Class Schedule
© = Course Packet
(B) = Blackboard
(H) = Handout
Week One (1/25): Introductory
Week Two (1/30, 2/1, 2/3): CosmopolitanismI. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism, “Introduction” and 1-44
Tamar Jacoby, “Defining Assimilation for the 21st Century” ©
II. Appiah, Cosmopolitanism, 87-153
John Tranter, “A Jackeroo in Kensington” ©
III. Virtual discussion groups
Week Three (2/6, 2/8, 2/10): Citizenship (1)I. Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction
Martín Espada, “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” (H)
Pamela Uschuk, “Sunday News on the Navajo Rez” (H)
II. Lauren Collins, “England, Their England” (New Yorker; 4 July, 2011) (B)
Sandra Cisneros, from The House on Mango Street ©
III. Group project meetings
Week Four (2/13, 2/15, 2/17): PatriotismI. Richard Rorty, “The Unpatriotic Academy” (B)
Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” ©
Alix Olson, “Dear Diary” (H)
Alicia Ostriker, “Reading the News in America” (H)
II. Richard Falk, “Revisioning Cosmopolitanism” ©
Amy Gutmann, “Democratic Citizenship” ©
Michael Barone, “New Americans After September 11” ©
Gary Shteyngart, “The New Two-Way Street” ©
III. Virtual discussion groups
Week Five (2/20, 2/22, 2/24): ExileI. Essay #1 due today
Ovid, from the Tristia ©
Anonymous, “A Dream” (from the Sobraon, 1875) ©
Anonymous, “Australia. I—Its General Features and Resources” ©
Shaun Tan, The Arrival (B)
II. Epiphanie Mukasano, from Kilimanjaro on My Lap (B)
III. Group project meeting
Week Six (2/27, 2/29, 3/2): Frontiers (I)I. Fidelia Hill, “Adelaide” ©
Adam Lindsay Gordon, “A Dedication” and “From the Wreck” ©
Robert Browning, “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” ©
Marcus Clarke, “Introduction” to Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Poems ©
Oscar Wilde, “Adam Lindsay Gordon” (1889) ©
II. Susanna Moodie, from Roughing It in the Bush ©
Henry Lawson, “The Drover’s Wife” ©
III. Virtual discussion groups
Week Seven (3/5, 3/7, 3/9): Frontiers (II)I. Margaret Atwood, from The Journals of Susanna Moodie ©
II. Whitman, “Facing West from California Shores” ©
Thomas Pringle, “Afar in the Desert,” “The Emigrant’s Cabin at the Cape” ©
Pringle, from his Memoirs ©
III. Group project meetings
Week Eight (3/12 & 3/14): TravelI. Elizabeth Bishop, “Arrival at Santos,” “Brazil, January 1, 1502,” “Questions of Travel” ©
II. American ex-pat poets: T. S. Eliot, H.D., Sylvia Plath (B)
SPRING BREAK
Week Nine (3/26, 3/28, 3/30): Citizenship (II)
I. No class today
II. Contemporary debates about citizenship:- Sandra K. Soto and Miranda Joseph, “Neoliberalism and the Battle over Ethnic Studies in Arizona”
III. Attend as much as possible of Born in the USA: The Politics of Birthright Citizenship in Historical Perspective
- Ian Haney López. “Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship.” White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race
- John F. Kennedy, from A Nation of Immigrants
- “Immigration and the Campaign.” Editorial. New York Times (20 Feb. 2012)
- Linda Greenhouse, “Sins of the Parents.” New York Times (30 Nov. 2011)
- Aristide R. Zolberg, “Conclusion: National Design in a Globalizing World.” A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America
- “The Price of Intolerance.” Editorial. New York Times (27 Nov. 2011)
Week Ten (4/2, 4/4, 4/6): CultureI. Essay #2 due today
Claude McKay, Selected Poems
II. Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman”©
Hisaye Yamamoto, “Seventeen Syllables”©
III. Virtual discussion groups
Week Eleven (4/9, 4/11, 4/13): Home II. Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
II. Michael Onjaatje class visit; Handwriting continued
III. Group project meetings
Week Twelve (4/16, 4/18, 4/20): ImaginationI. David Malouf, An Imaginary Life
II. Malouf, completed
III. Virtual discussion groups
Week Thirteen (4/23, 4/25, 4/27): Home III. Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
II. Kincaid, concluded
III. Group project meetings
Week Fourteen (4/30 & 5/2): PresentationsI. Group presentations
II. Group presentations
Week Fifteen (5/7 & 5/9): ConclusionsI. Readings for this day will be chosen by the class
Essay #3 due today
II. Review for final exam
Final Exam: Friday, May 18th, 8:00am to 10:00am