1.    Sheila J. Curry and Suzanne Greenwald,  Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads: Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career  --  Ten Speed Press  --  
ISBN-13: 978-1580087094

2.    Tim Lemire,  I'm an English Major Now What?   --  Writers Digest Books  --  ISBN-13: 978-1582973623

3.    David Richter,  Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature  --  Bedford/St. Martin's,  2nd edition  --  ISBN-13: 978-0312201562

4.    Sophocles,  Antigone   --  Dover Publications  --  ISBN-13: 978-0486278049

5.    Alice McDermott,  Child of My Heart   --  Picador; Reprint edition   --  ISBN-13: 978-0312422912

Mon Aug 27

• Introduction to Course
• Required Readings: 
• English Major Script  --  Prairie Home Companion
• A Note to An English Major  --  Esther Lombardi, About.com
• Why Major in English?  --  U. of Wisconsin, Madison
  
• Why Be an English Major?  --  Mark Larabee, U. S.  Naval Academy 
• History of English as a Discipline  --  Simonnd Delyse Ryan,  The Academy @ Australian Catholic U.  
  
• Yeah, I'm an English Major -- wanna make somethin' of it?  --  Stephanie Vander Weide Lucianovic,  Grub Report
• list of famous English majors  --  Mississippi State U.  

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Wk 2: 
Mon  Sept 3

• No Class  --  Labor Day Holiday

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Wk 3:  
Mon Sept 10

• Required Readings: 
• Curran and Greenwald,  Chapter 1:  "Smart Moves"
• Lemire, "Introduction" and Chapter 1:  "I'm an English Major" 
• Richter:
• "Foreward by Gerald Graff"
• "Preface"
• "Introduction:  Falling Into Theory" 
• "Part One:  Why We Read  --  The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature"  

*****  250-word credo:  "Why I Read" due in class
*****  List:  "Books I've Read in College" (excepting textbooks)  due in class

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Wk 4:
Mon Sept 17

• Required Readings:  
• Lemire,  Chapter 2:  "Perchance to Teach" and Chapter 3: "Higher Ed:  Nobody Goes Back to School"  
• Richter:  
• Helen Vendler, "What We Have Loved, Others Will Love" 
• Gerald Graff, "Disliking Books at an Early Age"
• Terry Eagleton, "The Rise of English"
• Gauri Viswanathan, "Introduction to Masks of Conquest"
  

***** 500-word essay:  "What I Learned in College" due in class

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Wk 5:
Mon Sept 24

• Required Readings:  
• Curran and Greenwald,  Chapter 2:  "Up, Down, and Sideways, in the Business World"
• Lemire,  Chapter 8:  "Going Corporate"
• Richter:
• Paulo Freire, "The 'Banking' Concept of Education"
• Bell Hooks, "Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy"
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, "The New Advocacy and the Old"
• Richard Ohmann, "The Function of English at the Present Time"

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Wk 6:
Mon Oct 1

• Required Readings:
• Curran and Greenwald,  Chapter 3:  "A Life of Service"
• Richter:
  
• Simon During, "Teaching Culture"
• Louis Menand, "The Demise of Disciplinary Authority"
• Robert Scholes, "A Fortunate Fall"
  

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Wk 7:
Mon Oct 8

• Required Readings:
• Lemire, Chapter 4:  "Breaking Into the News" and  Chapter 5: "Magazines"
  
• Richter:
• "Part Two:  What We Read  --  The Literary Canon and the Curriculum after the Culture Wars"
• Jane Thompkns, "Masterpiece Theater:  The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation"
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith, "Contingencies of Value"
• Lillian S. Robinson, "Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon"
  

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Wk 8:
Mon Oct 15

• Required Readings:
• Curran and Greenwald,  Chapter 4:  "Fulfilling Creative Passions"
• Richter:
• Gilles Duleuze and Felix Guattari, "What Is a Minor Literature?"
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition"  From the Seen to the Told"
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "From Epistemology of the Closet"
• Edward W. Said, "The Politics of Knowledge"
  

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Wk 9:
Mon Oct 22

• Required Readings:
• Lemire, Chapter  6:  "Books (As Opposed to Literature)"  and Chapter 7:  "Freelancing for a Living"
• Richter:
• Janice A. Radaway, "Introductino to A Feeling for Books"
• Alan Purves, "Telling Our Story about Teaching Literature"
• John Guillory, "The Canon as Cultural Capital"
• Harold Bloom, "Elegiac Conclusion"
  

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Wk 10:
Mon Oct 29

• Required Readings:
• Curran and Greenwald,  Chapter  5:  "Taking Your Degree Abroad"
• Richter:
• "Part Three:  How We Read  --  Interpretive Communities and Literary Meaning"
• Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author"
• Peter Rabinowitz, "Actual Reader and Authorial Reader"
• Stanley Fish, "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One" 
• Reed Way Dasenbrock, "Do We Write the Text We Read"
  

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Wk 11:
Mon Nov 5

• Required Readings:
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Lemire, Chapter  9:  "Other Options";   Chapter 10:  "Avoiding a Major Mistake";   "Appendix"
  
• Richter:
• Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "The Female Swerve"
• Toril Moi, "From Sexual/Textual Politics"
• Annette Kolodny, "Dancing Through the Minefield:  Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism"

****   Antigone @ Marjorie Lyons Playhouse:    Thursday, Nov. 8;  Friday, Nov. 9;  Saturday, Nov. 10 @ 8:00 pm;    Sunday,  Nov. 11  @ 2:00 pm

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Wk 12:
Mon Nov 12

• Required Readings:
• Curran and Greenwald,  Chapter 6:  "Offbeat Passions:  Doing the Unexpected"  
• Richter:
• Toni Morrison, "Black Matter(s)"
• Chinua Achebe, "An Image of Africa"
• Wilson Harris, "The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands"
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Imperialism and Sexual Difference"
  

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Wk 13:   Thanksgiving Break
Mon Nov 19

• NO CLASS

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Wk 14:
Mon Nov 26

• Required Readings:
• Richter:
• Wayne C. Booth,  "Who is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What?"
• Martha C. Nussbaum, "The Literary Imagination"
• Herbert F. Tucker, "Wanted Dead or Alive"  Browning's Historicism"
• George Levine, "Reclaiming the Aesthetic"
• Michael Bérubé, "Aesthetics and the Literary Imagination"

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Wk 15:
Mon Dec 3

• McDermott,  Child of My Heart

*****  Friday, December 7:   Final version of Senior Portfolio due by 2:00 pm to Ms. Palmer in Jackson Hall 307

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Wk 16
Mon Dec 10

• TBA
  

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