REQUIRED MATERIALS
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. Penguin, 1982. ISBN: 9780140061109
Greenberg, Amy S. Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. ISBN: 9780312600488
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Basic Political Writings. Translated and edited by Donald Cress. Hackett, 2011. ISBN: 9781603846738
Virgil. Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics deluxe ed., 2006/2008. ISBN: 9780143105138
FALL 2016 LECTURE CALENDAR
This calendar provides information about the lecturer, readings, writing assignments, and HumCore events by date. The reading assignment for each lecture should be completed before the lecture. Students will be emailed with the password to the protected files in advance of the quarter’s start.
As part of this course, you are enrolled in two classes: Writing (4 units) and Lecture (4 units). As part of your Lecture class, you will attend two lectures a week. The MW 9:00 and 11:00 lectures take place in BS3 1200 (*note: there is no Friday lecture, except when there is a Friday Forum); the TTH 9:30 lecture takes place in HIB 100. You should treat lecture like another text for this course: take careful notes and be prepared to discuss lecture materials in your seminar section.
The Writing class takes place in your seminar classroom. There you will discuss lecture, course texts, and writing assignments.
| Week | Lecturer | Readings | Assignments | Events |
| 1a 9/26 | Lazo | Said, “Politics of Knowledge.” Download Writer’s Handbook:”Empire and the Humanities” |
In-class diagnostic essay | |
| 1b 9/28 | Zissos | Tacitus, selections. Download | Blog Assignment | Student blog workshops: HH 217 9/28: 3-4, 4-5 9/30: 2-3, 3-4, 4-5 Sign up |
| 2a 10/3 | Zissos | Virgil Aeneid, Books 1 & 2 | Start Essay 1: Literary Analysis | Student blog workshops: HH 217 10/4, 10/6: 3:30-4:15, 4:15-5 Sign up |
| 2b 10/5 | Zissos | Virgil Aeneid, Books 3 & 4 | ||
| 3a 10/10 | Zissos | Virgil Aeneid, Books 6 & 7 | Primary Source workshop: 10/12 12-12:45 HH 217 Sign up |
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| 3b 10/12 | Zissos | Virgil Aeneid, Books 10 & 12 | ||
| 4a 10/17 | Zissos | Virgil Aeneid, cont’d | Oct. 19: Visual Databases Workshop: 12-12:45 HH 217 Sign up |
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| 4b 10/19 | Steintrager | Rousseau, Basic Writings, pp. 3-13 Forum Reading: Kant, “Enlightenment” Download Gandy, Soane’s Bank of England (gallery) |
Oct. 21: Friday Forum: Watch Video Download PowerPoints |
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| 5a: 10/24 | Steintrager | Rousseau, Basic Writings, pp. 14-28 Piranesi and Robert (gallery) |
Start Essay 2: Visual Analysis | |
| 5b: 10/26 | Steintrager | Cole, “Course of Empire,” (gallery) | ||
| 6a: 10/31 | Steintrager | Rousseau, Basic Writings, 29-69 + notes, pp. 93-117 | ||
| 6b: 11/2 | Steintrager | Rousseau, Basic Writings, 69-92 + notes, pp. 117-20 | Midterm | Nov. 4: Friday Forum, Library Resources Watch Video |
| 7a: 11/7 | Steintrager | Volney Ruins of Empires, Chapters I-XIX | Nov. 8: HH 217 12-12:45 Student blog check in. Drop by with ?’s! Sign up |
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| 7b: 11/9 | Lazo | Coetzee, Barbarians, pp. 1-76, Said, “Orientalism,” (1-15, 19-23) Download |
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| 8a: 11/14 | Lazo | Coetzee, Barbarians, finish | Nov. 16: Student blog check in. HH 217 12-12:45 Drop by with ?’s! Sign up |
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| 8b: 11/16 | Lazo | Greenberg, pp. 150, 41–44, 46-49, 52-54, 78-79, 105-7, 109-11, 116-25, 143-45 |
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| 9a: 11/21 | Lazo | Inarritu, The Revenant (film) | ||
| 9b: | No Lecture Wed. or Thurs.: Thanksgiving break | |||
| 10a: 11/28 | Lazo | Greenberg, selections. pp. 55-59, 63-69, 151-53 |
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| 10b: 11/30 | Lazo | Zitkala-Sa “Impressions Indian Childhood,” “Schooldays” Download |
Nov. 30: Student blog check in. HH 217 12-12:45 Drop by with ?’s! Sign up |
