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WEEK 1 | ||||
Aug. 24 -29 |
– Read syllabus carefully and raise questions in Class Commons thread
– Review Breaking News timeline for review of eighteenth-century Britain – Read Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1: Lilliput |
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WEEK 2 | ||||
Aug. 30 – Sept. 5 |
– Post Defining Satire journal in Defining Satire thread
– Read Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4: Houyhnhnm Land – Review samples of contemporary “satire” in Media Archive – Post Satire Sighting #1 on class blog |
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WEEK 3 | ||||
Sept. 6 -10 |
– Read “A Modest Proposal,” and “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”.
– Post Satire Sighting #2 on class blog by Thursday |
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COLLOQUIUM WEEKEND | ||||
Sept. 11 (Friday) |
6pm – 9pm Defining Satire, Then and Now | ||||
Sept. 12 (Saturday) |
9am – 12noon Political Satire from Jon Swift to Jon Stewart
Lunch together 1pm – 5pm Satirically Incorrect: Critiques of Race, Class, and Gender |
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Sept. 13 (Sunday) |
2pm – 5pm Religious Satire: The Gospel according to Gulliver | ||||
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WEEK 5 | ||||
Sept. 28
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Colloquium Project due on Monday by 5pm. | ||||