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 portraits—assignment | |
| 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 | |
| 2/3 | ppr 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 | |
| 2/24 | ppr 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) |
| 3/30 | ppr 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-IV—assignment | |
| 4/6 | Moore, Watchmen, chs. V-VIII—assignment | |
| 4/9 | Moore, Watchmen, chs. IX-XII—assignment | |
| 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 | ||
| 5/2 | ppr 4 due | |