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 3304 Schedule of Readings & Assignments Due
NOTE: I reserve the right to change this schedule at any time during the semester.

The reading listed next to a date is the reading you should have completed by that date. 

Unit 1: Modernity and the West

Week 1

Jan 17--Introduction; Definitions & Characteristics of Modernity; The Masters of Suspicion--Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche [Handout]

Week 2

Jan 22--Chesterton, chapters 1-8; [Rise of the Western-Dominated World] 

Jan 24--Chesterton, chapters 9-15

Week 3

Jan 29--Freud ix-42

Jan 31--Freud 43-71

Week 4

Feb 5-- High Modernism in Visual Art and Music (Report #1) 

Feb 7-- Wiesel v-62; [Key Events of WWI & WWII]
Week 5

Feb 12--Wiesel 63-109; [Jewish & Christian Responses to the Holocaust]

Exam #1 Distributed here  

Unit 2: Reconceiving the World

Feb 14--Bonhoeffer, 3-17, 128-180; also read The Barmen Declaration [Twentieth-Century Theology]

Week 6

Feb 19--Bonhoeffer, 190-194, 198-200, 203, 210-212, 216-220, 236-240, 248-252, 271-273, 275-287, 294-300

Feb 21--Bonhoeffer, 310-313, 319-329, 334-348, 357-362, 369-376, 380-383, 386-393, 400-401

Week 7  

Feb 26--T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, East Coker

Feb 28--T.S. Eliot, Dry Salvages

Week 8

Mar 5--T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

Mar 7--Malraux, chapters I-III

Mar 9-Exam #1 due in LC #222 by 5pm  

Spring Break March 12-16

Week 9

Mar 19--Malraux, chapters IV-V, VIII; [Summary of chapters VI-VII]

Mar 21--Wittgenstein--selections from Part I (Report #2) [Modern Philosophy II]
Week 10

Mar 26---Wittgenstein--selections from Part II (Report #2)

Mar 28--Kuhn, Chapters 1-4 [Philosophies of Science]
Week 11

Apr 2--Kuhn, Chapters 5-8

Apr 4--Kuhn, Chapters 9-10

Week 12

Apr 9--Kuhn, Chapters 11-13 & Postscript

Exam #2 Distributed here

Unit 3: The Cold War & A Post-Colonial World

Apr 11--The Cold War & Film (Report #3)--If possible, we may meet out of class to view one of the films together.

Apr 12--Exam #2 due in LC #222 by 5pm  

Week 13

Apr 16--Death of the King's Horseman [Key Events in Colonialism]

Apr 18--Death of the King's Horseman

Week 14

Apr 23--Pamuk, Chapters 1-8  [Changes in Islam]

Apr 24--Research paper due in LC #222 by 5pm

Apr 25--Pamuk Chapters 9-17

Weeks 15-16

Apr 30--Pamuk Chapters 18-28

May 2--Pamuk Chapters 29-37

May 9--Final, 12-2pm--John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, selections; Three Tales (in class)

Take-Home Final due by May 10 in LC #222 by 12 noon

NOTE: Plan ahead in case of work or other scheduling conflicts.
 

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding