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)

Aristotle. Book Θ in The Nicomachean Ethics. Hippocrates G. Apostle, Translator. Dordrecht-Holland/Boston-U.S.A.: D. Reidel Publishing Company. Pp. 140-152. (PDF)

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.

Humanities Core Course Guide and Writer's Handbook. (Pearson Custom Publishing) ISBN 978-0-555-03661-7 (available in hardcopy at the UCI Bookstore or for purchase electronically through the Pearson website at: http://www.pearsoncustom.com/ca/uci_courseguide/

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:

M W 9:00-9:50am

M W 11:00-11:50am

Tu Th 9:30-10:20am

DISABILITY

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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 Version)

ADD/DROP AND GRADE OPTION POLICY

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TURN-IT-IN.COM AGREEMENT

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