Humanities 2B Reading List and Semester Plan: Spring 2017 Seminars: 11 Cooper DMH 354 21 Hohmann DMH 357 31 Peter ENG 403 41 Lindahl SH 241 1. Thursday January 26 Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution Read: Philosophic Classics: Marx, Alienated Labor, pages 986-994; Communist Manifesto, pages 995-1003. 2. Tuesday January 31 John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism and Individualism Read: Philosophic Classics: Mill, Utilitarianism, pages 920-939; 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: www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html 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. (http://docsouthursday.unc.edu/neh/douglass/menu.html) 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
Read: Stokstad: Vol. 6, Chapter 31, Realism and The Avant-Garde, pages 972-987, Impressionism, pages 987-1007. 9. Thursday February 23 Friedrich Nietzsche: The Limits of Knowledge and The Revaluation of Values Read: Philosophic Classics: Nietzsche, pages 1033-1060; 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 14-78. 11. 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 1017-1031, Postwar Art, pages 1071-1080; Chapter 33, Pop Art and The Dematerialization of The Art Object, pages 1091-1103. 13. Thursday March 9 Populism and Progressivism in The United States Read: Heffner: Chapter 18 Grassroots Rebellion, pages 261-272, including The Populist Party Platform ; Chapter 20 The Progressive Ferment, pages 297-312, 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 1. 14. Tuesday March 14 World War I Read: Remarque, All Quiet on The Western Front, pages 1-186. 15. Thursday March 16 Twentieth Century Revolutions Read: Remarque, All Quiet on The Western Front, pages 187-296. 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 597-99). Also read, on Handout: 2
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 754-762. Philosophic Classics: Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism, pages 1156-1173. 19. 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 386-406. Start reading Elie Wiesel, Night, pages 1-26. 22. Tuesday April 18 The Holocaust, Genocides, and Acts of Inhumanity to Peoples in the 20th Century Read: Elie Wiesel, Night, pages 27-109. 23. Thursday April 20 Postcolonial African Literature Read : Norton vol. F: Tayeb Salih, The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid (pages 815-824); Ngugi Wa Thiong o, Wedding at the Cross (pages 1037-1048); Bessie Head, The Deep River (pages 1098-1103); Nawal el Saadawi, In Camera (1104-1114). 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 2-9. 25. Thursday April 27 Pop Music Read: Heffner: Chapter 26 America at Midcentury, pages 425-436. 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 439-445, 457-476. 27. Thursday May 4 Feminist Theory: Gender, Sexuality, and the Realities of Being a Woman 3
Read: Heffner: Chapter 27: Roe v. Wade, pages 542-548; Judith Butler, from Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory (Introduction & Section I, pages 519-524.); and Michelle Goldberg, What is a Woman: The Dispute Between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism (Website) Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2 28. Tuesday May 9 The Cold War, Vietnam, and Watergate Read: Heffner: Chapters 25-28 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 29-32 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
Book List for Humanities 2B New Books for Humanities 2B: Crane, Stephen, The Open Boat and Other Stories (Dover Thrift). ISBN-13: 978-0486275475. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Dover. ISBN: 978-0-486-27790-5 Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents, Norton, ISBN: 978-0393304510 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: 978-0486298573. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on The Western Front, Ballantine Books. ISBN: 978-0449213940 Henry David Thoreau. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Thrift. ISBN-13: 978-0486275635 Wiesel, Elie. Night, Bantam. ISBN: 978-0553272536 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: http://www.sjsu.edu/people/james.lindahl/courses 5