FrC 12E Sp12

Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. There will sometimes be a reading guide that gives further details of the assignment and may include passages that are part of your assignment.

1/16  artists’ self portraits (on Moodle)
1/18  artist self portraits cont’d (on Moodle)—assignment
1/19(Th 6-11:30 pm) trip to IRT (to see Radio Golf)
1/20  Radio Golf (play)
1/23  students’ self portraitsassignment
1/25  Gilgamesh, prol. and bks. I-VI (Mitchell, pp. 69-140)—assignment
1/27  Gilgamesh, bks. VII-XI (Mitchell, pp. 141-199)—assignment
1/29(Sun 7-10 pm) Blade Runner (movie in Korb Classroom)—assignment
2/1  Descartes, Locke, and Hume on people and animals (1up PDF, 2up PDF, and on Moodle)—reading guide
2/3ppr 1 due White, summary of In Defense of Dolphins (on Moodle and on a website for the book) —reading guide
2/6  Montaigne, Essays, “On Inconstancy” (on Moodle)—reading guide
2/8  Goffman, “Performances,” Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, ch. 1, pp. 17-51 (on Moodle)—assignment
2/10  Goffman, “Performances,” pp. 51-76 (on Moodle)—assignment
2/13  Plato, Republic (sels. from bks. VI and VII: 507b-519b, 532d-534d—on Moodle)—assignment
2/15  Pinker, The Blank Slate, chs. 1, 3 (pp. 1-13, 30-58)—assignment
2/17  Pinker, ch. 4 (pp. 59-72)—assignment
2/20  Clark and Chalmers, “The Extended Mind” (on JSTOR, pp. 7-19)—assignment
2/22  Donne, selected poems (on Moodle)—assignment
2/24ppr 2 due Donne, cont’d (on Moodle)—assignment
2/26(Sun 7-10 pm) Orlando (movie in Korb classroom)—assignment
2/29  McBride, The Color of Water, chs. 1-14 (pp. 1-152)—assignment
3/2 McBride, chs. 15-25, epilog., aftrwrd. (pp. 153-295)—assignment
spring break
3/12  sels. from Plato, the Roman Stoics, and Donne—on Moodle)—reading guide
3/14  Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity, ch. 1 (on Moodle)—assignment
3/16  Nussbaum, ch. 2 (on Moodle)—assignment
3/19  20th century African American protest songs (on Moodle)—assignment
3/21  protest songs cont’d (on Moodle)—assignment
3/23  The Daodejing of Laozi, bk. 1 (Ivanhoe, pp. 1-37)—assignment
3/26  Daodejing, bk. 2 (Ivanhoe, pp. 41-84)—assignment
3/28(7-9:30 pm) Food, Inc. (movie—also streaming: link on Moodle)
3/30ppr 3 due McKibben, “Thinking Past Ourselves” (on Moodle)—assignment
4/2  Sahlins, “The Original Affluent Society” (on Moodle)—assignment
4/4  Moore, Watchmen, chs. I-IVassignment
4/6  Moore, Watchmen, chs. V-VIIIassignment
4/9  Moore, Watchmen, chs. IX-XIIassignment
4/11  Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pt. 1 (pp. 7-58)—assignment
4/13  Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pt. 2 (pp. 59-159)—assignment
4/16  Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pts. 3-4 (pp. 161-222)—assignment
4/18(7-10 pm) City of God (movie)
4/20  paper abstract discussions: compilation (1up 2up), Emiliano Aguilar (1up 2up), Steven Magura (1up 2up), Ryan Schilling (1up 2up), Andrew Weyler (1up 2up), Patrick Wright (1up 2up)
4/23  paper abstract discussions: compilation (1up 2up), Jesse Caldwell (1up 2up), Will Folsom (1up 2up), Kennedy Hill (1up 2up), Paul Yan (1up 2up)
4/25  paper abstract discussions: compilation (1up 2up), Ben Finley (1up 2up), Drew Miles (1up 2up), Andrew Rodgers (1up 2up), Charles Smothers, Cam Stewart (1up 2up)
4/27  Placher, “A College’s Use of its Past” and “Wabash, 1907” from The Tradition We Inherit (pp. 14-21, 28-32)—assignment
exam week
5/2ppr 4 due