COURSE SCHEDULE
This is a tentative reading schedule. Please check the online schedule regularly for changes. In addition to the assigned books, several handouts will be made available throughout the course. These handouts are also required reading and the subject of quizzes and homework unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Week 1
R : 1/06: Introduction Mercator and Peters World Projection, Peopling of the Americas
Week 2
T: 1/11: Cabeza de Vaca
R: 1/13: Cabeza de Vaca Questions
Week 3
T: 1/18: 1491 – Introduction (pp. 3-32) and de las Casas (“A Short Account of the destruction of the Indies”); background
R: 1/20: 1491 – Chapter 4: Frequently Asked Questions (pp107-150) and Fagan (handout)
Week 4
T: 1/25: 1491 – Chapter 5 Pleistocene Wars (pp. 151-193)
R: 1/27: 1491 – Chapter 6: Cotton and Maize (pp. 193-228)
Week 5
T: 2/01: 1491 – Chapter 8: Made in America (pp. 273-315) and Chapter 9: Amazonia (315-349)
R: 2/03: 1491 – Chapter 10: The Artificial Wilderness (p. 350-368)
Sunday, Feb 6: Draft Due per turnitin.com
Monday Feb 7: Turnitin.com Peer Reviews Due
Week 6:
T 2/08: Peer Review Discussions
FEBRUARY BREAK BEGINS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9Th, AT THE END OF THE LAST
SCHEDULED CLASS.
CLASSES RESUME MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH @ 8:00 A.M.
Week 7:
T: 2/15: The Great Law of Peace (pp. 369-379) Discussion of Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy; Study Questions; Resources
R: 2/17: I, Rigoberta Menchu Chs I-X
Week 8:
T: 2/22: I, Rigoberta Menchu Chs XI-XX
R: 2/24: I, Rigoberta Menchu XXI-XXX
Week 9:
T: 03/01: I, Rigoberta Menchu – finish
Menchu Debate Readings: Dinesh D’Souza, Anthropologist Challenges Veracity of Multicultural Icon, Death Squad Diaries
R: 3/03: Please see the readings in the folder the Rigoberta Menchu Debate on S-Drive. Do research on your own!
T: 3/08: Do online research on Rigoberta Menchu and the Guatemalan Civil War. Bring your 300 word write-up to class, including with references.
R: 3/10: Debate: Rigoberta Menchu and the Guatemalan Civil War on trial
Film to be shown in
class: Life and Debt; Background
to Jamaica Kincaid (A Small Place)
R: 3/24: Reading: Encyclopédie entry on ‘Negroes’; Kleist: The Betrothal in Santo Domingo;
Kleist: The Betrothal in Santo Domingo; Declaration of The Rights of Man;
Week 13:
T: 3/29: Garcia Marquez: Hundred Years of Solitude p. 1-58
R: 3/30: Solitude to p. 140
Week 14:
T: 4/05: Solitude to p. 201
R: 4/07: Solitude to p. 245
Week 15:
T: 4/12: Solitude to p. 315
R: 4/14: Solitude to p. 355
Week 16:
T: 4/19: Solitude to end
R: 4/21: Solitude – Discussion of Paper
Paper 3 Due: April 25, 6 p.m., in my office