{"id":1036,"date":"2016-07-14T22:33:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/?page_id=1036"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:31:19","slug":"syllabus-confronting-cultural-differences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/syllabus-confronting-cultural-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus for Confronting Cultural Differences (1989-1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Directed by Prof. Spencer Olin (History).<\/strong><br \/>\nRepresentations of difference in Race; in Belief Systems; in Gender.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1132\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oac.cdlib.org\/ark:\/13030\/hb9r29p03d\/?brand=oac4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1132 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RRWorkers-cropped-png.png\" alt=\"RRWorkers cropped png\" width=\"315\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RRWorkers-cropped-png.png 315w, https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RRWorkers-cropped-png-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Chinaman on the rail road [graphic] : Union Pacific Rail Road, Chinese in California Virtual Collection, BANC PIC 1995.012\u2013STER, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong><u>Race: <\/u>Profs. Michael Johnson, Gordon Chang, Lindon Barrett, and Brook Thomas. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Texts included Pagden: <em>The Fall of Natural Man; <\/em>Faulkner: <em>Absalom, Absalom; <\/em>Melville: \u201cBenito Cereno\u201d; Plessy v. Ferguson,\u00a0 Mendez v. Westminster, Brown v. Bd. of Education; Bulsosan: <em>America is in the Heart; <\/em>Kingston: <em>China Men;<\/em> Burroughs: <em>Tarzan of the Apes;\u00a0<\/em>Dower: <em>War without Mercy; <\/em>Branch: <em>Parting the Waters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Belief Systems: Professors <\/u>Georgianna, Kierstad, Huters, Bencivenga.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Plato\u2019s <em>Apology; <\/em>Dante: <em>Inferno; <\/em>Bonhoeffer: <em>Letters and Papers from Prison; <\/em>Shelley: <em>Frankenstein; <\/em>Confucius: <em>Analects;<\/em> Kenko: <em>Lessons in<\/em> <em>Idleness<\/em>; Chang-Tzu: <em>Basic Writings; <\/em>Spence: <em>Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci; <\/em>Montaigne\u2019s <em>Essays; <\/em>Bencivenga\u2019s <em>Subjectivity.<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Gender: <\/u>Professors John Smith, Christia Mercer, Sharon Ullman.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nTexts included Homer: <em>The<\/em> <em>Odyssey; <\/em>Sappho\u2019s poetry; <em>Genesis; <\/em>Abelard and Heloise: <em>Letters; <\/em>Carlson: <em>The Devil in the Shape of a Woman; <\/em>Wollstonecraft: <em>Vindication of the Rights of Women; <\/em>Seneca Falls \u201cDeclaration of Sentiments\u201d; Goldman: \u201cSelected Writings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Prof. Spencer Olin (History). Representations of difference in Race; in Belief Systems; in Gender. Race: Profs. Michael Johnson, Gordon Chang, Lindon Barrett, and Brook Thomas. \u00a0 Texts included Pagden: The Fall of Natural Man; Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom; Melville: \u201cBenito Cereno\u201d; Plessy v. Ferguson,\u00a0 Mendez v. Westminster, Brown v. Bd. of Education; Bulsosan: America [&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\/1036"}],"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=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1036\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}