Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
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"

Writing/reading profile due
3 Albert Goldbarth's "The Future"
4 Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
5 Fahrenheit 451 (cont.)

Essay I proposal due

Proposal conferences one day after Ses #5

6 Ursula LeGuin's The Word for World Is Forest
7 The Word for World Is Forest (cont.) Essay I due
8 Class workshop of essay I
9 Film: The Matrix
10

The Matrix (cont.)

Adam Gopnik, "The Unreal Thing" (e-reserve)

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

12 Oryx and Crake (cont.)
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
16 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, selections Revisions of essay II due one day before Ses #17
17 Nineteen Eighty-Four (cont.)
18 Film: Blade Runner Essay III due one day before Ses #19
19 Class workshop of essay III
20 Silent reading session
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
24 Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto"
25 Last class: tea and celebratory reading at professor's home Portfolios due