• Last day to withdraw
• Holiday - No Class:
• Midterm
• Final Exam

• The Bedford Handbook - 7^th Edition. Edited by Hacker
• Sonnets and Poems by Shakespeare - published by Washington Square
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare - published by Washington Square
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe - published by Vintage
• Death in Venice by Mann - published by Vintage
• The Annotated Lolita by Nabokov - edited by Appel - published by Vintage
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera - published by HarperCollins
• Written on the Body by Winterson - published by Vintage
• A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Barthes - published by Hill and Wang

• A CAREFUL READING OF THE ASSIGNMENTS - quizzes, discussion
• ESSAY # 1 - 3 pages or 750 words See Essay Guidelines.
• ESSAY # 2 - 3 pages or 750 words
• ESSAY # 3 - MIDTERM - in class
• ESSAYS # 4 & # 5 - REVISION FOLDER- includes Final Revisions of Essay # 1 and Essay #2
• ESSAY # 6 - Research Paper - 5-7 pages or 1250-1500 words
• ESSAY # 7 - FINAL - in class

Your final grade will be based on completion of the above requirements and compliance with Course Rules and Guidelines and Criteria for Evaluation and Grading.

Please address with the instructor any special problems or needs at the beginning of the semester. If you are seeking accommodations based on disability, you should provide a disability sheet, which can be obtained from the counselor for special needs, who is located in Room 148 of the Bisdorf Building, tel. no. (703) 845-6301.