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Week 1 |
01.18.12 |
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Wednesday |
Basic introduction |
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Critical Analysis • Guidelines for Reading |
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• demo |
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• demo-conflict |
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Week 2 |
01.23 |
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Monday |
Classifications of Folk Tales and Myth, Archetypes and Symbol |
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• demo |
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Native American Folk Tales |
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Creation of the Earth • Origin of the Alabama and Coushatta Tribes / - supplemental |
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How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas / - supplemental |
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Western Bible: Genesis 1 and 2: King James Version / - supplemental |
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Creation Myth cycles: Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World / pp 21-24 |
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> Exercise 1: Native American Folktale Comparisons |
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Wednesday |
01.25 |
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In-class work |
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Native American Folk Tales continued |
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• demo-Animal Guides, Trickster Spirits, and Archetypes |
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Navajo Trickster tales / pp 98-103 |
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• demo |
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Iroquois Nation Constitution |
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Week 3 |
01.30 |
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Monday |
Christopher Columbus / pp 31-33 |
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• timeline || • time table |
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• demo |
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FYI: Extract from the Columbus Journal / - supplemental |
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FYI: Complete Columbus Letter Translated / - supplemental |
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Wednesday |
02.01 |
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Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of Indies / pp 35-39 |
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FYI: Tears of the Indians: Reproduction of the first English translation |
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• demo |
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Week 4 |
02.06 |
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Monday |
Thomas Harriot / pp 48-55 |
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FYI: Full Text of Harriot's 1588 MS / - supplemental |
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FYI: Full Text of Harriot's 1590 MS with Engravings / - supplemental |
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John Smith / pp 55-57, 66-69 |
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FYI: Full Text of Smith's MS |
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• demo |
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Wednesday |
02.08 |
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Puritan Ideologies: Mind-set of the Early Colonists |
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• demo |
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Two Songs of the Colonists /- supplemental |
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Week 5 |
02.13 |
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Monday |
Puritan Ideologies: Puritan Plain Style |
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• demo |
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William Bradford / bio: pp 104-105, text: 114-116, 123-126 |
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• General Essay Guidelines |
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• Formal Paper 1 due 02.27 |
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Wednesday |
02.15 |
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Puritan Ideologies: Diversity among the Colonists |
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passages from John Cotton's sermon “God's Promise to His Plantation” /- supplemental |
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FYI: John Cotton, full sermon “God's Promise to His Plantation” /- supplemental |
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John Winthrop “A Model of Christian Charity” / pp 147-158 |
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• demo |
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Week 6 |
02.20 |
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Monday |
Roger Williams / bio: pp 173-174 |
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John Winthrop’s views of Williams / p 159 |
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William Bradford's views of Williams /- supplemental |
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Thomas Morton, Roger Williams in Rhode Island /- supplemental |
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FYI: Thomas Morton, Full Text of New England's Memorial /- supplemental |
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• demo |
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from A Key into the Language of America / pp 174-184 |
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Bloody Tenet of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience / pp 184-187 |
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FYI: State of Rhode Island considering changing its name |
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FYI: John Cotton's response: The Bloudy Tenet Washed and Made White in the Bloud of the Lamb |
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• demo-Puritan Views on Democracy |
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Wednesday |
02.22 |
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Anne Bradstreet “Contemplations” / p 187-202 |
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• demo |
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• demo-overview |
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Week 7 |
02.27 |
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Monday |
Anne Bradstreet |
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“Contemplations” / p 187-202 |
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Wednesday |
02.29 |
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Anne Bradstreet |
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"Prologue" / pp 188-189 |
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"Upon the Burning of Our House" / pp 212-213 |
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• demo |
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"The Author to Her Book" / pp 204-205 |
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• demo |
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• Review for MidTerm |
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Week 8 |
03.05 |
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Monday |
Anne Bradstreet |
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"A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment" / pp 206-207 |
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• demo |
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Edward Taylor |
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"Prologue" / pp 269-270 |
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"Meditations #8" / pp 270-271 |
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"Meditations #38" / pp 273-275 |
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• demo |
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Women's Roles in Puritan Society |
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• demo |
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Wednesday |
03.07 |
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Midterm |
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Week 9 |
03.12 - 03.18 |
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Spring Beak |
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Week 10 |
03.19 |
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Monday |
Cotton Mather / pp 307-313 |
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FYI: Cotton Mather, full text of The Wonders of the Invisible World |
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• demo: Popular Witchcraft Pamphlets of the Period |
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Protestantism Overview |
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• demo |
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Wednesday |
03.21 |
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Thomas Jefferson / pp 649-651 |
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Early Draft of the Declaration of Independence / p 655 |
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• demo |
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from Notes on the State of Virginia / pp 1684-1686 (Vol. B.) |
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• demo-Contradiction in Jefferson's Views of Slavery |
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"Indians of North America" / p 658-660 |
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Week 11 |
03.26 |
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Monday |
Phillis Wheatley / pp 751-752 |
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“On Being Brought from Africa to America” / pp 751-752 |
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“On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield” / pp 756 |
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• demo |
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Benjamin Rush |
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• Anti-Slavery Document 1775: Benjamin Rush/- supplemental |
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• demo |
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FYI: Cornell University: Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection |
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Wednesday |
03.28 |
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Test |
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Week 12 |
04.02 |
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Monday |
Washington Irving |
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“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” / pp 965-985 |
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• demo-Inspirations |
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• Formal Paper 2 Expectations |
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• Formal Paper 2 due 04.23 |
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Wednesday |
Edgar Allan Poe / p 1528-1532 |
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“The Fall of the House of Usher” / p 1553-1565 |
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• demo |
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Week 13 |
04.09 |
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Monday |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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“The Fall of the House of Usher” / p 1553-1565 |
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Tuesday |
Last day to drop course and earn a 'W' |
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Wednesday |
04.11 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne / p 1272-1275 |
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“The Minister’s Black Veil” / pp 1311-1320 |
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• demo-Similarities and Contrasts with Poe's “Usher” |
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Week 14 |
04.16 |
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Monday |
Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet — Silence”/- supplemental |
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• demo-Poe and the Sonnet |
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Wednesday |
04.18 |
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Walt Whitman / pp 2190-2195 |
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• demo-Whitman |
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“Song of Myself” |
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section 01 / p 2210 |
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section 05 / p 2213 |
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section 11 / p 2217 |
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section 51 / pp 2253-2254 |
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• "Song of Myself"-demo |
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Week 15 |
04.23 |
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Monday |
Walt Whitman |
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"A Letter from Mark Twain" / - supplemental |
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"The Sleepers" section 1 /- supplemental |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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"A Dream Within a Dream"/ - supplemental |
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• demo-Whitman and Poe |
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Sleep (Hypnos) and Death (Thanatos) |
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Wednesday |
04.25 |
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Walt Whitman compared with Emily Dickinson |
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• demo-Comparisons |
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• Formal Paper 2 due |
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Week 16 |
04.30 |
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Monday |
Emily Dickinson / pp 2254-2558 |
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“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”/ 2578 |
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> Detail of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini —Full image |
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“I Like a Look of Agony”/ 2567 |
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• demo-Dickinson |
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• demo-Language Poetry |
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“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”/ 2560 |
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“My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun”/ 2584 |
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“Crumbling is not an Instant’s Act”/ - supplemental |
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• demo-Dickinson 2 |
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Wednesday |
05.02 |
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Emily Dickinson |
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“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”/ 2579 |
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“Wild Nights, Wild Nights”/ 2565 |
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“The Soul Selects Her Own Society”/ 2574 |
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• demo-Dickinson 3 |
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Finals Week |
05.07 |
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Class will meet at scheduled time for Final Exam. |
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