REQUIRED READINGS AND FILMS

Sophocles' Antigone in The 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. (Pearson) ISBN 0-536-97496-9:

Bondeson, Jan. "The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser."

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook. (Pearson) ISBN 0-536-97498-5

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

Lecture Times

All lectures are in Social Science Lecture Hall 100:

M W 8:00-8:50am

M W 9:00-9:50am

M W 12:00-12:50pm

DISABILITY

Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact the Disability Services Center at (949) 824-7494 as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.

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

ADD/DROP AND GRADE OPTION POLICY

Add/Drops and grade option changes for Humanities Core Course must be effected by the end of the second week of classes regardless of what other schools' deadlines for add/drops and grade option changes are. Requests to add or drop after the second week will be granted only for exceptional circumstances. All add/drops beginning the first day of instruction are processed via add/drop cards and are coordinated and authorized by Enrollment Specialist Janice Gregory in the Humanities Core Course Program Office (HIB 185). Students should not ask Humanities Core Course instructors to sign add/drop cards. All All school and major requirements must be taken for letter grades.

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. Students should familiarize themselves with the UCI Policy on Academic Honesty:     http://www.senate.uci.edu/9_IrvineManual/3ASMAppendices/Appendix08.html

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 22, 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 1
Sep 25 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 27

Prof. Hart: Antigone

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

LN Wk 1-2
Week 2
Oct 2 Prof. Van Sant: King Lear Shakespeare's King Lear, Acts I-III

LN WK 2 King Lear

Study Questions King Lear WKs 2-3

Oct 4

Prof. Van Sant: King Lear

Shakespeare's King Lear, Acts I-V

Writer's Handbook, "Defining Terms" (pp. 41-43) and “Thesis Statements” (pp. 84-86)

LN WK 2 King Lear

EAP Forum
Week 3
Oct 9 Prof. Van Sant: King Lear Shakespeare's King Lear

LN Wk 3-1

Bond - from OED

Study Questions King Lear WKs 2-3

Oct 11

 

Prof. Van Sant: King Lear and Introduction to Locke

Shakespeare's King Lear


Writer's Handbook, "What is Analysis?" (pp. 44-47), "Analyzing Narrative" (48-52)

House of Stuart Chart (external site)

Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince (external site)

LN Wk 3-2 (2-up Lear and Locke )

LN Wk 3-2 (4-up Lear and Locke)

 
Week 4

Oct 16

 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 18 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 23

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 25 Prof. Clark, Rowlandson

Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents: rest of the narrative, pp. 71-101

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


MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5

  
Week 6

Oct 30

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 1 Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur

Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer: Letters 9 (pp. 166-179) and12 (pp. 200-27).

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

  
Week 7
Nov 6

Prof. Michael Clark, Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Ch. 1-16, pp. 1-131

LN Wk 7 (external site)

International Education Week Announcement

Study Questions Twain Wk 7

 
Nov 8 Prof. Michael Clark, Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ch. 17-42, pp. 132-362

Writer's Handbook, "Comparison and Contrast” (66-69)

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

Wednesday, Nov 8, 3:00-4:50pm, HH 178 (seating capacity 139)

Thursday, Nov 9, 4:00-5:50pm, HOB2 130 (seating capacity 45)

VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY FRIDAY NOV 10- CAMPUS CLOSED:
MWF Discussion sections will not meet Friday Nov. 10

 
Week 8
Nov 13 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):

Monday, Nov 13, 3:00-4:50pm, ICS 174 (seating capacity 114)

Tuesday, Nov 14, 3:00-4:50pm, SSL 206 (seating capacity 30)

LN Wk 8-1 Kaspar Hauser

Study Questions Kaspar Hauser Wk 8
Nov 15 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):

Wednesday, Nov 15, 3:00-4:50pm, HH 143 (seating capacity 50)

LN Wk 8-2 Herzog
Week 9
Nov 20 Prof. Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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

Writer's Handbook, "Application" (70-72)

LN Wk 9-1

Study Questions Freud Wk 9
Nov 22

No Lecture Wednesday, Nov 22

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NOV 23-24 - CAMPUS CLOSED
MW and MWF Discussion sections will meet Wednesday, Nov 22.
Week 10
Nov 27 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 29 Profs. Hart, Van Sant, and Clark: Summary Writer's Handbook, "Principles of Organization" (73-75), “Topic Sentences” (76-77), “Transitions” (78-79), and “Three Principles of Paragraphing” (80-83)

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

 
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