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UPDATED:
April 16, 2025
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EXTRA CREDIT:
All assignments and lessons are linked to this page! This plan is tentative, but
it will most likely not change much—except for updated links. You should examine this plan carefully so that you know when things are due. You are responsible for all work (lessons and assignments) linked to this Course Plan!
Optional Read:
Marston, D. (2021). Why we procrastinate. Psychology Today. (2021 June 9).
For every credit hour, students are expected to spend 2 – 3 hours per week working outside of class. For example, for a 3 credit hour class, students should expect to put in 6 – 9 hours per week outside of class, studying or doing assignments. (KSU Protect Your GPA)
Week 1: January 12 to January 18
- January 13: First Day of Classes
- Meet in Class: January 15 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- By the end of this week:
- ANALYZE: the contents of this Course Plan
- WATCH: the Course Video Tour
- READ: the Course Syllabus
- STUDY: Lesson 0: Using Google Chat & Google Docs
- EXAMINE: The list of Case Studies
- SIGN UP for Discussion Leadership Roles
Week 2: January 19 to January 25
- January 19: Last Day to Add or to Elect Credit/Audit/Pass-Fail
- January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—NO CLASSES
- January 22: NO CLASS today! Stay warm!
- MANDATORY CONFERENCES PERIOD #1—You must meet with me either this week or next week! ALL CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS
- EXAMINE Case Study: The European Medieval World & Medievalism
- READ:
- How Soon Is Now? (Carolyn Dinshaw)
- The Academy and the Making of Neomedievalism (KellyAnn Fitzpatrick)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- READ:
- By the end of this week, STUDY: Lesson 1: Writing and Artificial Intelligence—YOUR Voice, YOUR Thoughts
Week 3: January 26 to February 1
- January 26: Last Day to Drop a Class before a grade of “W” is assigned
- Meet in Class: January 29 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- MANDATORY CONFERENCES PERIOD #1—If you didn’t meet with me last week, you must meet with me this week! ALL CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS
- RE-EXAMINE Case Study: The European Medieval World & Medievalism
- RE-READ:
- How Soon Is Now? (Carolyn Dinshaw)
- The Academy and the Making of Neomedievalism (KellyAnn Fitzpatrick)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADER: Dr. Robinson
- Discussion Slides
- RE-READ:
- February 1: Be sure to SIGN UP for Discussion Leadership Roles
If you fail to sign up by this date, then I will take the liberty to choose two dates for you.
Week 4: February 2 to February 8
- Meet in Class: February 5 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- EXAMINE Case Study: Adaptation, Adoption, and Appropriation of the Medieval
- READ:
- Authenticity (Pam Clements)
- Maternal Games in The Green Knight: Launching Gawain (Carol Jamison)
- Is pre-Columbian America Medieval?: Indigenous Absence in American Medievalisms (Michael R. Evans)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Katie Rader
- Piper Click
- Discussion Slides
- READ:
- By the end of this week, STUDY: Lesson 2: Critical Thinking, Theory, Facts, Feelings, Beliefs, and Bias
Week 5: February 9 to February 15
- February 10 (11:59pm, EST): Essay One DUE
- February 10 (11:59pm, EST): Reflective Journal #1 DUE
- Meet in Class: February 12 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism & Science
- READ:
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- The Body of the Condemned (Michel Foucault)
- The Medieval Mentality of Modern Science (Tom Siegfried)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Achante Pasek
- Andrew Schneider
- Discussion Slides
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- By the end of this week, STUDY: Lesson 3: Opinions vs. Arguments
Week 6: February 16 to February 22
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- Meet in Class: February 19 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- RE-EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism & Science
- READ:
- Neomedievalism as a Future Society: The Case of Russia (Dina Khapaeva)
- Objectivity, Impossibility, and Laughter in Dr. Who’s “Robot of Sherwood” (Usha Vishnuvajjala)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Emilia Colosimo
- Discussion Slides
- Markus Beachy
- Discussion Slides
- READ:
Week 7: February 23 to March 1
- NO CLASS today! (February 26, Wednesday, 11:00-12:15)
Week 8: March 2 to March 8
- March 4: Midterm Grades Available
- Meet in Class: March 5 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism in Arts and Crafts
- READ:
- Middle Ages Modern Is a New Aesthetic for Our Increasingly Medieval Times (Dana Covit)
- Back to Nature: Landscape in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement (Mónica Vergés Alonso)
- Spectacle (Angela Jane Weisl)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Achante Pasek
- Discussion Slides
- Keane McIntosh
- Discussion Slides
- READ:
- By the end of this week, STUDY: Lesson 4: Stories, Non-fiction, and the Power of Language
SPRING BREAK: March 9 to March 15
Week 9: March 16 to March 22
- Meet in Class: March 19 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- RE-EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism in Arts and Crafts
- READ:
- Medievalisms in Music and the Arts: Longing for Transcendence (Tison Pugh & Angela Jane Weisl)
- A Mickey Mouse Inferno: Medievalist Legacies and the Marketing of the Middle Ages (Karl Fugelso)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Emilia Colosimo
- Discussion Slides
- Meah Watson
- Discussion Slides
- READ:
Week 10: March 23 to March 29
- March 24 (11:59pm, EST): Essay Two DUE
- March 24 (11:59pm, EST): Reflective Journal #2 DUE
- MANDATORY CONFERENCES PERIOD #2—You must meet with me either this week or next week! ALL CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS
- Meet in Class: March 26 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism & Communities
- READ:
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- Freedom to Discriminate (Helen Young, Studies in Medievalism XXVIII: Medievalism and Discrimination, Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2019.)
- Tolkien’s Primitivism and the Myth of a Pastoral Paradise in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien Adaptations (Anna Czarnowus, New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval, Eds. Anna Czarnowus and Janet M. Wilson, Routledge, 2024.)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Markus Beachy
- Discussion Slides
- Andrew Schneider
- Discussion Slides
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- READ:
Week 11: March 30 to April 5
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- March 30: Last Day to Withdraw (Grade “W” Assigned)
- March 31: Register and Submit Poster for Printing for the Showcase for Portfolio Extra credit
- MANDATORY CONFERENCES PERIOD #2—If you didn’t meet with me last week, you must meet with me this week! ALL CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS
- Meet in Class: April 2 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- RE-EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism & Communities
- READ:
- Muscular Medievalism (Amy s. Kaufman)
- Havelock North: Embodied Medievalism in an Aotearoa New Zealand Village (Ellie Crookes)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Keane McIntosh
- Discussion Slides
- Katie Rader
- Discussion Slides
- READ:
- By the end of this week, STUDY: Lesson 5: Reasonable Questions & Reasoned Conclusions
Week 12: April 6 to April 12
- Meet in Class: April 9 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- April 11: Prepare and upload your Visual Presentation of Essay One or Two for Portfolio Extra credit
- EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism, Government, and Human Rights
- READ:
- Tropical Templars? Medievalism and Pseudohistory in Brazil’s Largest City (Luiz Guerra, Medievalisms in a Global Age, Eds. Angela Jane Weisl and Robert Squillace, D.S. Brewer, 2024.)
- Medievalism, Brexit, and the Myth of Nations (Andrew B. R. Elliott, Studies in Medievalism XXIX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies), Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2020.)
- Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in Game of Thrones (Lauryn Mayer, Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism, Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2024.)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Meah Watson
- Discussion Slides
- Payton Binion
- Discussion Slides
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- READ:
- All Writing Workshop Groups have been assigned. Find Your Group!
Week 13: April 13 to April 19
- Writing Workshop BEGINS Find Your Group!
- Meet in Class: April 16 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- EXAMINE Case Study: Medievalism, Government, and Human Rights
- READ:
- Robin Hood Political Memes: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Far Right’s Appropriation of the English Outlaw (Alexander L. Kaufman, Studies in Medievalism XXX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II, Ed. Karl Fugelso, D.S. Brewer, 2021.)
- Putin’s Medieval Weapons in the War against Ukraine (Sean Griffin, Studies in Medievalism XXIX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies), Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2020)
- Historical Malapropism and the Medieval Blood Libel in American Politics (Esther Liberman Cuenca, Studies in Medievalism XXIX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies), Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2020.)
- Trauma (Kathleen Biddick, Medievalism: Key Critical Terms, Eds. Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz, 2014.)
- See Guidelines for Reading
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- Payton Binion
- Discussion Slides
- Piper Click
- Discussion Slides
- DISCUSSION LEADERS:
- READ:
Week 14: April 20 to April 26
- April 21 (11:59pm, EST): Essay Three DUE
- April 21 (11:59pm, EST): Reflective Journal #3 DUE
- NO Class: April 23 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- Writing Workshop CONTINUES
- April 24: Participate in the Spring 2025 Student Showcase for Portfolio Extra credit
- By the end of this week: Lesson 6: Multimedia Expressions
Week 15: April 27 to May 3
- NO Class: April 30 (Wednesday), 11:00-12:15
- Writing Workshop ENDS
Week 16: May 4 to May 10
- May 4: Remembrance Day
- May 4: Classes End
- May 9 (11:59pm, EST): Portfolio DUE
- May 9 (11:59pm, EST): Portfolio Extra Credit—Option #2 DUE
NO WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER
May 9, 2025 (11:59pm, EST)
