Week 1:
8/18: meet and greet, introduction to course content
Assignment: Read Paulo Freire's "The Banking Concept of Education"
8/20: discuss Freire's essay
Assignment: Write a carefully constructed 3-5 page essay where you discuss an experience you had with a teacher that set the conditions for problem-posing education. In your essay, consider what Freire means by "ontological vocation." In what ways did this experience contribute to your own ontological vocation; in other words, in what ways was your humanity expanded as a result of this experience?
     
Week 2:
8/25: Essay exchange and peer review.
Assignment: 1)Revise essay according to peer review. Due Thursday, the 27th.
                      2) Read the Introduction and chapters 1 and 2 from Theory into Practice.
8/27: The art of close reading
Assignment: Read Chapter 3: Formalism, from Theory into Practice. Note: As you read these chapters, also read the literary selections that they refer to.

Week 3:
9/1: No class: Labor Day
9/3: Formalism--form still matters
Assignment: Read Chapter 4: Psychological Criticism, from Theory Into Practice

Week 4:
9/8: Who's the mama?: Psychoanalytic theory in English Studies
Assignment: Read Chapter 5: Marxist Criticism, from Theory into Practice 
9/10: The theory of an hour
Assignment: Read Chapter 6: Feminist Criticism, from Theory into Practice

Week 5:
9/15: Insert snarky comment here
Assignment: Read Chapter 7: Reader-Response Criticism
9/17: No class. I will be at a conference and will not have access to email from 9/17-9/21.

Calendar moves back a week.

Week 7:
9/29: Does everyone have a right to his or her own opinion?
Assignment: Read Chapter 8: Deconstruction, from Theory into Practice
10/1: Why English majors wear black
Assignment: Read Chapter 9: Cultural Studies: New Historicism, from Theory into Practice

Week 8:
10/6: Well, duh.
Assignment: Read Chapter 10: More Cultural Studies: Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism
10/8: The very useful and convenient myths of cultural identity
Assignment: Read Introduction to English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines

Week 9:
10/13: Where do you fit within English Studies? Introduce group project on getting to know your department.
Assignment: Read chapters 4 and 5 of English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines
10/15: Group 1 presents on Literature in the ISU English Department
Assignment: Read chapter 1 of English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines

Week 10:
10/20: Group 2 presents on Linguistics in the ISU English Department
Assignment: Read chapter 2 of English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines
10/22: Group 3 presents on Rhetoric and Composition in the ISU English Department.
Assignment: Read chapter 3 of English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines

Week 11:
10/27: Group 4 presents on Creative Writing in the ISU English Department
Assignment: Read chapter 6 of English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines
10/29: Group 5 presents on English Education in the ISU English Department
Assignment: Read Epileptic.

Week 12:
11/3: Picturing the unsayable
Assignment: TBA
11/5:
Assignment: TBA

Week 13:
11/10:
Assignment: TBA
11/12:
Assignment: TBA

Week 14:
11/17:
Assignment: TBA
11/19: No class. I will be at a conference and will not have email access from 11/18-11/24.

Week 15:
12/1: Class wrap
12/3: No class. I will be at a conference and will not have email access from 12/2-12/5.