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DRAFT OF FALL 2005 SYLLABUS

THE FACULTY LECTURERS:

Professor Michael Clark
Department of English
Professor Gail Hart
Department of German and Director of Humanities Core Course
Professor Ann Van Sant
Department of English



REQUIRED READINGS AND FILMS

Sophocles' Antigone inThe Three Theban Plays. (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0-14-044425-4

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. (Longman Cultural Edition) ISBN: 0-321-10722-5

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (University of California Press: 2001) ISBN: 0-520-22838-3

Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John, Letters from an American Farmer. (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140390065

Rowlandson, Mary. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) ISBN: 0312111517

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

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

Masson, Jeffrey M. The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser. (Free Press Paperbacks) ISBN: 0-684-83096-5

Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents. (WW Norton) ISBN 0-393-30158-3

Humanities Core Course Reader

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook

Writing from A to Z, Fifth Edition. (McGraw Hill) ISBN 0-07-296149-X

GENERAL INFORMATION

LECTURE TIMES

All lectures are in Crystal Cove Auditorium:

MWF 9:00-9:50am

MWF 11:00-11:50am

T Th 9:30-10:50am

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 23, 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 26 - 27 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 28 - 29

Prof. Hart: Antigone

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

LN Wk 1-2

Week 2
Oct 3 - 4 Prof. Van Sant: King Lear Shakespeare's King Lear

LN Wk 2-1

LN Wk 2-1 (Condensed)

Last Four slides from Lecture

Stuart Chart

SQ Wk 2

Oct 5 - 6

Prof. Van Sant: King Lear


LN Wk 2-2

LN Wk 2-2 (Condensed)

Week 3
Oct 10 - 11 Prof. Van Sant: King Lear  

 

Oct 12 - 13

 

Prof. Van Sant: King Lear and Introduction to Locke


 

Week 4

Oct 17 - 18

 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)

SQ Wk 3

Oct 19 - 20 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

LN Wk 3-2

LN Wk 3-2 (Condensed)

Week 5

Oct 24 - 25

Prof. Clark, Rowlandson

Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents

 

Oct 26 - 27 Prof. Clark, Rowlandson

Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents


MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5

 
Week 6

Oct 31 - Nov 1

Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer

 

Nov 2- 3 Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur

Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer

 

 
Week 7
Nov 7 - 8

Prof. Michael Clark, Huck Finn


Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

Nov 9 - 10 Prof. Michael Clark, Huck Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY FRIDAY NOV 11- CAMPUS CLOSED; MWF Discussion sections will not meet

Week 8
Nov 14 - 15 Prof. Hart: Kaspar Hauser

Excerpt from The Great Pretenders, in HCC Reader, 55-72

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

Showings of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser),


 

Nov 16 - 17 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),


 
Week 9
Nov 21 - 22 Prof. Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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

 

Nov 23 - 24

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NOV 24-25 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Wednesday or Thursday;
MWF Discussion sections will meet Wednesday, Nov 23.

Week 10
Nov 28 - 29 Prof. Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents pp. 64-74 (Chap. 5), 97-112 (Chap. 8)

 

Nov 30 - Dec 1 Profs. Hart, Van Sant, and Clark: Summary

Hart Conclusions

Van Sant Conclusions

 

FINALS WEEK, DEC 5-9