Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

2202594  Independent Study IV

Puckpan Tipayamontri

Office: BRK 1106

Office Hours: M 1-3 and by appointment

Phone: 0-2218-4703

puckpan.t@chula.ac.th


In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell

 

Suggested Reading

 Discussion


 

Tentative Schedule

Week 1

Oct. 23

No class (Chulalongkorn Memorial Day)


 



Week 2

Oct. 30

Topic Discussion


 

 


Week 3

Nov. 6

Topic Discussion


 

 


Week 4

Nov. 13

No class (Chula Academic Expo: November 12-18, 2012)


 

Week 5

Nov. 23 

Canon 1: Brave New World
 

Reading

  • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
Reading response due
Week 6

Nov. 27

Canon 2: Animal Farm



Reading
  • George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Reading response due
Week 7

Dec. 4

Canon 3: Nineteen Eighty-Four


 

Reading
 Reading response due
Week 8

Dec. 14

Bibliography and Other Utopias/Dystopias


  Reading
  • M.R. Nimitmongkol Navarat, The Dreams of an Idealist (1948)
    • M.R. Nimitmongkol Navarat, "A Victim of Two Political Purges"
    • M.R. Nimitmongkol Navarat, The Emerald's Cleavage
Reading response due: Canonical Dystopian Elements
Week 9

Dec. 18

Other Utopias/Dystopias


  Reading
  • x
Reading response due: Dystopian Expressions
Week 10

Dec. 25

No Class (Midterm week: December 24-28, 2012)


 

 


Week 11

Jan. 1

No Class (New Year's Day)
 

Week 12

Jan. 8

Paper Topic Discussion


  Women in dystopias; Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Oryx and Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009) 
Week 13

Jan. 15

No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013)


 

Week 14

Jan. 22

No Class


   
Week 15

Jan. 29

Paper Topic Discussion


  Reading
Week 16

Feb. 8 

Paper Topic Discussion


   
Week 17

Feb. 15 

Paper Topic Discussion


   
Week 18

Feb. 19

Paper Topic Discussion


   
Week 19 Feb. 26 No class (Final exams: February 25-March 4, 2013)



Week 20 Mar. 5 No class



Week 21 Mar. 12 No class



Week 22 Mar. 19 No class



Week 23 Mar. 23 No class



Mar. 30


Final paper draft 1 handed in
Discussion:

Week 24

Apr. 5 

Final Paper Due


 

 

 

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