Below is a schedule of reading assignments and portfolio due dates.  Details about each week’s reading and writing assignments (including assigned weeks for blog posts) will be posted on Moodle.  Please check there regularly.

Week 1 (Aug 25, 27, 29)
Introductions
Berger, “Why Look at Animals?”

Week 2 (Sept 1, 3, 5)
Walker, “Am I Blue?”

Weeks 3-4 (Sept 8, 10,12, 15, 17, 19)
Abadzis, Laika
Draft of essay 1
Conferences

Week 5 (Sept 22, 24, 26)
Kolln, “Cohesion”
Portfolio 1 due

Weeks 6-7 (Sept 29, Oct 1, 3, 6, 8, 10)
Foer, Eating Animals
Essay 2 drafts due
Conferences

FALL BREAK

Weeks 8-9 (Oct 15, 17, 20, 22, 24)
Eating Animals, cont.
Lanham, “Revising Prose”
Webinar with Jonathan Safran Foer
Portfolio 2 due

Week 10 (Oct 27, 29, 31)
Malamud, “Zoo Spectatorship”

Weeks 11-12 (Nov 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14)
Grizzly Man

Week 13 (Nov 17, 19, 21, 24)
Essay 3 drafts due
Conferences

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Week 14 (Dec 1, 3, 5)
Course wrap-up and final portfolios