  

– Possible critical response

– Final exam