History and the Humanities II
HIST 102
Fall 2014 not offered
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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. Students may take HIST102 without having taken HIST101. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA HIST |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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, Pillars of the Community
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Mann, Buddenbrooks
Hesse, Demian
Kafka, Metamorphosis, Penal Colony
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three papers. Final paper in the form of take-home exam |
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