| Week One - Introduction
to History and Global Perspective |
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Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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Assignment
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Tuesday,
22 January |
Meet in Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)
Introduction to NCLC 130
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Frances Fitzgerald
Linda Simon
Czeslaw Milosz
Thomas Kuhn
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Wednesday,
23 January |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Carl Becker
Peter Berger
Herodotus
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
The Return of Martin Guerre, Introduction & Chapter
I
Stephen Satris
Introduce:the weekly integrative essay assignment
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Thursday,
24 January |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Eviatar Zerubavel
Clifford Geertz
Due: Transformation, Chapters I & II
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Meet in Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Lecture: Professor T. Mills Kelly(Dept. of History)
View:
Late Antiquity Tape |
Integrative Essay #1
(Due Monday);
Watch Middle Ages Tape |
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| Week Two: Ideologies and
their Creation |
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Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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Assignment
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Monday,
28 January |
Meet in Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)
Lecture and Workshop:
Professor Jim Young(Library)
Research and the Transformation Project
Due: Integrative Essay #1
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
James Kavanagh: Ideology
Plato (The Noble Lie)
Selections from Qu'ran Genesis: Creation
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Begin Research Exercise #1 |
Tuesday,
29 January |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Plato (Euthyphro)
Elaine Pagels
Tertullian
Eusebius of Cesarea
Procopius
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Meet in Seminar
Continue discussion
Meet in Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema - 1-30 pm)
Lecture:
Professor Sumaiya Hamdani (Department of History)
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Wednesday,
30 January |
Meet in Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
Wedding in Galilee
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Study Afternoon
Group work to prepare for seminar tomorrow
Screening of Western Civilization Tapes
(location TBA)
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Thursday,
31 January |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Theodor
Herzl
Negib
Azouri
UN
Security Council
Palestinian
National Charter
Due: Transformation Thesis Paragraph & Research Exercise
#1
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Amos Oz
Rashid Khalidid
Poetry (Darwish, Pagis, Tuquan, Amichai)
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Integrative Essay #2
(Due Monday) |
Week Three: Imperialism
Past and Present
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Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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Assignment
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Monday,
4 February |
Meet in Seminar
View:
Scientific Revolution
Discuss:
Mary Louise Pratt
Michel Foucault
(painting)
Christopher
Columbus
Due: Integrative Essay #2
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Meet in Computer Labs
(NCC lab., Robinson A 101 & West 150)
Workshop: Writing Hypertext
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Tuesday,
5 February |
Site Visit |
Site Visit
Screening of Western Civilization Tapes (location TBA)
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Wednesday
6 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Stephen Schwartz
Juan Ginés De Sépulveda
Bartolomé de las Casas
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Meet in Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Lecture:
Professor Matt Karush(Department of History)
View:
School of the Americas
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Thursday,
7 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Ronald
Reagan
CIA Manual
International
Court of Justice
Gomez-Pena
Due: Research Exercise #2
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Coco Fusco
Gloria Anzaldúa
Ernesto Cardenal
Louis Perez
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Integrative Essay #3
(Due Monday) |
| Week Four: The Constructions
of Identities |
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Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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Assignment
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Monday,
11 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Roy Porter
Martin Guerre, pp. 19 -34
Leon Battista Alberti
Declarations of Rights (WCR, pp. 221-230)
Renaissance and Enlightenment Tapes
Due: Integrative Essay # 3
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Meet in Cohort
(JC Cinema)
View: Vertigo
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Tuesday,
12 February
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Vertigo
Marilyn Frye
Kate Bornstein
Ursula K. Le Guin
Martin Guerre, pp. 35 - 62
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Meet in Cohort
(JC Cinema)
Lecture:
Professor Bergoffen (Department of Philosophy)
Break to Seminar
Discuss: Sigmund Freud readings
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Wednesday,
13 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Sigmund Freud
Kitty Tsui
Martin Guerre, pp. 63 -94
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Student Conferences (Group by Group)
Due at conference: Art project proposal
Student Group Work
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Thursday,
14 February |
Meet in Cohort
(JC Cinema)
View:To Live
Due: Transformation Project & Research Exercise #3
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Martin Guerre, pp. 94 to the end
Mircea Eliade
Li Liu
Gish Jen
Bei Dao
3-00 PM: Tango Performance
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Collaborative
Art Project on Identity
(Due Monday) |
| Week Five: The Nation
and The Family |
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Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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Assignment
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Monday,
18 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Ernest Gellner
Ernst Renan
Benedict Anderson
Alexis de Tocqueville
Johann Herder
Due: Art Project and Group Essay
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Meet in Cohort
(JC Cinema)
Lecture:
Professor Ben Carton
(Department of History)
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Tuesday,
19 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Ben Carton lecture
Franz Fanon
Performance Art
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Friedrich Engels
Mary Wollstonecraft
E. J. Graff
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Wednesday,
20 February |
Museum Day
Museum
of African Art
10-00 am
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Museum Day
Holocaust
Museum
2-30 pm
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Thursday,
21 February |
Meet in Cohort
(JC Cinema)
Performance:
(Professor Suzanne Scott & Lynne Constantine)
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
T. S. Eliot
Albert Camus
Tristan Tzara
HD: from Trilogy
Gertrude Stein
Walter Benjamin
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Assignment Complete Site
Visit Web Site and prepare presentation for Monday
Integrative Essay #4
due 28 February |
| Week Six: |
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Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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Assignment
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Monday,
25 February |
Meet in Seminar
Present:
Web site based on week three site visit
(20 minutes for each presentation)
Due: Completed Web Site and Group Presentation
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Herbert Hirsch
Johasson & Bjornson
The Third Chimp:
In Black and White
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Tuesday,
26 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Maus
Adolf Hitler
Jean Hans Mayer Amery
Holocaust Museum Visit and Web Site
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Meet in Cluster
(Rooms TBA)
Portfolio Workshop
(plus informal discussions with faculty)
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Wednesday,
27 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Maus
Charlotte Delbo
Primo Levi
Paul
Celan
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Meet in Cohort
(JC Cinema)
View:
The Triumph of Evil
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Thursday,
28 February |
Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Timothy Longman
Alain Destexhe
Berry & Berry
Due: Integrative Essay #4
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Meet in Seminar
Discuss:
Czeslaw Milosz
Thucydides
Raimon Pannikkar
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Assignment:
Individual Portfolio
(Due 6 March, 12 noon)
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