Cultures and Traditions II

Spring Semester 1997

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  Below you will find the schedule of readings and lecture for this semester. Where possible, internet links to texts or biographical material are provided. Lectures and outlines may be added at the discretion of the lecturers. Students enrolled in this Wabash College course should be aware that the use of web syllabus is not an adequate substitute for attending lectures or purchasing the Readings Book. Many of the links here connect to whole texts, whereas the Readings Book contains selections. Furthermore, selections and translations available on the web may differ somewhat from those assigned for discussion and not all works are available on the web (this is particularly true of newer material).

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  The Enlightenment and Its Extensions

  
  

  W Jan 15	LECTURE:	The Enlightenment	(Placher)
  F 17	John Locke	Essay Concerning Human Understanding	[Readings Book B]
  M 20	Isaac Newton,	Principia Mathematica	[Readings Book C]
  W 22	Declaration of Independence;	Declaration of Rights of Man	[Readings Book D]
  F 24	Adam Smith,	Wealth of Nations	[Readings Book E]
  M 27	Voltaire,	Candide

  W 29	LECTURE:	The 19th Century	(Hughes)
  F 31	Marx and Engels,	The Communist Manifesto	[Readings Book F]
  M Feb 3	Nationalism and Imperialism:	Giuseppe Mazzini, ``Young Europe's Pact of Fraternity,'' Heinrich von Treitschke, Selections from ``The Nature of the State,'' ``The Administration of the State,'' and Politics; and Rudyard Kipling, ``The White Man's Burden''	[Readings Book G]
  W 5	Sigmund Freud,	``On Dreams"	[Readings Book H]

   

  The Modern World

  
  

  F 7	LECTURE:	Crisi s:1914-1945	(Morillo)
  M 10	Friedrich Nietzsche,	Beyond Good and Evil,	[Readings Book I]
  W 12	Erich Maria Remarque,	All Quiet on the Western Front
  F14	Thomas Mann, ``Mario and the Magician"	Benito Mussolini, Fascist Doctrine	[Readings Book J]
  M 17	Mohandas Gandhi	``My Religion'' and ``The Liberty March''	[Readings Book K]
  W 19	Ngugi wa Thiong'o, [more]	The River Between
  F 21	Yukio Mishima,	``Patriotism''

  
  

  M 24	LECTURE:	Modernism and the Modern World	(McKinney)
  W 26	Heinz Pagels,	from the Cosmic Code	[Readings Book L]
  F 28	Albert Camus, ``The Guest,''	Jean Paul Sartre, ``The Wall''	[Readings Book M]
  M Mar 3	Tim O'Brien, ``The Things They Carried''	The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence	[Readings Book N]
  W 5	Modern Art Slides
  M11	Neil Postman	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Television,	Chapters 1-6, 7, 9, 11.

  
  Spring Break 8-16 March

   

  The Modern World in China

  
  

  M 17	LECTURE:	Revolutions and Modernization	(Peebles)
  W 19	Sun Yat-sen,	History of the Chinese Revolution	[Readings Book O]
  F 21	Lu Hsun,	short stories	[Readings Book P]
  M 24	Edgar Snow	Red Star Over China	[Readings Book Q]
  W 26	Mao Tse Tong	The Little Red Book	[Readings Book R]
  F 28	Jung Chang	Wild Swans,	Chapters 1, 2, 5
  M 31	Jung Chang	Wild Swans,	Chapters 6, 7, 11, 12
  W Apr 2	Jung Chang,	Wild Swans,	Chapters 14, 15, 23, 26, 27

   

  The African American Experience

  
  

  F4	LECTURE:	Slavery, Emancipation and the Dream Deferred	(Frederick)
  M 7	Frederick Douglass	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  W 9	B.T. Washington, ``Atlanta Exposition Address" [Readings Book S]	W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 3
  F11	W.E.B. DuBois,	Souls of Black Folk,	Chapters 1, 11, 13
  M 14	Poetry		[Readings Book T]
  W16	August Wilson	Fences
  F18		Eyes on the Prize (discussion)

  
  W 16 Eyes on the Prize video shown at 4:00 and 7:00

  Th 17 Eyes on the Prize video shown at 4:00 and 7:00

   

  The Video will be shown in Baxter 202 on both days.

  
  
  

  M21	LECTURE:	Malcolm, Martin and the Movement	(Dr Harry Williams, Professor of African-Ameri c an History, Carleton College)
  W 23	Martin Luther King,	"Letter from Birmingham Jail"	[Readings Book U]
  F25	Malcolm X	The Autobiography of Malcolm X,	Chs 1-3, 7, 9-11
  M28	Malcolm X	The Autobiography of Malcolm X,	Chs 13-14, 17, 19, pp. 419-39 of Epilogue

   

  Mon 28 Boyz n the Hood film shown at 4:00 &;7:00

   

  Tues 29 Boyz n the Hood film shown at 4:00 &;7:00

   

  The Film will be shown in Korb Classroom, Fine Arts Center, on both days.

  W 30	Boyz n the Hood (discussion);	Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Colored People, Preface and Chapter 7	[Readings Book V]
  F May 2	Andrew Levy,	"At the Intersection of Promise and Myth"	[Readings Book W]

  
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