Humanities Core: Fall 2005

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, 2005. 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 , Study Questions Antigone 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 One page outline (pdf), LN Wk 2-1 King Lear 2-up (pdf), LN Wk 2-1 King Lear 4-up (pdf), Study Questions King Lear Wk 2
Oct 5 - 6	Prof. Van Sant: King Lear	Shakespeare's King Lear	LN Wk 2-2 (2-up), LN Wk 2-2 (Condensed 4-up)
Week 3
Oct 10 - 11	Prof. Van Sant: King Lear	Shakespeare's King Lear	LN Wk 3-1 (2-up), LN Wk 3-1 (Condensed 4-up)
Oct 12 - 13	Prof. Van Sant: King Lear and Introduction to Locke	Shakespeare's King Lear	House of Stuart Chart (external site), LN Wk 3-2 (2-up Lear and Locke ), LN Wk 3-2 (4-up Lear and 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 4-1 (2-up Locke ), LN Wk 4-1 (4-up Locke), Study Questions Locke Wk 4
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 4-2 (2-up Locke), LN Wk 4-2 (4-up Locke)
Week 5
Oct 24 - 25	Prof. Clark, Rowlandson	Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents: Introduction, pp. 1-60; the narrative, pp, 62-71, 101-112; John Easton, "A Relacion of the Indyan Warre," pp. 115-118; Joseph Rowlandson's sermon, pp. 151-64; Cotton Mather, the Captivity of Hannah Dustin, pp. 164-68	LN Wk 5 (external site) Study Questions Rowlandson Wk 5
Oct 26 - 27	Prof. Clark, Rowlandson	Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents: rest of the narrative, pp. 71-101 MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5
Week 6
Oct 31 - Nov 1	Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur	Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer: Letters 1-3, pp. 35-106	LN Wk 6 (external site) Study Questions Crèvecoeur Wk 6
Nov 2- 3	Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur	Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer: Letters: Letters 7-9 (pp. 144-179), and Letter 12 (pp. 200-27).
Week 7
Nov 7 - 8	Prof. Michael Clark, Twain	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Ch. 1-16, pp. 1-131 Showing of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser): Nov 7, 2:00-3:50pm, Humanities Hall 178	LN Wk 7 (external site) Study Questions Twain Wk 7
Nov 9 - 10	Prof. Michael Clark, Twain	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ch. 17-42, pp. 132-362 Showing of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser): Nov 9, 3:00-4:50pm, Humanities Hall 178 VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY FRIDAY NOV 11- CAMPUS CLOSED: MW and MWF Discussion sections will not meet Friday Nov. 1
Week 8
Nov 14 - 15	Prof. Hart: Kaspar Hauser	Excerpt from The Great Pretenders, in HCC Reader, 3-20 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 14, 1:00-2:50pm and 3:00-4:50pm, Humanities Hall 178	LN Wk 8-1 Kaspar Hauser Study Questions Kaspar Hauser Wk 8
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 Showings of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser): Nov 16, 3:00-4:50pm and Nov 18, 3:00-4:50pm, Humanities Hall 178	LN Wk 8-2 Herzog
Week 9
Nov 21 - 22	Prof. Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents	Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents pp. 10-63 (Chap. 1-4)	LN Wk 9-1 Study Questions Freud Wk 9
Nov 23 - 24	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NOV 24-25 - CAMPUS CLOSED NO LECTURES Wednesday or Thursday; MW and 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)	LN Wk 10-1
Nov 30 - Dec 1	Profs. Hart, Van Sant, and Clark: Summary		Hart Conclusions, Van Sant - Synthesis - Reaching a Summit End of first quarter(4-up), Van Sant - Synthesis - Reaching a Summit End of first quarter (2-up) Clark - Concluding Remarks
FINALS WEEK, DEC 5-9

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

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