# Calendar

Course calendar.
SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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1 | Introduction |
2 | George Saunder's "My Flamboyant Grandson" Ursula LeGuin's "Science Fiction and the Future" Russell Baker's "Marriage á la Mode" and "Completely Different" | Writing/reading profile due
3 | Albert Goldbarth's "The Future" |
4 | Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 |
5 | Fahrenheit 451 (cont.) | Essay I proposal due Proposal conferences one day after Ses #5
6 | Ursula LeGuin's The Word for World Is Forest |
7 | The Word for World Is Forest (cont.) | Essay I due
8 | Class workshop of essay I |
9 | Film: The Matrix |
10 | The Matrix (cont.) Adam Gopnik, "The Unreal Thing" (e-reserve) | Revisions of essay I due one day before Ses #10
11 | Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake | Essay II proposal due Proposal conferences one day after Ses #11
12 | Oryx and Crake (cont.) |
13 | Oryx and Crake (cont.) | Essay II due
14 | Class workshops of essay II | Essay III proposal due
15 | MIT Libraries instruction session on the digital instruction resource center |
16 | George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, selections | Revisions of essay II due one day before Ses #17
17 | Nineteen Eighty-Four (cont.) |
18 | Film: Blade Runner | Essay III due one day before Ses #19
19 | Class workshop of essay III |
20 | Silent reading session |
21 | Oral presentations | Revisions of essay III due one day before Ses #22
22 | Oral presentations (cont.) | Assignment IV due
23 | Class workshop of assignment IV |
24 | Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" |
25 | Last class: tea and celebratory reading at professor's home | Portfolios due