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Calendar

The following schedule is tentative and subject to change to accommodate our needs. Use it as a guide, but stay alert to changes we are almost certain to make as we go along.

lec # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Goldbarth, Albert. The Future.

LeGuin, Ursula. Science Fiction and the Future.
Writing/reading profile due
2 Saunders, George. My Flamboyant Grandson.
3 Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
4 Fahrenheit 451 (cont.) Essay I proposal due
5 Proposal Conferences
6 LeGuin, Ursula. The Word for World is Forest.
7 The Word for World is Forest (cont.) Essay I due, hard copy to me in class
8 Class Workshop of Essay I
9

Film showing (7 p.m.)

The Matrix

10 The Matrix (cont.)
11 The Matrix (cont.) Revisions of essay I due in class
12 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Essay II proposal due
13 Proposal Conferences
14 The Handmaid's Tale (cont.)
15 The Handmaid's Tale (cont.) Essay II due, hard copy to me in class
16 Class Workshop of Essay II
17 Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
18 Atwood, Margaret. Visit to our Class Revisions of essay II due in class
19 Nineteen Eighty-Four (cont.) Essay III proposal due
20 Proposal Conferences
21 Film showing. (7 p.m.)

Blade Runner
22 Blade Runner (cont.)
23 Blade Runner

Oral Presentations
24 Oral presentations (cont.) Essay III due in class
25 Class workshop of Essay III
26 Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto. Proposals for assignment IV due
27 Proposal Conferences
28 A Cyborg Manifesto (cont.) Revisions of Essay III due in class

Assignment IV due, in my box one day after Lec #28
29 Class Workshop on Assignment IV
30 Course Summary and Evaluations
31 Tea and Celebratory Reading at Rebecca's Portfolios due