Welcome to the Course!

Welcome to our EQ2 course for the Spring 2023 semester! Remember, you won't need to check Blackboard at all for this course: all the assignments and materials will appear here and/or in class. This is really designed as a virtual bulletin board for the class, and you don't have to leave comments or interact with the site in any way. If you need to ask a question outside of class, always e-mail me instead at jgrasso@ecok.edu. 

Be sure to get the five books for class as soon as possible, since we'll start our reading next week. The five books, in order of reading, are:

* Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching (the edition I ordered at the bookstore is very readable, though you can use any translation if you have another)

* The Bhagavad Gita (again, I recommend the Penguin edition by Mascaro)

* Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories (only the Penguin edition will have the exact stories we're reading for class)

* Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur (only one version) 

* Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis (it's a comic book, so there's only one version)

Right now, we're meeting in Horace Mann 347, since our schedule said "Room TBD." But we might have to move if that room is already taken (I don't think it is). 

Look forward to exploring this exciting, strange, enigmatic, exhilarating literature with you!