Week One
1/13 Tues: Get to know ya
Go over syllabus
1/15 Thurs: Quiz over Introduction and Letters
Discussion of introductory material
Reader Response for Discussion
Week Two
1/20 Tues: Quiz over Ch. 1-10
Discussion / Lecture
Reader Response for Discussion
Assignment: Personal Reading Response (2-3 pages)
1/22 Thurs: Quiz over Ch. 11-15
Discussion / Lecture
Reader Response for Discussion
Week Three
1/27 Tues: Quiz over Ch. 16-20
Discussion / Lecture
Reader Response for Discussion
1/29 Thurs: Personal Reading Response Due
Quiz over Ch. 21-24
Discussion / Lecture
Reader Response for Discussion
Assignment: Blame Paper
Week Four
2/3 Tues: Psychoanalytic Criticism, pgs. 262-294
The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley's Critique of Ideology
- David Collings
Reader Response for Discussion
2/5 Thurs: Discuss Psychoanalytic
Blame Paper Pre-Writing Pack Due
Week 5
2/10 Tues: Cultural Criticism, pgs. 316-430
Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body
-Bouriana Zakharieva
2/12 Thurs: Hand Back Blame Pre-Writing Pack
Week 6
2/17 Tues:
Assignment: Science Fiction as Social Commentary Research
Paper
2/19 Thurs: Marxist Criticism, pgs. 368-395
The "Workshop of Filthy Creation": A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein
- Warren Montag
Reader Response for Discussion
Week 7
2/24 Tues: Blame Paper 1st Draft Due
Feminist Criticism, pgs. 296-331
"Cooped Up" with "Sad Trash": Domesticity and the Sciences in
Frankenstein - Johanna M. Smith
Reader Response for Discussion
2/26 Thurs: Sci-Fi Pre-Writing Pack Due
Week 8
3/2 Tues: Critical Analysis Review
Writing Workshop
3/4 Thurs: Hand back Sci-Fi Pre-writing Pack
3/5 Last day to withdraw with NO assessment
Week 9
SPRING BREAK: Have fun, throw up, don't drive
Assignment: Come back alive without having been filmed for
UMKC Students Gone Wild
Week 10
3/16 Tues: Sci-Fi Paper 1st Draft Due
Assignment: Final Critical Theory Paper
3/18 Thurs: Gender Criticism, pgs. 334-366
Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Frann Michel
Reader Response for Discussion
Week 11
3/23 Tues: TBA
3/25 Thurs: Critical Theory Pre-Writing Pack Due
Week 12
3/30 Tues: Hand Back Critical Theory Pre-Writing Pack
4/1 Thurs: 5 hour in class essay test worth 92% of your grade
4/2 Last Day to Withdraw with
Assessment
Week 13
4/6 Tues:
Hand Back Sci-Fi Paper
4/8 Thurs: TBA
Week 14
4/13 Tues: Harrison Bergeron
4/15 Thurs: Patricia Williams "The Obliging Shell"
Week 14
4/20 Tues: First Draft of Final Paper Due!!!!!
4/22 Thurs: TBA
Week 15
4/27 Tues: Movie
4/29 Thurs: Movie
Week 16
5/4 Tues: TBA
5/6 Thurs: Final Portfolio Due
