TENTATIVE AND EVOLVING Fall 2007 Schedule
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| Week and Dates | Topic | Reading Assignments |
Lecture Notes (Required) |
Additional Related Links (Not Required) |
| Week 1 8/20 -8/24
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Pre-Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Syllabus, Course Req. Etc. W/F: Intro |
Some Notes On These Notes | |
| Week 2 8/27-8-31 |
Pre-Enlightenment Cont. Enlightenment/Neoclassicism |
M: Descartes "Discourse on Method" p 405-408 W: Locke "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" p 421
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Pre-Enlightenment cont. |
Eratosthenes
The Continued Epistemic Debate: |
| Week 3 9/3-9/7 |
Enlightenment/Neoclassicism | M:
Holiday W:
"A Letter Concerning Toleration" John Locke (1689) F: Voltaire, Candide pp 310-333 |
Pre-Enlightenment cont. How the Conservative Reformation Spawned the Liberal Enlightenment |
The Inquisition |
| Week 4 9/10-9/14 |
Political Enlightenment |
M: Candide pp 333-352 W: Finish Candide |
Voltaire and Candide | |
| Week 5 9/17-9/21 |
Enlightenment
Conclusion Romantic Beginnings |
M:
Jefferson "Declaration of Independence" p 423; Mary "Vindication" Introduction p1134-1137 W: Test 1: Enlightenment F: No Class |
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| Week 6 9/24-28 |
Nature's Heart: Romanticism "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." |
M: Romanticism
Intro W: Rousseau Confessions 433-444 F: Confessions cont. 444-Finish |
Neo-Classical Monticello | |
| Week 7 10/1-10/5 |
Nature and Monsters: Romanticism |
M:
Rousseau: Leviathan
&
Discourse
Passage W: Wordsworth "Preface"(1127-1133);"Lines" (694-8)
F: Mary Shelley'
Frankenstein |
Wordsworth Discussion Questions |
Michio Hoshino
More On: William Godwin |
| Week 8
10/8-10/12 |
American Romanticism Midterm Week |
M: Mary Shelley'
Frankenstein Ch. 5 - 17 (810 - 866) W: Frankenstein Discussion Questions F: Keats (Odes: 739-743) |
Mary Shelley Biography |
More On: Keats |
| Week 9 10/15-10/19 |
Modernism: Impressionism and Symbolism |
M: Keats (St Agnes: 729-739) W: Percy Shelley "Ozymandias", Whitman "Out of the Cradle..." (1065) "When Lilacs..." (1070...1-13) F: Test 2: Romanticism |
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| Week 10 10/22-10/26 |
Victorianism and Colonialism |
M: Heart of Darkness (1491-1514) W: Heart of Darkness (1514-1533) & Freud "Dreams" (2198)
F: Heart of Darkness (finish) |
Impressionist Art Samples Extra Credit:
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| Week 11 10/29-11/2 |
Modernism: Colonialism, Guns, Germs, Steel: Things Fall Apart |
M: Achebe Skim: "An Image of Africa" and begin Things Fall Apart; wrap up Conrad W: "The Second Coming" W.B. Yeats (1920) & Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart (2080-2111) W: Achebe Things Fall Apart (2111-2172) |
Opium Wars | |
| Week 12
11/5-11/9 |
Modernism: Marxism, Feminism
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M: Film: Guns Germs and Steel W: Marx and Engels 2173 F: Simone de Beauvoir 2216 Marxism Continued and Feminism
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Capitalism, Socialism, Communism... | |
| Week 13 11/12-11/16 |
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M: Virginia Woolf 1694 W: Test 3 Modern-isms F: Existentialism Intro: “Myth of Sisyphus” Camus |
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| Week 14 11/19-11/23 |
Fall Break | Fall Break | ||
| Week 15 11/26-11/30 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism |
M:
"Existentialism
is a Humanism" Sartre (micro version) and Existentialism Cont. Camus: Sys. Cont. & Plague; Frankl: Meaning
W:
Existentialism, Postmodernism |
Extra Credit: Exist: Life is Beautiful |
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| Week 16 12/3-12/7 |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_&_Guildenstern_Are_Dead |
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| Week 17 12/10-12/14
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Finals Week |
Test 4: Postmodernism |
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| Week 18
5/7 - 5/11
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