Spring 2018 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
1/9-1/11 |
Pre-Enlightenment & Neoclassicism |
Th: Syllabus,
Course Req. Etc. |
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Week 2
1/16-1/18 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont.
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
Tues: Pope,
"Essay On Man" Epistle One p 293-300 Th: Descartes "Discourse on Method" p 405-408; Locke "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" p 421
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How the Conservative Reformation Spawned the
Liberal Enlightenment |
Everything Is Connected: The Great Chain of Being |
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Week 3
1/21-1/25 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
Tues: "A Letter Concerning Toleration" John Locke (1689) Locke Letter Condensed; Tartuffe Acts I-II
Th: Tartuffe (finish) |
Neo-Classical Humanism and Renaissance Humanism
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The Continued Epistemic Debate:
The Inquisition
Secrets of the Dead: Battle For Bible
Extra Credit Film: Moliere |
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Week 4
1/28-2/1 |
Political |
Tues: Voltaire, Candide pp 310-341 (Ch.
I-XVII)
Th: Finish Candide |
Voltaire: "Treatise
On Tolerance" |
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Week 5
2/5-2/8 |
Nature's Heart:
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Tues: Mary Wollstonecraft "Vindication"
Introduction p1134-1137; Jefferson "Declaration of Independence" p 423
Th:
Test 1: Enlightenment |
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Week 6
2/11-2/15 |
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in
chains." |
Tues: Rousseau Confessions 433-455; Discourse Passage
Th:
Wordsworth
"Lines" (694-8); Percy Shelley:
"Ozymandias" |
Hobbes Leviathan
Rousseau's Discourse Passage
Man's Natural Goodness cont.
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Fetishim: "Wait, let me get my jacket!"
More On: William
Godwin
Michio Hoshino or Michio
On Amazon.com |
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Week 7
2/19-2/23 |
Nature and Monsters: |
Tues: Mary Shelley' Frankenstein Ch. 11 -
17 (837-866)
Th:
Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale" (739-741);
"Ode To A Grecian Urn" (741-2) |
Frankenstein Themes and Context
Mary Shelley Biography
Frankenstein Discussion Questions |
More On: Keats |
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Week 8
2/26-3/2 |
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Tues: Keats
"The Eve of St Agnes" (729-739)
Th: Whitman
“Learn’d Astronomer”,
“When Lilacs”
Parts 1-10 (1070-1072); Bob
Wrigley: "Finding A Bible..." |
Extra Credit Films: |
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Week 9
3/5-3/9 |
Modernism: Marxism |
T: Test
2: Romanticism
Th: |
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Week 10
3/12-3/16 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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Week 11
3/19-3/23 |
Modernism: Marxism, Feminism, Freud |
T: Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto
Th: Film: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Understanding Modernism: Summary
Glossary: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism...
Hegemony, Ideology, Race, Sports |
Frank Deford: Stop Exploiting College Athletes
The People Who Dressed You Today
Prison Lobby Drives Arizona Immigration Law
The Black Family in the Age of Incarceration
Extra Credit Movies: |
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Week 12
3/26-3/30 |
Modernism |
T: Film: The Importance of Being Earnest
Th: Darwin
Origin Of The Species; Nietzsche from Beyond Good And Evil; "The
Second Coming" W.B. Yeats
(1561) |
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Week 13
4/2-4/6 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
T: Heart
of Darkness Ch. 1 (1491-1514) Th: Heart of Darkness Ch. 2 (1515-1533) |
Freud: Interpretation
of Dreams
Impressionist Art Samples |
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Week 14
4/9-4/13 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
T: Heart of Darkness (finish); TS
Eliot, "The
Hollow Men"
Th: Test
3 Modern-isms
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Extra Credit Movies: |
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Week 15 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
Th: No Exit (1873-finish) |
Modern Condition, Post-Modernity,
Existential Crisis
The Eternal Existential Questions |
Bob Dylan's Existential Silence
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Week 16 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
Tues: Post-modernism
Th: Memento |
Modernism/Postmodernism
Post-Modern Uncertainty and Human Consciousness |
The Guardian: Languages and Perception
Extra Credit Films:
Exist AND PoMo:
The
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Inception (same
director as Memento) HBO's Westworld (same author as Memento, Inception etc. now also directing) |
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Week 17
4/30-5/4 |
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Tues: Memento
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Week 18
5/7-5/11 |
FINALS WEEK |
FINALS WEEK Memento Essay Due Wednesday, 5:00 email to tdrake@uidaho.edu as Word document. |
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