Class Moodle
Syllabus
Assignments
University of Alberta
ENGLISH 122-S1: Texts and Contexts
Class takes place on Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm
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
Class Conference
What We Tolerate: Readings of Slavoj Žižek and Canadian Literature
More changes in our reading schedule:
Feb. 15: Read The Hanging of Angélique
Preface and chapter I (1-22) and chapter III-IV (68-140)
Mar. 1: Read The Hanging of Angélique
chapters VIII-IX (200-251) and chapter XII-Epilogue (282-306)
Conference abstracts due on Moodle
Mar 8: Complete 2 1/2 page conference paper due
Bibliographies due
Moodle Web Assignment Due
Mar. 15: Conference paper ready for presentation (March 15-24)
Mar. 29: Due: First Draft of five-page essay (based on Conference Paper)
Apr. 5: Final essay proofreading
Review for Exam
Apr. 12: Final Exam in HC L-2
Final essay due
Final Web Assignment: Due Apr. 12
Click here to read "A Just Society? Canada’s Adventure in Truth and Reconciliation" by Feisal G. Mohamed First post your thoughts and then respond to another posting on Moodle by April 12th
Required Texts
Highway, Tomson. Kiss of the Fur Queen. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1999.
Hacker, Diana. A Canadian Writer’s Reference with 2009 MLA Update. Boston: Bedford, 2009.
Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: the Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007.
Clarke, George Elliott. Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path. Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2007.
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