| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
George Saunder's "My Flamboyant Grandson"
Ursula LeGuin's "Science Fiction and the Future"
Russell Baker's "Marriage á la Mode" and "Completely Different"
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Writing/reading profile due |
| 3 |
Albert Goldbarth's "The Future" |
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| 4 |
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 |
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| 5 |
Fahrenheit 451 (cont.) |
Essay I proposal due
Proposal conferences one day after Ses #5
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| 6 |
Ursula LeGuin's The Word for World Is Forest |
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| 7 |
The Word for World Is Forest (cont.) |
Essay I due |
| 8 |
Class workshop of essay I |
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| 9 |
Film: The Matrix |
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| 10 |
The Matrix (cont.)
Adam Gopnik, "The Unreal Thing" (e-reserve)
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Revisions of essay I due one day before Ses #10 |
| 11 |
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake |
Essay II proposal due
Proposal conferences one day after Ses #11
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| 12 |
Oryx and Crake (cont.) |
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| 13 |
Oryx and Crake (cont.) |
Essay II due |
| 14 |
Class workshops of essay II |
Essay III proposal due |
| 15 |
MIT Libraries instruction session on the digital instruction resource center |
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| 16 |
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, selections |
Revisions of essay II due one day before Ses #17 |
| 17 |
Nineteen Eighty-Four (cont.) |
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| 18 |
Film: Blade Runner |
Essay III due one day before Ses #19 |
| 19 |
Class workshop of essay III |
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| 20 |
Silent reading session |
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| 21 |
Oral presentations |
Revisions of essay III due one day before Ses #22 |
| 22 |
Oral presentations (cont.) |
Assignment IV due |
| 23 |
Class workshop of assignment IV |
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| 24 |
Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" |
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| 25 |
Last class: tea and celebratory reading at professor's home |
Portfolios due |