University of Evansville
WC120-2B
2008 CLASS CALENDAR

 

January 09     Introduction to this Section

January 11    Lecture on Reformation—Dianne Oliver (Graves 100)

 

January 14     Martin Luther (1483-1546), Christian Liberty:  http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/LUTHER.HTM & http://www.luther.de/en/

January 16     Luther (Part 1)

January 18     Luther (Part 2)

 

January 21    No Class—MLK Day

January 23     Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia: http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/ and http://www.apostles.com/thomasmore.html

January 25     Utopia

 

January 28     A Man for All Seasons (Part 1)

January 30     A Man for All Seasons (Part 2)

February 1    Lecture on Galileo—Jeff Braun (Graves 100)

 

February 4     Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), The Starry Messenger http://galileo.rice.edu/  (Read Drake's Discoveries and Opinions of Galileopp1-9, 27-31, 45-48, & 59-60). 

February 6     Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_Grand_Duchess_Christina (Read Drake: p145 & pp175-180).

February 8     The Research Paper:  Library, Literature Search, Writing Center, Hodges Handbook, and the Elements of Style.

 

February 11   Isaac Newton (1642-1727) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton and http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newton.html and http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html

February 13   Library Class on Effective Use of the Internet for the Research Paper:  GO TO CL 264

February 16  Lecture on John Locke (1632-1704)—Dick Connolly (Graves 100)

 

February 18  Major Paper Topic Proposal due this class.

                        Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Common Sense (first half of book) http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm

February 20   Common Sense (second half) http://www.punkerslut.com/articles/thomaspaine.html

February 22   Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695), The Answer/La Respuesta: Introduction pp1-18 (especially Laura and Phyllis poems on pp10-11), Poems 164 and 174 on p155, and Poem 92 on pp157-159. See Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia and The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project.

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February 25  The Answer/La Respuesta: Introduction pp25-37 and pp71-93 (beginning with last sentence of Paragraph (24) through Paragraph (41).  For other information concerning Sor Juana’s literary significance see http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/v112/112.2rabin.html.

February 27   In Class Writing and Proposed Questions for the Midterm Exam

February 29  MIDTERM EXAM

 

March 1-9   No Classes—Spring Break

 

March 10       Voltaire (1694-1778), Candide, http://www.literature.org/authors/voltaire/candide/

March 12      Voltaire, Candide,Chapters 1-10.   Major Paper due this class.

March 14       Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 11-30. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/candide/

 

March 17     Lecture on Darwin—Dale Edwards (HH 126)

March 19     Charles Darwin (1809-1882)—Excerpts.  See AboutDarwin.com and On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia

 

March 21-24 No Classes—Easter Break

 

March 26       Charles Darwin, http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/darwin.html:  Inherit the Wind: The Scopes Trial Setting [Call# DVD PN 1997 .I5135 2001]  http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/evolution/intro/summary.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial.

March 28         Inherit the Wind:  The Bible Defense Scene.  In Class Writing.

 

March 31       Revised Major Paper due this class. 

                   Karl Marx (1818-1883) & Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), The Communist Manifesto, Prologue

                   http://www.indepthinfo.com/communist-manifesto/index.shtml

                   http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/manifesto.html

                   http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/marx.html

April 2           The Communist Manifesto, Part I, Bourgeois And Proletarians

April 4           The Communist Manifesto, Part II, Proletarians and Communists

 

April 7           The End of History? (Francis Fukuyama) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man and

                   The Clash of Civilizations? (Samuel Huntington) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash_of_Civilizations.

April 9             Iraq?  In Class Writing.

April 11          Lecture on Ernest Hemingway’s World War I—Mark Cirino (Graves 100)

 

April 14         Hemingway (1899-1961), The Nick Adams Stories: Read Indiana Camp.  Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway.

April 16         Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories: Read Now I Lay Me and Big Two-Hearted River.

April 18         Hemingway, Read Soldier's Home (available online) http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/hemingway.html or http://www.lhup.edu/rmyers3/courses/Soldier's%20Home.doc.

 

April 21         Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) Man's Search for Meaning (Part I only).  See Viktor Frankl - Wikipedia and VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUT

April 23         Existentialism:  Neitzsche (self-actualization), Kirkegaard (choice), and Heidegger (death) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism.

April 25         My Meaning?  In Class Writing

 

April 28         Wrap Up and Proposed Questions for the Final Exam

April 30          No Classes -- Reading/Study Day

May 2(F)         FINAL EXAM

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