Reading Schedule

 July 4:           

**In-class assignment (5%) 

• Hardy, “Hap”
• Frost, “Design”
• Kate Hall, “Little Essay on Genetics”
• Excerpts from Zadie Smith, White Teeth
• Excerpts from David Eagleman, Sum

July 9:    

• Lodge, Thinks… (to Chapter 24)
• Suggested: Searle, “On Consciousness”

July 11:  

*** Short essay (15%) due

• Seminar facilitations (15%) begin
• Lodge, Thinks… (to end of novel)
• Suggested: Dennett, “Quining Qualia”; Lormand, “Qualia!”                          
  

July 16:

• Pynchon, “Entropy”
• Stoppard, Arcadia

July 18:

*** Creative writing assignment (15%) due

• Gibson, “Fragments of a Hologram Rose”
• Kowal, “Evil Robot Monkey”
• Suggested: Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto”

July 23:

• Winterson, Gut Symmetries (to Chapter 5 [“The Star”])

July 25:

*** Essay Proposal (15%) due

• Winterson, Gut Symmetries (to end of novel)                             
  

 July 30:

• Vonnegut, Galápagos (to Chapter 34)
• Suggested: Gould, “Evolution of Life on Earth”

August 1:

• Vonnegut, Galápagos (to end of novel)
• Suggested: Dawkins, “God’s Utility Function”

August 6:        No class

August 8:

***Final essay (40%) due

• Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (to end of “Orison of Sonmi-451” [pg 236])         

August 13:

Seminar facilitations end

• Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (to end of “Half Lives…” [pg 436])

August 15:

• Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (to end of novel)
• Course conclusion

 

 

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