| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discussion: "Zane Grey on a Carousel in Indian Territory" | Identities reflection due |
| 2 | Discussion: "Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart" | |
| 3 | Attend One of the Talks at the MIT Women's Studies 20th Anniversary Symposium | |
| 4 | Discussion: "Notes of a Native Son" | |
| 5 | Discussion: "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" "Gender in a Time of Holy War: Fundamentalist Femiphobia and Post-9/11 Masculinity" | First essay submission day |
| 6 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 5 | |
| 7 | Discussion: Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Excerpts) | |
| 8 | Discussion: "Notes on My Mother" "Reflections on Race and Sex" | Second essay submission day |
| 9 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 8 | |
| 10 | Discussion: "On Seeing England for the First Time" "Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee" "Mother Tongue" | Third essay submission day |
| 11 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 10 | |
| 12 | Silent Reading Session | |
| 13 | Discussion: "Nothing Personal" "On Being the Object of Property" "Text and Context: The Essay and the Politics of Disjunctive Form" | Fourth essay submission day |
| 14 | Discussion: "Whose War" "Father Stories" "Looking at Emmett Till" | |
| 15 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 14 | |
| 16 | Discussion: "My House" "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" | Fifth essay submission day |
| 17 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 16 | |
| 18 | Discussion: "Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli" "Prisoner of the Wired World" "Quitting the Paint Factory" | Sixth essay submission day |
| 19 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session18 | Seventh essay submission day |
| 20 | Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 19 | |
| 21 | Discussion: "Essayists on the Essay" | |
| 22 | Oral Presentations: "A Modest Proposal and The Satirical Essay" "The Travel Essay" Discussion: "Cat People" | |
| 23 | Oral Presentations: "Self-Reliance" "The Female Chromosome" | |
| 24 | Discussion: "Learning to Drive" "Here Be Dragons" | |
| 25 | Last Class Meeting: Tea and Celebratory Reading at Rebecca's | Final portfolios due |