| Ses # | Themes | Key Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 |
Haunting Exterior vs. Interior (Outside vs. Inside) Escape vs. Entrance | |
| 3 |
The Flaneur Close Reading, Slow Reading | |
| 4 |
Man of the Crowd / Man of the World The Presence of the Past / Palimpsests | |
| 5 |
Panopticism Metonymy Asyndeton | |
| 6 | Literary Snow and Rain Days | |
| 7 | Saturday and Mrs. Dalloway: A Tale of Two Openings | |
| 8 |
Post 9/11 and Trauma Ethics Failures, Triumphs, and Limits of the Imagination | |
| 9 |
Security and Invasion Psychological and Architextural Interiority | |
| 10 | Brain/Mind/City: Networks and Systems | |
| 11 | Re-Reading Day | Re-Reading Assignment #1 Due |
| 12 | Geography and Representation | |
| 13 | Haunting and Estrangement | Paper #1 Due |
| 14 |
Defamiliarization Intersectionality: Race, Class, and Gender | |
| 15 |
Vantage Points Race and Space Race and Representation The Uses of Genre | MIT Senseable City Lab Class Visit |
| 16 |
Love Stories and Romance Plots Home, Homeland, and Homecoming | |
| 17 |
Windows Stereoscopic | |
| 18 | Frames, Windows, and Cosmopolitanism | |
| 19 | Inclusion and Exclusion | Paper #2 Due |
| 20 |
Glitches, Cuts, Tears, and Splices A World Re-Arranged Back to the Future Benjamin's Aura Beyond Symbolism: Circulating Objects, Found Objects | |
| 21 |
Uncanny The Sublime Collage Irony | |
| 22 |
From Irony to Sincerity?: Structure and Trajectory Storms, Circulating Systems, and Flickering Lights | |
| 23 | Nature in the City | |
| 24 | Re-Reading Day | Re-Reading Assignment #2 Due |
| 25 | Presentation of Final Creative Projects | Creative Street Haunting Assignment Due |