ENG3014: Fall Calendar

ENG3014-05 | Fall 2007
Class: MW 3:35-4:50 p.m. WMS 201 and T 6:45-9:30 p.m. WMS 013 (optional)
Instructor: Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart

ENG3014-06 | Fall 2007
Class: M 6:45-9:30 p.m WMS 201 and T 6:45-9:30 p.m. WMS 013 (optional)
Instructor: Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart

Week One	Week Six	Week Eleven
Week Two	Week Seven	Week Twelve
Week Three	Week Eight	Week Thirteen
Week Four	Week Nine	Week Fourteen
Week Five	Week Ten	Week Fifteen

Classic and Medieval Origins

Week One: August 27-31
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8/27 - General Introduction: What is Critical Theory?
8/29 - Introduction to Class Policies and Requirements for the Course
Plato, "The Republic" (IP, pp. 21-35) and "The Ion" (CTSP, pp. 12-17) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 10-16),
Quiz 1

Supplementary Texts:
Plato, The Republic, Desmond Lee, Trans. (Viking Press, 1955), 2nd revised edition. >> See resources

R. Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Aug. 28: Technology Training at Williams 013, 6:45-9:30 p.m.

Week Two: September 3-7
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9/3 - Labor Day - No Class 9/5 - Plato, "The Republic," Books II, III, X (CTSP, pp. 18-37)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 16-36), Quiz on Plato
9/5 - Aristotle, "Poetics" (CTSP, pp. 50-66)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 52-69).

Supplementary Text:
Aristotle, Aristotle’s Poetics, S. H. Butcher, Trans. (Hill and Wang Publications, 1989). >> See resources
[The SE ppt is a take-home exercise.]

Sep 4 : Technology Training at Williams 013, 6:45-9:30 p.m.
Film Viewing of Se7en

Week Three: September 10-14
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Sign up for student group reports

9/10 - St. Augustine, "Confessions" (IP, pp. 49-54), Quiz on St. Augustine
9/12 - St. Augustine, "Books One and Two" (CTSP, pp. 108-113) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 141-146)
Film Viewing of Seven to be Arranged; you may watch this film on your own.

Supplementary Text:
Augustine, Confessions, Henry Chadwick, Trans. (Oxford University Press, 1998). >> See resources
[The SE ppt is a take-home exercise.]

Sept. 11: Film Viewing of The Matrix at Williams 013, 6:45-9:30 p.m.

Week Four: September 17-21
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Required Film: Seven; Supplementary Film: What Dreams May Come
9/17 - Dante Alighieri, "The Inferno" (IP, pp. 55-64)
9/19 - Dante Alighieri, "The Banquet" and "Letter to Can Grande Della Scala"
(CTSP, pp. 120-122)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 154-156)

Supplementary Text:
Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, Trans. John Ciardi (Signet, 2001).
>> See resources

Sept. 18: Film Viewing of Mindwalk at Williams 013, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Week Five: September 24-28
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September 29, 2007: You are invited to the Asian Coalition of Tallahassee's "Experience Asia" event (see: http://www.asiantlh.org/)

9/24 - Any Catching Up and Review
9/26 - Exam

Faces of the Modern

Student Reports Begin.
Final Paper Questions are Available Online.

Week Six: October 1-5
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10/1 - Bacon, "Aphorisms: Book I" (IP, pp. 72-79)
10/3 - Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning," (CTSP, pp. 183-184)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 235-236),
Quiz on Bacon

Student Reports:

Required Movie: The Matrix OR Mindwalk
Descartes, "Philosophical Works" (IP, pp. 80-85), Quiz on Descartes
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Francis Bacon, The New Organon, Eds. Lisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne (Cambridge University Press, 2000). >> See resources

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, and Meditations on First Philosophy, Trans. Donald Cress (Hackett, 1999). >> See resources

10/2: Final tech training and film showing on Derrida.

Week Seven: October 8-12
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10/8 - Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful," (CTSP, pp. 299-306)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 333-346) Quiz on Burke
Student Reports:

10/10 - Kant, "Critique of Judgment" (CTSP, pp. 376-393)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 419-440), Quiz on Kant
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Edmund Burke, The Portable Edmund Burke, Trans. Isaac Kramnick (Penguin, 1999). >> See resources

Paul Guyer, The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy), Trans. J.H. Bernard (Prometheus, 2000). >> See resources

Week Eight: October 15-19
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10/15 - Wollestonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Quiz on Wollestonecraft
(CTSP, pp. 395-399)(CTSP 3rd. Ed pp. 442-446)
Student Reports:

10/17 - Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Idea,"
(CTSP, pp. 496-507)(Not in CTSP 3rd Ed. Posted on Blackboard, under Course Library) Quiz on Schopenhauer
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text; Background; The Wollstonecraft Debate; Criticism (Norton, 1988). >> See resources

Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford, 1997).

Week Nine: October 22-26
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Quiz on Hegel

10/22 - Hegel, "The Philosophy of Fine Art," (CTSP, pp. 534-545)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 553-561)
Student Reports:

10/24 - Marx, "The German Ideology" and "Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" (CTSP, pp. 624-627)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 614-616) Quiz on Marx
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Trans. A.V. Miller and J.N. Findlay (Oxford University Press, 1979). >> See resources

Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics), Trans. Ben Fowles (Penguin, 1992). >> See resources

Week Ten: October 29-November 2
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Transitioning into the Contemporary Period

10/29 - Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music" and "Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense" (CTSP, pp. 629-639)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 687-697)
Quiz 1 on Nietzsche
Student Reports:

10/31 - Nietzsche, "Towards a Genealogy of Morals" (IP, pp. 99-100) and "Thus Spoke
Zarathustra" (IP, pp. 104-108), Quiz 2 on Nietzche
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals (Anchor, 1956). >> See resources

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and for None, Trans. Walter Kaufmann (Modern Library, 1995)

Week Eleven: November 5-9
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11/5 - Freud, "Creative Writers and Daydreaming" (CTSP, p. 717)(Not in CTSP 3rd Ed. Posted on Blackboard) and "Psychoanalysis in Culture" (IP, pp. 90-98)
Student Reports:

11/7 - de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex" (CTSP, pp. 994-1000) (Not in CTSP 3rd Ed. Posted on Blackboard), Threaded Conversation 1 (Bonus to count towards Exam: plus 4 at most)
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, Ed. James Strachey (Avon, 1983). >> See resources

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Eds. James Strachey and Peter Gay (W.W. Norton & Company, 1989).

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Trans. H.M. Parshley (Vintage, 1989). >> See resources

Week Twelve: November 12-16
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NOTE: Dr. Picart will be away from Nov. 13-18 for the NCA Conference. Dr. Picart will lecture on the materials below on 11/26, after the report on Foucault

Nov. 11/12:Veteran's Day: No class

11/12 - Picart, "The Pre-Zarathustran Phase: Exca/Elevating the Mother," (RFNPA, pp. 41-48; 64-70)

11/14 - Drafts due at beginning of class on Thurs, Nov. 14 Picart, "The Zarathustran Phase: The Phallic Mother" (RFNPA, pp. 83-101), Threaded Conversation 2 (Moved to week 14) : (Bonus to Count Towards Draft: plus 4 at most)

Supplementary Texts:
Debra Bergoffen, Review of Kay Picart’s Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsche’sPolitico-Aesthetics, Hypatia 17:3 (2002): 268-270.

Larry Peer, Books Reviewed, Prism(s) 8 (2000).

Week Thirteen: November 19-23
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Thanksgiving Holiday - Nov. 22, 23. No class for week.

11/19 - Picart, "The Post-Zarathustran Phase: Emasculate Conception" (RFNPA, pp. 125-130; 139-142), Last Threaded Conversation (Bonus to Count Towards Draft: plus 4 at most)

Dr. Picart will lecture on this in week 14: 11/26

Foucault, "Truth and Power" (CTSP, pp. 1135-1145) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 1269-1279)

Student Reports moved to week 14: 11/26

Supplementary Texts:
Kelly Oliver, Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy’s Relation to the Feminine (Routledge, 1995).

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Trans. Alan Sheridan (Vintage, 1995). >> See resources

Week Fourteen: November 26-30
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You are invited to dance performances by Dr. Picart and the TCC Dance Company at the Festival of Lights here in Tallahassee. Details to come.

Bonus Threaded Conversation on Any of these Two, due by December 2, Saturday, midnight (One counts towards a plus 4 to the final paper grade; the other can count towards three unexcused absences or another plus 3 to the final paper grade.)

11/28 - Barthes, "Death of the Author" (CTSP, pp. 1127-1133) (CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 1256-1258)
Student Reports:

11/28 - Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (CTSP, pp. 1117-1126)(CTSP 3rd Ed. pp. 1206-1215)
Student Reports:

Supplementary Texts:
Roland Barthes, S/Z, Trans. Richard Miller (Noonday Press, 1991).
>> See resources

Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text, Trans. Stephen Heath (Noonday Press, 1978).

Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, Trans. Alan Bass (University of Chicago Press,1980). >> See resources

Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Johns Hopkins, 1998).

Week Fifteen: December 3-December 7
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Last Day of Class: SIRS/SUSSAI Evaluations and Self-Evaluations for Attendance and Participation; Class Party on December 3rd if there is time. NO late papers will be accepted.