Professor
Gail Hart Department of German and Director of Humanities Core Course |
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Professor
Ann Van Sant Department of English |
Professor Michael Clark Department of English |
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DATES | LECTURE | READING ASSIGNMENT | LINKS |
Week 1 | |||
Sep 26 - 27 | Prof. Hart: Introduction to Course and Antigone | Sophocles' Antigone
(entire play) in Three Theban Plays, 55-128 Core Guide, 1-27 |
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Sep 28 - 29 |
Prof. Hart: Antigone |
Writer's Handbook: "Academic Writing," 31-32,
and "Genre," 33-40 |
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Week 2 | |||
Oct 3 - 4 | Prof. Van Sant: King Lear | Shakespeare's King Lear |
Last Four slides from Lecture, |
Oct 5 - 6 |
Prof. Van Sant: King Lear |
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Week 3 | |||
Oct 10 - 11 | Prof. Van Sant: King Lear |
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Oct 12 - 13
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Prof. Van Sant: King Lear and Introduction to Locke |
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Week 4 | |||
Oct 17 - 18 |
Prof. Van Sant: Locke's Two Treatises of Government | Locke's Two Treatises of Government - Book I: Preface & Ch. I, II ( § 6--8); V, VI (§ 50, 52--55, 61--63), VII (§73, 75, 77). Book II: Ch. I, II, III, IV, V, VI |
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Oct 19 - 20 | Prof. Van Sant: Locke's Two Treatises of Government | Locke's
Two Treatises of Government - Book II: Ch. VII ( §77-87,
89), VIII (§95-97, 99, 119-20), IX ( §123-27), XIII ( §149,
156), XV (169-172), XVIII, XIX |
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Week 5 | |||
Oct 24 - 25 |
Prof. Clark, Rowlandson | Rowlandson,
The Sovereignty and
Goodness of God: with Related Documents |
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Oct 26 - 27 | Prof. Clark, Rowlandson | Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents
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Week 6 | |||
Oct 31 - Nov 1 |
Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur | Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer |
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Nov 2- 3 | Prof. Clark, Crèvecoeur | Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
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Week 7 | |||
Nov 7 - 8 | Prof. Michael Clark, Huck Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn |
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Nov 9 - 10 | Prof. Michael Clark, Huck Finn | Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn |
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Week 8 | |||
Nov 14 - 15 | Prof. Hart: Kaspar
Hauser |
Excerpt from The Great Pretenders, in HCC Reader, 55-72 The Wild Child, 74-150 (Von Feuerbach's Kaspar Hauser) Showings of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser),
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Nov 16 - 17 | Prof. Hart: Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog's version | See
film Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The Mystery
of Kaspar Hauser) (Werner Herzog) Additional Showing
of Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All (The
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser), |
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Week 9 | |||
Nov 21 - 22 | Prof.
Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents |
Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents pp. 10-63 (Chap. 1-4) |
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Nov 23 - 24 | THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY NOV 24-25 - CAMPUS CLOSED |
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Week 10 | |||
Nov 28 - 29 | Prof.
Hart: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents |
Freud's
Civilization and Its Discontents pp. 64-74 (Chap. 5),
97-112 (Chap. 8) |
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Nov 30 - Dec 1 | Profs. Hart, Van Sant, and Clark: Summary |
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FINALS WEEK, DEC 5-9 |