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. Available online at http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Alberti/index.htm. (Used copies available in the UCI Bookstore)

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

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 (PDF version)

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 4, 2010. 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 4-5

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)

MSND Resource Page

Coursecast of Lec 1 MSND

Jan 6-7

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)

Coursecast of Lec 2 MSND

Week 2

Jan 11-12

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)

Coursecast of Lec 3 MSND

Jan 13-14

Prof. Lupton: Renaissance Rhetoric of Painting

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

Please see Reading Questions for the pages that Lupton will emphasize in lecture.

 

Wed, Jan 13, 6:00-8:20pm, PCB 1100: Screening of Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream

LN Wk 2-2: Renaissance Rhetoric of Painting

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

Study Questions for Alberti

Ellen Lupton, "Writing 101: Visual or Verbal"

Coursecast of Alberti Lec

Week 3
Jan 18-19 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., HOLIDAY, JAN. 18 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday;
Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Jan 19.
Jan 20-21 Prof. Lupton: The Botticelli Code

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

 

Friday, Jan 22, 9:00-9:50 a.m., Bio Sci III Lecture Hall: Question & Answer Forum on Shakespeare with Prof. Julia Lupton


LN Wk 3: The Botticelli Code

LN Wk3: Lecture Images (thumbnails)

LN Wk 3: The Botticelli Code (printer friendly - no images)

Coursecast of last year's (Winter 2009) Botticelli Code Lecture

Audiocast of Q&A Forum with Prof. Lupton, 1-22-109

Week 4

Jan 25-26

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

HCC Course Reader, pp. 9-28 (highlighted portions of text are optional reading)

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE


LN Wk 4-1: General introduction; background on European Socialism; World War I; Russian Revolution

Study Questions on Politics and Art in Germany 1918-1933

Jan 27-28 Prof. Moeller: Germany, 1918-1933 (cont'd)

HCC Course Reader, Review pp. 22-25, Read 29-42

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

 

ESSAY #3 DUE

 

LN Wk 4-2 :Dada, revolutionary art in the Weimar Republic, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch

Week 5

Feb 1-2

Prof. Moeller: Gemany 1918-33 (cont'd)

HCC Course Reader, Review pp. 32-35

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

LN Wk 5-1: Revising a thesis on the Bauhaus

Feb 3-4 Prof. Moeller: Germany 1918-1933 (cont'd)

HCC Course Reader, pp. 43-51 (highlighted portions of text are optional reading)

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5

 

LN Wk 5-2: The Nazis Come to Power

 

 

Coursecast of Prof. Moeller's forum, Friday, Feb 6

Week 6

Feb 8-9

Prof. Moeller: The Nazis and Degenerate Art

HCC Course Reader, pp. 52-91

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE


Study Questions on Degenerate Art

LN Wk 6-1: Degenerate Art

Coursecast of Lecture 6-1: Degenerate Art (Mon 11:00 lecture)

 

Feb 10-11 Prof. Moeller: Culture and Politics under Stalin

HCC Course Reader, pp. 92-96



Friday, Feb 12, 11:00-11:50 a.m., Bio Sci III Lecture Hall: Q&A Forum with Prof. Robert Moeller on Degenerate Art and featuring clips from Triumph of the Will

immediately followed by:

Valentine's Making Event: card crafting and sweetmeats, noon-2:00pm, Core Course Offices, HIB 185.

LN WK 6-2: Stalin and Socialist Realism

Study Questions on Gorky, Shostakovich, and Pravda

Revised HCC Handbook Chapter on Analyzing Music

Last Winter's HCC Valentine's Making Event Video

Week 7
Feb 15-16

PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY, FEB. 15 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday;
Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Feb 16.

Feb 17-18 Prof. Moeller: Culture and Politics under Stalin

HCC Course Reader, pp. 97-101

BRING COURSE READER TO LECTURE

Wed, Feb 17, 5:30-8:50 p.m., EH 1200 (max cap 332): Screening of Porgy and Bess

 

LNWk 7: Culture Stalin hated and culture Stalin liked, or why even in dark times you have to let people laugh

Week 8
Feb 22-23

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.

Screenings of Porgy and Bess:

Mon, Feb 22, 5:30-8:50 p.m., HG 1800 (max cap 131)

Tue, Feb 23, 5:30-8:50 p.m., HSLH 100A (max cap 344) (across the ring mall from Bio Sci 3 Lecture Hall)

Study Questions on Gershwin

LN Wk 8-1: Is Porgy and Bess an opera?

 

Feb 24-25 Prof. Moeller: Gershwin continued

 

Friday, Feb 26, 11:00-11:50 a.m., Bio Sci III Lecture Hall: Q&A Forum with Prof. Robert Moeller featuring clips from Porgy and Bess


LN Wk 8-2: Is Porgy and Bess racist?

 

Week 9
Mar 1-2 Prof. Lupton: Jane Jacobs: Making Places

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, pp. 3-54 and pp. 89-111.

Challenge: 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 3-4

Prof. Lupton: Jane Jacobs: Making Places (continued)

Teddy Cruz, "A City Made of Waste" and
Mike Davis, "Fortress LA" from City of Quartz (pp. 102-105 in the HCC Reader)

ESSAY #4 DUE

Special Visit by Guest Author Teddy Cruz, Friday, Mar 5:


11:00-11:50 a.m. - Forum for HCC Students,
Biological Sciences III Lecture Hall

1:00-3:00 pm - Public Lecture by Prof. Cruz, Humanities Gateway 1030

Grading Rubric for Essay #4

Study Questions on Urbanism and Place-Making

LN Wk 9-2: Place Making and Making in Places: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs

LN Wk 9-2: Place Making and Making in Places: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs (printer friendly version)

Coursecast of Place Making and Making in Places: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs, Thurs, 3-4-10, 9:30-10:50

Week 10
Mar 8-9 Prof. Lupton: Thinking with Jane Jacobs

Malcolm Gladwell, "Designs for Working,"
Julia Lupton, "Porch Envy," from Ellen and Julia Lupton, *Design Your Life"


LN Wk 10-1: Cool Hunting and "Thinking with Jane Jacobs"

LN Wk 10-1: Cool Hunting and "Thinking with Jane Jacobs" (printer friendly version)

Mar 10-11 Prof. Lupton: The Last Lecture: Students Making

 

 

LN Wk 10-2: Scenes of Contemporary Making

Coursecast of Scenes of Contemporary Making Lecture, 3-10: 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. lectures

FINALS WEEK, March 15-19 BY DISCUSSION SECTION TIME IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS

 

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