| Date | Reading | Due |
| Th, Sept. 6 | Introductions | |
| T, Sept. 11 | “Caedmon’s Hymn” (29 – 32); “The Dream of the Rood” (32 – 36); “The Wanderer” (117); | |
| Th, Sept. 13 | “The Wanderer” (117); “The Wife’s Lament” (120); Writing about Poetry | |
| T, Sept. 18 | Beowulf (36 – 108) | |
| Th, Sept. 20 | Beowulf | |
| T, Sept. 25 | No class | |
| Th, Sept. 27 | First paper overview; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (183 – 238) | |
| T, Oct. 2 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (183 – 238) | |
| Th, Oct. 4 | Introduction to reading Chaucer | |
| T, Oct. 9 | Geoffrey Chaucer, “The General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales (238 – 64) | 1st paper due |
| Th, Oct. 11 | “The Miller’s Tale” (264 – 80) | |
| T, Oct. 16 | Mid-term exam | Mid-term exam |
| Th, Oct. 18 | Writing Instruction | |
| T, Oct. 23 | “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” (282 – 310) | |
| T, Oct. 25 | Brief introduction to the Sixteenth Century; Thomas Wyatt, “The long love . . .”; “Whoso list to hunt”; “My galley” | |
| T, Oct. 30 | Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 1 | |
| Th, Nov. 1 | John Donne, "The Flea"; George Herbert "Easter Wings", "The Collar" | Second paper due |
| T, Nov. 6 | Gone Baby Gone | |
| Th, Nov. 8 | Gone Baby Gone | |
| T, Nov. 13 | No class | |
| Th, Nov. 15 | Preparing the Comparison and Contrast paper | |
| T, Nov. 20 | Introduction to Digital Humanities & electronic literature | |
| Th, Nov. 22 | Othello | Third paper due |
| T, Nov. 27 | Othello | |
| T, Nov. 29 | Review | |
| T, Dec. 4 | Final Exam | 9:00 AM - Noon |