REQUIRED READINGS AND FILMS

Plato. Symposium. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, Translators. Hackett Pubishing Company. 1989. ISBN 978-0-87220-076-0

Aristotle. A New Aristotle Reader.  Ed. J. L. Ackrill.  New Jersey:  Princeton University Press, 1987.  ISBN 0-691-02043-4 (paperback)

Descartes, René.  Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. Hackett Pub Co. Inc., June 1999.  (paperback)   ISBN-10:  0-87220-420-0  ISBN-13:  978-0-87220-420-1
 
Austen, Jane.  Persuasian.  Ed. Linda Bree.  Broadview Literary Texts, New Ed edition (August 11, 1998).  ISBN-10:  1551111314   ISBN-13:  978-1551111315 (paperback)
 
Morrison, Toni.  The Bluest Eye.  Plume; ISBN-13:  978-0452273054 (paperback)
 
Humanities Core Course Reader. (Pearson Custom Publishing) ISBN 978-0-555-03662-4:

Sappho.  “Love:  I” in Poems & Fragments.  Josephine Balmer, Translator.

Sappho.  Selected Poems in The Poems of Sappho.  Suzy Q. Groden, Translator.

Sappho.  Poem # 76 in Sappho:  A New Translation.  Mary Barnard, Translator.

Theophrastus.  “The Insincere Man” and “The Show-Off” in The Character Sketches.  Warren Anderson, Translator.

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook. (Pearson Custom Publishing) ISBN 978-0-555-03661-7

Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer. Third Edition.  Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006.  ISBN 978-0-312-43309-3

 
GENERAL INFORMATION

Lecture Times

All lectures are in Biological Sciences III Lecture Hall, Room 1200:

M W 9:00-9:50am

M W 11:00-11:50am

Tu Th 9:30-10:20pm

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, 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 Thursday, September 25, 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
Sep 29-30

Prof. Julia Lupton - Introduction

Prof. Martin Schwab - Plato

Core Guide, pp. 1-19

Plato's Symposium (all)

Introduction

LN Wk 1-1 Plato Lec 1

Study Questions for Plato's Symposium

Coursecast of Plato Lecture 1

Oct 1-2

Prof. Martin Schwab - Plato continued

 

 


Education Abroad Program Special Forum, Friday, October 3, 11:00-11:50 a.m., Bio Sci III Lecture Hall

LN Wk 1-2 Plato Lec 2

Coursecast of Plato Lecture 2

 

EAP Forum

UCI Center for International Education

Week 2
Oct 6-7 Prof. Martin Schwab - Plato completed


LN Wk 2-1 Plato Lec 3

Coursecast of Plato Lecture 3

Oct 8-9

Prof. Martin Schwab - Aristotle on the Soul

Aristotle, A New Aristotle Reader: On the Soul:
Book I, Chapters 1 & 4; Book II, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4; Book III, Chapters 4 and 7.

Sappho, Poems (p. in HCC Reader)

 

Forum with Prof. Schwab, Friday, Oct 10, 11:00-11:50, BS3 Lecture Hall

LN Wk 2-2 Aristotle: The Faculties of the Soul

Study Questions for Aristotle on the Soul Lecture 1

Coursecast of Aristotle Lecture 1

Q&A Forum with Prof. Scwab (video)

 

Week 3
Oct 13-14 Prof. Martin Schwab - Aristotle on the Soul

 

 

LN Wk 3-1 Aristotle on the Soul Lec 2

Study Questions for Aristotle on the Soul Lecture 2

Oct 15-16

Prof. Martin Schwab - Aristotle's Ethics

Aristotle, A New Aristotle Reader: Nicomachean Ethics:
Book I, Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, and 13; Book II, Chapters 1, 5, 6, and 7; Book III, Chapters 6, 7, 8

 

LN Wk 3-2 Aristotle's Ethics Lec 1


Study Questions for Aristotle's Ethics

Week 4

Oct 20-21

Prof. Martin Schwab - Aristotle on Ethics

 

Theophrastus, "The Insincere Man" and "The Show Off" in The Character Sketches (in HCC Reader, pp 4-5.)

First Paper due: Analyzing a Thesis about Love

LN Wk 4-1 Aristotle's Ethics Lec 2

 

Oct 22-23

Prof. Martin Schwab - Nature and Explanation

 

 

Aristotle, A New Aristotle Reader: Physics:
Book I, Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8; Book II, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8;

LN Wk 4-2 Aristotle's Nature

Week 5

Oct 27-28

Prof. Martin Schwab - Aristotle Summary


LN Wk 5-1 Aristotle Summary

Oct 29-30 Prof. Ann Van Sant - René Descartes

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations 1 and 2, pp. 47-69


MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5

LN Wk 5-2 René Descartes Lecture 1: (outline format , note-taking format)

Study Questions on Descartes' Meditations

Week 6

Nov 3-4

Prof. Ann Van Sant - Descartes Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations 2 and 3, pp. 63--81

LN Wk 6-1 Descartes Lecture 2 (outline format, note-taking format)

 

Nov 5-6 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Descartes

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Meditation 6 , pp. 92-103

 

LN Wk 6-2 Descartes Lecture 3 (outline format, note-taking format)

Week 7
Nov 10-11

NO LECTURE Nov 10-11

VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY TUESDAY, NOV 11- CAMPUS CLOSED:
Tu Th Discussion sections will not meet Tuesday, Nov. 11

Nov 12-13 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Jane Austen, Persuasion

Jane Austen, Persuasion, pp. 45-144

 

Second Paper due: Defining a Normative Concept

 

Friday, Nov 14: Special Forum with EasyWriter handbook author Andrea Lunsford, 11:00-11:50 a.m., BS3 Lecture Hall

LN Wk 7 Jane Austen, Lecture 1 (outline format, note-taking format)

Study Questions for Persuasion

Picture Gallery - Bath


Andrea Lunsford forum (video)

 

Week 8
Nov 17-18 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Austen, Persuasion

Austen, Persuasion, pp. 145-269


LN Wk 8-1 Austen Lecture 2 (outline format, note-taking format, additional note-taking slide)

Nov 19-20 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Austen, Persuasion Austen, Persuasion (continued)

LN Wk 8-2 Austen Lecture 3 (outline format, note-taking format)

Supporting quotations for Lecture 3 on Austen

Week 9
Nov 24-25 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (entire book)


LN Wk 9 Morrison Lecture 1 (presentation, printer friendly version )

Study Questions for The Bluest Eye

Nov 26-27

NO LECTURE Nov 26-27

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, THURSDAY-FRIDAY, NOV 27-28, CAMPUS CLOSED:
Tu Th Discussion sections will not meet Thursday, Nov. 27
MWF Discussion sections will not meet Friday, Nov. 28

 
Week 10
Dec 1-2 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Morrison, The Bluest Eye (continued)

Third Paper due: Narrative Analysis

LN Wk 10-1 Morrison Lecture 2 (presentation, printer friendly version)

Study Questions for The Bluest Eye, Part 2

Dec 3-4 Prof. Ann Van Sant - Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Morrison, The Bluest Eye (continued)

 

 

 

LN Wk 10-2 Morrison Lecture 3 (presentation, printer friendly version)

FINALS WEEK, DEC 8-12 IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS
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