Humanities 2B Reading List and Semester Plan: Spring 2017

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1 Humanities 2B Reading List and Semester Plan: Spring 2017 Seminars: 11 Cooper DMH Hohmann DMH Peter ENG Lindahl SH Thursday January 26 Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution Read: Philosophic Classics: Marx, Alienated Labor, pages ; Communist Manifesto, pages Tuesday January 31 John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism and Individualism Read: Philosophic Classics: Mill, Utilitarianism, pages ; Mill, On Liberty, Chapters 1 & 2 (Website). 3. Thursday February 2 Darwin and Social Darwinism Read: Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter 4, Natural Selection (Website). See also: 4. Tuesday February 7 Slavery, Abolitionism and the Beginnings of the Women s Rights Movement in the United States Read: Heffner: Chapter 10 The Abolitionist Crusade, including excerpts from the first issue of The Liberator ; Chapter 11 The Sectional Conflict, including texts by John C. Calhoun and William J. Grayson; Chapter 12 The Fateful Decade, including the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and excerpts from the U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford. Frederick Douglass, What, to the American Slave, is Your 4 Th of July? (Website) Recommended Reading: Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. ( 5. Thursday February 9 Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau Read: Emerson, The Poet in Self-Reliance and other Essays; Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Walking in Civil Disobedience and other Essays. 6. Tuesday February 14 The American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln Read: Heffner: Chapter 13 War, including Lincoln's First Inaugural Address ; Chapter 14 The Prophet of Democracy, including The Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln s Gettysburg Address ; Chapter 15 The Conflict over Reconstruction, including Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. 7. Thursday February 16 American Literary Realism and NaturalismRead: Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories; Crane, "Maggie, Girl of the Streets" in The Open Boat and Other Stories. 8. Tuesday February 21 Realism and Impressionism in The Visual Arts 1

2 Read: Stokstad: Vol. 6, Chapter 31, Realism and The Avant-Garde, pages , Impressionism, pages Thursday February 23 Friedrich Nietzsche: The Limits of Knowledge and The Revaluation of Values Read: Philosophic Classics: Nietzsche, pages ; Nietzsche, "The Relation of the Rhetorical to Language" and "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense" (Excerpts) (Website) 10. Tuesday February 28 Joseph Conrad and Colonialism Read: Norton vol. F, Conrad, "Heart of Darkness," pages Thursday March 2 Freud Read: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Chs. III, IV, V, VI and VIII. 12. Tuesday March 7 Early 20 th Century Art Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Pop-Art Read: Stokstad: Vol. 6, Chapter 32, Early Modern Art, pages , Postwar Art, pages ; Chapter 33, Pop Art and The Dematerialization of The Art Object, pages Thursday March 9 Populism and Progressivism in The United States Read: Heffner: Chapter 18 Grassroots Rebellion, pages , including The Populist Party Platform ; Chapter 20 The Progressive Ferment, pages , including Theodore Roosevelt s The New Nationalism. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Excerpts) (Website) Recommended Reading: Gerston and Christensen, California Government and Politics: A Practical Approach (any recent edition [10 th or later]), Chapter Tuesday March 14 World War I Read: Remarque, All Quiet on The Western Front, pages Thursday March 16 Twentieth Century Revolutions Read: Remarque, All Quiet on The Western Front, pages Lenin and Mao Tse Tung selections (Website.) 16. Tuesday March 21 Classical Music from the 20 th to the 21st Century Reading: Review course materials and notes MIDTERM EXAM IN SEMINAR 17. Thursday March 23 Modernist Poetry Read: Norton vol. F: C.P. Cavafy, When the Watchman Saw the Light (page 511), Waiting for the Barbarians (page 512), and The City (page 513); Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write, (pages 585-6) Walking Around (pages 586-7) and Ode to the Tomato (pages ). Also read, on Handout: 2

3 Marianne Moore, Poetry ; The Fish ; Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Let America be America Again ; Madam and the Phone Bill ; Ezra Pound, L Art ; Portrait D une Femme ; The Seeing Eye ; Ancora ; William Carlos Williams, 3 Stances ; To Elsie Spring Break and Caesar Chavez Day 18. Tuesday April 4 French Existentialism Read: Norton vol. F, Camus, The Guest, pages Philosophic Classics: Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism, pages Thursday April 6 The Great Depression and The New Deal Read: Heffner: Chapter 22 Boom and Bust ; Chapter 23 The Roosevelt Revolution, including FDR's First Inaugural Address and A Rendezvous With Destiny. 20. Tuesday April 11 The Rise of Totalitarianism, Bureaucracy, and the Way to War Read: B. Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism (Excerpts). A. Hitler, My Struggle (Excerpts) (Website) 21. Thursday April 13 World War II and the Homefront Read: Heffner: Chapter 24 The End of Isolation," pages Start reading Elie Wiesel, Night, pages Tuesday April 18 The Holocaust, Genocides, and Acts of Inhumanity to Peoples in the 20th Century Read: Elie Wiesel, Night, pages Thursday April 20 Postcolonial African Literature Read : Norton vol. F: Tayeb Salih, The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid (pages ); Ngugi Wa Thiong o, Wedding at the Cross (pages ); Bessie Head, The Deep River (pages ); Nawal el Saadawi, In Camera ( ). 24. Tuesday April 25 California Government (Guest) Read: Gerston and Christensen, California Government and Politics: A Practical Approach (any recent edition [10th, 11th, or 12th]), Chapters Thursday April 27 Pop Music Read: Heffner: Chapter 26 America at Midcentury, pages TEST ON CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN SEMINAR 26. Tuesday May 2 Equal Protection of the Law: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights Read: Heffner: Chapter 27 From the New Frontier to the Great Society, pages , Thursday May 4 Feminist Theory: Gender, Sexuality, and the Realities of Being a Woman 3

4 Read: Heffner: Chapter 27: Roe v. Wade, pages ; Judith Butler, from Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory (Introduction & Section I, pages ); and Michelle Goldberg, What is a Woman: The Dispute Between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism (Website) Link: Tuesday May 9 The Cold War, Vietnam, and Watergate Read: Heffner: Chapters especially George Marshall The Marshall Plan, George F. Kennan The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Dwight D. Eisenhower s Farewell Address, John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, Lyndon Johnson Great Society speech, House Judiciary Committee Watergate Articles of Impeachment v. Richard M. Nixon. 29. Thursday May 11 Four Themes in American Culture and History: 1980-present Read: Heffner: Chapters especially Reagan Inaugural Addresses, Obama The Politics of Hope. Also postwar American poetry: The Beats and The New York School Poets A Sampling. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California. Frank O Hara; Ave Maria ; A Step Away from Them ; The Day Lady Died (Website). 30. Tuesday May 16 Celebration FINAL EXAMINATIONS: Monday May 22, 9:45-12:00. Short Answer Final in LECTURE hall. Wednesday May 24, 9:45-12:00. Long Answer Final in SEMINAR rooms. 4

5 Book List for Humanities 2B New Books for Humanities 2B: Crane, Stephen, The Open Boat and Other Stories (Dover Thrift). ISBN-13: Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Dover. ISBN: Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents, Norton, ISBN: Gerston and Christensen, California Government and Politics: A Practical Approach (any recent edition [10th, 11th, 12 th, 13th]). Used copies are available on Amazon for less than $5. We recommend against buying a new copy for $95 it is a very slim paperback. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories, Dover. ISBN-13: Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on The Western Front, Ballantine Books. ISBN: Henry David Thoreau. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Thrift. ISBN-13: Wiesel, Elie. Night, Bantam. ISBN: Books used in Humanities 2B purchased for previous semesters (useful for students joining the program out-of-sequence): Heffner, Richard. A Documentary History of The United States. Expanded and Updated edition. Signet/Penguin [Heffner] Baird, F. E. and Kaufmann, W., Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Nietzsche, 6 th ed. (Prentice- Hall). [Philosophic Classics] Stokstad, M. and Cothren, M.W., Art History: Portable Edition, 5 th ed., vol. 6. (Pearson). [Stokstad] Sprague, J. and Stuart D., The Speaker s Compact Handbook, 5 th ed. (Wadsworth Cengage). Online Readings [Website]: Online readings will be found on Professor Lindahl s website here: 5