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. Boxed dates are default due dates for papers (and links to assignments when they are bold).
| 1/20 | introduction | |
| 1/22 | Placher, “The Professors Appeared, and the Exercises Commenced …” (The Tradition We Inherit, pp. 22-27)—assignment | |
| 1/24 | emblems, devices, and self-portraits—assignment | |
| 1/27 | emblems, devices, and self-portraits (cont’d)—assignment | |
| 1/29 | Gilgamesh, prol. and bks. I-VI (Mitchell, pp. 69-140)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 1/31 | Gilgamesh, bks. VII-XI (Mitchell, pp. 141-199)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/3 | Locke and Descartes on people and animals (handout as 1up, 2up, or booklet)—assignment | |
| 2/5 | Blade Runner—movie, showings 2/3 (7:30 in Center 216) and 2/4 (7:30 in Korb = M120, Fine Arts Center, and 9:00 in Hays 104)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/7 | Gómez, “Are Apes Persons? The Case for Primate Intersubjectivity” (on Canvas)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/10 | Shelley, Frankenstein chs. 1-8 (pp. 1-89)—EQ intro.—assignment—1831 edition in HTML format | |
| 2/12 | Shelley, Frankenstein, chs. 9-17 (pp. 90-149)—EQ intro.—assignment—1831 edition in HTML format | |
| 2/14 | Shelley, Frankenstein, chs. 18-24 (pp. 149-223)—EQ intro.—assignment—1831 edition in HTML format | |
| 2/17 | Augustine, Confessions, bks. 1 and 2 (on Canvas)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/19 | Berger, “Sociological Perspective—Society in Man” (on Canvas, pp. 93-110)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/21 | Berger, “Sociological Perspective—Society in Man” (on Canvas, pp. 110-121)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/24 | Ramachandran, “The Neurons That Shaped Civilization” (on Canvas)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 2/26 | Shakespeare, Macbeth, through act 3, scene 3 (RSC ed., pp. 4-48)—assignment | |
| 2/28 | Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 4, to end (RSC ed., pp. 49-94)—assignment | |
| 3/3 | The Other Wes Moore, intro. and pt. 1 (pp. xi-xiv, 1-62)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 3/5 | The Other Wes Moore, pt. 2 (pp. 63-122)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 3/7 | The Other Wes Moore, pt. 3 and interview (pp. 123-183, 243-248)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| spring break | ||
| 3/17 | Plato, Republic, bk. 7 sels. (handout, on Canvas, and here: 1up, 2up, booklet)—assignment | |
| 3/19 | Plato, Apology sels.: 17a-24b, 28a-32a, 35b-39d (The Trial and Death of Socrates, pp. 20-27, 31-34, 37-42)—assignment | |
| 3/21 | Plato, Crito (The Trial and Death of Socrates, pp. 43-54)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 3/24 | Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pt. 1 (pp. 7-58)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 3/26 | Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pt. 2 (pp. 59-159)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 3/28 | Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, pts. 3-4 (pp. 161-222)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 3/31 | protest songs (on Canvas)—assignment | |
| 4/2 | protest songs cont’d (on Canvas)—assignment | |
| 4/4 | Moore, Watchmen, chs. I-IV—assignment | |
| 4/7 | Moore, Watchmen, chs. V-VIII—assignment | |
| 4/9 | Moore, Watchmen, chs. IX-XII—assignment | |
| 4/11 | The Daodejing of Laozi, bk. 1 = chs. 1-37 (Ivanhoe, pp. 1-37)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 4/14 | Daodejing, bk. 2 = chs. 38-81) (Ivanhoe, pp. 41-84)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 4/16 | Rabbit-Proof Fence—movie, showings 4/13 (4:00 in Center 216) and 4/15 (7:30 in Korb = M120, Fine Arts Center, and 9:00 in Hays 104)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 4/18 | Pollan, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (on Canvas)—EQ intro.—assignment | |
| 4/21 | Food, inc. (movie, link to streaming version on Canvas)—assignment | |
| 4/23 | Freedman, “How Junk Food Can End Obesity” (on The Atlantic’s website, with links there to a printable version)—assignment | |
| 4/25 | paper abstract discussions (Elkins, Gross, Hernandez, McClure, Staudenmeier; compilations: 1up, 2up, 4up) | |
| 4/28 | paper abstract discussions (Brown, Brummett, Ortega, Stumm, Warriner; compilations: 1up, 2up, 4up) | |
| 4/30 | paper abstract discussions (McMann, Stewart-Curet, Sturdivant, Szostek, Thomas; compilations: 1up, 2up, 4up) | |
| 5/2 | paper abstract discussion (Young); and Placher, “A College’s Use of its Past” and “Wabash, 1907” (The Tradition We Inherit, pp. 14-21, 28-32)—assignment | |
| 5/9 | Fri. of exam week | |