WEEK 1

Wednesday 1/20
Reading
Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our
Countrys Good

WEEK 2

WEEK 3

WEEK 4

Monday 1/25
Due: Reading

Monday 2/1
Due: Reading

Monday 2/8
Due: Reading

Reading
Work pack for OCG
National Theater podcast

Assignment 2 (30 pts.): Write

a 2-3 page summary of
Foucaults argument, section
by section. Print four copies for
class.

Reading
The Craft of Research,
Engaging Sources

Wednesday 1/27
Due: Reading + Assignment I

Wednesday 2/3
Due: Assignment 2

Wednesday 2/10
Due: Reading and Assignment 3

Reading
Michele Foucault, Of Other
Spaces: Utopias and
Heterotopias
Foucault podcast

Reading
Miranda Mellis, The Quarry

Readings
Root, Collage, Montage
Mellis, Magic IS a Culture

Assignment 1 (20 pts.): Write a

1-2 page close reading of a
moment from the play that
illuminates your assigned topic.
Next, pose a question about
how this theme develops over
the course of the play, and
locate a relevant moment in Act
II. Print one copy.

Assignment 3 (20 pts.):

Find creative agreement
between The Quarry and one
aspect of Foucaults heterotopia.

Assignment 4.1 (20 pts.):

Generate guiding questions for
Paper 1. Locate your own
source and write annotated
bibliography. Print one copy.

WEEK 5
Monday 2/15
Due: Reading + Assignment 4.1

WEEK 6
Monday 2/22
Due: Assignment 4.3

Reading
Benjamin, Arcades Project
Sontag, Brief Anthology

WEEK 7

WEEK 8

Monday 2/29
Due: Assignment 4.4: Paper 1

Monday 3/7
Due: Reading + Assignment 5

Reading
Robin Coste Lewis, The
Voyage of the Sable Venus

Reading
Josh Kun, Audiotopia

Wednesday 3/2
Due: Reading

Wednesday 3/9
Due: Reading

Reading
Robin Coste Lewis, The
Voyage of the Sable Venus

Reading
Listen to Hamilton

Assignment 4.2 (10 points): Write

a 1-2 page essay consisting
entirely of quotations from your
Paper 1 source material, and
organize into titled sections.

Wednesday 2/17
Due: Reading and Assignment
4.2
Read
Museum as Media Form
Assignment 4.3 (20 pts.): Write a
3-page draft of Paper 1this
can look like a rough sketch of
the entire paper in prose or
outline form; or, simply, the first
three pages, or a combination of
writing and outlining. Print four
copies.

Wednesday 2/24
FIELD TRIP
Unnameable Books +
Brooklyn Museum
Assignment 4.4 (50 pts.): Write
your final draft of Paper 1. Print
one copy.

Assignment 5 (10 pts.): Write

a found poem from a selected
source.

Assignment 6.1 (10 pts.):

Starting today, begin your daily
research log. By 3/21, type up
two brief explorations of
possible research topics, first
centering on a cultural artifact
that depicts a site with
heterotopian features, the
second focusing on an actual
site that exists in the world!
Note: a more complicated option
is to write about a cultural
practice (music, dance, etc.) that
can transform different places
into heterotopias.

WEEK 9
Monday 3/14
SPRING BREAK
Wednesday 3/16
SPRING BREAK

WEEK 10
Monday 3/21
Due: Reading + Assignment
6.1

WEEK 11
Monday 3/28
Due: Assignment 6.3
One-on-one meetings

WEEK 12
Monday 4/4 NO CLASS
Due: Assignment 6.4 online
Assignment 6.5 (10 pts.): The
fake podcast assignment:
Working with your research
cohort, talk each other through
your guiding questions and
preliminary structure, taking up
to 5 minutes each.

In class:
Research cohorts, revealed.
Assignment 6.2 (10): Commit to
your topic, and prepare a 2minute presentation.

Wednesday 3/23
Due: Assignment 6.2

Wednesday 3/30
One-on-one meetings cont.

Assignment 6.3 (20 pts.): Write

proposal + preliminary
bibliography. Make copies for
your cohort and for me.
Remember to keep up your
daily research log.

Assignment 6.4 (20 pts.):

Write usefully annotated
bibliographies for your
research sources. Dont forget
about the research log!

Wednesday 4/6 FIELD TRIP to

Green-Wood Cemetery.
Due: Assignment 6.5 online

Assignment 6.6 (30 pts.): Write

a four-page draft. The only
requirements are a.) to write a
fleshed-out first page (which you
may later revise), and b.) not to
phone this in. The rest of the
draft may unfurl as you find
most usefulyou may simply
proceed through the first four
pages; write an outline; craft a
quote collage; devise section
titles; or some useful combo of
the above. Finally, a message
from your daily research log:
Recurdame!

WEEK 13
Monday 4/11
Due: Assignment 6.6
Reading
Elliott and Purdy, A walk
through heterotopia: Peter
Greenaway's landscapes by
numbers

WEEK 14
Monday 4/18
Due: Assignment 6.8: Paper 2
+ daily research log
In class
Watch The World

WEEK 15
Monday 4/25
Due: Assignment 7.1

WEEK 16
Monday 5/2
Due: Assignment 7.2: Final
experiences

Assignment 7.2 (25 pts.):

Commence working on your
project. Bring laptops or other
necessary supplies to class on
Wednesday.

Assignment 6.7 (10 pts.)

Give light, written feedback to
your research partner. Your
research log says to tell you
whats up and youd better call it
or else.

Wednesday 4/13
Due: Assignment 6.7
Assignment 6.8 (80 pts. total):
Write the final version of Paper 2
(70 pts.)! Prepare to turn in daily
research log (10 pts.).

Wednesday 4/20
In class
Watch The World

Wednesday 4/27
In class:
Writing lab

Reading
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library
of Babel
Valleria Luiselli, Sidewalks

Assignment 7.2 (cont.): Finish

project!

Assignment 7.1 (5 pts.) Present

a two-minute presentation re:
your final creative project, in
which you discuss the written
and experiential components.

Wednesday 5/4
Due: Assignment 7.2: Final
experiences