REQUIRED READINGS AND FILMS

Sophocles' Antigone in The Three Theban Plays. (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0-14-044425-4

Gandhi, Mahatma. Hind Swaraj and other writings. Ed. Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN  0-521-57431-5

Kluger, Ruth. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. New York: Feminist Press, 2001. ISBN: 1-55861-436-2 (paperback)

von Kleist, Heinrich. Michael Kohlaas in The Marquise of 0-- and Other Stories. (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0-14-044359-2

Antigone, in a version by Bertolt Brecht.  Judith Malina, Translator.  New York:  Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ISBN: 0-936839-25-2

Humanities Core Course Reader (Pearson Custom Publishing) ISBN: 978-0-555-03662-4

Fleishman, Jeffrey.  “Search for the fallen in a now-quiet forest” in The Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2007.  World News.

Kafka, Franz. “Before the Law” in The Metamorphosis and Other Stories.  Malcom Pasley, translator.  Penguin Books.

Savarkar, Vinayak D. Indian War of Independence 1857 (selections) (Rajdhani Granthagar, New Delhi-110024, 1908, 1947).

Vira, Ranchod.  Letter.  Maharashtra State Archives (Mumbai), Judicial Department, 1899, volume 78, composition 457.

Chaturveydi, Vinayak.  “Vinayak & me:  Hindutva and the politics of naming.”  Social History Vo. 28 No 2, May 2003 (Taylor and Francis Ltd.).

Simpson, Patricia, “Retro-Nationalism?  Rock Music in the Former German Democratic Republic (GDR),” including footnotes.  Rock ‘N’ Roll and Nationalism:  A Multinational Perspective.  Ed. Mark Yoffe and Andrea Collins.  Newcastle, UK:  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005. (Excerpts)

Interview by Shirin Housee and Mukhtar Dar with Bally Sagoo and Radical Sista, “Remixing Identities:  ‘Off’ the Turn-Table.” In Dis-Orienting Rhythms:  The Politics of the New Asia Dance Music.  Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk and Ashwani Sharma, Eds.   New Jersey:  Zed Books.

Rockwell, Teed.  “The Asian Roots of Asian Massive.” India Currents, April 2007, vol. 21, no. 1.

Brady, Darragh, “A Quick Guide to Asian Fusion, Part 1.”  Indian Electronica.

Das, Pandit, Savale, Tailor, Zaman, “Black and White” (lyrics) in Asian Dub Foundation Rafi’s Revenge. (London: MCA Music Ltd:  1998).

Das, Pandit, Savale, Tailor, Zaman, “Hypocrit” (lyrics) in Asian Dub Foundation Rafi’s Revenge. (London: MCA Music Ltd:  1998).

Das, Pandit, Savale, Tailor, Zaman, “Free Satpal Ram” (lyrics) in Asian Dub Foundation Rafi’s Revenge. (London: MCA Music Ltd:  1998).

Das, Pandit, Savale, Tailor, Zaman, “Operation Eagle Lie” (lyrics) in Asian Dub Foundation Rafi’s Revenge. (London: MCA Music Ltd:  1998).

Das, Pandit, Savale, Tailor, Zaman, “Change” (lyrics) in Asian Dub Foundation Rafi’s Revenge. (London: MCA Music Ltd:  1998).

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writers 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:

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

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, March 30, 2009. 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
Mar 30-Mar 31 Prof. Lupton: Introductory Remarks

Prof. Hart: Antigone: What's she doing?

Sophocles' Antigone ( pp. 57-128 in The Three Theban Plays)


Intro Remarks - Lupton

LN Wk1-1: Antigone Lecture 1

LN Wk1-1: Antigone Lecture 1 (printer friendly version)

Study Questions for Sophocle's Antigone, Brecht's Adaptation, and Erwin Kowalke

Apr 1-2

Prof. Hart: Antigone (continued)

Sophocles' Antigone (continued)


LN Wk 1-2 Antigone Lecture 2

LN Wk 1-2 Antigone Lecture 2 (printer friendly version)

Week 2
Apr 6-7

Prof. Hart: Antigone (continued)

Antigone, in a verison by Bertolt Brecht, including the Antigone Legend and Prologue (Malina, pp.1-64) ; Kowalke, "Search for the Fallen in a Now-Quiet Forest" (pp. 144-148 in HCC Reader)


Ruth Kluger's book signing: Tuesday, April 7th, 3-4:30, German Department Suite MKH 400. Ruth Kluger will be on hand to sign students' copies of Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered.


LN Wk 2-1 Antigone Lecture 3



Apr 8-9

Prof. Hart: Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas, Incendiary Rhetoric

pp. 114-138 of Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas in The Marquise of O-- and other stories)

Discovery Task #5 due end of Week 2

LN Wk 2-2 Kleist Lecture 1

LN Wk 2-2 Kleist Lecture 1 (printer friendly version)

Reading and Discussion Questions for Kohlhaas

Maps of the Territories in Michael Kohlhaas and of 16th Century Europe

Week 3
Apr 13-14 Prof. Hart: Michael Kohlhaas, The horse dealer strikes back

pp. 138-213 of Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas in The Marquise of O-- and other stories

 

LN Wk 3-1 Kleist Lecture 2

Apr 15-16

 

Prof. Hart: Michael Kohlhaas, More violence

Franz Kafka's "Before the Law" (in HCC Reader, pp. 149-150)

 

 

Special Research Forum: Friday, April 17, 11-11:50 am, Bio Sci Lecture Hall III

LN Wk 3-2 Kleist Lecture 3

LN Wk 3-2 Kleist Lecture 3 (printer friendly version)

Video clip of "Before the Law" in The Trial (Welles)

Video clip of "Before the Law" in The Trial (Jones)

Outline for Research Forum

Video of Research Forum (.mov file best opened in Mozilla Firefox)

Week 4

Apr 20-21

Prof. Chaturvedi: Imagining India in Africa: Gandhi writes back

M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, pp. xiii-lxxvii, 1-38


LN Wk 4-1 Gandhi and Hind Swaraj Lecture 1 PowerPoint

LN Wk 4-1 Gandhi and Hind Swaraj Lecture 1 (printer friendly version)

Study Questions for Hind Swaraj

 

Apr 22-23 Prof. Chaturvedi: Gandhi continued

M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, pp. 39-78

Essay #7 (Analyzing an Argument) due end of Week 4

LN Wk 4-2 Gandhi and Hind Swaraj Lecture 2 PowerPoint

LN Wk 4-2 Gandhi and Hind Swaraj Lecture 2 (printer friendly version)

Week 5

Apr 27-28

Prof. Chaturvedi: Gandhi continued

M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, pp. 79-120

 

LN Wk 5-1 Gandhi and Hind Swaraj Lecture 3 PowerPoint

LN Wk 5-1 Gandhi and Hind Swaraj Lecture 3 (printer friendly version)

 

Apr 29-30 Prof. Chaturvedi: Savarkar: Writing a History of Revolution

Selections from The Indian War of Independence (in HCC Reader, pp. 151-159)

 

MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS AT THE END OF WEEK 5

Study Questions on Savarkar

A Note on Music

LN Wk 5-2 Savarkar Lecture 1 (PowerPoint)

LN Wk 5-2 Savarkar Lecture 1 (printer friendly version)

Week 6

May 4-5

Prof. Chaturvedi: Savarkar: Writing a History of Revolution

"Swadharma and Swaraj" (in HCC Reader, pp. 160-166)

LN Wk 6-1 Savarkar Lecture 2 (PowerPoint)

LN Wk 6-1 Savarkar Lecture 2 (printer friendly version)

EAP Announcement

May 6-7 Prof. Chaturvedi: The Making of a Counter-public in India: Peasant Intellectuals Readings

Ranchod Vira Letter (in HCC Reader, pp. 167-169)

Study Questions for Ranchod Vira letter

LN Wk 6-2 Ranchod Vira letter (PowerPoint)

LN Wk 6-2 Ranchod Vira letter (.mht web archived file of PowerPoint --can be viewed with Internet Explorer)

LN Wk 6-2 Ranchod Vira letter (printer friendly version)

Week 7
May 11-12 Prof. Chaturvedi: The Political and Personal in History Writing Vinayak and Me: Hindutva and the Politics of Naming (in HCC Reader, pp. 170-191)

Study Questions on Vinayak and Me

LN Wk 7-1 Vinayak and Me

LN Wk 7-1 Vinayak and Me (printer friendly version)

May 13-14

Prof. Hart: Autobiographical Interventions

Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, pp. 15-69.



Discovery Task #6 due end of Week 7

Study Questions on Kluger

LN Wk 7-2 Kluger, Still Alive

LN Wk 7-2 Kluger, Still Alive (printer friendly version)

Reading by Ruth Kluger for HCC, Jan. 30, 2009: intro only, reading, Q&A

Week 8
May 18-19 Prof. Hart: Autobiographical Interventions continued

Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, pp. 70-170.

LN Wk 8-1 Kluger, Still Alive Lec 2

LN Wk 8-1 Kluger, Still Alive Lec 2 (printer friendly version)

May 20-21 Prof. Hart: Autobiographical Interventions continued Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, pp. 171-214.

LN Wk 8-2 Kluger, Still Alive Lec 3

LN Wk 8-2 Kluger, Still Alive Lec 3 (printer friendly version)

Week 9
May 25-26 MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY, MAY 25 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday;
Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, May 26.
May 27-28

Prof. Hart: German Punk: Music of the East

Patricia Simpson, " Retro-Nationalism?  Rock Music in the Former German Democratic Republic (GDR)" (Excerpts in HCC Reader, pp. 192-208).

Study Questions for Simpson article

LN WK 9 Born in the GDR

LN WK 9 Born in the GDR (printer friendly version)

 

Week 10
Jun 1-2 Prof. Chaturvedi: Postcolonial Music: From Asian Underground to Massive "Re-Mixing Identities: 'Off' the Turntable" (in HCC Reader, pp. 209-227)

Study Questions for Asian Massive and Asian Underground Music

LN Wk 10-1 Asian Music Lec 1 PowerPoint

LN Wk 10-1 Asian Music Lec 1 (printer friendly version)

Jun 3-4 Prof. Chaturvedi: Postcolonial Music: From Asian Underground to Massive continued

"The Asian Roots of Asian Massive," "A Quick Guide to Asian Fusion, Part I, and lyrics to "Black and White," Free Satpal Ram," and "Operation Eagle Lie" and "Change" (in HCC Reader, pp. 228- 239).


Essay #8 (Research Paper) due the end of Week 10.

LN Wk 10-2 Asian Music Lec 2 PowerPoint

LN Wk 10-2 Asian Music Lec 2 (printer friendly version)

FINALS WEEK, JUN 8-12 IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS

 

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