WINTER 2014 SYLLABUS

REQUIRED READINGS AND VIEWINGS

Douglass, Frederick. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Penguin Classics, 1982. ISBN 978-0140390124

Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. New York: Penguin, 2010. ISBN 978-0143116929 (Included in the Iliad bundle that the UCI bookstore sold Fall quarter)

Fountain, Ben. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. New York: Ecco, 2012. ISBN 978-0060885618

United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/39/a39r046.htm

The 2013-14 Humanities Core Course Guide and Reader (ISBN 978-1269568944):

Frederick Douglass, various selections from Douglass' Monthly:

"How to End the War," May 1861

"Fighting Rebels with Only One Hand," September 1861

"What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated?", January 1862

"Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?", April 1863

Harriet Jacobs, "Life among the Contrabands" Sept. 5, 1862

Louisa May Alcott, selections from Hospital Sketches: "A Day," "A Night"

Walt Whitman, various poems:

"Beat! Beat! Drums!"

"Come Up from the Fields Father"

"A Sight in Camp"

"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"

"O Captain! My Captain!"

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

"A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown"

Emily Dickinson, various poems:

"My Triumph lasted till the Drums," #1227

"They dropped like Flakes--," #409

"Suspense is--Hostiler than Death--," #705

"Victory comes late--," #690

"My Portion is Defeat--today--," #639

"It feels a shame to be Alive," #444

"The Battle fought between the Soul," #594

Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "A Tough Tussle."

Robert Duncan, "Passage over Water."

Laurel E. Fletcher and Eric Stover, "Pushed to the Breaking Point," The Guantánamo Effect.

Mark Danner, ed., "The Depositions," Torture and Truth.

Alberto R. Gonzales, "Memorandum for the President."

Alan Dershowitz, "Tortured Reasoning."

Elaine Scarry, "Five Errors in the Reasoning of Alan Dershowitz" and "Three Simultaneous Phenomena in the Structure of Torture."

Patricia Marchak, "El Proceso," God's Assassins: State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s.

Alicia Partnoy, "A Conversation Under the Rain," The Little School.

Daya Kishan Thussu, "War as Infotainment."

Peter Custers, "The War of Aggression in Iraq and the U.S. Business Cycle."

Robert Arzón, "Exploring Iraq War News Coverage and a New Form of Censorship in Violation of the Quickly Evaporating Public Interest Requirement and Public Right to Receive Information."

Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer. Fourth Edition. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. ISBN 978-0312650315

OPTIONAL

Cognito Comics. CIA: Operation Ajax. (Interactive graphic novel app for iOS)

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 SERVICES AND ACCOMMODATIONS

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. 1-23, 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. Alice Fahs

Prof. Rodrigo Lazo

Prof. Michael Szalay: Thursdays, 10:30am-11:30am, 146 Murray Krieger Hall

WEEKLY CALENDAR

This syllabus provides links to lecture notes as well as study questions (SQ) and other resources. The reading assignments should be completed prior to attending the lectures. Discussion sections begin Monday, January 6, 2014, and failure to attend will count as an unexcused absence.

DATES	LECTURE NOTES	READING ASSIGNMENT	SQs, RESOURCES
Week 1
Jan 6-7	Prof. Alice Fahs Contingency and History: Frederick Douglass's War on Slavery (I)	Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Preface through Ch. 8 (33-94)	SQ for Douglass
Jan 8-9	Prof. Alice Fahs Contingency and History: Frederick Douglass's War on Slavery (II)	Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Ch. 9-Appendix (95-159) and other writings (Reader 53-62); Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"; Jacobs, "Life Among the Contrabands" (Reader 63-68)	Douglass Research Task
Week 2
Jan 13-14	Prof. Alice Fahs “A Harvest of Death”: the Civil War as a Crisis in Meaning	Louisa May Alcott, excerpts from Hospital Sketches (Reader 69-87)	SQ for Civil War Assignment 4: Historical Analysis
Jan 15-16	Prof. Alice Fahs The Civil War and Representation	Poems by Walt Whitman (Reader 88-97) and poems by Emily Dickinson (Reader 98-101)	Friday Forum: Libraries Forum on Secondary Sources, 11-11:50am, Jan. 17, Social Science Plaza A 1165
Week 3
Jan 20-21	MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., HOLIDAY, JAN. 20 - CAMPUS CLOSED NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday; Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Jan 21
Jan 22-23	Prof. Alice Fahs The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture	Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "A Tough Tussle" (Reader 108-112)	D. W. Griffth's Birth of a Nation on archive.org or youtube Friday Forum: Prof. Geoff Eley, "History, Memory, and the Second World War" HG 1030
Week 4
Jan 27-28	Prof. Alice Fahs Love, War, and Memory	Robert Duncan, "Passage over Water" (Reader 113); "The Homosexual in Society"; "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" (online); "A Spring Memorandum" (online); "The Structure of Rime XI"
Jan 29-30	Prof. Rodrigo Lazo Dirty Wars (I)	UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Fletcher and Stover, "Pushed to the Breaking Point" (Reader 146-167); Gonzales, "Memorandum for the President" (Reader 175-178); Dershowitz, "Tortured Reasoning" (Reader 179-195)	SQ for Dirty Wars Video clips on 24, Zero Dark Thirty, GTA5 Third Geneva Convention
Week 5
Feb 3-4	Prof. Rodrigo Lazo Constructing the Terrorist (I)	"The Depositions: Prisoners Speak. Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees" (Reader 168-174); Dershowitz, "Tortured Reasoning" (Reader 179-195); Scarry, "Five Errors" (Reader 196-202) and "Three Simultaneous Phenomena" (Reader 114-121)	Assignment 5
Feb 5-6	Prof. Rodrigo Lazo Waiting for the Barbarians (I)	Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians	Friday Forum: Prof. Smith on the legacy of Guantanamo, 11am-12pm, Newkirk Alumni Center Den Video: part 1, part 2
Week 6
Feb 10-11	Prof. Rodrigo Lazo Waiting for the Barbarians (II)	Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians	SQ for Coetzee Screenings of The Official Story Monday, Feb. 10, 5-7pm, in HG 1030 and Tuesday, Feb. 11, 5-7pm, in HG 1010 (Also available on Netflix)
Feb 12-13	Prof. Rodrigo Lazo Waiting for the Op/Ed? Argentina's Dirty War	Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians Viewing: The Official Story MIDTERM (IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS) LAST CLASS OF WEEK 6
Week 7
Feb 17-18	PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY, FEB. 17 - CAMPUS CLOSED. NO LECTURES Monday or Tuesday; Tu Th Discussion sections will meet Tuesday, Feb 18.
Feb 19-20	Prof. Rodrigo Lazo From Argentina to the War on Terror	Marchak, "El Proceso" (Reader 122-141); Partnoy, "A Conversation Under the Rain" (Reader 142-145)
Week 8
Feb 24-25	Prof. Michael Szalay Selling War (I)	Baudrillard, "The Spirit of Terrorism" Viewing: Militainment, Inc. (streaming)	Video link/password to be distributed in section
Feb 26-27	Prof. Michael Szalay Selling War (II)	Thussu, "War as Infotainment" (Reader 258-273); Stahl, "All-Consuming War," Militainment, Inc.	24 on Amazon 24 on iTunes 24 on Netflix
Week 9
Mar 3-4	Prof. Michael Szalay Selling War (III)	Kang, "How Fox News, Terrorists, and Truthiness Ruined the X-Files for Me" (Vulture.com); 24 Season 2 Ep. 1
Mar 5-6	Prof. Michael Szalay Selling War (IV)	Al-Arian, "TV's Most Islamophobic Show" (Salon.com) Viewing: Homeland S.1 Ep. 1	Homeland on Amazon Homeland on iTunes
Week 10
Mar 10-11	Prof. Michael Szalay Selling War (V)	Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (1-171)
Mar 12-13	Prof. Michael Szalay Selling War (VI)	Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (172-307)
FINALS WEEK, MARCH 15-21 BY DISCUSSION SECTION TIME IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS Video lectures for review

WINTER 2014 SYLLABUS

REQUIRED READINGS AND VIEWINGS

OPTIONAL

LECTURE TIMES

DISABILITY SERVICES AND ACCOMMODATIONS

GRADING

ADD/DROP AND GRADE OPTION POLICY

TURN-IT-IN.COM AGREEMENT

LECTURING FACULTY OFFICE HOURS

WEEKLY CALENDAR

DATES

LECTURE NOTES

READING ASSIGNMENT

SQs, RESOURCES

FINALS WEEK, MARCH 15-21 BY DISCUSSION SECTION TIME IN DISCUSSION SECTION ROOMS

Video lectures for review