HIST102 - History and the Humanities II

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Academic Year 2003/2004

History and the Humanities II
HIST 102 SP

This two-semester course offers first-year students an opportunity to explore the humanities from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, traditionally Western as well as global, and to make connections between humanistic learning and history. The course is a small discussion seminar in which primary source materials, or classic texts, are used exclusively. An effort will be made to examine the interrelationship of ideas in the different disciplines and to compare history, literary analysis, philosophy and theory as modes of inquiry and as ways of thinking about documents and texts. The course thereby aims to provide students with the critical tools by which to analyze texts produced in the remote or recent past. The course also serves a related purpose: to familiarize students with the heritage of Western historical tradition and to impart knowledge of the crucial role of history and the humanities as a component in general education.

MAJOR READINGS

Montaigne, ESSAYS AND SELECTED WRITINGS Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE Shakespeare, KING LEAR Diderot, RAMEAU'S NEPHEW Rousseau, FIRST AND SECOND DISCOURSES Marx, COMMUNIST MANIFESTO Ibsen, HEDDA GABLER AND OTHER PLAYS Mann, BUDDENBROOKS Dostoevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Nietzsche, THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS Hesse, DEMIAN Kafka, METAMORPHOSIS - THE PENAL COLONY Freud, CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This is a First-year Initiative course.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA HIST Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Holmes,Oliver W.

Times: ..T.R.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: PAC136

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: X Jr. major: X

SR. non-major: X Jr. non-major: X SO: X FR: 19

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing

FYI: First Year Initiative:Seminar

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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004