CULTURES and TRADITIONS II: Spring 1998

The Enlightenment and its Aftermath

Month	Day	Reading
January	Wed 14th	LECTURE: The Enlightenment (Melissa Butler)
	Fri 16th	John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Readings Book B]
	Mon 19th	Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica [Readings Book C]
	Wed 21st	"Declaration of Independence" (Philadelphia, 1776); "The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (Seneca Falls, 1848) [Readings Book D]
	Fri 23rd	Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations [Readings Book E]
	Mon 26th	Voltaire, Candide
	Wed 28th	LECTURE: The 19th Century (Cheryl Hughes)
	Fri 30th	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto [Readings Book F]
Feburary	Mon 2nd	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]
	Wed 4th	Friedrich Nietzsche, selections from The Portable Nietzsche [Readings Book H]
	Fri 6th	Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion selections [Readings Book I]
	Mon 9th	LECTURE: Crisis of the Enlightenment: the Holocaust (Stephen Webb)
	Wed 11th	Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
	Fri 13th	Yiddish stories and slides [Readings Book J]
	Mon 16th	Primo Levi, The Drowned and The Saved, Chapters 1-4
	Wed 18th	Levi, Chapters 5-8, conclusion
	Fri 20th	Holocaust poetry, Jonas, "The Concept of God after Auschwitz" and a letter from Elie Wiesel [Readings Book K]
	Mon 23rd	LECTURE: The End of the Enlightenment? (Stephen Morillo and Paul McKinney)
	Wed 25th	Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The River Between
	Fri 27th	Mohandas Gandhi "My Religion" and "The Liberty March" [Readings Book L]
March	Mon 2nd	Heinz Pagels, from the Cosmic Code [Readings Book M]
	Wed 4th	Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
	Fri 6th	Modern Art Slides

 

Spring Break 7-15 March

 

China in the Modern World

Month	Day	Reading
March	Mon 16th	LECTURE: Revolutions and Modernization (Hall Peebles)
	Wed 18th	Lu Hsun, short stories [Readings Book N]
	Fri 20th	Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China [Readings Book O]
	Mon 23rd	Mao Tse Tong, The Little Red Book [Readings Book P]
	Wed 25th	Jung Chang, Wild Swans, Chapters 1, 2, 5
	Fri 27th	Jung Chang, Wild Swans, Chapters 6, 7, 11, 12
	Mon 30th	Jung Chang, Wild Swans, Chapters 14, 15, 23, 26, 27

The African American Experience

Month	Day	Reading
April	Wed 1st	LECTURE: Slavery, Emancipation and the Dream Deferred (Peter Frederick)
	Fri 3rd	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
	Mon 6th	B.T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Address" [Readings Book Q] and WEB DuBois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 3
	Wed 8th	DuBois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapters 1, 11, 13
	Fri 10th	Poetry [Readings Book R]
	Mon 13th	August Wilson, Fences
	Wed 15th	LECTURE: Malcolm, Martin and the Black Religious Experience (Michael Brown)
	Wed 15th	"EYES ON THE PRIZE" VIDEO SHOWN AT 4:00 & 7:00
	Thur 16th	"EYES ON THE PRIZE" VIDEO SHOWN AT 4:00 & 7:00
		The Video will be shown in Korb Classroom, Fine Arts Center, on both days.
	Fri 17th	Eyes on the Prize (discussion)
	Mon 20th	The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 1-3, 7, 9-11
	Wed 22nd	The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 13-14, 17, 19, pp. 419-39 of Epilogue
	Fri 25th	Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" [Readings Book S]
	Mon 27th	James Cone, God of the Oppressed [Readings Book T]
	Mon 27th	"SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY" SHOWN AT 4:00 & 7:00
	Tues 28th	"SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY" SHOWN AT 4:00 & 7:00
		The Video will be shown in Korb Classroom, Fine Arts Center, on both days.
	Wed 29th	"Say Amen, Somebody" (discussion) and Alice Walker short story [Readings Book U]
	Fri 30th	Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Colored People, Preface and Selections [Readings Book V] Preface, Spring 1998