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 | |
| 2/1 | ppr 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 | |
| 2/25 | ppr 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 | |
| 3/27 | ppr 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 | ||