Schedule
TENTATIVE AND EVOLVING Spring 2008 Honors Section
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| Week and Dates | Topic | Reading Assignments |
Lecture Notes (Required) |
Additional Related Links (Not Required) |
| Week 1 1/9-1/11
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General Intro Pre-Enlightenment |
W:
Syllabus, Course Req. Etc. F: Intro |
Some Notes On These Notes | |
| Week 2 1/14-1/18 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont. Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Descartes "Discourse on Method" W: Locke "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
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Pre-Enlightenment cont. |
The Continued Epistemic Debate: |
| Week 3 1/21-1/25 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism Tolerance |
M:
Holiday W:
"A Letter Concerning Toleration" John Locke (1689) F: Voltaire, Candide |
Pre-Enlightenment cont. How the Conservative Reformation Spawned the Liberal Enlightenment |
Über die Juden und Ihre Lügen |
| Week 4 1/28-2/1 |
Political Enlightenment |
M: Candide
(up to ch. xx/20) W: Finish Candide |
Voltaire and Candide | |
| Week 5 2/4-2/8 |
Enlightenment
Conclusion Romantic Beginnings |
M:
Jefferson "Declaration of Independence"
Mary Wollstonecraft "Vindication" Introduction W: Test 1: Enlightenment MOVED TO FRIDAY! F: Test 1: Enlightenment |
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| Week 6 2/11-2/15 |
Nature's Heart: Romanticism "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." |
M: No
Class W: The French Revolution Jess Stewart F: Romantic Music Cecily Gordon
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Neo-Classical Monticello |
| Week 7 2/18-2/22 |
Nature and Monsters: Romanticism |
M:
Holiday
F: Wordsworth
"Preface"; |
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Michio Hoshino
More On: William Godwin |
| Week 8
2/25-2/29 |
American Romanticism Midterm Week |
M: Keats
Ode To A Grecian Urn Ode To A Nightingale Percy Shelley "Ozymandias"
W: Mary Shelley'
Frankenstein
F: Mary Shelley'
Frankenstein
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The Sublime |
More On: Keats |
| Week 9 3/3-3/7 |
M: Mary Shelley Biography Alyssa Crawford W: Finish Frankenstein HONORS Frankenstein Discussion Questions F: Test 2: Romanticism |
Modern Franken-Godwin: Raymond Kurzweil | ||
| Week 10 3/10-3/14 |
Spring Break!
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Spring Break! Heart of Darkness | Spring Break! |
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| Week 11 3/17-3/21 |
Modernism: Impressionism and Symbolism |
M:
Heart of Darkness and Modernism
W: F:Heart of Darkness
& Freud "Dreams" F: Heart of Darkness and Impressionism
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Impressionist Art Samples Extra Credit:
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| Week 12
3/24-3/28 |
Victorianism, Marxism and Colonialism
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M: Heart of Darkness (finish) W: Marxism: Communist Manifesto F: Marx cont.; Achebe Skim: "An Image of Africa" (in the back of HofD) wrap up Conrad
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Capitalism, Socialism, Communism... | |
| Week 13 3/31-4/4 |
Colonialism |
M: Film: Guns Germs and Steel W:
African Colonialism Jenni Crawford
F:
Apartheid
and South Africa Lexie Lundgren |
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| Week 14 4/7-4/11 |
Marxism Continued and Feminism |
M:
Achebe
Discussion Questions Finish Achebe Things Fall Apart
W:
Feminism PowerPoint
Leanna Waalkens F:
Woolf Biography
Powerpoint Esme Busch |
Feminism | |
| Week 15 4/14-4/18 |
A Room of One's Own |
M: Finish Woolf, A Room of One's Own Chapter 6 W: F: Test 3 Modern-isms |
Extra Credit: Exist: Life is Beautiful |
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| Week 16 4/21-4/25
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M: Existentialism Intro
Danielle Boyd
and F: Jazz Steve Hanna |
Modern Condition, Existential Crisis |
Hamlet
Characters Hamlet Plot Synopsis |
| Week 17 4/28-5/2
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Existentialism and Postmodernism |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead http://www.cornponeflicks.org/RAGAD.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_&_Guildenstern_Are_Dead |
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| Week 18
5/5-5/9
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Finals Week |
Test 4:
Existentialism and Postmodernism Tues. 10:00-12:00 |
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