REQUIRED READINGS
Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science. Harper Collins, 2007. ISBN: 9780061209192
Galilei, Galileo. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Drake Stillman, Translator. (Modern Library, 2001), ISBN 978-0375757662. Days One and Two.
Euripides, Bacchae. In Greek Tragedies, vol. 3, 2nd Edition. Greene and Lattimore (eds.). U of Chicago Press, 1959. (ISBN: 0-226-30791-3).
Humanities Core Course Reader:
Mitchell, Laura. Selected Chronology of Southern Africa.
Berger, Iris. South Africa in World History. Oxford University Press, 2009.
“The Great Thirst.” Mandela, Nelson, ed. Madiba Magic: Nelson Mandela's Favorite African folktales. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2002.
“The Lion and the Jackals.” Lewis-Williams, J. D., ed. Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of South Africa. David Phillip, 2000.
Psalm 8, The Bible, New International Version. Available at http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=NIV
Accessed 4/24/10.
Kolb, Peter. The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp, 1968. [reprint, orig. in English1731; German 1719].
South African National Archives, Western Cape Depot. Loan farm permit for Jan Georg Lochner on Brakfontein. Receiver of Land Revenue 37/2:157, 11 October 1792.
Sparrman, Anders. A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, Round the World and to the Country of the Hottentots and the Caffres, From the Year 1772-1776, ed. V.S. Forbes. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1975. [reprint. Orig. 1785-86], Vol. 2, pp 39-62.
Bleek, W.H.I. “Scientific Reasons for the Study of the Bushman Language.” In Voices From the Past: /Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection, edited by Janette Deacon and Thomas A. Dowson, 44-48. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1996. [reprint from Cape Monthly Magazine VII (September 1873), pp 149-53.]
Parkington, John, Tony Manhire, and Yates. “Reading San Images.” In Voices From the Past: /Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection, edited by Janette Deacon and Thomas A. Dowson, 212-233. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1996.
“The Broken String” in Bleek, W.H.I and Lucy Lloyd. Specimens of Bushman Folklore. Einsiedeln [Switzerland]: Daimon, 2001 [reprint, orig 1911].
Homer, Iliad 19.462-503. Trans. Robert Fagles, pages 501-2. Penguin, 1990. (ISBN: 0-14-044592-7).
Homer, Odyssey 12. 218-280. Trans. Robert Fagles, pages 277-9. Penguin, 1996. (ISBN: 0-14-026886-3).
Sophocles, Antigone 368-411. In Greek Tragedies, vol. 1, Greene and Lattimore (eds.), pages 194-5. U of Chicago Press, 1991. (ISBN: 0-226-30790-5).
Plato, "Protagoras 320c-322d." In Plato: Complete Works, ed. J.M. Cooper, pages 756-8. Hackett, 1997. (ISBN: 0-87220-349-2).
Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer. Third Edition. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. ISBN 978-0-312-43309-3
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research, Third Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing. (Paperback) ISBN-13: 978-0226065663
GENERAL INFORMATION
Lecture Times
All lectures are in Humanities Instructional Building (HIB) 100:
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. All exams are administered in discussion sections in Humanities Core; therefore, students should specify their discussion section instructors when requesting exam accommodations.
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.
LECTURING FACULTY OFFICE HOURS
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga:
Tu Th 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, 209 HOB2, ebencive@uci.edu
Prof. Laura Mitchell:
M 1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m., Tu 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., and by appointment, 243 MKH, mitchell@uci.edu
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou: F 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., 104 HOB2, zgiannop@uci.edu
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, April 1, 2013. 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.
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LECTURE |
READING ASSIGNMENT |
LINKS |
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Apr 1-2 |
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga |
Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, pp. 1-24 (up to and including “as short as you please”), pp. 35 (beginning with “Let us return then”)-42 (up to and including “assigned to celestial bodies”). |
SQ WKs 1-2 Galileo
LN Wk 1-1 Lec 1: Galileo
Coursecasts
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Apr 3-4 |
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga
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Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, pp. 57-91 (up to and including “the light falls equally”), pp. 114 (beginning with “Quite apart from this”)-121.
Thur, Apr 4, 10:20-10:50 a.m., HIB 100 Lecture Hall: Mini Q&A forum with Prof. Bencivenga on lecture materials. All students welcome to attend. |
LN Wk 1-2 Lec 2: Galileo
Coursecasts |
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| Apr 8-9 |
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga
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Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, pp. 123-140 (up to and including “unable to do it any violence”), pp. 146 (beginning with “As the strongest reason”)-154 (up to and including “those already propounded”), pp. 194 (beginning with “Up to this point”)-218 (up to and including “the rotation of the earth”).
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LN Wk 2-1 Lec 3: Galileo
Coursecasts
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Apr 10-11 |
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga |
Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy, pp. 1-17.
Thur, Apr 11, 10:20-10:50 a.m., HIB 100 Lecture Hall: Mini Q&A forum with Prof. Bencivenga on lecture materials. All students welcome to attend. |
SQ Wks 2-3 Heisenberg
LN Wk 2-2 Lec 4: Heisenberg
Coursecasts
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| Apr 15-16 |
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga |
Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy, pp. 18-49.
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LN Wk 3-1 Lec 5: Heisenberg
Coursecasts
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Apr 17-18 |
Prof. Ermanno Bencivenga
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Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy, pp. 141-155 (up to and including “a tendency toward reality”), pp. 161-180.
Essay 7 due
Thur, Apr 18, 10:20-10:50 a.m., HIB 100 Lecture Hall: Mini Q&A forum with Prof. Bencivenga on lecture materials. All students welcome to attend.
Fri, Apr 19, 11:00-11:50am, HIB 100 Lecture Hall: Forum with Prof. Pan: "Developing a Topic for the Research Paper"
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LN Wk 3-2 Lec 6: Heisenberg
Coursecasts
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Apr 22-23 |
Prof. Laura Mitchell: Traces in the Landscape |
Selected Chronology of Southern Africa; Iris Berger's South Africa in World History (both in HCC Reader)
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SQ Wk 4: South Africa Chronology and History
LN Wk 4-1: Traces in the Landscape (outline, Presentation)
Coursecasts |
| Apr 24-25 |
Prof. Laura Mitchell: Hunters, Herders, Farmers, and Nature |
"The Great Thirst"; "The Lion and the Jackals"; "Psalm 8" (all in HCC Reader)
Fri, Apr 26, 11:10-11:50 a.m., HIB 100 Lecture Hall: Special Forum with Francisco Ayala, UCI Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences: "Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert"
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LN Wk 4-2: Hunters, Herders, Farmers, and Nature (outline, Presentation)
Coursecasts
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Apr 29-30 |
Prof. Laura Mitchell: One Biome, Two Moral Economies
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Selections from Peter Kolb's The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope; VOC Loan Farm Permit (both in HCC Reader)
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SQ Wk 5: Colonial Visions of Nature
LNWk 5-1: One Biome, Two Moral Economies (outline, Presentation)
Coursecasts
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May 1-2 |
Prof. Laura Mitchell: Colonial Contexts of Knowledge Acquisition |
Anders Sparrman's "Journey from Little Sundays River to Boshies-mans River"; W.H.I. Bleek's "Scientific Reasons for the Study of the Bushman Language" (both in HCC Reader)
MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS
LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5
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LN Wk 5-2: Colonial Contexts of Knowledge Acquisition (outline, Presentation)
Coursecasts
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May 6-7 |
Prof. Laura Mitchell: Reading Colonial Landscapes
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John Parkington, et al. "Reading San Images" (in HCC Reader)
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SQ Wk 6: Khoisan Legacies and Colonial Appropriations of Nature
LN Wk 6-1: Reading Colonial Landscapes (outline, Presentation)
Coursecasts |
May 8-9 |
Prof. Laura Mitchell: "Primitives," Progress, and the Conquest of Nature |
"Song of the Broken String" (in HCC Reader)
Annotated Bibliography Due
Fri, May 10, 11:00-11:50am, HIB 100 Lecture Hall: Forum with Prof. Mitchell: "The Revision Process" |
LN Wk 6-2: "Primitives," Progress, and the Conquest of Nature (outline, Presentation)
Coursecasts
The Revision Process PowerPoint
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May 13-14 |
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou |
Excerpts from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (in HCC Reader). |
SQ Wk 7: Homer and Nature and Euripides' Bacchae
LN Wk 7-1 Homer and Nature (Presentation)
Coursecasts
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May 15-16 |
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou |
Euripides' Bacchae
Prospectus Due
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LN Wk 7-2 Lec 2: Dionysus and the Bacchae (Presentation)
Coursecasts
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| May 20-21 |
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou |
Euripides' Bacchae and excerpt from Sophocles' Antigone (in HCC Reader) |
SQ Wk 8: Bacchae and Antigone
LN Wk 8-1: Lec 3: Bacchae and Antigone (Presentation)
Coursecasts |
| May 22-23 |
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou
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Euripides' Bacchae and excerpt from Plato's Protagoras (in HCC Reader)
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LN Wk 8-2: Lec 4: Bacchae and Protagoras (Presentation)
Coursecasts
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| May 27-28 |
MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY, MAY 27 - CAMPUS CLOSED
NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday;
Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, May 28.
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| May 29-30 |
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou |
Euripides' Bacchae |
SQ Wk 9-10: Bacchae
LN Wk 9: Bacchae (Presentation)
Coursecasts |
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| Jun 3-4 |
Prof. Zina Giannopoulou |
Euripides' Bacchae
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LN Wk 10-1: Bacchae (Presentation)
Coursecasts |
| Jun 5-6 |
Profs. Ermanno Bencivenga, Laura Mitchell, and Zina Giannopoulou
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to be determined
Essay 8 - Research Paper- Due |
LN Wk 10-2: Mitchell: Some Reflections
Coursecasts |
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