| WEEK | DATES | ||
| Unit One: Language and the Construction of Reality | |||
| 1 | T | 28-Aug | Introduction |
| Th | 30-Aug | Plato “Allegory of the Cave” | |
| 2 | T | 4-Sep | Saussure “General Principles” 65-78; Lippi-Green “The Linguistic Facts of Life” 5-26 |
| Th | 6-Sep | Bring examples within research focus | |
| 3 | T | 11-Sep | Barthes “Myth Today”; Kleinman “Why Sexist Language Matters” 299-304 |
| Th | 13-Sep | Bring examples of a “myth” within research focus | |
| 4 | T | 18-Sep | Chiang “Story of Your Life”; |
| Th | 20-Sep | Rutherford “A Place Called Home” | |
| 5 | T | 25-Sep | Tompkins 739-747; Derrida “Differance” |
| Th | 27-Sep | Peer Revision Workshop | |
| Su | 30-Sep | Project 1 due at 11:59 pm | |
| Unit Two: The Power of Discourse | |||
| 6 | T | 2-Oct | Bordeau “The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language” |
| Th | 4-Oct | Bring examples within research focus | |
| 7 | T | 9-Oct | Bakhtin “Language as Dialogic Interaction” 48-61 |
| Th | 11-Oct | Bring examples within research focus | |
| 8 | T | 16-Oct | Burke “Terministic Screens” 44-62 |
| Th | 18-Oct | Bring examples within research focus | |
| 9 | T | 23-Oct | Foucault “Panopticism” 206-213 |
| Th | 25-Oct | Irigaray “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine” 68-85 | |
| 10 | T | 30-Oct | Bordo “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” 165-184 |
| Th | 1-Nov | Bring examples within research focus | |
| Unit Three: Ideology and Reality | |||
| 11 | T | 6-Nov | Deleuze and Guatarri |
| Th | 8-Nov | Peer Revision Workshop | |
| Su | 11-Nov | Project 2 due at 11:59 pm | |
| 12 | T | 13-Nov | Baudrillard “The Precession of Simulacra” 1-7; 12-15; 19-32 |
| Th | 15-Nov | Bring examples within research focus | |
| 13 | T | 20-Nov | Thanksgiving Break |
| Th | 22-Nov | ||
| 14 | T | 27-Nov | Black Panther – film |
| Th | 29-Nov | hooks “Black Self-Determination” 165-171 | |
| 15 | T | 4-Dec | Braidotti “The Posthuman Challenge” 37-54 |
| Th | 6-Dec | Workshop | |
| 16 | M | 10-Dec | Project 3 due 1:15pm |