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 : 1/08: Introduction Mercator and Peters World Projection, Peopling of the Americas

Week 2

T: 1/13: Cabeza de Vaca

R: 1/15: Cabeza de Vaca Questions

Week 3

T: 1/20: 1491 – Introduction (pp. 3-32) and de las Casas (“A Short Account of the destruction of the Indies”); background

R: 1/22: 1491 – Chapter 4: Frequently Asked Questions (pp107-150) and Fagan (handout)

Week 4

T: 1/27: 1491 – Chapter 5 Pleistocene Wars (pp. 151-193)

R: 1/29: 1491 – Chapter 6: Cotton and Maize (pp. 193-228)

Week 5

T: 2/03: 1491 – Chapter 8: Made in America (pp. 273-315) and Chapter 9: Amazonia (315-349)

R: 2/05: 1491 – Chapter 10: The Artificial Wilderness (p. 350-368)

Week 6:

R 2/10: 1491 – The Great Law of Peace (pp. 369-379)

Paper 1 Due

FEBRUARY BREAK BEGINS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11Th, AT THE END OF THE LAST SCHEDULED CLASS.

CLASSES RESUME WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH @ 8:00 A.M.

Week 7:

T: 2/17: Discussion of Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy; Study Questions; Resources

R: 2/19: I, Rigoberta Menchu Chs I-X

Week 8:

T: 2/24: I, Rigoberta Menchu Chs XI-XX

R: 3/26: I, Rigoberta Menchu XXI-XXX

Week 9:

T: 03/03: I, Rigoberta Menchu – finish

Menchu Debate Readings: Dinesh D’Souza, Anthropologist Challenges Veracity of Multicultural Icon, Death Squad Diaries (optional resources: contexts of controversy – and search for yourself)

R: 3/05: Please see the readings in the folder the Rigoberta Menchu Debate on S-Drive. Do research on your own!

Week 10:

T: 3/10: Do online research on Rigoberta Menchu and the Guatemalan Civil War. Bring your 300 word write-up to class, including with references.

R: 3/12: Debate: Rigoberta Menchu and the Guatemalan Civil War on trial

SPRING RECESS BEGINS FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH, AT THE END OF THE LAST SCHEDULED CLASS. CLASSES RESUME MONDAY, MARCH 23TH, @ 8:00 A.M.

Week 12:

T: 3/24: Paper 2 Due at 12 midnite, please use Writing Lab if indicated

Film to be shown in class: Life and Debt; Background to Jamaica Kincaid (A Small Place)

R: 3/26: 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: 3/31: Garcia Marquez: Hundred Years of Solitude p. 1-58

R: 4/02: Solitude to p. 140

Week 14:

T: 4/07: Solitude to p. 201

R: 4/09: Solitude to p. 245

Week 15:

T: 4/14: Solitude to p. 315

R: 4/16: Solitude to p. 355

Week 16:

T: 4/21: Solitude to end

R: 4/23: Solitude – Discussion of Paper

Paper Topics

Paper 3 Due: April 27, 6 p.m., in my office