Required Text:

The Best American Essays of the Century will be referred to as BA

M01.14 Introduction to Course
W01.16 Memoir/Personal Essay: Your Life, Your Interests, Your Stories (read Joan Didion’s The White Album, page 477)

M01.21 MLK Day
W01.23 Discuss The White Album

M01.28 Where We Go: The Narrative Line
W01.30 Memoir (read Zora Neale Hurston’s How It Feels to  be Colored Me, page 114)

M02.04 Discuss How It Feels to  be Colored Me
W02.06 Memoir/Personal Essay: Voices and Choices (read Joyce Carol Oates, They All Just Went Away, page 553)

M02.11 Discuss They All Just Went Away
W02.13 Discuss workshop etiquette and draft criteria for criticism

M02.18 Workshop Memoir/Personal Essay
W02.20 Workshop/Memoir/Personal Essay

M02.25 Workshop/Memoir/Personal Essay
W02.27 Discuss Nature/Eco Essay (read John Muir, Stickeen, page 28)

M03.04 Library Research Session
W03.06 Submit two-page reflection via email: Stickeen

M03.11 ESSAY #1 DUE–email with SELF-REFLECTION (read Rachel Carson’s The Marginal World, page 214)
W03.13 Discuss The Marginal World; 

M03.18 SPRING BREAK
W08.20 SPRING BREAK

M03.25 Workshop Nature/Ecology
W03.27 WorkshopNature/Ecology

M04.01 WorkshopNature/Ecology
W04.03 WorkshopNature/Ecology

M04.08 WorkshopNature/Ecology
W04.10 Discuss Lit. Journalism (read selected articles from The Atlantic)

M04.15 Nature/Ecology Essay Due. Discuss selected articles from The Atlantic
W04.17 Workshop Literary Journalism Essay

M04.22 Workshop Literary Journalism Essay
W04.24 Workshop Literary Journalism Essay

M04.29 Work on Final Portfolio/Conference
W05.01 Portfolio Due

FINAL EXAM PERIOD-portfolio return