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.

1/14  artists’ self portraits (on Moodle)
1/16  artists’ self portraits cont’d (on Moodle)—assignment
1/18  students’ self portraits—assignment
1/21  students’ self portraits cont’d—assignment
1/23  Gilgamesh, prol. and bks. I-VI (Mitchell, pp. 69-140)—assignment
1/25  Gilgamesh, bks. VII-XI (Mitchell, pp. 141-199)—assignment
1/28  Locke and Descartes on people and animals (on Moodle and here: 1up, 2up, booklet)—guide
1/30  Blade Runner (movie)—assignment
2/1ppr 1 due Korsgaard, “Facing the Animal You See in the Mirror” (on Moodle)—reading guide
2/4  Shelley, Frankenstein through ch. 8 (pp. 1-89)—assignment
2/6  Shelley, Frankenstein, chs. 9-17 (pp. 90-149)—assignment
2/8  Shelley, Frankenstein, chs. 18-24 (pp. 149-223)—assignment
2/11  Augustine, Confessions, bks. 1 and 2 (on Moodle)—assignment
2/13  Descartes, Discourse on Method, pts. 1 and 2 (on Moodle and here: 1up, 2up, booklet)—assignment
2/15  Berger, “Sociological Perspective—Society in Man” (on Moodle)—assignment
2/18  Ramachandran, “The Neurons That Shaped Civilization” (on Moodle)—assignment
2/20  Goffman, “Regions and Region Behavior” sels. (on Moodle)—assignment
2/22  Greenberg, Take Me Out (play on campus)—assignment
2/25ppr 2 due The Other Wes Moore, intro. and pt. 1 (pp. xi-xiv, 1-62)—assignment
2/27  The Other Wes Moore, pt. 2 (pp. 63-122)—assignment
3/1 The Other Wes Moore, pt. 3 and interview (pp. 123-183, 243-248)—assignment
spring break
3/11  Plato, Republic, bk. 7 sels. (on Moodle and here: 1up, 2up, booklet)—assignment
3/13  Plato, Apology sels.: 17a-24b, 28a-32a, 35b-39d (The Trial and Death of Socrates, pp. 20-27, 31-34, 37-42)—assignment
3/15  Plato, Crito (The Trial and Death of Socrates, pp. 43-54)—assignment
3/18  Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pt. 1 (pp. 7-58)—assignment
3/20  Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pt. 2 (pp. 59-159)—assignment
3/22  Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pts. 3-4 (pp. 161-222)—assignment
3/25  protest songs (on Moodle)—assignment
3/27ppr 3 due protest songs cont’d (on Moodle)—assignment
3/29  Moore, Watchmen, chs. I-IV—assignment
4/1  Moore, Watchmen, chs. V-VIII—assignment
4/3  Moore, Watchmen, chs. IX-XII—assignment
4/5  The Daodejing of Laozi, bk. 1 (chs. 1-37) (Ivanhoe, pp. 1-37)—assignment
4/8  Daodejing, bk. 2 (chs. 38-81) (Ivanhoe, pp. 41-84)—assignment
4/10  Rabbit-Proof Fence (movie)—assignment
4/12  Abbey, “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks” (on Moodle)—assignment
4/15  Food, inc. (movie: showings Sun. 4/7 at 4 and 7 pm in Center 216—also streaming: link on Moodle)—assignment
4/17  Pollan, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (on Moodle); and “The story of wheat: Ears of plenty” from The Economist (Dec. 20, 2005—on line)—assignment
4/19  paper abstract discussions: Ryan Anzalone, Saul Cardiel, Eric Charles, P. J. Izaguirre, Kaleb Morris, compilation (1up, 2up, 4up)
4/22  paper abstract discussions: Brock Hammond, Joel Paquin, Eric Russell, Kun Tran, Korbin West, compilation (1up, 2up, 4up)
4/24  paper abstract discussions: Josh Bleisch, Cameron Dennis, Methuselah Gee, Sam Mattingly, Ross Sponsler, compilation (1up, 2up, 4up)
4/26  paper abstract discussion: Levi Kinney; Placher, “A College’s Use of its Past” and “Wabash, 1907” (The Tradition We Inherit, pp. 14-21, 28-32)—assignment
exam week
5/2 (Thurs.) ppr 4 due