History and the Humanities
HIST 101
Fall 2015
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01
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| Certificates: International Relations |
This 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. Students may take HIST101 without having to take HIST102. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA HIST |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Thucydides, THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Herodotus, THE HISTORIES
Aeschylus, ORESTEIA (Agammemnon, Libation, Beares, The Eumenides)
Sophocles, OEDIPUS THE KING and ANTIGONE
Plato, THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES and THE REPUBLIC
Aristotle, THE POLITICS
Virgil, THE AENEID and OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three papers. Final paper in form of take-home final exam. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
No late papers will be accepted. Class discussion.
This class will be graded on a pass/no pass basis and students must achieve a minimum cumulative grade of C+ (78.5) in order to pass the course. Students will receive letter grades on all assignments and, while invited to office hours at any time, will also be required to meet with the instructor once around mid-term to discuss progress in the course. In lieu of a final grade, students will receive written comments available also to her/his advisor; the instructor hopes the comments will serve as the basis for a conversation about intellectual growth and curiosity, objectives, and skills and their assessment. |
| Instructor(s): Holmes,Oliver W. Times: ..T.R.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: PAC104; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
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