{"id":1031,"date":"2016-07-14T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/?page_id=1031"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:30:22","slug":"syllabus-western-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/syllabus-western-civilizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus for Western Civilizations and their Discontents (1992-1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Directed by Prof. Brook Thomas (English). <\/strong>Rationality and Rhetoric; Politics and Ethics; Race and Gender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2007678048\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ExpulsionfromRRCar-png.png\" alt=\"ExpulsionfromRRCar png\" width=\"510\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ExpulsionfromRRCar-png.png 510w, https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ExpulsionfromRRCar-png-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rationality and Rhetoric:<\/span> Professors John Smith, Albert Wlecke, Jeffrey Barrett. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Texts included Plato: <em>Phaedrus; <\/em>Shakespeare: <em>Julius Caesar; <\/em>Whitman: <em>Leaves of Grass;<\/em> Orwell:<em> 1984; <\/em>Aristotle\u2019s <em>Rhetoric (<\/em>selected portions); Descartes: <em>Meditations;<\/em> Galileo: <em>Starry Messenger; <\/em>Newton: <em>Principia; <\/em>Seneca Falls \u201cDeclaration of Sentiments,\u201d King: \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail\u201d; Malcolm X\u2019: \u201cThe Ballot or the Bullet\u201d; Combahee River Collective: \u201cBlack Feminist Statement\u201d; Kuhn: <em>The<\/em> <em>Structure of Scientific Revolution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Politics and Ethics: <\/u>Professors Gerasimos Santas, Jane Newman, Jon Jacobson.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Plato:<em> Trial and Death of Socrates,<\/em> <em>Gorgias; <\/em>Sophocles: <em>Antigone; <\/em>Abel: Autobiographies of early Nazis; Riefenstahl: <em>Triumph of the Will;<\/em> Arendt: <em>Eichmann in Jerusalem; <\/em>Scholl: <em>The White Rose, <\/em>Morrison:<em> Beloved<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <u>Race and Gender: <\/u>Professors Julia Lupton, Gail Hart, Brook Thomas.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Shakespeare: <em>Othello,<\/em> Kafka: <em>Metamorphosis<\/em> and \u201cA Report to an Academy\u201d; Woolf: <em>A Room of One\u2019s Own; <\/em>Gilman: \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper\u201d; Cisneros: <em>The House on Mango Street; <\/em>The Book of Judith; Jacobs: <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, <\/em>Plessy v. Ferguson, Mendez v. Westminster, Brown v. Bd. of Education; Kingston: <em>China Men.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Prof. Brook Thomas (English). Rationality and Rhetoric; Politics and Ethics; Race and Gender. Rationality and Rhetoric: Professors John Smith, Albert Wlecke, Jeffrey Barrett. \u00a0 Texts included Plato: Phaedrus; Shakespeare: Julius Caesar; Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Orwell: 1984; Aristotle\u2019s Rhetoric (selected portions); Descartes: Meditations; Galileo: Starry Messenger; Newton: Principia; Seneca Falls \u201cDeclaration of Sentiments,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}