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Aug. 28 |
Introduction to ClassIntroduction to course website |
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Sept. 4 |
First, read “Book of Revelation” (Kirsch appendix)and then Kirsch, Chapters 1-3 |
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Sept. 11 |
Finish Kirsch, Chapters 4-7 |
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Sept. 18 |
NO REGULARLY SCHEDULED CLASS–but your regularSunday blog is required. Please discuss the following:
9 minute video, http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951 film “Dr. Strangelove” Strozier, Chapter 6 in Fundamentalist Mindset (course website) Research your essay topic |
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Sept. 25 |
NO REGULARLY SCHEDULED CLASS–but your regularSunday blog is required. Please discuss the following:
Kermode, “The End” (course website) Rosen, Introduction (course website) Research your essay topic |
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Oct. 2 |
Moore, WatchmenRosen, Chapter 1 (course website)
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Oct. 9 |
Reread “Book of Revelation” and watch film “The Rapture”Submit your Research Essay Proposal (email and hard copy), indicating your focus and cite 3 likely outside sources for the topic (one book, one journal article or chapter in an anthology, and one journalistic or online source) with a rationale for why it will be useful to you. |
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Oct. 16 |
Fundamentalist Mindset, Essays 1 and 3 (course website)Read all of LaHaye and Jenkins |
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Oct. 23
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Fundamentalist Mindset, Essay 10 (course website)Continue Research for your Essay and send me an update
“Jesus Camp” in class |
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Oct. 30 |
Creative Project Proposal due: 2-3 pages in hard copy “Albertine Notes” (course website) |
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Nov. 6 |
Fundamentalist Mindset, Essays 4, 6, and 7 (course website)Film “Jonestown” in class
Also see before class: |
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Nov. 13 |
Quinby, “The Days are Numbered” (course website)Watch films “Apocalypto,” “28 Days Later,” and “Children of Men”
Rosen, Epilogue (course website) |
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Nov. 20 |
Mick Broderick, “Nuke York, New York” Exhibit and LectureBroderick Essay (course website)
Work on Research Essay |
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Nov. 27 |
Read all of Whitehead, Zone One |
| Dec. 4 | Research Essay due: Formal Presentation of arguments in class |
| Dec. 11 | Film “Take Shelter” (in class) |
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Dec. 18
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Final Exam Period: Creative Project online and presented to class |
