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LINK TO DRAFT OF FALL 2005 SYLLABUS

THE FACULTY LECTURERS:
Professor Dorothy Fujita-Rony
Department of Asian
American Studies		  
Gail Hart Professor Gail Hart
Department of German and Director of Humanities Core Course
Professor Ann Van Sant
Department of English		 Ann Van Sant



REQUIRED READINGS AND FILMS

Sophocles' Antigone, The Three Theban Plays, Penguin ISBN: 0-14-044425-4

Shakespeare, King Lear, Longman Cultural Edition, ISBN: 0-321-10722-5

Locke, John, Two Treatises of Government, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0-521-35730-6

The Wild Child film (François Truffaut), on video or DVD in bookstore

Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser) film (Werner Herzog), on video or DVD in the Bookstore

Masson, The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Free Press Paperbacks, ISBN: 0-684-83096-5 (book--not to be confused with film above),

Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, (WW Norton)

Fujita-Rony, Dorothy, American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941.

Humanities Core Course Reader

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook

Writing from A to Z (McGraw Hill), ISBN 0-070294774-8

GENERAL INFORMATION

LECTURE TIMES

All lectures are in Crystal Cove Auditorium:

MWF 9:00-9:50am (29000, 29060, 29100)

MWF 11:00-11:50am (29020, 29080, 29105)

T Th 9:30-10:50am (29040, 29090, 29110)

GRADING
The Humanities Core Course Guide pp. 15-21 explains grading components. Please note that these are guidelines intended to help students plan their work in this course. The Core Course Director reserves the right to make changes in these evaluation criteria during the course of the quarter. Essay Grading Rubric

TURN-IT-IN.COM AGREEMENT

Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy agreement posted on the Turnitin.com site.

   
 


WEEKLY CALENDAR

This is a hypertext syllabus. Links to lecture notes (LN), reading and study questions (SQ), and other materials are in the right hand column.

Discussion sections begin Friday, September 24, 2004. Discussion Sections will be held and failure to attend will count as an unexcused absence

Reading assignments below should be completed prior to attending the lectures.

DATES LECTURE READING ASSIGNMENT LINKS

Week 1

Sep 27 - 28 Prof. Hart: Introduction to Course and Antigone Sophocles' Antigone (entire play) in Three Theban Plays, 55-128

Core Guide, 1-27

Intro

LN Wk 1-1

SQ Wk 1

Sep 29 - 30

Prof. Hart: Antigone

Writer's Handbook: "Academic Writing," 31-32, and "Genre," 33-40

LN Wk 1-2

Week 2
Oct 4 - 5 Prof. Van Sant: King Lear Shakespeare's King Lear (entire play - pp. 2-128)

LN Wk 2-1

LN Wk 2-1 (Condensed)

Last Four slides from Lecture

Stuart Chart

SQ Wk 2

Oct 6 - 7

Prof. Van Sant: King Lear

Writer's Handbook: "Defining Terms," 41-43 and "Thesis Statements," 83-85

LN Wk 2-2

LN Wk 2-2 (Condensed)

Week 3
Oct 11 - 12 Prof. Van Sant: Locke's Two Treatises of Government Locke's Two Treatises of Government - Book I: Preface & Ch. I, II ( § 6--8); V, VI (§ 50, 52--55, 61--63), VII (§73, 75, 77).  Book II: Ch. I, II, III, IV, V, VI LN Wk 3-1

LN Wk 3-1 (Condensed)

Stuart Chart

SQ Wk 3

Oct 13 - 14

 

Prof. Van Sant: Locke's Two Treatises of Government

Locke's Two Treatises of Government - Book II: Ch. VII ( §77-87, 89), VIII (§95-97, 99, 119-20), IX ( §123-27), XIII ( §149, 156), XV (169-172), XVIII, XIX

Writer's Handbook: "What is Analysis?" 44-47

LN Wk 3-2

LN Wk 3-2 (Condensed)

Week 4

Oct 18 - 19

 Prof. Van Sant: Truffaut's The Wild Child

"Wild Boy of Aveyron" in HCC Reader, pp. 3-54

Showing of Truffaut's The Wild Child, Tues, October 19, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., HIB 100

LN Wk 4-1

LN Wk 4-1(Condensed)

SQ Wk 4
Oct 20 - 21 Prof. Van Sant: Truffaut and "Wild Boy of Aveyron"

Truffaut's The Wild Child (video and DVD available in the bookstore)

Writer's Handbook: "Analyzing Narrative," 48-52

Additional Showings of Truffaut's The Wild Child:

Thurs, October 21, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., HIB 100

Fri, October 22, 3:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m., HIB 100

LN Wk 4-2

LN Wk 4-2(Condensed)

Week 5

Oct 25 - 26

 Prof. Hart: Kaspar Hauser

Read excerpt from The Great Pretenders, in HCC Reader, 55-72

Read The Wild Child, 74-150 (Von Feuerbach's Kaspar Hauser)

Showing of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser), Tues, Oct 26, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m, HIB 100
Oct 27 - 28 Prof. Hart: Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog's version

See film Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser) (Werner Herzog)

Writer's Handbook: "Analyzing Film," 53-57

Additional Showing of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser), Fri, Oct 29, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m, HIB 100

MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5

 LN Wk 5-2
Week 6

Nov 1 - 2

 Prof. Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents pp. 10-63 (Chap. 1-4)

LN Wk 6-1

SQ Wk 6

Nov 3 - 4 Prof. Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents pp. 64-74 (Chap. 5), 97-112 (Chap. 8)

Writer's Handbook: "Analyzing Visual Images," 58-62

 LN Wk 6-2
Week 7
Nov 8 - 9

Prof. Fujita-Rony: Nation and Narratives

American Workers, Colonial Power, Introduction and Chapter 1, 1-50

View film in lecture: Savage Acts

Writer's Handbook: "Analyzing Primary Sources," 63-65

LN Wk 7-1

SQ Wk 7
Nov 10 - 11

VETERANS DAY NOV. 11 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Wednesday or Thursday;
MWF Discussion sections will meet Wednesday, Nov. 10.

Week 8
Nov 15 - 16 Prof. Fujita-Rony: Migration, Labor, and "Family"

American Workers, Colonial Power, Chapters 2-3, 51-115, and photograph section in the middle of the book

"So close to the good life." in HCC Reader, 73-81

"New Race Riot Outbreak Threatens: Armed Guards Check Mobs from Attack on Filipinos" in HCC Reader, 82-84

"Army Acts in Watsonville Race Riots: Martial Law Threat Made in Message to Governor" in HCC Reader, 85-87

Solvador Roldan v. Los Angeles County in HCC Reader, 88-98

Statutes of California, Chapter 104 and Chapter 105 in HCC Reader, 93-94

LN Wk 8-1

SQ Wk 8
Nov 17 - 18 Prof. Fujita-Rony: Regulation and Resistance View short film in Lecture: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance

Writer's Handbook: "Comparison and Contrast," 66-68
 LN Wk 8-2
Week 9
Nov 22 - 23 Prof. Fujita-Rony: Colonialism and Community

American Workers, Chapter 4-5, 116-168

Writer's Handbook: "Application," 69-71


Repeat Showing of Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance in Crystal Cove Auditorium,
Tuesday, Nov 23, 10:25-10:50 a.m.

LN Wk 9-1

SQ Wk 9

Nov 24 - 25

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NOV 24-25 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Wednesday or Thursday;
MWF Discussion sections will meet Wednesday, Nov 24.

Week 10
Nov 29 - 30 Prof. Fujita-Rony: Gendering Memory
 American Workers, Colonial Power, Chapter 6 and Conclusion, 169-210

LN Wk 10-1

SQ Wk 10
Dec 1 - 2 Prof. Fujita-Rony: Power and Resistance Writer's Handbook: "Principles of Organization," 72-74, "Topic Sentences," 75-76, "Transitions," 77-78, and "Three Principles of Paragraphing," 79-82

Hart Conclusions

Van Sant Conclusions

Fujita-Rony Conclusions

FINALS WEEK, DEC 6-10