Course Syllabus
Tutorial 100-10
October 2000

Tuesday, October 3

Discussion List Response: Commentary on Discussion Thread
Discussion: Revolution, Art and Utopia
Film: Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin

Thursday, October 5

Film: Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Discussion of Film
Discussion: Art and Revolution

Reading Assignment for Tues, October 10: Timeline/Russian Revolution (for reference purposes), Lenin What is to be Done?.
The Revolution of 1905: Manifesto of 17 October 1905, Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Program of the Bolsheviks, Program of the Mensheviks.

Fifth Discussion List Assignment: Pair #5 will post questions relating to the reading assigned for Tuesday, October 10

Tuesday, October 10

Lecture: The Russian Revolution
Discussion: Art and Revolution, "Painting Revolution" (Exhibit)
Film Excerpt: Aelita
Discussion: Russian Utopianism vs. American Utopianism

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Oct 12: The October Revolution--Lenin on his April Theses, Lenin on the formation of the Cheka, Trotsky The Russian Revolution.

Sixth Discussion List Assignment: Pair #6 will post questions relating to the reading assigned for Thursday, October 12

Thursday, October 12

Discussion List Response: Commentary on Discussion Thread
Discussion: Russian Revolution and Utopia
Film Excerpt: Circus
Discussion of Third Writing Assignment (Due Friday, November 17)

FALL BREAK

Tuesday, October 24

Peer Writing Exercise: Writing a Second Draft
Mini-Lecture: Dystopian Rumblings
Discussion: Dystopia in Russia

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Oct 26: Utopias, 20-23, 43-44, 270-273

Thursday, October 26

Discussion: Russian Dystopia
Mini-Lecture: Evgenii Zamiatin
Discussion List Assignment: Please respond to posted questions relating to the reading assigned for Tuesday, October 31

Reading Assignment for Tues, Oct 31: Evgenii Zamiatin, We, Entries 1-9

!!Please meet with me in pairs during the week of October 30-November 3 regarding discussion leader assignments!!

Tuesday, October 31

Discussion List Response: Commentary on Discussion Thread
Discussion: Zamiatin's We
Discussion: Russian Dystopia
Discussion List Assignment: Please respond to questions posted regarding the reading assigned for Thursday, November 2

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Nov 2: Evgenii Zamiatin, We, Entries 10-16

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