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ENGLISH 122-B19: Texts and Contexts

Class takes place Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30-1:50
Humanities Centre HC 1-7
Class begins on Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Instructor: Marco Katz
Email: mkatz@ualberta.ca
Office: Humanities Centre 4th floor, room 32

Final Exam
1400h Thursday April 21st in BUS 2-9

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Class Conference
What We Tolerate: Readings of Slavoj Žižek and Canadian Literature

More changes in our reading schedule:

Read for Tuesday, Feb. 15: The Hanging of Angélique
Preface and chapter I (1-22) and chapter III (68-106)

Read for Thursday, Feb. 17: The Hanging of Angélique
chapter IV (107-140)

Revised Schedule for March & April

Tuesday, Mar. 1: Read The Hanging of Angélique
chapters VIII-IX (200-251) and chapter XII-Epilogue (282-306)

Thursday, Mar. 3: Web Assignment - Find a news article relevant to our readings.

Tuesday, Mar. 8: Conference abstract due on Moodle
Bibliography due

Thursday, Mar. 10: Complete 2 1/2 page conference paper due

Tuesday, Mar. 15: Conference paper ready for presentation (March 15-24)

Tuesday, Mar. 29: Conference continues

Thursday, Mar. 31: Final reading and web assignment
Click here to read "A Just Society? Canada’s Adventure in Truth and Reconciliation" by Feisal G. Mohamed and then post your thoughts or respond to another posting on Moodle by April 12th

Tuesday, Apr. 5: Due: First Draft of five-page essay (based on Conference Paper)

Thursday, Apr. 7: Essay review continues

Tuesday, Apr. 12: Final essay due
Review