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English 3700 schedule, spring 2026

Updated 2/9/26

This schedule is tentative (even after it's completed!).

Focus
Dates
Readings
Assignments

 Introduction(s)

Jan 12-14

Course syllabus
2000-4000 grades and grading

Discussion 1: greetings and introductions

What is fiction? What's a novel?

Jan 13-15

What is fiction?
Definition of Plagiarism

Plagiarism pledge (D2L dropbox)
– Discussion 2: What is fiction? what's a novel?

 Drop/Add ends
Jan 16
 

Moll Flanders

Jan 14-19

Daniel Defoe overview
Moll Flanders pp. 1-100

– Discussion 3a: Moll Flanders
Possible critical response
Jan 19-24 Moll Flanders pp. 100-248 – Discussion 3b: Moll Flanders
Possible critical response 

Pride and Prejudice

Jan 25-31 Jane Austen overview
Pride and Prejudice
1-132 (chaps. 1-34)
– Discussion 4a: Pride and Prejudice
Possible critical response

Feb 1-6

Pride and Prejudice 132-262 (chaps. 35-61)

– Discussion 4b: Pride and Prejudice
Possible critical response
Our Mutual Friend

Feb 9-14

Charles Dickens overview
1864-1865 original serial version in PDF
Our Mutual Friend
:
     Part 1, chaps 1-4 (First monthly installment)
     Part 1, chaps 5-7 (Second monthly "part")
     Part 1, chaps 8-10 (Third monthly part)
– Discussion 5a: Our Mutual Friend
Possible critical response
Feb 15-21 Our Mutual Friend:
     Part 1, chaps 11-17
     Part 2, chaps 1-12
– Discussion 5b: Our Mutual Friend
Possible critical response
Feb 22-28 Our Mutual Friend:
     Part 2, chaps 13-16
     Part 3, chaps 1-15
– Discussion 5c: Our Mutual Friend
Possible critical response
March 1-7 Our Mutual Friend:
     Part 3, chaps 16-17
     Part 4, chaps 1-16
– Discussion 5d: Our Mutual Friend
Possible critical response

Madame Bovary

tba

   

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tba    

Crime and Punishment

tba

   
Spring Break March 23-27

Beloved

tba

   
The Things They Carried tba    
Reading Days
tba    
Final exam
tba