First week  (January 20-23)
Wednesday  - Introduction to Dostoevsky and the course

Friday  - Please read the Pevear/Volokhonsky Introduction as well as Part I, pp. 3-41 of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.
                Be prepared to analyze and discuss the reading assignment in class.
   
Second week  (January 26-30)
Monday  - Please read the rest of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.
                Be prepared to analyze and discuss the reading assignment in class.
Wednesday  -   No class - reading period to start and get some way into Crime and Punishment.  Read Part 1, pp. 1-87.
Friday  -  Read Part 2, pp. 88-174.  We shall finish our discussion of Notes from Underground and commence discussing Crime and Punishment.

Third week  (February 2-6)
Monday  -  In Crime and Punishment.  Read Part 2, pp. 88-154 (to chpt 6).  We shall discuss the reading in class.
Wednesday  - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Crime and Punishment.  Read Part 2 into Part 3, pp. 155-210 (to chpt 2).  We shall discuss the reading in class.

Fourth week   (February 9-13)
Monday  -  In Crime and Punishment.  Read Part 3, pp. 210-278 (up to Part 4).  We shall discuss the reading in class.
Wednesday  -  No class - reading period.
Friday - -  In Crime and Punishment.  Read pp. 280-358 (all of Part 4).  We shall discuss the reading in class.

Fifth week  (February 16-20)
Monday - University Holiday - no class
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday  - Please pass in First Take-Home Exam.  Nalibow's "Inside Russia and Eastern Europe."  A quick slide show trip of all you ever wanted to know and see!

Sixth week  (February 23-27)
Monday - In Crime and Punishment, read pp 361-422 (Part 5 through Chpt. IV).
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Crime and Punishment, read p 423 to the end of the novel, including the Epilogue.

Seventh week   (March 1-5)
Monday - Finish Crime and Punishment.
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 7-76, Part 1, chapters 1-6.

Eighth week   (March 9-12)
Monday  - Submit second take-home exam.  In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 77-160, to the end of Part 1.
Wednesday  -  No class - reading period.
Friday -   In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 161-212, up to Book V, Pro and Contra.

Ninth week  (March 15-19)  -  Spring Break - No Class

Tenth week - (March 22-26)
Monday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 213-282, up to Book VI, The Russian Monk.
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 283-363, up to Book VIII, Kuzma Samsonov.

Eleventh week  (March 29-April 2)
Monday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 364-432, up to Chpt. 8, Delirium.
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 433-515, up to Book X, Boys.

Twelfth week   (April 5-9)
Monday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 516-562, up to Book XI, Ivan Fyodorovich.
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 562-612, up to Chpt. 7, The Second Visit to Smerdyakov.

Thirteenth week  (April 12-16)
Monday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 613-701, up to Chpt. 7, A Historical Sruvey.
Wednesday  - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 702-725, up to Chpt. 10, The Defense Attorney's Speech....

Fourteenth week  (April 19-23)
Monday -  In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 726-753, up to The Epilogue.
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - In Brothers Karamazov, read pp. 757-776, The Epilogue.

Fifteenth week  (April 26-30)
Monday - Summing up - be prepared to discuss the novel structure (expository novel, heterogeneous structural elements,
                chronology, mini structures, repeating motifs, leitmotifs), language (individualized language), suspense.
Wednesday - No class - reading period.
Friday - Summing up - be prepared to discuss character types, symbolism (symbolist foreshadowing), narrative technique (polyphonic voices), narrative voice, parody, travesty, dissonance, narrative elements ("personalized" narrator, "implied," omniscient narrator). 

Sixteenth week  (May 3-5)
Monday  - Final Discussion - "what is the meaning of the work?"
Wednesday - No class - reading period.

Take Home Final Exam due Friday, May 7 @ 4pm in my office, 421 Waterman (German-Russian Department, northwest corner of Waterman).
Late papers taken until 9am Wednesday, May 12.