BASIC PROGRAM of LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS Spring, 2017 Year 2 Tutorial COURSE INFORMATION CODE & SECTION BASC 20303 Section 17S2 COURSE TITLE Year 2 Tutorial LENGTH OF COURSE 10 WEEKS (March 28‐ June 6, No class April 11) INSTRUCTOR: Claudia Traudt PHONE: 312‐925‐3778 EMAIL: [email protected]
CLASS LOCATION Gleacher Center (Concourse Level) 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Chicago, IL 60611 GRAHAM SCHOOL INFORMATION PHONE: 773.702.1722 WEBSITE: https://grahamschool.uchicago.edu COURSE SCHEDULE DAYS: Tuesdays TIMES: 7:45 PM – 9:15 PM PREREQUISITES Basic Program Year 1 ATTENDANCE POLICY Students should register before the course begins. In order to earn a certificate, students should attend at least 6 classes of each regular Basic Program course. COURSE DESCRIPTION Poetry is for humans. We will immerse in and explore splendid selections of poetry in English across many centuries, with special attention to the experience – noting content, forms, nuance, musics, and our own personal registrations and responses. Trusting the works, ourselves and each other. Poems not in Norton Anthology will be distributed or may be found on the internet. Please read to yourself aloud when preparing (and ENJOYING) the works. You will be intrigued at your discoveries. REQUIRED TEXTS 1. Recommended edition: The Norton Anthology of Poetry – shorter 5th ed. (NY: Norton) ISBN 978‐0393979213 THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY READING SCHEDULE WEEK Week 1 Date: 3/28 Author Anon, Dickinson Shakespeare John Donne Week 2 Date: 4/4 NOTE: NO CLASS 4/11 TEXT/READING ASSIGNMENT Class intro: roots, juiciness, precision, empowerment. Pls have read selected Shakespeare Sonnets: #12, 18, 29, 30, 55, 73, 94, 116, 130, 144, 146 and The Tempest’s “Full Fathom Five” Sel. John Donne: Song: Go and catch a falling star;the Sun Rising; The Ecstasy; Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed; Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward; Holy Sonnets #10 & #14
Week 3 Date: 4/18 William Blake Robby Burns, Keats Wordsworth, Blake ‐ Songs of Innocence: Introduction; The Lamb; Holy Thirsday; The Divine Image; The Little Black Boy; The Little Boy Lost; The Little Boy Found; Songs of Experience: A Divine Image; Holy Thursday (II); The Clod and the Pebble; The Sick Rose; A Poison Tree; The Tyger; London and “Mock, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau”; Wordsworth – Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; Ode: Intimations of Immortality; I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud; Burns – To a Mouse; A Red, Red Rose; Keats – On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn Week 4 Date: 4/25 Robert Browning ee cummings Theodore Roethke Browning – My Last Duchess; Roethke – My Papa’s Waltz; I Knew a Woman Lovely in Her Bones; Root Cellar; cummings – in Just‐; since feeling is first, I sing of Olaf glad and big’ somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond Week 5 Date: 5/2 Whitman Melville Whitman – “Song of Myself”: sections 1, 6, 11, 24, 52; I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing; Vigil strange I Kept on the Field One Night; Beat! Beat! Drums! Melville – The Portent; The March into Virginia; Misgivings Week 6 Date: 5/9 Emily Dickinson Gerard Manley Hopkins Dickinson – 216; 241; 341; 357; 435; 449; 528; 536; 640; 712; 986; 1129; 1463; 1540; Manley Hopkins – The Habit of Perfection; God’s Grandeur; Pied Beauty; Binsey Poplars; Felix Randall; As Kingfishers catch Fire, Dragonflies …; No Worst, There is None; I wake and Feel the Fell of Dark; My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On Week 7 Date: 5/16 WB Yeats Yeats – The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Easter 1916; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Scholars; The Second Coming; A Prayer for My daughter; Leda and the Swan; Sailing to Byzantium; Among School Children; The Circus Animals Desertion; Under Ben Bulben Week 8 Date: 5/23 Dylan Thomas The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower; The Hunchback in the Park; The Conversation of Prayer; Fern Hill; In My Craft or Sullen Art; Do Not Go gentle into That Good Night – handout) THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Week 9 Date: 5/30 Robert Frost W. H. Auden Frost – Mending Wall; The Wood‐Pile; The Oven Bird; Birches; Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening; West‐Running Brook; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep; The Gift Outright; The Death of the Hired Man – handout; Auden Musee des Beaux Arts; Law Like Love; In Praise of Limestone; The Shield of Achilles; Lullaby (1928) ‐ handout Week 10 Date: 6/6 Student Selections Student selections – please bring enough xeroxed handouts for the students and me to prepare by the 8th week – May 23rd 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 Student Disability Services (SDS) works to provide resources, support and accommodations for all students with disabilities and works to remove physical and attitudinal barriers, which may prevent their full participation in the University community. Students that would like to request accommodations should contact SDS in advance of the first class meeting at 773.702.6000 or [email protected]. THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO