Spring 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
1/14-1/6 |
Pre-Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
W:
Syllabus, Course Req. Etc.
F:
Pope, "Essay On Man" Epistle One p
293-300 |
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Week 2
1/19-1/23 |
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M: NO CLASS
W:
Descartes "Discourse on Method"
p 405-408 |
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Week 3
1/26-1/30 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont.
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Moliere Tartuffe Acts I
"A Letter Concerning
Toleration" John
Locke (1689)Locke
Letter Condensed
W: Finish Tartuffe
F: Voltaire, Candide pp 310-333 (Ch.
1-XIII) |
How the Conservative Reformation Spawned the
Liberal Enlightenment
Neo-Classical Humanism and Renaissance Humanism |
The Continued Epistemic Debate:
The Inquisition
Extra Credit Film: Moliere |
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Week 4
2/2-2/6 |
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 |
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Week 5
2/9-2/13 |
Romanticism |
F: Hobbes Leviathan & Rousseau's Discourse Passage |
Romantic Themes (PowerPoint) Art, Humanity And Nature: The Transition of The Age of Enlightenment to Romanticism |
Voltaire: "Treatise
On Tolerance" |
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Week 6
2/16-2/20 |
Nature's Heart:
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M: President’s Day NO CLASS
W: “Lines" (694-8) AND Mary Shelley' Frankenstein
F:
Mary Shelley' Frankenstein
Frankenstein and Justice Questions |
Man's Natural Goodness cont. |
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Week 7
2/23-2/27 |
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in
chains." |
M:
Frankenstein Ch.
11 - 17 (837-866) (Skip
Ch. 18-22) Ch.
23 - Finish (894 - 911);
Frankenstein Discussion Questions
F:
Keats (St Agnes:
729-739) |
More On: William
Godwin |
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Week 8
3/2-3/6 |
Nature and Monsters: |
M: Whitman: Song of Myself; "Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1065-1070)
W: Test 2: Romanticism |
American Romantic Individualism |
Extra Credit Film:
More On: Keats |
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Week 9
3/9-3/13 |
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M: Marx Continued
W: Simone de Beauvoir 2216; Virginia Woolf 1694;
Video: Hip-hop: Beyond Beats and
Rhymes F: Review |
Glossary: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism... |
Frank Deford: Stop Exploiting College Athletes
The People Who Dressed You Today
Prison Lobby Drives Arizona Immigration Law
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Week 10
3/16-3/20
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Break |
Break |
Break |
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Week 11
3/23-3/27 |
Modernism: Marxism,
Feminism |
M: Douglass Narrative Ch. 1-10 (1004-1036)
F:
Ibsen, A
Doll House Act I (1326) |
Wilson: Southern
Slavery As It Was |
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Week 12
3/30-4/3 |
Modernism: Marxism,
Feminism,
Freud |
M:
Ibsen, A Doll House Acts
II-III (finish)
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 13
4/6-4/10 |
Modernism |
M:
W: TS Eliot, "The
Hollow Men";
Yeats “The Second Coming” (1561),
Test Review
F: Test 3 Modern-isms |
Human, All Too Human:
BBC Documentary on Nietzsche
Extra Credit: |
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Week 14
4/13-4/17 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M: Existentialism is a Humanism Sartre
W:
F:
No Exit
(1873-finish) |
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Week 15
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Modernism, Existentialism |
M: Wrap up No Exit; "Myth of Sisyphus” Camus W: Postmodernism F: Postmodernism |
Postmodernism Intro: Nietzsche |
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Week 16
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Memento
W: Memento |
Memento Essay |
The Guardian: Languages and Perception WP: Postmodern Condition Words |
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Week 17
5/4-5/8 |
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M: Essay
Workshop
Memento Essay W: Essay Workshop F: Essay Workshop |
Extra Credit Films:
Existential Themes:
Existemtial AND PoMo Themes: |
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Week 18 |
FINALS WEEK |
FINALS
WEEK
Memento Essay
Due Monday, 5:00, in Tom's Brink 200 mailbox |
FINALS
WEEK |
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