| Lec # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2-3 | Unit One Film Viewing and Discussion of Robert Siodmak's The Killers. Maupassant's "A Piece of String"; and Ernest Heningway's "The Killers" | |
| 4-5 | Unit Two Film Viewing and Discussion of The Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote | |
| 6-7 | Unit Three Film Viewing and Discussion of Akira Kurosawa's, Seven Samurai and Excerpts from Cervantes, Don Quixote | |
| 8-10 | Unit Four Film Viewing and Discussion of John Ford's My Darling Clementine and Aeschylus, Agamemnon | First paper due on Lec #10 (five pages) |
| 11-13 | Unit Five Film Viewing and Discussion of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Sophocles, Antigone | |
| 14-15 | Unit Six Film Viewing and Discussion of Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
| 16-17 | Unit Seven Film Viewing and Discussion of Francis Ford Coppolla's The Godfather and Shakespeare, Macbeth | Second paper due on Lec #17 (six pages) |
| 18-20 | Unit Eight Film Viewing and Discussion of Laura Cavani's Ripley's Game. Reading: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot | |
| 21-22 | Unit Nine Film Viewing and Discussion of Jonathan Glazer's Birth and Henry James, Turn of the Screw | |
| 23 | Unit Ten Film Viewing and Discussion of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevar | |
| 24-25 | Unit Eleven Film Viewing and Discussion of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | Third paper due on Lec #25 (nine pages) |