Fall
2019 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
8/26 – 8/30 |
Pre-Enlightenment & Neoclassicism |
M:
Syllabus, Course Req. Etc.
W: Setting the political and philosophical
context |
How the Conservative Reformation Spawned the
Liberal Enlightenment |
Everything Is Connected: The Great Chain of
Being
"1491" Atlantic Monthly Article
Erastosthenes on Wikipedia |
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Week 2
9/2-9/6 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont.
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Labor Day
W: Descartes
"Discourse on Method"; Locke
"Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
F: "A
Letter Concerning Toleration" or
Locke Letter Condensed
John Locke
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The Continued Epistemic
Debate:
The Inquisition |
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Week 3
9/9-9/13 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Tartuffe Acts I-II
W: Tartuffe (finish)
F:
Voltaire, Candide (Ch. I-XII) |
Neo-Classical Humanism and Renaissance Humanism
Locke
Toleration Discussion Questions |
Extra Credit Film: Moliere |
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Week 4
9/16-9/20 |
Political |
M:
Voltaire, Candide (Ch. XIII-XXVI)
W: Finish Candide
F: Mary Wollstonecraft "Vindication"
Introduction;
Declaration |
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Voltaire: "Treatise
On Tolerance" |
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Week 5
9/23-9/27 |
Nature's Heart:
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M:
Test 1: Enlightenment
W: Romanticism Intro
F: Rousseau; Discourse Passage |
Art, Humanity And Nature: The Transition
of The Age of Enlightenment to Romanticism
Hobbes Leviathan |
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Week 6
9/30-10/4 |
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in
chains." |
M: Wordsworth "Lines";
Bob Wrigley: "Finding A
Bible...";
start reading Frankenstein
W:
Mary
Shelley' Frankenstein Ch.
11 - 17 F: Frankenstein continued |
Frankenstein Themes and Context
Mary Shelley Biography
Frankenstein Discussion Questions |
More On: William
Godwin |
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Week 7
10/7-10/11 |
Nature and Monsters: |
M: Douglass Narrative (Ch. I-V); Watch The Legacy of Slavery in class.
W:
Douglass Narrative (Ch.
VI-X)
F:
;'Douglass Narrative Finish |
Frederick Douglass and Photography
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Week 8
10/14-10/18 |
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M:
Keats: “Ode to a
Nightingale";
"Ode
To A Grecian Urn"
W: Keats "The
Eve of St Agnes"
F:
Test 2: Romanticism |
Extra Credit Films:
More On: Keats |
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Week 9
10/21-10/25 |
Modernism: Marxism |
M:
W.B.
Yeats "The
Second Coming";TS
Eliot, "The
Hollow Men"
W: Darwin Origin
Of The Species; Nietzsche
from Beyond
Good And Evil
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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 10
10/28-11/1 |
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M: If Shakespeare Had A Sister -- Woolf
W: Heart of Darkness Ch. 1
F: Heart of Darkness Ch. 2
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Freud: Interpretation
of Dreams
Impressionist Art Samples |
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Week 11
11/4-11/8 |
Modernism: Marxism, Feminism, Freud |
M:
W:
Heart of Darkness (finish); Assign and
Discuss Essay
F:
Film: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Extra Credit Movies: |
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Week 12
11/11-11/15 |
Modernism |
M:
Film: The Importance
of Being Earnest
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Week 13
11/18-11/22 |
Modernism, Existentialism |
M:
Intro to Postmodernism and Existentialism
W:
"Myth
of Sisyphus”
Camus; start No Exit
F: No Exit
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Modern Condition, Post-Modernity,
Existential Crisis
The Eternal Existential Questions |
Bob Dylan's Existential Silence
Extra Credit Existential
Films: |
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Week 14
11/25-11/29 |
BREAK |
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Week 15 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
W: Post-Modernism Cont.
F: Memento |
Modernism/Postmodernism
Post-Modern Uncertainty and Human Consciousness |
The Guardian: Languages and
Perception |
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Week 16 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Memento
W: Memento
F: Final |
Memento Sources Page |
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
12/16-12/20 |
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FINALS WEEK |
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