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.

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

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

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

[Spartacus Manifesto].   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 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.

“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.

Gorky, Maxim.  Speech delivered August 1934.  Soviet Literature.  Transcribed by Jose Braz for the Marxists Internet Archive (Marxists.org) 2004.

Program Notes:  Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, summary reposted from the website of the LA Opera

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

Davis, Mike. Excerpt from City of Quartz:  Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso.

De Botton, Alain.  Excerpt from The Architecture of Happiness.  Penguin.

Mitchell, William J.  Excerpt from Placing Words:  Symbols Space, and the City.  The MIT Press.

Malcom Gladwell on Office Design (in Jane Jacobs’ Block by Block).  Princeton Architectural Press.

Gladwell, Malcom.  “The Cool Hunt” from The New Yorker, March 17, 1997.

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook, Third Edition (Pearson) ISBN: 978-0-555-03661-7

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

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 (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.