Humanities 324, section 2
Spring, 2009
Course Schedule
Dr. Ellen Holmes Pearson
Office: New Hall 219
828-251-6651
Email: epearson@unca.edu
Office hours: Monday, 4-5 p.m.;
Wednesday, 10-11 a.m.; Thursday, 1-2 p.m
Or by appointment
Note that this schedule applies for both of my HUM 324 sections: Section 2 (MWF 11:25-12:35) and Section 3 (TTH 11-12:10 and F 11:25-12:35). Exam and paper due dates, holidays and other important notes are indicated in red. Response paper due dates are indicated in green.
Section 2 (MWF) meets in ZH 137 M & W, and LH 125 F
Section 3 (TTHF) meets in CH 133 T & TH and LH 125 F
Required texts:
-Gloria Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vols. 4-6, 5th edition (F4-F6 below)
-Jun íchirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
-The Asheville Reader: The Modern World, 2nd edition (AR below)
-Fiero Readings are indicated by F4-F6. Readings in The Asheville Reader are indicated by AR.
Core Readings and Lecture Sequence
January 14: Wednesday: classes begin; introduction to course
1) January 16: “Science and the Enlightenment” – McClain/Spellman
F4, 75-83
Galileo Galilei, from “The Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina” (AR: 2-8)
Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” (AR: 59-66)
John Locke, from Two Treatises on Government (AR 26-36)
Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations (AR: 68-75)
Monday, Jan. 19 is Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, no class for Section 2
2) January 23: “Enlightenment and Liberalism: Rights and Revolution” --Pearson
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (AR 76-81)
James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, from The Federalist Papers(AR 85-90)
Jean Jacques Rousseau, from The Social Contract (AR 50-58)
National Assembly of France, Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (AR 91-94)
Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (AR 103-112)
Simon Bolivar, Message to the Congress of Angostura (AR 230-235)
3) January 30: “Industrialization, Romanticism, Alienation” -- McClain/McNerney
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
**** By January 30, you should have formed groups and decided on a topic for the collaborative project. Give a 1-paragraph summary of the topic and group goals to Dr. Pearson by January 30.
Feb. 2 or 3:
Revisit Adam Smith, from
The Wealth of Nations (AR: 68-75) from week 1
Smith
excerpt in F4, 102-103
Marx,
in F 5, 77-81
Feb. 4 or 5:
John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty (AR: 262-267)
Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America (AR: 236-245)
Note to Section 2: Class cancelled 2/4 due to inclement weather. Because the following week is so packed, we will not discuss Mill or Tocqueville. However, you should read them, as they are still fair game for exam questions and references in future discussions.
4) February 6: “Slavery and American Freedom” – Judson
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
Feb. 9 or 10
F4, 114-118 Make sure to bring Fiero to class this day, as we will read and discuss the Wheatley poem on p. 118.
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson’s Response (AR: 113-118)
Olaudah Equiano, from The Life of Olaudah Equiano … (AR: 181-185)
Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (AR: 206-212)
Charles Chesnutt “Wife of His Youth” Click Here
Feb. 11 or 12
Booker T. Washington, “Address at the World’s Fair in Atlanta” (AR: 344-349)
W.E.B. DuBois, from “Strivings of the Negro People” (AR: 360-366)
Marcus Garvey, “Negro Progress Postulates Negro Government” “The World as It Is: Insulting Negro Womanhood” “The World as It Is: The Internal Prejudices of Negroes” “Let the Negro Accumulate Wealth: It Will Bring Him Power” (AR: 367-375)
5) February 13: “Native American Experience” – Pearson
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
Feb. 16 or 17
Simon Pokagon, from “The Future of the Red Man” (AR: 304-310)
Zitkala-Sa, “Why I am a Pagan” (AR: 311-314)
Ohiyesa, from The Soul of the Indian (AR: 315-320)
Feb. 18 or 19
Black Elk, Lakota
Government (interview) (AR: 339-342)
Excerpts from
Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday (on Electronic Reserve in
Ramsey Library)
6) February 20: “Woman Suffrage in America” – Campbell
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
Process analysis for group project due to Dr. Pearson by Feb. 24 for Section 3 and Feb. 25 for Section 2.
Feb. 23 or 24
Abigail Adams, “Letter to John Adams” (AR 170-174)
Sojourner Truth “A’nt I a Woman? and “Address to the First Annual Meeting
of the American Equal Women Rights Association” (AR: 218-221)
Mill in F 5, 81-82
Feb. 25 or 26
Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., “Declaration of Sentiments” (AR: 213-217)
Susan B.
Anthony, from The Declaration Rights for Women (AR: 273-276)
Kate Chopin,
"Story of an Hour" Click Here
7) February 27: “Darwin and Darwinism(s) – Weber and Payne
March 2 or 3
F5, 25-27
Charles Darwin, from The Origin of Species (AR: 382-390)
March 4 or 5
F 5, 73-75
Vladimir Lenin, "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (AR: 333-338)
8) March 6: “Islam and the Modern World” – Payne
Readings are on electronic reserve, found on this link
Midterm due at common lecture. Click here for midterm questions.
March 16 or 17 (Note: Readings
are on electronic reserve, found on
this link)
Tanzimat decrees (The
9) March 9-13: Spring Break, no classes
10) March 20: “WW 1 and the European Crisis of Consciousness” – Uldricks/Nallan
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
March 23 or 24
Freud in F6, 26-30
(Our Freud reading is an excerpt from “Civilization and its Discontents” in Fiero)
Carl Jung, from The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man (AR: 441-446)
March 25 or 26
Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
11) March 27: Annual Spring symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creativity (no classes)
If you need to catch up on responses, you can submit a response on the previous week's lecture and readings covered March 23/24 and March 25/26. Turn in a hard copy of the response to my mailbox before noon on March 27.
March 30 or 31
F 6, 49-54
Helena Marie Swanwick, “The War and Its Effect upon Women” (AR: 456-460)
Olive Schreiner, from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (AR 296-298)
Link to Britten's War Requiem YouTube link:
April 1 or 2
Day away from class to work on group collaborative project
12) April 3: “Enlightening China and Japan: Western Imperialism in Asia” – Ho
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture. (Note that if you did the catch-up response due March 27, you will need to write on the 3/20 lecture and the readings covered on March 30/31. If you did not write the catch-up response, you may write on the lecture and any readings from the WWI and European Crisis of Consciousness unit.)
April 6 or 7
F5, 75-77
Emperor Ch’ien-lung “Letter to King George III (AR: 119-121)
Ito Hirobumi, from Sources of Japanese Tradition (AR: 327-332)
Mahatma Gandhi, from Indian Home Rule (AR: 321-326)
April 8 or 9
Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
South Asheville Cemetery workday April 4, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Work in cemetery 9-12 noon, lunch at noon in the St. John A Baptist Church fellowship hall) If you are carpooling, meet in front of the dining hall by 8:45 a.m. We will be leaving at 8:45 to go to the cemetery. I will have directions to distribute to the drivers.
13) April 10: “Modernity and Modernism” -- Hobby/McNerney
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
April 13 or 14
Franz Kafka, “A Country Doctor” (AR: 428-434)
Friedrich Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil (AR: 414-423)
April 15 or 16
F5, 93-137; F6, 1-25, 35-48, 78-89
Gertrude Stein, “Picasso” ( AR: 424-427)
NOTE DATE CHANGE: Written portion of group collaborative project due BY 3 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
14) April 17: “Fascism in the Interwar Years and … Beyond” -- McClain
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
We will schedule group presentations for section meetings the week of April 20 and 27.
Response for S. Asheville Cemetery workday due in your section by April 20 or 21. (You can hand it in earlier, if you wish)
Note: The MW section will not meet on 4/20 because I will be giving the HUM 214 lecture. Therefore, we will plan to discuss all readings on 4/22. MW section students should turn in their S. Asheville Cemetery response to my mailbox by 12:30 p.m. on 4/20. This change does not affect the TTH section, which WILL meet on Tuesday, 4/21.
April 21 (TTH section)
F6, 54-60
Benito Mussolini, from The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism (AR: 480-487)
Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf (AR: 461-469)
Hannah Arendt, from The Origins of Totalitarianism (AR: 497-502)
April 22 or 23
John Maynard Keynes, from The End of Laissez-Faire (AR: 470-474)
Christopher Isherwood, from The Berlin Stories (electronic reserve, library and
HUM 324 web site outline)
15) April 24: “WW 2, the Holocaust, Existentialism”— Uldricks/Davis
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
We will schedule group presentations for section meetings the week of April 20 and 27.
April 27 or 28
F6, 60-65
Albert Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus (AR: 513-517)
Jean-Paul Sartre, “The Republic of Silence” (AR: 518-521)
April 28 or 30
Monica Sone, "Japanese Relocation" (AR: 527-532)
Rev. Robert Campbell Anderson, "The Story of Montreat from its Beginning" on
electronic reserve
16) May 1: “The New Physics” –Konz
Response for previous week’s lecture and related readings/discussion due at the common lecture.
May 4: Monday, last day of class Group presentations for section 2.
Note that, if you need an additional response, you may do one on the final lecture. You will need to relate the lecture material to assigned HUM 324 readings from any time this semester. Or, you can relate it to a cultural event. This response will be due on or before Tuesday, May 5 at 12 noon.
Final Exams due: Section 2 (MWF 11:25) Wed May 6 by 2 p.m. Click here for final exam questions
Section 3 (TTH 11 a.m.) Thur. May 7 by 2 p.m. Click here for final exam questions