HE 111 Course Syllabus
Texts:
Muller & Wiener, The Short Prose Reader
DiYanni, The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle
Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Miller, Death of a Salesman
Sorkin, A Few Good Men
Handouts from class
Part I- Essays (all from Short Prose Reader unless otherwise indicated)
Date
20 AUG
Class Discussion
Reading Assignment for Next Class
Course introduction; discuss Baker, “Slice of Life”; Kincaid, “The Ugly
reading journals, course
Tourist”, Stein, “Shaved Heads and Pop Tarts”
policies, annotation;
Handout, “Literature...”
24 AUG
Baker, Kincaid, Stein, Jordan, “Fun, Oh Boy. Fun....”; Marriott & Gegax,
Short Essay #1 Due
“Technophobia”; Brown, “To the Victor Belongs
the Language”
Jordan, Marriott, Brown
Vonnegut, “How to Write with Style”; Zinsser,
“Simplicity”
Vonnegut, Zinsser
Popkin, “America’s Gambling Craze”; Cose, “The
Myth of Meritocracy”
25 AUG
27 AUG
31 AUG
01 SEP
03 SEP
Popkin, Cose
Hughes, Lupica
Weinstock, Staples
Short Essay #2 Due
07 SEP
08 SEP
Labor Day Holiday
Orwell, Thomas
10 SEP
Zuckerman, Knight, King
Short Essay #3 Due
14 SEP
Thoreau
Hughes “Salvation”; Lupica, “Fall of the Legends”
Weinstock “Ghost Legs”; Staples “Night Walker”
Orwell, “A Hanging”; Thomas, “Death in the Open”
Zuckerman, “The Case for More Cops”; Knight,
“Don’t Fence Me In”; King, “Why We Crave
Horror Movies”
Handout: Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
Handout: O’Brien, “The Magic Show”
Part II - Short Stories (All from DiYanni Book of Fiction unless otherwise indicated)
15 SEP
O’Brien
Atwood, “Happy Endings”; O’Brien, “The Things
They Carried”
Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
17 SEP
Atwood, O’Brien
Short Essay #4 Due
21 SEP
22 SEP
24 SEP
Bierce
Kafka
O’Connor
Short Essay #5 Due
Kafka, “A Hunger Artist”
O’Connor, “Good Country People”
Ellison, “Battle Royal”; Jackson, “The Lottery”
28 SEP
29 SEP
01 OCT
Ellison, Jackson
Faulkner
Crane
Major Essay #1 Due
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Crane, “The Open Boat”
Poe, “Fall of the House of Usher”
05 OCT
06 OCT
08 OCT
Poe
Hawthorne
Gilman
Short Essay #6 Due
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Browne”
Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych”
12 OCT
13 OCT
Columbus Day Holiday
Tolstoy
15 OCT
Hemingway
Short Essay #7 Due
19 OCT
20 OCT
22 OCT
Kafka
Chekhov
Mason
Short Essay #8 Due
Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber”
Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Mason, “Shiloh”
Oedipus Rex (Prologue-Scene II)
Part III - Drama
26 OCT
27 OCT
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex (Ode II-Exodos)
Handouts: Shakespeare, “Upon the king!”; Freud,
“The Oedipus Complex”
29 OCT
Oedipus Rex
Short Essay #9 Due
Dr. Faustus (Scenes I-VI)
02 NOV
03 NOV
05 NOV
Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus
A Few Good Men (film)
Major Essay #2 Due
Dr. Faustus (Scenes XVII-XIX)
A Few Good Men (entire)
Hamlet (Act I); Go see the Masqueraders
production of A Few Good Men this weekend.
09 NOV
10 NOV
12 NOV
Comp Time
Veteran’s Day Holiday
Hamlet
Short Essay #10 Due
Hamlet (Act II)
16 NOV
17 NOV
19 NOV
Hamlet
Hamlet
Hamlet in film
Short Essay #11 Due
Hamlet (Act IV-V)
23 NOV
24 NOV
26 NOV
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Thanksgiving Day
The Glass Menagerie (Scenes VI-VII)
30 NOV
The Glass Menagerie in
film
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
Short Essay #12 Due
Death of a Salesman (Act I)
Death of a Salesman in
film
Course Evaluations and
Wrap-up
Major Essay #3 Due
Handout, Trilling
01 DEC
03 DEC
07 DEC
08 DEC
Hamlet (Act III)
The Glass Menagerie (Scenes I-V)
Death of a Salesman (Act II-Requiem)
Tennessee Williams on Death of a Salesman
No Final for HE 111; buy your instructor a Christmas present, and have fun on leave!!!!!!!!