Humanities 1301, 9:30-11:00, CN 89492, HCC Spring 2016 Calendar, Professor onan We discuss assigned readings on the date listed. I may augment or delete readings and assignments. Copies of syllabus and assignments are available on the Learning Web: http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/michael.ronan. It is your responsibility to download and print assignments and handouts if appropriate. LW = Posted on the Learning Web Handout = Handed out in class (may or may not be on Learning Web) Q = Quiz WEEK 1 January 19 21 Introduction to course Group Discussion: Experiences: What are the humanities? heir purpose? Human Images and Humanistic esponses Homework: write diagnostic and read syllabus and taste essay (handout) Syllabus (Q) Discuss Syllabus, Calendar, Assignments: Quizzes, Modules, Field rips aste Essay responses Module Sign-ups WEEK 2 January 26 28 Module #1: Can there be Liberty and Justice for All? heme: Emancipation Booker. Washington, he Atlanta Exposition Address: LW (Q) W. E. B. Du Bois: On Double Consciousness and On Booker. Washington from he Souls of Black Folks: LW (two readings) (Q) he Veil and Double-Consciousness: LW he Great Migration: LW he Harlem enaissance: What Was It, and Why Does It Matter?: LW Alain Locke: LW Selected poems by Langston Hughes: LW Claude McKay and Gwendolyn Brooks poems: LW WEEK 3 February 2 4 ichard Wright, he Ethics of Living Jim Crow : LW (Q) Zora Neal Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me : LW (Q) Art: Jacob Lawrence and Aaron Douglas: LW Art: Betye Saar, obert Colescott: LW
Jazz, Blues, Swing, and Hip Hop Jazz and the African American Literary radition by Gerald Early: LW Billy Holiday and Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen: LW WEEK 4 February 9 11 he Civil ight Movement: 1919 1960s, by Dr. Kenneth. Janken: LW alph Ellison s he Battle oyal: LW (Q) Malcolm X s Message to the Grass oots: LW Gil Scot Heron, he evolution will not be elevised: LW he Quest for Gender Equality From Simone de Beauvoir s, he Second Sex: LW (Q) Housekeeping Monthly: Instructions for Wives: LW Why Women Stay Quiet at Work: LW WEEK 5 February 16 18 he Pill and Feminism Ann Sexton s Self in 1958 : LW Adrienne ich, Diving into the Wreck : LW Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman LW Feminist Art Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger: LW WEEK 6 February 23 25 Module Presentations (A, B, C) Module Presentations (D, E, F) urn in hard copy of Formal Group Paper and email Prezi link before presentation WEEK 7 March 1 3 Background to Modernism Destruction of the Library at Alexandria (he Swerve) he Great Chain of Being he enaissance: Discovering Knowledge How Did We Get So Modern (ppt): LW Victorian imeline of Inventions: LW Impressionism to Conceptual Art: LW Humanities and the 20 th Century (ppt): LW Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d Avignon Matisse and the Fauves: New Color Conceptual Art, Cubism, Collage, and Assemblage
WEEK 8 March 8 10 Field rip response paper #1 due From Franz Kafka s: he Metamorphosis (Q) E. E. Cummings: she being Brand Irony and Symbolism Dreamwork: Abstract and Visionary Surrealists he Women of Surrealism Igor Stravinsky: he ite of Spring (music) Nijinsky: he ite of Spring (choreography) Spring Break! No Classes. WEEK 9 March 22 24 BA Module #2: Is Humanity Indifferent to Suffering and Death? heme: War and Its Aftermath Film: Verdun, Mud, Desertion, Mutiny, and Armistice (Youube) Film: Blackadder: A Bout of Insanity and Plan F: Goodbyeee (Youube) WEEK 10 March 29 31 Alfred Lord ennyson s he Charge of the Light Brigade LW Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est LW From. S. Eliot s he Waste Land LW Yeats he Second Coming LW From Erich Maria emarque s All Quiet on the Western Front LW (Q) Overarching raits of Modernism: LW Sigmund Freud: Id, Ego, Super Ego, Sublimation From Freud s Civilization and its Discontents LW (Q) Carl Jung: Archetypes, Collective Unconscious WEEK 11 April 5 7 Ernest Hemingway s Soldier s Home : LW (Q) Art Deco Period LW he International Style of Architecture LW Frank Lloyd Wright, he Bauhaus, and Le Corbusier State sponsored art USS and art
Mexican Muralists LW WPA in the U.S. Great Depression LW WEEK 12 April 12 14 Paper due: Field rip Analysis paper: Menil Collection Pablo Picasso s Guernica otalitarianism and World War II LW Film: Hitler Youth ally Speech: riumph of Will (Youube) Holocaust Facts LW From Elie Wiesel s Film: Night and Fog (DVD) Overarching raits of Post Modernism: LW Stephen Hicks: Post Modern hemes, Clip 1 (Youube) Dada and Surreal Photography Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball: LW Work of a Picture Hanger ; o Make a Dadaist Poem by Beatrice Wood: LW Design of Urinal : LW WEEK 13 April 19 21 Existentialism LW Existentialism and the heater LW Samuel Becket s Waiting for Godot Jean Paul Sartre s No Exit im O Brien, he hings We Carry : handout (Q) Visual Arts at Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism LW Architecture, Music and Dance Mid-Century Mark wain s he War Prayer: LW (Q) WEEK 14 April 26-28 Prep for Final Exam Presentation Work BA WEEK 15 May 3-5 Module 1 Presentations (E, D, C) Module 1 Presentations (B, A) urn in hard copy of Formal Group Paper and email Prezi link before presentation WEEK 16 May 10
9 a.m 11 a.m Final Exam