Schedule

=Class Schedule= UR = //The Utopia Reade//r, ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent

What Is Utopia?

 * 1/10:** Introduction to the course

What do these definitions have in common? Are there any significant differences? Which seems most complete? Which seems most useful? From which did you learn the most?
 * 1/12**: Read a selection of definitions of utopia:
 * Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (1999), Introduction (UR 1-5)
 * Glenn Negley and J. Matrix Patrick (1952),[| Introduction to //The Quest for Utopia//](Google docs pdf)
 * Ruth Levitas (1990), from the [|Introduction to The Concept of Utopia (pages 1-6)](Google book excerpt)
 * [|Wikipedia]

How is each story about utopia?
 * 1/14:** Read two short stories:
 * Ursula Le Guin, "The Day Before the Revolution" (UR 407-420) (An interview with Le Guin on [|anarchism and writing])
 * William Gibson, [|"The Gernsback Continuum"] (A site with [|images] mentioned in the story.)

Utopianism and //Utopia//

 * 1/17:** No class - MLK Day
 * 1/19:** The Golden Age (UR 6-9), Earthly Paradises (UR 9-13), The Middle Ages (UR 13-15) Isaiah (UR 59), The Millennium (UR 66-68)
 * 1/21:** Plato, //The Republic// (UR 27-56)


 * 1/24:** Thomas More, //Utopia// (Read through Book 1)
 * 1/26**: More, //Utopia,// (Read half of Book 2, through the discussion of slaves)
 * 1/28**: More, //Utopia// (Finish Book 2)

Unambiguous Utopias (Eutopias)

 * 1/31**: Campanella, The City of the Sun
 * 2/2:** Bacon, New Atlantis; [|plot summary of New Atlantis]
 * 2/4:** Commumal Societies as Utopias: Shakers, Amana, Oneida, Fourier (UR 182-199); Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (UR 227-228); Due: First Response Essay; Complete the worksheet from Monday for New Atlantis


 * 2/7**: Bellamy, //Looking Backward//, Ch. 1-12; Write a reply (not a critique) to the response essay of the person below you and above you on the list
 * 2/9**: Bellamy, //Looking Backward//, Ch. 13-22
 * 2/11**: Bellamy, //Looking Backward//, Ch. 23-28


 * 2/14**: Morris, News from Nowhere (UR)
 * 2/16**: Wells, //A Modern Utopia// and Gilman, //Herland// (UR 312-329)
 * 2/18**: Skinner, //Walden Two// (UR 372-398); Due: Second Response Essay
 * FYI: [|Walden Two summary on Wikipedia]
 * FYI: [|B.F. Skinner on Wikipedia]

== **2/21**: Richard Dyer, [|Entertainment and Utopia] (Google Books): //On the Town// (screening in class) ==
 * 2/23**: //On the Town// (screening)
 * 2/25**: discussion

Satire and Dystopia

 * 2/28:** Swift, //Gulliver's Travels// (UR)
 * 3/2:** Midterm exam
 * 3/4:** Midterm exam (makeup)


 * 3/5 - 3/13: SPRING BREAK**


 * 3/14:** Zamyatin, //We// (Record/Chapter 1-14)
 * 3/16:** Zamyatin, //We// (Record 15-27)
 * 3/18**: Zamyatin, //We// (Record 28-40)

3/25: //The Handmaid's Tale// (Ch. 13-23); Due: Third Response Essay
 * 3/21:** Huxley, //Brave New World// (UR)
 * 3/23:** //The Handmaid's Tale// (Ch. 1-12)

**3/28:** //The Handmaid's Tale// (Ch. 24-30)
 * 3/30:** //The Handmaid's Tale// (Ch. 31-38)
 * 4/1:** //The Handmaid's Tale// (Ch. 39-Historical Notes)


 * 4/4:** //The Children of Men// (screening)
 * 4/6:** //The Children of Men// (screening)
 * 4/8:** //The Children of Men// discussion; Due: Fourth Response Essay

Ambiguous Utopia

 * 4/11**: Read [|Children of Differing Visions (NYTimes)] & [|Interview with Alfonso Cuaron]
 * 4/13:** LeGuin, //The Dispossessed// (Ch. 1-3)
 * 4/15:** LeGuin, //The Dispossessed// (Ch. 4-5)


 * 4/18:** LeGuin, //The Dispossessed// (Ch. 6-7)
 * 4/20:** LeGuin, //The Dispossessed// (Ch. 8-9)
 * 4/22:** LeGuin, //The Dispossessed// (Ch. 10-13); think of questions you have for the response paper

// Don't forget to complete a **[|course evaluation] ** //
 * 4/25:** group presentations: //Gattaca//
 * 4/27:** group presentations: //Equilibrium, Pleasantville//
 * 4/29:** group presentations: //Aeon Flux//, //The Truman Show//

Exam

 * 5/3** (Tuesday): Exam 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Due: Fifth Response Essay
 * 5/6** (5:00 p.m.): Last day to turn in Leguin response paper and presentation paper