Fall
2014 Schedule
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Week and Dates |
Topic |
Reading Assignments |
Lecture Notes
(Required) |
Additional Related Links
(Not Required) |
Week 1
8/25-8/28 |
Pre-Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M:
Syllabus, Course Req. Etc.
W:
Pope, "Essay On
Man" Epistle One p 293-300
F: Descartes
"Discourse on Method"
p 405-408 |
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Week 2
9/1-9/5 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont.
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: NO CLASS W: Locke "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" p 421
F: "A
Letter Concerning Toleration" John
Locke (1689)
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John Locke Human Understanding
How the Conservative
Reformation Spawned the Liberal Enlightenment |
The Continued Epistemic Debate:
The Inquisition
Secrets of the Dead: Battle
For Bible
Extra Credit Film: Moliere |
Week 3
9/7-9/11 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Moliere Tartuffe Acts I, II
W: Finish Tartuffe |
Neo-Classical Humanism and
Renaissance Humanism
Tartuffe and Enlightenment
Justice
Leibniz's "Philosophical
Optimism"
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Week 4
9/16-9/18 |
Political |
M: Candide pp 333-352 (Ch. XIV-XXI)
F: Mary Wollstonecraft "Vindication"
Introduction p1134-1137;
Jefferson
"Declaration of Independence" p 423 Review
and Catch-up |
Voltaire: "Treatise
On Tolerance" |
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Week 5
9/23-9/25 |
Nature's Heart:
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M: Test 1:
Enlightenment
F: Hobbes Leviathan & Rousseau's Discourse Passage |
Romantic Themes (PowerPoint)
Art, Humanity And Nature: The Transition
of The Age of Enlightenment to Romanticism |
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Week 6
9/28-10/2 |
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in
chains." |
M: “Lines" (694-8) AND Mary Shelley' Frankenstein
W: Mary Shelley' Frankenstein |
Man's Natural Goodness cont. |
More On: William
Godwin
Michio Hoshino or Michio
On Amazon.com
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Week 7
10/7-10/9 |
Nature and Monsters: |
M: Keats (Ode To A
Grecian Urn: 741-2); Percy Shelley "Ozymandias"
W: Keats (St Agnes:
729-739) |
Extra Credit Film:
More On: Keats |
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Week 8
10/14-10/16 |
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M: Test 2:
Romanticism
F: Douglass Narrative Ch.
5-10 (1015-1036) |
Understanding Modernism:
Summary
Glossary: Capitalism,
Socialism, Communism...
Hegemony, Ideology, Race,
Sports
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Week 9
10/21-10/23
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Modernism: Marxism,
Feminism |
M:
Douglass Narrative Ch. 10-Finish (1036-1059)
W: Simone de Beauvoir 2216; Virginia Woolf
1694
F:
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Frank Deford: Stop
Exploiting College Athletes
The People Who Dressed You
Today
Prison Lobby Drives Arizona
Immigration Law
Extra Credit Movies:
Skin
White Man's Burden |
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Week 10
10/28-10/30 |
Modernism: Marxism,
Feminism,
Freud |
M:
Ibsen, A Doll House Act I (1326)
W: Ibsen, A Doll House Acts II-III
(finish)
F: Darwin “Origin Of
The Species” 2182; Nietzsche from Beyond Good And Evil (2188)
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Freud: Interpretation
of Dreams
Impressionist Art Samples |
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Week 11
11/4-11/6 |
Modernism |
M: Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams (2198)
W: Heart of Darkness (1514-1533)
F: Heart of Darkness (finish) |
Human, All Too Human: BBC Documentary on
Nietzsche
Extra Credit: |
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Week 12
11/11-11/13 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M: TS Eliot, "The
Hollow Men";
Yeats “The Second Coming” (1561),
Test Review
W:
Test 3
Modern-isms
F:
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Week 13
11/18-11/20 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M: "Myth of Sisyphus” Camus
W: No Exit
(1873-finish)
F: Wrap Up
Existentialism |
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Week 14
11/24-11/28 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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Week 15
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Postmodernism
W: Postmodernism |
Postmodernism Intro:
Nietzsche
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Week 16
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Memento W: Memento F: Essay Workshop Memento Essay |
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Extra Credit Films:
Exist:
Exist AND PoMo: |
Week 17
12/14-12/19
FINALS |
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FINALS WEEK
Memento Essay Due |
FINALS WEEK |
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