Spring 2014 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
1/15-1/17 |
Pre-Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
W: Syllabus,
Course Req. Etc.
F: Alexander
Pope, "Essay On Man" Epistle One |
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Week 2
1/20-1/24 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont.
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: MLK Day; No Classes
W: Descartes
"Discourse on Method"
p 405-408 and Locke
"Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
p 421
F: Moliere Tartuffe Acts I "A
Letter Concerning Toleration" John
Locke (1689)Locke
Letter Condensed
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Locke
and Descartes: Empiricism and Radical Doubt
How
the Conservative Reformation Spawned the Liberal
Enlightenment
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The Continued Epistemic Debate:
Optical Illusions: The
Human Brain
The
Inquisition
Thinking About The Printing Press
Secrets of the Dead: Battle For Bible
Extra Credit Film: Moliere |
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Week 3
1/27-1/31 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Finish Tartuffe
W: Voltaire, Candide pp 310-333 (Ch.
1-XIII) |
Neo-Classical Humanism
and Renaissance Humanism
Tartuffe and Enlightenment Justice |
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Week 4
2/3-2/7 |
Political |
M: Skim: Voltaire: "Treatise
On Tolerance"; Finish Candide
W: Mary Wollstonecraft "Vindication"
Introduction p1134-1137; Jefferson
"Declaration of Independence" p 423 Review and
Catch-up
F: Test
1: Enlightenment |
Voltaire: "Treatise
On Tolerance"
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Week 5
2/10-2/14 |
Nature's Heart:
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M: Rousseau Confessions 433-455
F: “Lines" (694-8) AND Mary Shelley' Frankenstein Letters,
and Ch. 1 - 4 (784 - 810) |
Romantic Themes (PowerPoint)
Art,
Humanity And Nature: The Transition of The
Age of Enlightenment to Romanticism |
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Week 6
2/17-2/21 |
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in
chains." |
M: President’s Day, No Class
W: Frankenstein Ch. 5 - 10 (810 -837)
F: Frankenstein Ch. 11 - 17 (837-866) |
Frankenstein Themes and Context |
More On: William
Godwin
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Week 7
2/24-2/28 |
Nature and Monsters: |
M: Frankenstein (Skip
Ch. 18-22) Ch.
23 - Finish (894 - 911);
W: Keats (Ode To A Grecian Urn: 741-2); Percy
Shelley "Ozymandias" |
Harlow's Studies Monkeys |
Extra Credit Film:
More On: Keats |
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Week 8
3/3 – 3/7 |
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M: Review and Catchup, American
Romanticism
W: Test
2: Romanticism
F: Marx and Engels 2173; |
American Romantic Individualism |
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Week 9
3/10-3/14 |
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M:
W:
Douglass Narrative Ch. 10-Finish (1036-1059)
F: |
A Counter View of Slavery: Douglass Wilson's
Southern Slavery As It Was
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Week 10
3/17-3/21 |
Break |
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Week 11
3/24-3/28 |
Modernism, Marxism |
M: Simone de Beauvoir 2216; Virginia Woolf 1694
W: Video: Hip-hop: Beyond
Beats and Rhymes |
Frank
Deford: Stop Exploiting College Athletes |
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Week 12
3/31-4/4 |
Modernism: Marxism, Feminism |
M: Ibsen, A Doll House Act
II- III (finish)
W: Darwin “Origin Of The Species”
2182; Nietzsche from Beyond Good And Evil (2188)
F: Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams (2198) |
Dream
Science
Impressionist Art Samples |
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Week 13
4/7-4/11 |
Modernism |
M: Baudelaire (1456-1469) and Heart of
Darkness (1491-1514)
W: Heart of Darkness (1514-1533)
F: Heart of Darkness (finish) |
The
Congo Today
Human,
All Too Human: BBC Documentary on Nietzsche
Extra Credit: |
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Week 14
4/14-4/18 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M: W: Test 3 Modern-isms
F: Existentialism
is a Humanism Sartre |
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Week 15
4/21-4/25
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Modernism, Existentialism |
M:
W:
F: Postmodernism |
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Week 16
4/28-5/2 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: The
Dangers of Certainty: A Lesson From Auschwitz
W: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
http://www.cornponeflicks.org/RAGAD.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_&_Guildenstern_Are_Dead
Hamlet Characters
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Postmodernism Intro: Nietzsche
PoMo
Literature , Drama and Film |
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Week 17
5/5-5/9 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead Work On Final
Essay
W: Essay Workshop
F: Essay Workshop |
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Extra Credit Films:
Exist:
Shadowlands
Exist AND PoMo: |
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Week 18
5-12-5/16 |
Finals Week |
FINALS WEEK Final
Essay Due
Moday 5:00 PM in Tom's English Dept. Brink 200
Mailbox |
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