REQUIRED READINGS AND FILMS

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Signet Classic Shakespeare. ISBN 978-04515-26960

Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. Translated by John R. Spencer. Revised Edition. Yale University Press: 1966. ISBN 0-300-00001-4.

George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. EMI Classics DVD. Music by George Gershwin, Libretto by DuBose Heyward, Lyrics by Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Directed by Trevor Nunn.

Course Packet (University Readers):

Excerpt from Lévy, Pierre. Cyberculture. Translated by Robert Bononno. 2001.

Course Packet (Anteater Publishing):

Excerpt from Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Modern Library. 1993.

Humanities Core Course Reader (Pearson Custom Publishing) ISBN: 0-536-06323-0:

“Germany:  Germany from 1918 to 1945.” Encyclopædia Britannica 2007.

“Proletarians!  Men and women of Labor!  Comrades!”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook  Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg, 

Huelsenbeck, Richard.  “En Avant Dada:  A History of Dadaism (1920).” DA

“November Group Circular.” The Weimar Republic Sourcebook  Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg,.

“November Group Manifesto.” The Weimar Republic Sourcebook  Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

“Work Council for Art Manifesto.” The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Heartfield, John and George Grosz, “The Art Scab.”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Gropius, Walter.  “Program of the Statliches Bauhaus in Weimar.”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Wolf, Friederich.  “Art is a Weapon!”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Hausmann, Raoul.  “Photomontage.”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Kemenyi, Alfred.  “Photomontage as a Weapon in Class Struggle.”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Munzenberg, Willi. “Conquer Film!”  The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg.

Brecht, Bertolt.  Kuhle Wampe (Or Who Owns the World).  E.J. Campfield, Translator.

“Germany:  The Third Reich, 1933-45.” Encyclopædia Britannica 2007.

Barron, Stephanie.  “1937:  Modern Art and Politics in Prewar Germany.”  Degenerate Art:  The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany.

Mosse, George L.  “Beauty without Sensuality:  The Exhibtion Entartete Kunst.”  Degenerate Art:  The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany.

Hitler.  Speech of 19 July 1937.  Nazisim 1919-1945:  A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts.  Ed. J. Noakes and G. Pridham.

Shostakovich, Dmitry.  Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.  (libretto) Opera-Guide. 

“Chaos Instead of Music.  January 28, 1936” Seventeen Moments in Soviet History.

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook, Third Edition (Pearson) ISBN: 0-536-06323-4

Faigley, Lester.  The Little Penguin Handbook.  Custom Edition for the University of California, Irvine.  Pearson Longman, 2007.  (paperback)  ISBN 0-536-06322-2.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Lecture Times

All lectures are in Crystal Cove Auditorium:

MW 9:00-9:50am

MW 11:00-11:50am

T Th 9:30-10:20am

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 (pdf)

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, cited in the UCI General Catalogue.

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 Monday, January 7, 2008. 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

Jan 7-8

Prof. Lupton: Introduction: Scenes of Making

Prof. Lupton: A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

Study Questions for A Midsummer Night's Dream

LN Wk1-1: A Midsummer Night's Dream Lecture 1

LN Wk1-1: A Midsummer Night's Dream Lecture 1 (printer friendly)

Jan 9-10

Prof. Lupton: A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 


LN Wk 1-2: A Midsummer Night's Dream Lecture 2

LN Wk 1-2: A Midsummer Night's Dream Lecture 2 (printer friendly)

Act I Scene ii Clip (best viewed with Mozilla browser)

Week 2

Jan 14-15

Prof. Lupton: A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

LN Wk 2-1: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lecture 3

LN Wk 2-1: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lecture 3 (printer friendly)

Theseus on the imagination clip (best viewed with Mozilla browser)

Pyramus and Thisbe performed (best viewed with Mozilla browser)

Jan 16-17

Prof. Lupton: Renaissance Rhetoric of Painting

Alberti, "On Painting" (Prologue, pp. 39-40; Book Two, pp. 63-85)

LN Wk 2-2: Renaissance Rhetoric of Painting

LN Wk 2-2: Renaissance Rhetoric of Painting (printer friendly)

Study Questions for Alberti

Week 3
Jan 21-22 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., HOLIDAY, JAN. 21 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday;
Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Jan 22.
Jan 23-24 Prof. Lupton: The Botticelli Code

Alberti, "On Painting" (Book Three, pp. 89-98)


FRIDAY, JANUARY 25: FORUM WITH PROF. LUPTON AND UCI MSND DIRECTOR BENJAMIN POHLMEIER, CRYSTAL COVE AUDITORIUM, 11:00-11:50

LN Wk 3: The Botticelli Code

LN Wk 3: The Botticelli Code (printer friendly)

Week 4

Jan 28-29

Prof. Moeller: Politics and Art in Germany, 1918-1933, OR Aren't Makers Always Doers?

HCC Course Reader, pp. 35-84, BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

Scheduled showings of Kuhle Wampe :

Mon, Jan 28: 2:00-3:20, HH 262 (max cap 82)
Tue, Jan 29, 2:00-3:20, HH 108 (max cap 25)

 

ESSAY #4 DUE

LN Wk 4-1: Politics and Art in Germany, 1918-1933, OR Aren't Makers Always Doers?

LN Wk 4-1: Politics and Art in Germany, 1918-1933, OR Aren't Makers Always Doers? (printer friendly)

Study Questions on Politics and Art in Germany 1918-1933

Jan 30-31 Prof. Moeller: Germany, 1918-1933 (cont'd)

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

Scheduled showings of Kuhle Wampe :

Thu, Jan 31, 2:30-3:50, HH 108 (max cap 25)
Fri, Feb 1, 1:00-2:20, HH 242 (max cap 25)

 

LN Wk 4-2: Dada, Revolutionary Art in the Weimar Republic

LN Wk 4-2: Dada, Revolutionary Art in the Weimar Republic (printer friendly)

Week 5

Feb 4-5

Prof. Moeller: Gemany 1918-33 (cont'd)
HCC Course Reader, pp. 85-133 (highlighted portions of text are optional reading); BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

LN Wk 5-1: Building a Thesis About the Bauhaus

LN Wk 5-1: Building a Thesis About the Bauhaus (printer friendly)

LN Wk 5-1: Building a Thesis About the Bauhaus (printer friendly with NO IMAGES)

Feb 6-7 Prof. Moeller: Germany 1918-1933 (cont'd)

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5

Friday, Feb 8, 3:00-5:00pm, Making Event with Prof. Lupton, Mesa Multipurpose Room, Mesa Court

LN Wk 5-2: Brecht, Kuhle Wampe, and Short Version of Why Weimar Failed

LN Wk 5-2: Brecht, Kuhle Wampe, and Short Version of Why Weimar Failed (printer friendly)

Week 6

Feb 11-12

Prof. Moeller: The Nazis and Degenerate Art

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

Scheduled showings of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District :

Mon, Feb 11, 2:00-5:00 HH 262 (max cap 82)
Mon, Feb 11, 4:00-7:00 HH 178 (max cap 139)
Tue, Feb 12, 3:00-6:00 HH 254 (max cap 50)
Tue, Feb 12, 7:30-10:20pm HH 254 (max cap 50)


Study Questions on Degenerate Art

LN Wk 6-1: Degenerate Art

LN Wk 6-1: Degenerate Art (printer friendly)

Feb 13-14 Prof. Moeller: Music under Stalin: Dmitry Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (libretto)

HCC Course Reader, pp. 134-83;
REQUIRED VIEWING OF FILM OF OPERA

Scheduled showings of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District :

Wed, Feb 13, 2:00-5:00, HSLH 100A (max cap 343)
Thu, Feb 14, 2:00-5:00, HH 108 (max cap 25)
Fri, Feb 15, 2:00-5:00, HSLH 100A (max cap 343)
Fri, Feb 15, 5:00pm-8:00pm, HIB 100 (max cap 355)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15: FORUM WITH PROF. MOELLER SHOWING HIGHLIGHTS FROM LADY MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK DISTRICT IN CRYSTAL COVE AUDITORIUM: 9:00-9:50 AND 11:00-11:50



LN WK 6-2: Culture in Stalin's Soviet Union: Dmitry Shostakovich as Child of the Revolution?

LN WK 6-2: Culture in Stalin's Soviet Union: Dmitry Shostakovich as Child of the Revolution? (printer friendly)

Revised HCC Handbook Chapter on Analyzing Music

Study Questions on Shostakovich

Week 7
Feb 18-19

PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY, FEB. 18 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday;
Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Feb 19.

Feb 20-21 Prof. Moeller: Music under Stalin

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

ESSAY #5 DUE

Grading Rubric for Essay #5

LNWk 7: Music under Stalin

LNWk 7: Music under Stalin (printer friendly)
Week 8
Feb 25-26

Prof. Moeller: Music, Race, and National Culture in the US: Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

Required for Class: View the performance video of Porgy and Bess. Make sure to set up the video so that it displays the libretto (the words that are sung). Sometimes it's difficult to understand the language, and with the libretto turned on as a subtitle, you'll be sure not to miss anything.


Study Questions on Gershwin

LN Wk 8-1: Gershwin Lecture 1

LN Wk 8-1: Gershwin Lecture 1 (printer friendly)

Feb 27-28 Prof. Moeller: Gershwin continued

LN Wk 8-2: Gershwin Lecture 2

LN Wk 8-2: Gershwin Lecture 2 (printer friendly)

Week 9
Mar 3-4 Prof. Lupton: Jane Jacobs: Making Places

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, pp. 3-25, 29-34, 50-54, 58-65, 84-88, 89-111.

Challenge A: Looking with Jane Jacobs
Photograph a street scene (at UCI, in Irvine, wherever you live, or a place you’re visiting). Write a 50-word caption identifying the scene and then analyzing it using a term, phrase or image taken from Jane Jacobs. Send photo and caption to jrlupton@uci.edu by Friday.

Challenge B: Are you a maker?
Do you make stuff for fun or profit? Post a picture or a link to your favorite artefact, and tell us a little about it. Send entries to jrlupton@uci.edu by Friday.

Study Questions for Jane Jacobs

LN Wk 9-1: Illustrated Jane: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

LN Wk 9-1: Illustrated Jane: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (printer friendly version)

Mar 5-6

Prof. Lupton: Jane Jacobs: Making Places continued

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, pp. 429-434.

LN Wk 9-2: Walls, Chinks, and Moonshine: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs

LN Wk 9-2: Walls, Chinks, and Moonshine: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs (printer friendly version)


Week 10
Mar 10-11 Prof. Lupton: Making 2.0

Pierre Lévy, Cyberculture (excerpt in supplementary packet)


LN Wk 10-1: Cyberculture

LN Wk 10-1: Cyberculture (printer friendly version)

Mar 12-13 Prof. Lupton: Making 2.0

Pierre Lévy, Cyberculture (excerpt in supplementary packet)

ESSAY #6 DUE

LN Wk 10-2: Scenes of Contemporary Making

LN Wk 10-2: Scenes of Contemporary Making (printer friendly version)

 

FINALS WEEK, March 17-21 BY DISCUSSION SECTION TIME IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS

 

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