WINTER 2013
SYLLABUS

Society
Understood through Literature and Rhetoric, History and Law

REQUIRED READINGS

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust I. New York: Bantam Books-Random House, 1985. ISBN: 978-0553213485.

The Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804:

http://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html

translated by Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus as published in "Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789 - 1804: A Brief History with Documents."  Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006. (Notatable PDF)

Liberté ou la mort (original text in French of The Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804 from the British Archives. PDF)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself. 2nd ed. Ed. David W. Blight. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. Paper Text, 188pgs. ISBN-13: 978-0-312-25737-8

Thomas, Brook, ed. "Plessy v. Ferguson" : A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1997. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. ISBN: 0-312-13743-5

Kingston, Maxine Hong. China Men. New York: Vintage-Random House, 1989. ISBN: 0-679-72328-5

Humanities Core Course Reader:

von Kleist, Heinrich, "The Betrothal in Santo Domingo."

Declaration of Independence (1776)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsdcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(bdsdcc02101))

"Remember the Ladies" (letters from Abigail Adams to John Adams concerning the consideration of women in the formation of the new republic, 1771-76) from The Feminist Papers. From Adams to de Beauvoir, ed. Alice S. Rossi, New York:  Columbia UP, 1973:  7-15.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al. The History of Woman Suffrage, selections with emphasis on the “Declaration of Sentiments” (July 19-20, 1848) from the Seneca Falls Convention on the rights of women, from The Feminist Papers. From Adams to de Beauvoir, ed. Alice S. Rossi, New York:  Columbia UP, 1973:  413-421.

Thomas, Brook. Introduction to "The Freedman's Case in Equity" and "In Plain Black and White."

Cable, George Washington. "The Freedman's Case in Equity." Century Illustrated Magazine. 29 (1885): 409-417. (See PDF)

Grady, Henry. "In Plain Black and White." Century Illustrated Magazine. 29 (1885): 909-917.

Thomas, Brook. "Mendez v. Westminster (1947)."

Brown v. Board of Education (1954). 347 U.S. 483.

Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer. Fourth Edition.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010.  ISBN 978-0-312-65031-5

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:

M W 9:00-9:50am

M W 11:00-11:50am

Tu 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 Guide, pp. 1-20, 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 the general campus deadlines for add/drops and grade option changes are. Requests to add or drop or grade option changes after the second week will be granted only for exceptional circumstances. All add/drops beginning the first day of instruction are processed, 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 for enrollment authorization codes. 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. David Pan: Mon 10-10:50, Wed 12-12:50 in 185 HIB

Prof. Susan Jarratt: Tues 11-12 noon (and by appointment) in HIB 268

Prof. Brook Thomas:

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 7, 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.
DATES	LECTURE	READING ASSIGNMENT	LINKS
Week 1
Jan 7-8	Prof. David Pan: The Spiritual and the Worldly in the Faust Legend	Johann von Goethe's Faust I, lines 1-2336	LN Wk 1-1: Faust Lec 1 SQ Wk 1-1 Faust, lines 1-2336 Coursecast of Faust Lec 1 WH Ch 17
Jan 9-10	Prof. David Pan: The Inner-worldly Spirituality of Goethe's Faust	Johann von Goethe's Faust I, 2337-4614       Friday, Jan 11, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Q&A Forum with Prof. David Pan	LN Wk 1-2: Faust Lec 2 SQ Wk 1-2 Faust, lines 2337-4614 Coursecast of Faust Lec 2 WH Ch 10 Courescast of Q&A forum with Prof. Pan: Part 1 and Part 2
Week 2
Jan 14-15	Prof. David Pan	Johann von Goethe's Faust I (re-read)	LN Wk 2: Faust Lec 3 Coursecast of Faust Lec 3 WH Ch 20
Jan 16-17	Prof. David Pan	Johann von Goethe's Faust I (re-read)       Friday, Jan 17, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Special Forum on Secondary Sources/Databases with UCI Libraries' Cathy Palmer	LN Wk 2-2: Faust Lec 4 Coursecast of Faust Lec 4   Coursecast of Special Forum with UCI Librairies: UCI Replay (full) Part I (.mp4) Part II (.mp4)
Week 3
Jan 21-22	MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., HOLIDAY, JAN. 21 - CAMPUS CLOSED NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday; Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Jan 22		WH Ch 13
Jan 23-24	Prof. David Pan	Heinrich von Kleist's "The Betrothal in Santo Domingo"     Friday, Jan 25, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Q&A Forum with Prof. David Pan	LN Wk 3-2: Faust I Lec 5 and The Betrothal in Santo Domingo Lec 1 SQ Wks 3 and 4: The Betrothal in Santo Domingo Coursecast of Faust I Lec 5 and The Betrothal in Santo Domingo Lec 1
Week 4
Jan 28-29	Prof. David Pan	Heinrich von Kleist's "The Betrothal in Santo Domingo"	LN Wk 4-1: The Betrothal in Santo Domingo Lec 2 Coursecast of Kleist Lec 2: Part 1 .mp4 Part 2 .mp4 UCI Replay (full)   WH Ch 12
Jan 30-31	Prof. Susan Jarratt: Declarations in Dialogue	Declaration of Independence (1776) (in HCC Reader)       Friday, Feb 1, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Q&A Forum with Profs. David Pan and Susan Jarratt	LN Wk 4-2: Lec 1: Declaration of Independence SQ Wk 4-2: Declaration of Independence Resources for Declarations in Dialogue Coursecast of Declararations Lec 1: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4) Coursecase of Q&A Forum with Profs. Pan and Jarratt: Part 1 .mp4 Part 2 .mp4
Week 5
Feb 4-5	Prof. Susan Jarratt: Declarations in Dialogue: Voices from Outside	"Remember the Ladies" (letters from Abigail Adams to John Adams concerning the consideration of women in the formation of the new republic, 1771-76) (in HCC Reader); Haitian Declaration of 1804 (Dessalines): Printer friendly PDF or http://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html   Essay 4 due	SQ Wk 5-1 Adams and Dessalines LN Wk 5-1: Lec 2: Declarations: Adams and Dessalines Supplementary Material for Lecture Wk 5-1 Coursecast of Declarations Lec 2: Adams and L'Ouverture Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
Feb 6-7	Prof. Susan Jarratt	Selections from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al, The History of Woman Suffrage with emphasis on the "Declaration of Sentiments" (July 19-20, 1948) from the Seneca Fall Convention on the rights of women (in HCC Reader) MIDTERM IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS LAST CLASS OF WEEK 5   Friday, Feb 8, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Special Forum on Civil Rights with Chancellor Michael Drake and Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky	LN Wk 5-2 Lec 3: Declaration of Sentiments SQ Wk 5-2 Declaration of Sentiments Coursecast of Declarations Lec 3: Declaration of Sentiments: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4) Coursecast of forum with Chancellor Drake and Dean Chemerinsky: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
Week 6
Feb 11-12	Prof. Susan Jarratt	Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (speech delivered in Rochester, NY, 1852) in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave with Related Documents, pp. 146-171.	SQ Wk 6-1 Douglass Speech LN Wk 6-1 Lec 4: Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Douglass's Speech Annotated (pdf) Coursecast of Douglass's Speech Lec 4: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
Feb 13-14	Prof. Susan Jarratt	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by himself, pp. 29-125.   Friday, Feb 15, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Forum on Oral Speaking Styles with Prof. Susan Jarratt	SQ Wk 6-2 Douglass Narrative LN Wk 6-2 Lec 5: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Coursecast of Douglass Narrative Lec 5 Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4) Coursecast of Forum with Prof. Jarratt : Part 1 .mp4 Part 2 .mp4
Week 7
Feb 18-19	PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY, FEB. 18 - CAMPUS CLOSED NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday; Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Feb 19.
Feb 20-21	Prof. Susan Jarratt	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by himself, pp. 29-125. Oral Debate due in Discussion Section Friday, Feb 22, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Q&A Forum with Prof. Susan Jarratt	LN Wk 7 Lec 6: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Coursecast of Douglass's Narrative Lec 6: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)   Coursecase of Q&A Forum with Prof. Jarratt: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
Week 8
Feb 25-26	Prof. Brook Thomas	Brook Thomas, ed., Plessy v. Ferguson: a Brief History of Documents, pp. vii-viii and 1-29; George Washington Cable's "The Freedman's Case in Equity" (See PDF.); and Henry Grady's "In Plain Black and White" (in HCC Reader).	WH Ch 18 Cable's "The Freedman's Case in Equity" (in its entirety) SQ Wk 8-1 Legal Cases I LN Wk 8-1 Legal Cases I Outline Coursecast of Legal Cases I: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
Feb 27-28	Prof. Brook Thomas	Brook Thomas, ed., Plessy v. Ferguson: a Brief History with Documents, pp. 30-60, 119-124 (Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington), 140-149 (Strivings of the Negro People, 1897, by W.E.B. DuBois) Friday, Mar 1, 11:00-11:50 a.m., HIB 100: Q&A Forum with Prof. Brook Thomas	SQ Wk 8-2 Legal Cases II LN Wk 8-2 Legal Cases II Outline Coursecast of Legal Cases II: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4) Coursecast of Q&A Forum with Prof. Thomas: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
Week 9
Mar 4-5	Prof. Brook Thomas	Brook Thomas, ed., Plessy v. Ferguson: a Brief History with Documents, pp. 169-176; Brown v. Board of Education (in HCC Reader); Brook Thomas' "Mendez v. Westminster" (in HCC Reader).	WH Ch 15 SQ Wk 9-1 Legal Cases III LN Wk 9-1 Legal Cases III Outline LN WK 9-1 Legal Cases III PowerPoint Presentation 1954 Brown Response (PDF) Coursecast of Legal Cases III
Mar 6-7	Prof. Brook Thomas	Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, Title page-81; 152-59.	SQ Wk 9-2 China Men I LN Wks 9-10 China Men I, II, III Outline LN Wk 9-2 China Men 1 PowerPoint Presentation "A Statue for Our Harbor" (image) "The Yellow Peril" (image) Glossary for Chinamen Chinese Characters Translated "Paper Son" article Coursecast of China Men I
Week 10
Mar 11-12	Prof. Brook Thomas	Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, pp. 82-151; 160-220	WH Ch 16 SQ Wk 10-1 China Men II LN Wk 10 China Men II Outline Thomas, "China Men: The Immigrant Citizen, Wong Kim Ark, and Civil Talk" Coursecast of China Men II
Mar 13-14	Prof. Brook Thomas	Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, pp. 221-308 Essay 5 due Friday, Mar 15, 11:00-11:50am, HIB 100: Final Forum with Profs. David Pan, Susan Jarratt, and Brook Thomas	SQ Wk 10-2 China Men III LN Wks 9-10 China Men I, II, III Outline Coursecast of China Men III: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4) Coursecast of Forum with Profs. Pan, Jarratt, and Thomas: Part 1 (.mp4) Part 2 (.mp4)
FINALS WEEK, MARCH 16-22 BY DISCUSSION SECTION TIME IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS