Part I: Modern Europe |
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| W | Jan 9 | LECTURE: The Scientific Revolution (Paul McKinney) |
| F | 11 | Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment? [Readings Book B] |
| M | 14 | Voltaire, "Micromegas" [Readings Book C] |
| W | 16 | Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections) [Readings Book F] |
| F | 18 | "Declaration of the Rights of Man."; Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; and Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men [Readings Book E] |
| M | 21 | LECTURE: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Romantic Age: Shifting Sensibilities and New Modes of Artistic Expression (Judd Danby & Michael Mackenzie) |
| W | 23 | Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers. [Readings Book F] |
| F | 25 | Romantic Prose and Poetry [Readings Book G] |
| M | 28 | John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (selections) [Readings Book H] |
| W | 30 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, and The Communist Manifesto (selections) [Readings Book I] |
| F | Feb 1 | Richard Wagner, "Prelude" and Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde; and selections from The Artwork of the Future [Readings Book J] |
| M | 4 | Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" (1873); Human, All Too Human (1878); Daybreak (1881); Joyful Wisdom (1882/1887); The Will to Power (Notebooks of 1884-86); Beyond Good and Evil (1886) On the Genealogy of Morals (1887); The Antichrist (1888) [Readings Book K] |
| W | 6 | LECTURE: The Death-March of Progress (Stephen Morillo) |
| F | 8 | Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [Readings Book L] |
| M | 11 | Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans [Readings Book M] |
| W | 13 | Poetry of war and survival [Readings Book N] |
| F | 15 | Jaques Maritain, Christianity and Democracy [Readings Book O] |
| M | 18 | Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex [Readings Book P] |
| W | 20 | Foucault, Discipline and Punish [Readings Book Q] |
Part II: The African American Experience |
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| F | 22 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| M | 25 | Emancipation and Dreams of Freedom: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1, first paragraph of Chapter 2, and Chapter 13 |
| W | 27 | A Debate: W.E. B. DuBois, Chapters 3 and Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Exposition Address” [Readings Book S] |
| F | Mar 1 | Moving North: Letters of Negro migrants and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance [Readings Book T] |
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| M | 11 | Two Views of Freedom: “Sweat” by Zora Neal Hurston and Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man [Readings Book U] |
| W | 13 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 1-3, 7, 9 (pp. 150-153), 10-11 |
| F | 15 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Chapters 13-14, 17, 19 and pp. 435-50, 461-63. |
| Video: Eyes on the Prize (1986), 1 hour and
30 minutes Shown Thurs., March 14 at 4:15 and 7:15 P.M. in Korb Sun., March 17 at 4:15 and 7:15 P.M. in Baxter 202 |
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| M | 18 | Civil Rights Movement: Discuss Eyes on the Prize and Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" [Readings Book V] |
| W | 20 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Colored People (selections) [Readings Book W] |
| Video: Lone Star Shown Wed., March 20 at 4:15 and 7:00pm in the Korb Classroom Thurs., March 21 at 4:15 and 7:00pm in the Korb Classroom |
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| F | 22 | The Blurring of Cultures in the Mexican-American Southwest:
Discuss Lone Star and Hector Calderon "Reinventing the Border" [Readings Book X] |
| M | 25 | Latino/a short stories/poems of Mexican- and African American culture [Readings Book Y] |
| W | 27 | Latina/os Move North to Chicago: Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street |
Part III: Mexico: Roots and Realities |
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| F | 29 | Broken Spears, intro and pp. 3-12; Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, pp 216-244, Aztec poetry |
| M | Apr 1 | LECTURE: The History of Mexico City (Rick Warner) |
| W | 3 | Broken Spears, pp. 37-82; Bernal Diaz del Castillo,
The Conquest of New Spain, pp 144-215, Caste Paintings and Town Plan [Readings Book Z] |
| F | 5 | Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi, The Itching Parrot, Chapters 1-3 & 20-33 [Readings Book AA] |
| M | 8 | Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs |
| W | 10 | José Vasconcelos, "The Cosmic Race" [Readings Book BB] |
| F | 12 | Carlos Fuentes, "Chac-Mool" [Readings Book CC] |
| M | 15 | José E. Pacheco, Battles in the Desert [Readings Book DD] |
| W | 17 | "Between the Lines" (letters) [Readings Book EE] |
Part IV: Thinking about Culture |
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| F | 19 | LECTURE: What is Culture? (William Placher and Raymond Williams) |
| M | 22 | E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Magic, Witchcraft, and Oracles among the Azande (selections) [Readings Book FF] |
| W | 24 | Clifford Geertz: “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”[Readings Book GG] |
| Video: “Deep Play” at Wabash (1998), 60 minutes Shown Wednesday April 24 at 4:15pm and 7:15pm and Thursday April 25 at 4:15 and 7:15pm in Korb |
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| F | 25 | Discussion: “Deep Play” at Wabash |