Week Day Date Assignment (Note: all dates are subject to change)
1 M 12-Jan Intro to course
  W 14-Jan PF "Concept of Formula in Popular Culture"

Discussion of journals

  F 16-Jan

Mystery and Detective fiction
Doyle, "Musgrave Ritual"

  • Sherlockian.net
  • Dictionary of Victorian London
  • A recreation of 221b Baker street
  • A study in the appeal and reception of these stories
  • Events around 1893
    • Invention of thermos 1888
    • 1885: Pasteur invents rabies and anthrax vaccines
    • 1886: 1st use of word "subconscious"
    • In 1893, Freud and Breuer published Über den Psychischen Mechanismus Hysterischer, marking the beginning of psychoanalysis. They claimed that "hysterics suffer mainly from reminescences"
    • 1892: Death of Darwin
    • 1897: Marie Curie begins study of radioactivity
    • 1893: Good n plenty and Cracker Jacks 1st produced
    • 1891: international copyright treaty
    • 1893: 1st 4-function caculator
    • 1895: Marconi transmits Radio signal; invention of X rays
    • 1888: Jack the Ripper
    • 1800's John Venn publishes books on logic, chance, probability
 
2 M 19-Jan MARTIN LUTHER KING HOLIDAY
  W 21-Jan

Chandler, "Simple Art" (498-509); movie excerpts

  • Raymond Chandler web
  • Chandlerisms
  • A guide to mystery and detection
  • IMDB's page on Double Indemnity
  • Film Noir (and some full-text articles)
  • Events around 1944
    • A photographic look at the 40's: War and Peace
    • Death of Anne Frank 1944
    • Born: Gandhi, Rudy Giuliani, Tony Orlando, George Lucas, Danny DeVito
    • Top grossing movie: Meet me in St. Louis (a musical starring Judy Garland) 1944
    • First hit by Louis Jordan, Father of R&B 1944
    • First televised network newscast 1944
    • Frozen french fries 1948
    • Smokey the Bear 1944
    • 1946 Elvis pays $12.95 for his first guitar
    • Slinky invented 1943
    • Supreme court rules women may serve on juries 1947
    • Auschwitz: highest # of Jews executed in a single day (9000) 1944
    • Discovery of 2-stage process that allows detonation of nuclear weapons 1944
    • 1920 first weapons identification catalog; 1921 portable polygraph; 1932 FBI Crime Lab created; 1937 luminol--tests for blood, 1945 test for semen identification
    • 1940's 50% of men and 26% of women reported having extramarital sex; far fewer reported premarital sex
  F 23-Jan

ONLINE CLASS

View message Board here

Sayers, "Absolutely Everywhere" 538-547;Moseley, "Watts Lion" 570-580

 
3 M 26-Jan Mullers, "Creating a female sleuth" (essay), "Place that Time Forgot" 555-570
  W 28-Jan Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter 1-75
  F 30-Jan "" 75-125
 
4 M 2-Feb

"" 125-175

  • online class click here (hold down control key if you have popup blocker)
    • Then Click on English 207
    • Then Click on the posting for today (2/2/04)
    • Then answer both questions and follow up to two others.
    • Those who don't fully particpate by Wedneday at 8 AM will be considered absent.
  • Listen to Radio Broadcast on Maron and others
  • Listen to interview
  W 4-Feb

""175-225

 

  F 6-Feb

"225-end

 
5 M 9-Feb movie - TBA
  W 11-Feb ""
  F 13-Feb novel: Ten Thousand Islands 1-50
 
6 M 16-Feb

"" 50-125

Randy Wayne White Home page

  W 18-Feb "125-175
  F 20-Feb

ONLINE CLASS

Click here to go to the forum. Then click on the Enlgish 207 forums, and answer the questions posted for February 20, 2004.

"" 175-225

 
7 M 23-Feb ""225-275
  W 25-Feb "" 275-320
  F 27-Feb midterm prep; film TBA
 
8 M 1-Mar ""
  W 3-Mar

Novel: Black Cherry Blues 1-50

  T 4-Mar

LAST DAY TO DROP WITH A W

  F 5-Mar MIDTERM
 
9 M 8-Mar SPRING HOLIDAY
  W 10-Mar ""
  F 12-Mar ""
 
10 M 15-Mar Novel: Black Cherry blues: 100-end
  W 17-Mar film: TBA
  F 19-Mar film: TBA
 
11 M 22-Mar Novel: George, Murder Gets a Life: 1-50
  W 24-Mar "" 50-100
  F 26-Mar "" 100-150
 
12 M 29-Mar "" 150-200
  W 31-Mar "" 200-end
  F 2-Apr Murder gets a life--or Film TBA
 
13 M 5-Apr

Paper 1 Due

Novel: Dressed to Die OR Every Crooked Nanny 1-50

  W 7-Apr "" 50-100
  F 9-Apr EASTER HOLIDAY (keep reading)"" 100-150
 
14 M 12-Apr "" 150-225
  W 14-Apr "" 225-275
  F 16-Apr

ONLINE CLASS (click here)

"" 275-325

 
15 M 19-Apr "" 325-375
  W 21-Apr "" 375-420
  F 23-Apr

LAST DAY FOR ADMIN/ HEALTH WITHDRAWALS

 

 
16 M 26-Apr  
  W 28-Apr  
  F 30-Apr  
 
exam week 3-May 8:30-11 am: English 207 final exam