| Date | Subject | Assignment | Due Dates |
| Tues. Aug. 26 | Introduction - Class Materials Before Darwin, The Bible | . | . |
| Tues. Sept. 02 | Overview: What was at Stake? | Ruse, Chapters 1-5 | Receive Knowledge Topics |
| Tues. Sept. 9 | The World View in the Early Nineteenth Century | Ruse, Chapters 6, 7, & 9 Handouts | |
| Tues. Sept. 15 | The Emergence of Science & The World of
Religion What is Evolution? | Darwin Reader: "Voyage of the Beagle" "The Origin of Species" "Variation of Animals" "Descent" | Take Home
on Darwin Knowledge Topic Due |
| Tues. Sept. 23 | The Birth of Frankenstein: Rewriting
Reproduction Materialism and the Afterlife? | Frankenstein, Chapters 1-15 Milton's Paradise Lost (HOs) | |
| Tues. Sept. 30 | The Creation of Life: Responsibility and Stewardship | Frankenstein, Chapters 16-End | Annotated Bib. |
| Tues. Oct. 06 | Natural Theology for Children and Adults | The Water Babies Gatty's "Inferior Animals" (Web) | |
| Tues. Oct. 13 | Fall Break (very much like Spring Break) | . | |
| Tues. Oct. 21 | Unforgiving Nature, "Red in Tooth and Claw" | In Memoriam Ruse Ch. 12 | First Paper |
| Tues. Oct. 28 | Philip Gosse & Dogmatic Belief | Father and Son Ch . 1-7 | |
| Tues. Nov. 04 | Philip Gosse & Dogmatic Belief | Father and Son Ch. 8 - End Ruse, Ch. 10 | |
| Tues. Nov. 11 | Reconciling Moral Responsibility & Science | Eliot, "Books" I to III | Take-Home |
| Tues. Nov. 18 | Responses to Darwin: Essays and Reviews, Mivart, etc. | Eliot, "Books" IVto VII | |
| Tues. Nov. 25 | D'Urberville: What's in a Name... or in a Bloodline? | Tess, Phase the First to Phase the Fourth | |
| Tues. Dec. 02 | The Rules-Governed World | Tess, Phase the Fifth to Phase theSeventh | |
| Tues. Dec. 09 | The Bulldog Reflects: Huxley's Essays & Review | Final Paper |