BASIC PROGRAM of LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS Spring Quarter 2016 20th Century: 1950–2000 COURSE INFORMATION CODE & SECTION LENGTH OF COURSE BPOTCT-­‐16S1 10 WEEKS CLASS LOCATION Keith Cleveland Gleacher Center [email protected] 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive Marissa Love Chicago IL 60611 [email protected] GRAHAM SCHOOL INFORMATION PHONE: 773.702.1722 WEBSITE: https://grahamschool.uchicago.edu COURSE TITLE 20th Century: 1950-­‐2000 COURSE SCHEDULE DAYS: Thursday TIMES: 6 – 8:30 pm PREREQUISITES None RECOMMENDED EDITIONS 1. (excerpts) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, ISBN 978-­‐0226458083 1. (excerpts) Great Physicists, William Cropper, ISBN 978-­‐0199735167 2. (excerpts) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, ed. Robert Silverberg, ISBN 978-­‐0765305374 3. The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, ISBN 978-­‐0312427566 4. The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam, ISBN 978-­‐0449908709 5. Dispatches, Michael Herr, ISBN 978-­‐0679735250 6. All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, ISBN 978-­‐1476770512 7. Generation Kill, Evan Wright, ISBN 978-­‐0425224748 8. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee, ISBN 978-­‐0143116929 9. Film : please view on your own by Week 4 : 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) Optional 1. (excerpt) The White Album, Joan Didion, ISBN 978-­‐0374532079 2. Films for Week 4: In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington, 2007) and The Right Stuff (Kaufman, 1983) 3. Film for Week 6: Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) 4. Film for Week 7: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola, 1991) THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES -­‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 5. Film for Week 8: All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976) 6. HBO series for Week 9: Generation Kill, Episodes 1 – 6 (written by Ed Burns , David Simon, Evan Wright; directed by Susanna White and Simon Cellan Jones, 2004) WEEKLY READING SCHEDULE WEEK Author Week 1 March 31 Kuhn TEXT/READING ASSIGNMENT The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapters I -­‐ X Week 2 April 7 Cropper Great Physicists, (optional) Ch 23 Complete Physicist Enrico Fermi Ch 25 What Do You Care? Richard Feynman Ch 27 Beyond the Galaxy Edwin Hubble Ch 28 Idea Scholar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Ch 29 Affliction, Fame, and Forture Stephen Hawking Week 3 April 14 Heidegger various “The Question Concerning Technology,” Heidegger (pdf) Edison – Encyclopedia Britannica article (pdf) in Science Fiction Hall of Fame: “Microcosmic God”, Theodore Sturgeon, “The Cold Equations”, Tom Godwin (optional) Technology – Encyclopedia Britannica article (pdf) Week 4 April 21 Wolfe Week 5 April 28 Orwell Kennan Baldwin The Right Stuff watch on your own: 2001: A Space Odyssey (optional: watch In the Shadow of the Moon and The Right Stuff) “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell (pdf) “Sources of Soviet Conduct”, George Kennan (pdf) “Notes of a Native Son”, James Baldwin (pdf) (optional) “The White Album”, Joan Didion THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES -­‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Week 6 May 5 Halberstam The Best and the Brightest, Chapters 1 – 14 Herr Dispatches: Breathing In, Hell Sucks, Khe Sanh (optional: watch Apocalypse Now) Week 7 May 12 Halberstam The Best and the Brightest, Chapters 15 – A Final Word Herr Dispatches: Illumination of Rounds, Colleagues, Breathing Out (optional: watch Hearts of Darkness) Week 8 May 19 Bernstein & All the President’s Men Woodward (optional: watch All the President’s Men) Week 9 May 26 Wright Generation Kill (optional: watch HBO series Generation Kill) Week 10 June 2 Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians This syllabus is a summary of course objectives and content, not a contract. All information in this syllabus is subject to change, with sufficient advance notice provided by the instructor. CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE As we may be addressing controversial topics in our class discussions; we expect students to be respectful and considerate of others. DISABILITY INFORMATION The Graham School of Professional Studies abides by the Americans with Disabilities Act (see http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm), with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (see http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/sec504.htm), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (see http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) and will provide reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities covered by law. If you have a disability for which you may require accommodations, please contact Gregory Moorehead, Director of Student Disability Services, at 773.702.7776 or [email protected] in advance of the first class meeting. THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES -­‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO