Schedule
Note: The course timetable a tentative schedule and may be adjusted during the semester. Our timetable is also impacted by the current faculty furloughs. Please see my official list of furlough days. If you miss class, it is your responsibility to contact me or a classmate to find out if there have been any changes to the schedule.
Readings for all tales also include the prologues to those tales.
| Week 1 | |
| T 25 Aug | Introduction |
| TH 27 Aug | The General Prologue |
| Week 2 | |
| T 1 Sep | The General Prologue |
| TH 3 Sep | The Knight’s Tale, Parts 1 |
| Week 3 | |
| T 8 Sep | The Knight’s Tale, Parts 2-3 |
| TH 10 Sep | The Knight’s Tale, Parts 3-4 |
| Week 4 | |
| T 15 Sep | The Miller’s Tale |
| TH 17 Sep | Furlough Day |
| Week 5 | |
| T 22 Sep | Furlough Day |
| TH 25 Sep | The Reeve’s Tale, The Cook’s Tale |
| Week 6 | |
| T 29 Sep | Review |
| TH 1 Oct | Midterm Exam |
| Week 7 | |
| T 6 Oct | The Friar’s Tale |
| TH 8 Oct | The Friar’s Tale (continued) |
| Week 8 | |
| T 13 Oct | The Friar’s Tale (continued) |
| TH 15 Oct | Furlough Day |
| Week 9 | |
| T 20 Oct | The Summoner’s Tale |
| TH 22 Oct | The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale |
| Week 10 | |
| T 27 Oct | The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale |
| TH 29 Oct | The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale/The Merchant’s Tale |
| Week 11 | |
| T 3 Nov | The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale |
| TH 5 Nov | Furlough Day |
| Week 12 | |
| T 10 Nov | Class Cancelled for Conference |
| TH 12 Nov | Furlough Day |
| Week 13 | |
| T 17 Nov | The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale/The Merchant’s Tale |
| TH 19 Nov | The Merchant’s Tale |
| Week 14 | |
| T 24 Nov | The Pardoner’s Tale |
| TH 26 Nov | Thanksgiving Recess -- No Classes |
| Week 15 | |
| T 1 Dec | The Squire’s Tale/The Franklin’s Tale |
| TH 3 Dec | Furlough Day |
| Week 16 | |
| T 8 Dec | The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Chaucer’s Retraction |
| TH 10 Dec | No Classes |
| Finals Week | |
| 10-16 Dec | FINALS WEEK |