421 – Schedule

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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

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

WEEK 3

Sept. 6 -10

– Read “A Modest Proposal,” and “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”.

– Post Satire Sighting #2 on class blog by Thursday

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

Sept. 13

(Sunday)

2pm – 5pm Religious Satire: The Gospel according to Gulliver

WEEK 5

Sept. 28

Colloquium Project due on Monday by 5pm.