Week 1. Introductions & course overview

January 24 & 26

New York Times front page headline from April 16, 1912 announcing the sinking of the Titanic

Slide presentations

Tuesday, Jan 24 [PDF]
Thursday, Jan 26 [PDF]

In-class readings

• Joan Didion, Excerpt from The Year of Magical Thinking
• W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

Screening

PBS Nova, “Why Trains Crash”

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