Faculty Furloughs
The state of California is facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis that has resulted in a $26.3 billion deficit. The impact of this on the CSU system includes a reduction of approximately $564 million in the system’s base budget. As one strategy among others, the CSU has implemented furloughs of most of its employees this coming academic year, including faculty, staff, and management employees. A furlough is mandatory un-paid time off; faculty and staff on each CSU campus are being “furloughed” two days per month. These cancelled class days are marked on the syllabus below. It is important to recognize that these days off are not holidays. Instead, they are concrete examples of how massive state budget cuts have consequences for you as students and for me as a faculty member.
Each faculty member must designate six furlough days for each quarter. My furlough days for the Winter quarter will be:
Friday, April 2 (mandatory university furlough day)
Tuesday, April 6
Wednesday, April 14
Tuesday, May 4
Friday, May 21 (mandatory university furlough day)
Thursday June 10
Please note that on designated furlough days faculty are prohibited from engaging in any teaching, research or administrative work, which includes responding to voice messages and emails.
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Schedule
MW: Wordsworth, The Major Works
SPP: Barbauld, Selected Poetry and Prose
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Reading
Assignment |
Assignments
Due |
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3/29 |
Theories
of the Nation Anderson,
Imagined Communities
(pages 1-82) Gellner,
Nations and Nationalism
Hobsbawm,
Nations and Nationalism
Since 1780 Breuilly, Nationalism and the State (online) |
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4/5 |
The
Case of "Britain": Colley’s Britons
and the English Response to the French Revolution
Colley,
Britons: Forging a Nation Barbauld, “To a Great Nation” (SPP) Coleridge, "France: An Ode" (online), "Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin" (online) Wordsworth, Books 9-10 of The Prelude (MW) |
Weekly Response: "Nation" |
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4/12 |
Defining
Englishness: Charles Dickens' A
Tale of Two Cities |
Weekly
Response:
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4/19 |
The
Poetics of the Nation and the National Poet: The Exemplary Case of
William Wordsworth
Anderson,
Imagined Communities
(pages 163-185) Colley,
Britons: Forging a Nation Wordsworth, "Michael" (MW), selections from Poems in Two Volumes (online), , additional "Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty" from 1815 (online), "Essay, Supplemental to the Preface" (MW), "Laodamia," "Written with a Slate Pencil," "View from the Top of Black Comb," "To the Same [The Second Ode to Lycoris]" (online) Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816, with other short pieces (online) |
Weekly
Response: "People" |
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4/26 |
Historicism and the Romantic Past: Walter Scott Colley,
Britons: Forging a Nation Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (online) Wordsworth, "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "The Thorn," "We Are Seven," "Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman," "The Last of the Flock," "Composed at Cora Linn" (MW) |
Weekly Response: "Past" |
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5/3 |
The
Nation as Museum: Wordsworth, Landscape, and Preservation
Wordsworth, Books 11-12 of The Prelude, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "Poems on the Naming of Places" (MW), The Waggoner (online), "The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets" (online), "After Visiting the Field of Waterloo," "The Cave of Staffa," "Steamboats, Viaducts, Railways," "On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway" (online) |
Weekly Response: "Place" |
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5/10 |
Gender,
Nation, and Empire: Jane Austen’s Anderson,
Imagined Communities
(pages 83-111) |
Weekly Response: "English-ness" |
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5/17 |
Speaking
for the Nation: The Case of Anna Barbauld
Colley,
Britons: Forging a Nation Barbauld, "The Mouse’s Petition," "Epistle to William Wilberforce," "To Dr. Priestley, Dec. 29, 1792," "To the Poor," "Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation," "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" (SPP) |
Weekly Response: "Female Politics" |
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5/24 |
Staging/Gendering the Nation: Hannah Cowley’s A Day in Turkey and Elizabeth Inchbald’s Such Things Are (online) |
Weekly Response: "Exotics" |
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5/31 |
Memorial
Day |
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6/7 |
Seminar
Paper Presentations |
Seminar Paper
Due |