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History and the Humanities II
HIST102 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 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 and 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. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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