192. Great Books. Open to Honors freshmen
only. (4). (HU).
Continuation; of Great Books 191, from Plato to the Renaissance.
We will read Plato, Symposium and Republic;
Vergil, The Aeneid; selections from the Old Testament
and New Testament; St. Augustine, Confessions; Dante, The Divine Comedy ( Inferno, and selections from Purgatorio and Paradiso ); Wolfram von Eschenbach, Tristan; and selections from Boccaccio. Great Books 192
is open only to freshmen in the Honors Program; other students
wishing to take a similar course are encouraged to elect Great
Books 202. (Cameron)
202. Great Books. (3). (HU).
Section 001: Romans, Christians, Medieval Synthesis, and New Secular
Forces. We will read, discuss, and write about two or three
Roman comedies of Plautus, Cicero's essay to his son On Duties,
Vergil's Aeneid, selections from the New Testament,
St. Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno,
Machiavelli's The Prince, and Shakespeare's Antony
and Cleopatra. Grading will be based upon class participation, a series of short essays (total of 10-12 pages), a midterm, and a final exam. Our texts have delighted, instructed, and influenced
many minds, great and small, for centuries, and form an important
part of the foundation of our culture. Our purpose will not be
to learn about these works, but to learn the works themselves, so that they become, in a sense, a part of our experience, our
personal property. The class will be limited to no more than thirty
students. Cost:2 WL:1 (Wallin)
221. Great Books of the Far East. (4).
(HU).
An introduction to some of the great books that have exerted a
commanding influence on the lives, thought, and literary experience
of the Chinese and Japanese peoples through the ages, and that
have the power to delight or enlighten Western readers today.
Texts will include two monuments of fiction, The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber )
and The Tale of Genji, set in two high points of these
great civilizations and depicting in vivid detail their splendor
and decadence. Other Chinese readings will include two Confucian
texts of social and political philosophy; one mystical Taoist
text; one wild Buddhist text about the experience of enlightenment;
selections from The Book of Songs; and Monkey,
a novel of myth, fantasy, comedy, and allegory. Other Japanese
readings will include selections from classical poetry; a book
on the Way of the samurai; a travel journal by the HAIKU poet
Basho; a pair of modern novels by Natsume Soseki and Kawabata
Yasunari depicting families in the context of social change; and Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain, the great documentary novel
of human loss and endurance in the wake of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Occasional short written assignments, two brief papers, and a
final examination are required. (Lin and Ramirez-Christensen)
394(294)/Women's Studies
394. Great Books by Women Writers. Sophomores standing
and above. (4). (HU).
This course is designed to introduce students to "Great Books"
by European and American women writers from the twelfth to the
twentieth century. Taught by a series of lecturers using differing
critical approaches, the course aims to provide a perspective
from which to critique the traditional Great Books canon; to examine
differences in women's writing in specific contexts; and to explore
basic constructs of feminist literary criticism and theory. Texts
to be read include: Virginia Woolf's A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN; Hildegard
von Bingen's hymns; Juana Ines de la Cruz's poetry; Madame de
La Fayette's THE PRINCESSE DE CLEVES; George Sand's INDIANA; Woolf's
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE; Toni Morrison's SULA. There will be two lectures
and two discussions per week. Written work: two short papers;
a term paper; and a final exam. [Cost:2] [WL:1] (Herrmann and others)
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