Humanities Core: Winter 2006

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, January 6, 2006. 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 0
Jan 6		MWF sections begin
Week 1
Jan 9 - 10	Prof. Lupton: The Aeneid	Virgil, The Aeneid, Book I, pp. 3-30	LN Wk 1-1 Aeneid, Study and Discussion Questions Virgil's Aeneid
Jan 11-12	Prof. Lupton: The Aeneid	Virgil, The Aeneid, Books II and IV, pp. 33-61 and 95-121	LN Wk 1-2 Aeneid
Week 2
Jan 16 - 17	MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., HOLIDAY, JAN. 16 - CAMPUS CLOSED NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday; Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Jan 17.
Jan 18 - 19	Prof. Lupton: The Aeneid	Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI, pp. 159-192.	LN Wk 2 Aeneid
Week 3
Jan 23 - 24	Prof. Lupton: Lincoln	Lincoln Speeches: First Inaugural Address, Second Inaugural Address and Gettysburg Address in HCC Reader, pp. 25-33.	LN Wk 3-1 Lincoln and Whitman Study Questions on Lincoln
Jan 25 - 26	Prof. Lupton: Whitman	Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "One's-Self I Sing" and "As I Ponder'd in Silence," pp. 3-4; "Song of Myself," pp. 26-78	LN Wk 3-2 Lincoln and Whitman Study Questions on Whitman
Week 4
Jan 30 - 31	Prof. Lupton: Whitman	Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "The Wound Dresser," pp. 259-261; "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," pp. 276-283; "O Captain! My Captain!" p. 284	LN Wk 4-1 Lincoln and Whitman
Feb 1-2	Prof. Haynes	Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, pp. 33-70 Conrad, Heart of Darkness, pp. 7-33	LN Wk 4-2 Equiano and Conrad Africa Slides Study Questions on Equiano and Conrad
Week 5
Feb 6 - 7	Prof. Haynes	Conrad, Heart of Darkness, pp. 33-76	LN Wk 5-1 Nation and Empire Conrad Slides Study Questions on Conrad part 2
Feb 8 - 9	Prof. Haynes	Orwell, Burmese Days, pp. 1-88 MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5	LN Wk 5-2 Burmese Days Study Questions on Burmese Days Burmese Days Endnotes Encyclopædia Britannica article on British in Burma
Week 6
Feb 13-14	Prof. Haynes	Orwell, Burmese Days, pp. 89-287	LN Wk 6-1 Burmese Days Study Questions on Burmese Days: Burdens of Identity
Feb 15 - 16	Prof. Haynes	Selvon, Lonely Londoners, pp. 23-71	LN Wk 6-2 Lonely Londoners
Week 7
Feb 20-21	PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY, FEB. 20 - CAMPUS CLOSED NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday; Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Feb 21.
Feb 22 - 23	Prof. Haynes	Selvon, Lonely Londoners, pp. 71-141	LN Wk 7 Lonely Londoners 2 Study Questions on Lonely Londoners
Week 8
Feb 27 - 28	Prof. James	selection from Hobbes on pp. 216-7 of the text to King Lear (or for PDF File click here) Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, pp. 7(b)-9(m), 27(b)-33(t), 35(t)-36(b), 40(m)-42(m), 44(t)-47(b), 50(m)-58(b)* *(t) - from/to top of page; (m) - from/to middle of page; (b) - from/to bottom of page.	LN Wk 8-1 Hobbes and Beitz Wk 8 Study Questions on Beitz
Mar 1 - 2	Prof. James	Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, (same pages as Feb 27-28 Lecture)	LN Wk 8-2 Beitz
Week 9
Mar 6 - 7	Prof. James	Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, pp. 74(b)-81(b), 83(m)-6(b), 92(m)-93(m), 95(t)-102(b)* *(t) - from/to top of page; (m) - from/to middle of page; (b) - from/to bottom of page. Beveridge and Lowell essays (click here for PDF File): Beveridge: pp. 156-7 (including the introduction by Brook Thomas). Lowell: the introduction by Brook Thomas on p. 161, and pp. 165-6, 168-70.	LN Wk 9-1 and 9-2 Beitz Wk 9 Study Questions on Beitz
Mar 8 - 9	Prof. James	Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, (same pages as Mar 6-7 Lecture)	LN Wk 9-1 and 9-2 Beitz
Week 10
Mar 13 -14	Prof. James	Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, pp. 127(t)-136(m), 143(b)-153(b)* *(t) - from/to top of page; (m) - from/to middle of page; (b) - from/to bottom of page.	LN Wk 10-1 and 10-2 Beitz Wk 10 Study Questions on Beitz
Mar 15 - 16	Prof. James	Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, (same pages as Mar 13-14 Lecture)
FINALS WEEK, March 20-24

THE FACULTY LECTURERS
Professor Julia Lupton Department of English and Director of Humanities Core Course
	Professor Douglas Haynes Department of History
Professor Aaron James Department of Philosophy

Humanities Core Course 2005-2006

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Winter 2006: Nation and Empire

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