|
Date
|
Lectures
|
Topics & Readings
|
Assignment
Instructions/Due Dates
&
Miscellaneous Reminders
|
|
Prof =
lectures. Click on the green links. They are required reading.
These also will often have imbedded within them E-texts which are additional primary texts or artwork or
links to material at other websites, which you should print out so that you
can read and study them.
|
All E-texts (click on them),
professor lectures, and our major authors/books (the ones ordered for the
bookstore) are required reading. The E-texts are embedded
within the lectures at appropriate junctures as well as being linked
separately on the calendar in the column directly below.
|
Pay attention to the ebb and flow of the
workload and apportion your time accordingly!
|
|
Week 1: Aug 22-28
|
Prof:
Scientific Revolution & Protestant Revolution
(click on the green link above for my lecture)
Prof:
Enlightenment
|
|
Before
the Enlightenment: The Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation
|
The four Wiki articles below include miscellaneous bullet-style lists, which
may be quickly skimmed. Concentrate on the main paragraphs; skim,
judiciously.
E-text: Great Chain
of Being "Wiki" article & illustration
E-text: “Wiki” Scientific Revolution
E-text: “Wiki” Reformation
E-text: “Wiki” Enlightenment
|
The
Enlightenment I: Putting Nature in the Encyclopedia
|
E-text: Charles W.
Peale painting and Ben Franklin perfection chart
E-text: “Wiki” Linnaeus (read 1st several
paragraphs, and "Linnaen taxonomy" sections)
E-text: Scientific Revolution Critique
E-text: Diderot Enlightenment Encyclopedia
table of contents image
|
If the FIU bookstore is tardy in ordering the first book (John
Locke’s 2nd Treatise), you can find an e-text
version below.
http://www.wjmi.org/DOCS/2dtreat.htm
You may also find all the books by searching and ordering using www.amazon.com, if you want to try for used
copies.
CLICK THE "Prof...." LINKS TO THE FAR LEFT FOR MY LECTURES. YOU
SHOULD LOOK AT THESE BEFORE, DURING, AND/OR AFTER YOU READ OUR MAIN AUTHORS
(IT'S UP TO YOU, ACCORDING TO YOUR LEARNING STYLE). WITHIN THE LECTURES ARE
LINKS TO E-TEXTS; THE E-TEXTS, FOR CLARITY, ARE ALSO ALWAYS SEPARATED OUT AND
GIVEN DIRECTLY IN THE MIDDLE COLUMN TO THE LEFT.
THE E-TEXTS ARE MANDATORY READING.
|
|
Week 2:
Aug 29-Sept 4
|
Prof: Locke
|
|
The Enlightenment
II: Possessive Selfhood, Civil and Political Rights, and the Delights of
Property
|
Locke, Second
Treatise:
Editor’s note & Chapters I-V, VI (sections 54-58, 60, 70-76), VII (sections
77, 87-91), VIII (sections 95-101, 115-22), IX, X, XVIII (199, 203, 204,
207-210) & XIX (211-212, 219-230, 240-243)
|
Remember to contribute to the
Discussion Forum; and remember to cut-and-paste your substantial postings in
an accumulating file, which you will turn in at the end of the semester.
I cannot emphasize too strongly: Discussion Forum participation is equivalent
to attending class; it is very easy to procrastinate on this, and, as it is a
major requirement, you will not pass the course if you don’t submit postings
throughout the semester per the instructions on the Syllabus.
Required Diagnostic Exam (does not
affect your course grade, but take to familiarize yourself with the type of
questions etc.) Instructions:
1-Hour, to be taken b/w
Saturday Sept 3rd
9:00pm & Monday Sept 5th 11:59pm
|
|
Week 3:
Sept 5-11
|
Prof: Equiano
|
|
The
Enlightenment III: Skepticism, Critique, & the Advancement of Freedom
|
Equiano, The
Life of...:
Editor’s Note or Introduction (not the Preface written by Equiano
himself!!!); Chapters I-III, IV (first several pages), V, VII-VIII, X-XI, XII
(first several pages; last several pages), & Preface (Preface only makes
sense after you've read the narrative)
Be sure to read Chapter I, II, etc., not just the sections within the
chapters, which are also numbered I, II, etc.
E-text: Equiano--click on several (not all!)
of the "next" buttons for the historical context of Equiano's
narrative
E-text: a summary of the intriguing
"fabrication" issue of the early chapters of Equiano's narrative
|
DEAR SOME STUDENTS: SOME OF
YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CHECKING YOUR EMAIL WITHIN THE BLACKBOARD SYSTEM FOR
IMPORTANT MESSAGES. AND SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN
READING OR INITIATING POSTS. YOU GET TO BOTH AREAS OF THE SYSTEM BY
CLICKING ON THE ICONS ON THE FAR LEFT OF THE BLACKBOARD MENU. WE’RE NOW IN
THE SECOND WEEK, AND VERY SOON THE “SOME” SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH “ZERO”!
Required Online Exam#1 Instructions:
1-Hour, to be taken b/w
Saturday Sept
10th 9:00pm & Monday Sept 12th 11:59pm
|
|
Week 4:
Sept 12-18
|
|
Read the Paine e-text biography below and then read the first page or so of
the first chapter of his famous The Age of Reason (1794-6)
in the next e-text. Then read, in the next e-text, the first several
paragraphs of the Wiki. entry on Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman (1792).
E-text: Tom Paine--biography
E-text: Tom Paine—read the first page of the first
chapter of The Age of Reason
E-text: Mary Wollstonecraft—read just the first several
paragraphs
|
|
|
Week 5:
Sept 19-25
|
Prof:
Romanticism
|
|
Bourgeois Spaces and the Sublime: The Romantic
Rebellion & the Discovery of Interiority
|
E-text: Rousseau
E-text: W. Blake--Biography (just read the
first several paragraphs)
E-text: J. Keats--biography (read the
"Life" part after opening paragraph)
E-text: Romantic Era Poems
|
Link
for Instructions NOT READY: For Essay#1 Due Monday Sept 26th by Midnight
|
|
Week 6:
Sept 26-Oct 2
|
Romanticism lecture above includes Prof. points on Shelley
|
Shelley, Frankenstein:
Read the editor's introduction & chronologies (vii-xxi) before reading
the novel. The editor's introduction provides a very tidy cultural history of
the shift from the Enlightenment to Romantic periods.
|
Important:
Please remember that although some lag time is acceptable (working students
often post on the weekend following the week's readings) in respect to the
Discussion forums, being chronically out of season is not acceptable.
To mix the metaphor: you don’t want to join the party, when the party has
moved on to another locale.
|
|
Week 7:
Oct 3-9
|
|
Frankenstein
continued
|
|
|
Week 8:
Oct 10-16
|
Prof: Realism
Prof: Big
Summary Thus Far
|
|
The
Age of Social Realism: The View from Below
|
There
is no assigned book or e-text for the Social Realism unit; but do read the
brief excerpts in the lecture to the left.
|
|
|
Week 9:
Oct 17-23
|
Prof: Darwin
|
|
Revolutionary
Thinkers I: Rewriting the History of Nature
|
Darwin, Origin
of Species:
Editor’s Intro. (sections 1, 2, 3, & 5), Darwin’s Intro., Chapters I-III,
Chapter IV (46-53top, 61bottom-65top, 72bottom-74), Chapter VI cut,
& Chapter XIV (115bottom-121)
It is absolutely crucial that you read the edition ordered for the course; it
is a "great hits" of Darwin's much, much longer treatise.
|
Again: Please remember that although some lag time is
acceptable (working students often post on the weekend following the week's
readings) in respect to the Discussion forums, being chronically out of
season is not acceptable. To mix the metaphor: you
don’t want to join the party, when the party has moved on to another locale.
Required Online Exam#2 Instructions
NOT READY:1-Hour, to be taken b/w Saturday Oct 22nd 9:00pm & Monday Oct
24th 11:59pm
|
|
Week 10:
Oct 24-30
|
Prof: Marx
(main lecture)
|
|
Revolutionary
Thinkers II: Rewriting the History of Social Relations
|
Marx, Communist
Manifesto
Read the editor's introduction; and then Parts 1 (Bourgeois and
Proletarians), 2 (Proletarians and Communists), & 4 (Position of the
Communists...).
Please note: there aren't many pages to be read in the Communist
Manifesto, but they are dense.
It is also especially important to read the Prof. lecture in conjunction with
the CM. Marx in the CM doesn’t spend much time
explaining his economic theory of surplus value/exploitation (he does so in
other writings); if you don’t understand his idea of surplus value/exploitation,
you won’t have the foundation to understand the CM itself.
|
Please note Oct 31st
Monday is the last day to drop the course with a DR grade.
|
|
Week 11:
Oct 31-Nov 6
|
Prof: Marx
(graph and perspectives)
|
E-text: Adam Smith
|
|
|
Week 12:
Nov 7-13
|
Prof: Freud
|
|
Revolutionary
Thinkers III: The Discovery of the Unconscious
|
Freud: Civilization
and its Discontents:
Chapters 1-VII (not Chapter VIII)
|
Link for
Instructions NOT READY: For Essay#2 Due Monday Nov 14th by Midnight
|
|
Week 13:
Nov 14-20
|
Prof: Modernism in Philosophy and
Art
|
|
Modernism:
Angst, Aesthetics, and the Abysses of Horror
|
There
is no ordered book for this final unit. Besides the two e-texts on
Nietzsche, be sure to take extra care to navigate your way through the Prof.
online lecture so that you read (and listen!) to everything intended. Thanks.
E-text: Nietzsche biography
E-text: Nietzsche
essay--On Truth and Lie (click on both part 1 and part 2)
Go here if above link fails
|
|
|
Week 14:
Nov 21-27
|
Prof lecture:
Fanon
|
|
Power
and its Discontents in the Modern World
|
E-text: Frantz Fanon biography
E-text: Frantz Fanon speech
|
|
|
Week 15:
Nov 28-Dec 4
|
|
|
Required Online Exam#3 Instructions
NOT READY: 1-Hour, to be taken b/w Saturday Dec 3rd 9:00pm & Monday Dec 5th
11:59pm
|
|
Week 16:
Dec 5-10
Finals Week
Mon.-Sat.
|
Prof: PDF
Summary of Course Page One
|
To
the left is a summary of the readings and corresponding issues, for the
entire semester, on two PDFs.
If you read thru them you will be able to self-test your recognition of the
readings/issues. There may be one or two authors referred to on the grids
that were not included this semester--ignore them.
|
Link for
Instructions NOT READY: For Discussion Forum
Due Dec 7th Wed. by Midnight
|
|
Dec. 14 Wed: Grades Submitted
Dec. 15 Thurs: Grades available in the Panthersoft grade kiosk
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|