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8/24/14: Add – Drop Dates
| Last day to add classes—all individualized section forms due. Last day to drop with no tuition penalty | September 2 |
| Last day to drop with a 33% tuition penalty | September 16 |
| Final Drop Deadline (67% tuition penalty) | September 26 |
| Selective Withdrawal Period (undergraduate students only) | September 29 – October 24 |
8/24/14: In class prose samples
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8/24/14: Image of a manuscript letter from Lady Anne Cooke Bacon
8/25/14: Image of two pages (with the word “mete”) from the first edition of Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman (1529).
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8/27/14: Historical Introduction Powerpoint
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9/3/14: Some literary concepts: form, content, tone
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9/8/14: Example of the interplay between form and content: Paul Anka does Nirvana
9/8/14 – 9/15/14: 1901 Translation of More’s Utopia
9/15/14: Powerpoint lecture on Utopia and early modernity
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9/17/14: Essay 1 assignment
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9/22/14: Would you date this guy?
9/24/14: Petrarchan Love and Court Life
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10/1/14: Sonnet Project
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10/14/14: Poetry and change
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10/20/14: Midterm answers
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10/22/14: Assignment 2 and example
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11/5/14: Materials for Project 3
option 1: cover letters
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option 2: example of an executive summary
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option 2: advice on writing executive summaries
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option 3: example of summary of a literary critical journal article
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11/5/14: Lecture: Doubling Down on Doubling Down
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11/10/14 Lecture: How Does It End?
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11/12/14: Lecture: Literary Totalitarianism
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11/19/14: Lecture: Hero and Leander: Three Transgressions
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