Fall 2015 Schedule
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Week and Dates |
Topic |
Reading Assignments |
Lecture Notes
(Required) |
Additional Related Links
(Not Required) |
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Week 1
8/24-8/27 |
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
8/31-9/4 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont.
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Locke
"Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
p 421
W: "A
Letter Concerning Toleration" John Locke
(1689)
F: Moliere Tartuffe Act I
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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 |
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Week 3
9/7-9/11 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Labor Day Holiday
W: Finish Tartuffe |
Tartuffe and Enlightenment
Justice |
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Week 4
9/14-9/18 |
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
9/21-9/25 |
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: Mary Shelley' Frankenstein Ch. 11 - 17
(837-866)
W: "Lines"- Wordsworth
(694-8);
Byron:
“Darkness”;
Percy Shelley: "Ozymandias"
F: Keats:
“Ode to a Nightingale" (739-741); Coleridge :
"Eolian Harp"
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Man's Natural Goodness cont.
Frankenstein Themes and
Context |
More On: William
Godwin
Michio Hoshino or Michio
On Amazon.com Post Modern Romanticism? Best Made Axes
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Week 7
10/5-10/9 |
Nature and Monsters: |
M: Coleridge “Rime
of the Ancient Mariner”
F: "The
Birth-Mark"- Hawthorne |
Extra Credit Films:
More On: Keats |
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Week 8
10/12-10/16 |
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M: Romanticism Wrap Up
F: Marx
and Engels 2173; Douglass Narrative Ch.
1-4 (1004-1014) |
Understanding Modernism:
Summary |
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Week 9
10/19-10/23
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Modernism: Marxism, Feminism |
M: Douglass Narrative Ch. 5-10 (1015-1036)
W: Douglass Narrative Ch.
10-Finish (1036-1059)
F: |
Hegemony, Ideology, Race,
Sports |
Wilson: Southern Slavery As
It Was
Frank Deford: Stop
Exploiting College Athletes
The People Who Dressed You
Today
Prison Lobby Drives Arizona
Immigration Law
Extra Credit Movies: |
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Week 10
10/26-10/30 |
Modernism: Marxism, Feminism, Freud |
M: Darwin “Origin Of The Species” 2182; Nietzsche from Beyond Good And Evil (2188) W: Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams (2198); Heart of Darkness (1491-1514)
F: Heart of Darkness (1514-1533) |
Freud: Interpretation
of Dreams
Impressionist Art Samples
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Week 11
11/2-11/6 |
Modernism |
M:
Heart of Darkness (finish)
Heart of
Darkness Discussion Questions
W: Film: The Importance of Being Earnest
F: Film: The Importance of Being Earnest |
Human, All Too Human: BBC
Documentary on Nietzsche
Extra Credit: |
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Week 12
11/9-11/13 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M: TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"; Yeats “The Second Coming” (1561)
W: Test
3 Modern-isms
F: Existentialism
is a Humanism Sartre |
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Week 13
11/16-11/20 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M: "Myth
of Sisyphus” Camus
W: No Exit (1873-finish)
F: Wrap Up Existentialism |
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Week 14
11/23-11/27 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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Week 15
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Postmodernism
W: Postmodernism |
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The Guardian: Languages and
Perception |
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Week 16
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Memento W: Memento
F: Memento Essay |
Extra Credit Films:
Exist AND PoMo:
The Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind
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Week 17
12/14-12/18
FINALS |
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FINALS WEEK
Memento Essay |
FINALS WEEK |
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