Kent-Drury
English 420/582

Revised Schedule*

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Date
Reading Assignment
Due
Week 1 Intro to Course  
8/23

Syllabus

Film: Raiders of the Lost Ark
 Study Questions

 
Week 2 Exploration and Discovery--Columbus  
8/30

Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages (1492-1504)

Study Questions

Pagden, "Intro to European Encounters with the New World" (provided)

Presentation Sign-up

 

 P: Geertz, "Thick Description" (Dr. KD)
P: Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone" (Dr. KD)
Week 3 Exploration and Discovery--Columbus  
9/6

Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages (1492-1504) (continued)
Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

 

P: Pagden
P: Paradise
P: Hulme, "Columbus"
Week 4 Exploration and Disaster--The Narvaez Expedition  
9/13 Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca



Week 5 Later Explorations of America  
9/20 Documents 16-21 (Mancall 207-247)


Week 6 Later Explorations of America (cont)  
9/27 Documents 24-30 (Mancall 281-341)  
Week 7 Captives  
10/4

Isaac Jogues (1655) (Sayre American
Christophe Regnaut (1649)

Film: Black Robe

http://www.nkuartsandsciences.org/roxstudentVpage/ 

Plagiarism/MLA Workshop (self test)

Week 8 Captives (continued)  
10/11

Hans Staden (1557)(Sayre American 18-58)
Smith (Sayre American 83-90)

 


Mary Rowlandson (1682)

Study Questions

P: Lery, "Voyage to Brazil"
P: Sayre, "Founding Fathers and their Indian Relations
P: Sayre, "War, Captivity, Adoption, Torture"
P: Hulme, "John Smith and Pocahontas"

Plagiarism/MLA Quiz Due

Midterm Quotations due

Week 9 Fictional Castaways  
10/18

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Study Questions

Take Home Midterm

P: Hulme, "Caribs"
P: Hulme, "Robinson Crusoe & Friday"
P: Wheeler, "18th-c Categories of Race"
P: Livingstone, "Human Condition"
P: Wheeler, "Christians, Savages, Slaves"
Week 10 The Exotic and the Absurd  
10/25

Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels (1726) Books I, III, IV

Study Questions

 

Title & 1 paragraph description of paper due

Week 11 Observations of America  
11/1

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (pages TBS)

Take-home midterm due

Week 12 Observations of the South Pacific  
11/8

Hawkesworth, John. Cook's Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Volumes II and III (1769-1771) (Excerpts assigned)

Handout with Reading Assignment

Annotated Bibliography Due
Week 13

Observations of Africa

 
11/15

Mungo Park, Travels to the Interior of Africa


Week 14 Thanksgiving  
11/22 Thanksgiving--Have fun!  
Week 15 The Captivity Narrative Transformed  
11/29

Olaudah Equiano (1784) (Sayre, American 225-257

James Smith (1799) (Sayre, American, 262-346)

Geronimo (Sayre, American 422-444)

P: Brown, "Traffic"
P: Recent Equiano scholarship

Week 16 Conclusions  
12/6 Review for Final

Final Exam Tuesday, December 13, 6:45-8:45 pm Paper Due

*Subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.

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Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury