Weekly Outline

Note: The following is a tentative outline to give you a general sense of where we will be going this semester. All of the
readings/viewings may not be listed here. You should refer to the Week to Week outline on the Weebly site for the
most up-to-date list of readings and viewings. Also, most participation assignments are not listed here. Again, refer to the
Weebly site for this info and find the assignments on Brightspace/Desire2Learn. These assignments are also subject to
change. Students are responsible for keeping up with all changes, whether listed on Brightspace/Desire2Learn, the
Weebly site, in an announcements post, or in an email. Days we will meet physically in class are listed in purple and
when significant assignments are due, they are listed in red.

Week 1
Introduction to Class, Digital Humanities, and Fairy Tales

Wed - Fri  First Day: Meet in the classroom: Wednesday, Jan. 9

1/9 – 1/11  Syllabus, Weebly site, and Assignments
 Introduction to The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar, ix-xviii
 “The Struggle for Meaning” by Bruno Bettelheim, The Classic Fairy Tales 269-273

Week 2
The Multimedia Fairy Tale / The Role of Women / Cinderella

Tues - Fri  Introduction to Cinderella, The Classic Fairy Tales 101-107

1/15 – 1/18  “Cinderella,” Charles Perrault, on Surlalune

Week 3
Cinderella (Cont.)

Mon - Fri  “Some Day My Prince Will Come’: Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale,”
1/21 – 1/25 Marcia K. Lieberman
 “Hey, Cinderella,” Suzy Boggus music video
 "Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love, Vol 1," on Comixology, a Digital Comics
Website ($1.99)
 Documentary Videos: View “Ever After” and “If the Shoe Fits” on Brightspace
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Ashley Andrews, Sharkeia Wright.
Oral Presentations should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of
Little Red Riding Hood that is not already a class assignment.

Week 4
The Gaming World / Sex and the Fairy Tale / Little Red Riding Hood
Mon - Fri  Introduction to “Little Red Riding Hood” in The Classic Fairy Tales 3-9
1/28 – 2/1  “Little Red Riding Hood,” in The Classic Fairy Tales 11-13
 Documentary videos: “Re-Imaginings” and “Sex and Fairy Tales” on Brightspace
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentation due on Brightspace: Mary Beckworth.
Oral Presentations should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of
Little Red Riding Hood that is not already a class assignment.

Week 5
Little Red Riding Hood (Cont.)

Mon - Fri  “End Paper: Fiction Reaches a New Level”

2/4 – 2/8  On ‘The Path’: Everything a Big Bad Wolf Could Want” by Heather Chaplin on NPR:
(Listen to online interview and commentary on NPR)
 The Path – Video Game – Youtube gameplay viewing
 Snowdrift Commercial
 Honeynut Cheerios Commercial
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: LaDonna Strickland, Ashlee Borden.
Oral presentations should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of
“Hansel and Gretel” that we are not currently covering in class.

Week 6
Multi-Medium Week / Food and Abandonment in Fairy Tales / Hansel and Gretel

Mon - Fri  Introduction to “Hansel and Gretel” in The Classic Fairy Tales 179-183
2/11 – 2/15  “Hansel and Gretel,” by the Brothers Grimm in The Classic Fairy Tales 184-189
 Documentary Videos: view “Into the Woods” on Brightspace
 “Hansel and Gretel,” Bruno Bettelheim, from The Uses of Enchantment in The
Classic Fairy Tales
 Contemporary Revisions: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3 “Gingerbread”
 Marketing: AT&T Commercial
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentation due on Brightspace: Katie Sellers. Oral presentations
should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of “Snow White” that
we are not currently covering in class.
 Week 7
Mid-Term

Mon - Fri  Work on Mid-Term Essays

2/18 – 2/22  Meet in the classroom for Mid-Term Essay Peer Workshop on Tues, Feb. 20
 Revise Mid-Term Essay Drafts to Turn In
 Mid-Term Essay due on Brightspace (Friday, Feb 23)

Week 8
Fairy Tales in Film / The Disneyfication of Fairy Tales / Snow White

Mon - Fri  Introduction to “Snow White” in The Classic Fairy Tales 74-80
2/25 – 3/1  “Snow White,” the Brothers Grimm, The Classic Fairy Tales, 83-89
 “Walt Disney’s Civilizing Mission: From Revolution to Restoration” by Jack Zipes
in Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, 193-212 (on Scribd)
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Aliyah Brown, Gabrielle Rumph. Oral
Presentations should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of
“Snow White” that we are not currently covering in class.

Week 9
Fairy Tales in Film / The Disneyfication of Fairy Tales / Snow White

Mon - Fri  Documentary Videos: View “Dark Emotions,” and “Wicked Stepmothers” on
3/4 – 3/8 Brightspace
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Zachary Burpee. Oral Presentations
should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of “Snow White” that
we are not currently covering in class.

Week 10
Mon - Fri SPRING BREAK
3/11 – 3/15

Week 11
Fairy Tales in Film / The Disneyfication of Fairy Tales / Snow White
 Mon - Fri  Review The Poets’ Grimm website and poems:
3/18 – 3/22 o “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” Anne Sexton, The Classic Fairy
Tales, 96-100
o “Snow White Turns 39” poem by Anne Sheldon in The Poets Grimm
o “Snow White: The Prince,” poem by Alice Friman in The Poets Grimm
 Marketing:
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D954C8FIp0A
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHkSqxuodU0
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Jayla Perkins, Jenese Carlow. Oral
presentations should be on a digital or broadcast adaptation of “Beauty and
the Beast” that we are not currently covering in class.

Week 12
Fairy Tales in Television / Transformation and “Beastliness” in Fairy Tales / Beauty and the Beast and
Bluebeard

Mon - Fri  “Beauty and the Beast,” by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in The Classic
3/25 – 3/29 Fairy Tales 32-41
 Introduction to “Bluebeard” in The Classic Fairy Tales 138-143
 Original Story: “Bluebeard,” by Charles Perrault, in The Classic Fairy Tales 144-14
 Documentary Videos: “The Forbidden Room” and “Beastly Husbands” on
Brightspace
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Malcolm Montford. Oral
presentations should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of
“Bluebeard.”

Week 13
Fairy Tales in Television / Transformation and “Beastliness” in Fairy Tales / Beauty and the Beast and
Bluebeard
Mon - Fri  Watch “Lonely Hearts” Episode of Grimm. $1.99 online.
4/1 – 4/5  Oral Presentations on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of “Bluebeard” that
we have not discussed in class.
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Hannah Hartman, Karsen King. Oral
presentations should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of “Jack
and the Beanstalk” that we have not discussed in class.

Week 14
Jack and the Beanstalk / Male Development

Mon - Fri  Introduction to “Jack and the Beanstalk”:

4/8 – 4/12 http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/history.html
 Original Story: “Jack and the Beanstalk,” on SurLaLune
 “The Bean-Stalk,” poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 “Jack and His Bargains: The Challenge of Male Development” adapted from The
Uses of Enchantment, by Bruno Bettelheim.
 View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums
 Oral Presentations due on Brightspace: Tiara Jackson. Oral presentations
should be on a literary, digital, or broadcast adaptation of “Jack and the
Beanstalk” that we have not discussed in class.

Week 15
Research

Mon - Fri  Research and Writing for Critical Analysis Essay

4/15 – 4/19  View Oral Presentations posted on Brightspace and respond to Oral Presentation
Forums

Week 16
Revision

Mon - Fri  Meet in the classroom for Peer Workshop for Critical Analysis Essay: Wed,
4/22 – 4/26 April 24
 Revise Critical Analysis Essay

Week 17
Last Day

Wed 5/1 Critical Analysis Essay due on Brightspace/D2L