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191. Great Books. Open
to Honors first-year students only. No credit granted to those
who have completed or are enrolled in Gt. Bks. 201 or Classical
Civ. 101. (4). (HU).
Great Books 191 will survey the classical works of ancient Greece.
Among the readings will be Homer's Iliad and Odyssey;
a number of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes; Herodotus' Histories; Thucydides' History
of the Peloponnesian War; and several of Plato's dialogues.
The course format is two lectures and two discussion meetings
a week. Six to eight short papers will be assigned; there will
be midterm and final examinations. Great Books 191 is open to
first-year students in the Honors Program, and to other students
with the permission of the Director of the Great Books Program.
Cost:2 WL:3
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291. Great Books of
Modern Literature. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors
in the College Honors Program. (4). (HU).
This course is designed to be a continuation of Great Books 192
for Honors sophomores primarily, and deals with books from the
Renaissance to the present. Great Books 192 dealt thematically
with the integration of the individual into larger institutions
and traditions, and the sequel, Great Books 291, will deal with the subsequent resistance, repudiation, and withdrawal from such
traditional communities. There will be two lectures and two recitations
each week. The texts will be: Cervantes, Don Quixote;
Goethe, Faust; Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment;
Flaubert, Madame Bovary; and Twain, Huckleberry Finn.
Non-honor students and Honors first-year students need permission
of the Great Books Director. (Cameron, Amrine, Makin, Siebers)
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350/Amer. Cult. 360.
Great Books of the Founding Fathers. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. (3). (Excl).
This course is about the making of the American Constitution, both as an intellectual and as a political event. The first third
of the course focuses on the intellectual background of the Constitutional
Convention. During these weeks, we will read selections from the
works of John Locke, the Baron de Montesquieu, and Adam Smith.
We will also read a variety of Revolutionary essays including
Thomas Jefferson's "Summary View of the Rights of British
North America," John Adams' "Novanglus" letters, John Dickinson's "Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer,"
and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." In the middle third
of the course, we will turn to James Madison's Notes of Debates
in the Federal Convention, and trace the Constitutional Convention's
efforts day by day, from the initial proposal through the finished
document. In the final third of the course, we will study the
ratification debates, through reading much of the Federalist
Papers and a variety of anti-Federalist essays. The course
will require two ten-page essays and a two-hour final examination.
The first essay, due at the end of the first third of the course, will be a study of the ideas of one of the constitutional thinkers
important to the Founding Fathers but not discussed directly in the course. The second essay, due at the end of the second third, will explore the background and beliefs of one of the delegates
to the Convention. The course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Ordinarily Tuesday's class will be devoted to lecture and Thursday's
to a discussion of the week's reading. WL:1
(Thornton)
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