Fall Semester 2022
Week One (08/24 - 08/26)
Course Intro & Syllabus
Letter to Ms. M. & Letter to Past Self
Week Two (08/29 - 09/02)
Intro. Existential Thought - Noticings & Wonderings, Existential Thought Short Stories (CommonLit) Discussion
“Wall of Reality” - Lecture
Individual “Wall of Reality”
Intro. To Dr. Frankl - Lecture
Man’s Search For Meaning (MSFM)
Read Prefaces
Read “Experiences in a Concentration Camp”
(Suggested Pages 17 - 43 online edition)
Reader-Responses
Week Three
09/06 - 09/09
09/05 Labor Day
MSFM
Read “Experiences in a Concentration Camp” - (Suggested Pages 44 - 70 online edition)
Reader-Responses
Søren Kierkegaard
“Philosophize This” Podcast
MSFM
Read “Experiences in a Concentration Camp” - (Suggested Pages 44 - 70 online edition)
Reader-Responses
Week Four
09/12 - 09/16
MIND > MATTER - Lecture
MSFM
Read “Experiences in a Concentration Camp” - (Suggested Pages 44 - 70 online edition)
Reader-Responses
MSFM
Read “Experiences in a Concentration Camp” - (Suggested Pages 71 - 100 online edition)
Reader-Responses
Albert Camus “Myth of Sisyphus”
Sparknotes Reading
Week Five
09/19 - 09/23
Martin Buber “I-Thou”
MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail
Excerpt
MSFM
Read “Logotherapy in a Nutshell”
(Suggested Pages 101 - 121 online edition)
Reader-Responses
“TO LIVE IS TO SUFFER” - Lecture
MSFM
Read “Logotherapy in a Nutshell”
(Suggested Pages 101 - 121 online edition)
Week Six
09/26 - 09/30
In-Class Exam Expectations
Simone De Beauvoir - Children’s Book
Simone De Beauvoir Excerpt
Read and annotate Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “An Obstacle” (CommonLit)
Frantz Fanon Excerpt
Read and annotate Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”
(CommonLit)
MSFM
Read “Logotherapy in a Nutshell”
(Suggested Pages 122 - 135 online edition)
Week Seven
10/03 - 10/06
(SLCs)
10/07
Staff Day
MSFM Exam Review and Prep
MSFM Exam
Week Eight
10/11 - 10/14
10/10 Indigeneous Peoples’ Day
MSFM Exam Review and Prep
MSFM Exam
Week Nine
10/17 - 10/21
Hamlet Intro.
Hamlet Act I
Hamlet Act I
Week Ten
10/31 - 11/04
Hamlet Act II
Hamlet Act II
Week Eleven
11/07 - 11/10
11/11
Veteran’s Day
Hamlet Act III
Hamlet Act III
Week Twelve
11/14 - 11/18
Hamlet Act III
Hamlet Act IV
Week Thirteen
11/28 - 12/02
Hamlet Act IV
Hamlet Act V
Week Fourteen
12/05 - 12/09
Hamlet Exam Review and Prep
Hamlet Exam
Week Fifteen
12/12 - 12/16
12/16
Half Day
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
Week Sixteen
01/04 - 01/06
01/03
Staff Day
Welcome Back Transition
Intro to Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo Foreword
Pedro Páramo
Pages 3 - 13
Week Seventeen
01/09 - 01/13
Semester I Ends
Pedro Páramo
Pages 14 - 30
Pedro Páramo
Pages 31 - 47