Humanities 2B: Fall 2016, Course Schedule
Please note that this schedule is subject to change. Students will be notified if changes
occur, both in class, and electronically through MySJSU, if needed.
Lecture is in CLARK 225 for Fall 2016.
Table:
Seminar Sections
Professor
Professor Lindahl (10, 11)
Professor Movassat (20, 21)
Lecture
1
2
3
Date
Location
ENG 232
SH 240
Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
24 August Industrial Revolution, Capitalism, Adam Smith and an Introduction to Karl Marx
Wednesday Read: Enlightenment Reader: Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations,” 505-15
29 August
Monday
(posted on the website)
Philosophic Classics: Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,”
983-994
Realism in Art and the Beginnings of Photography
Read: Art History (Portable Edition, Volume 6): 953-54, 968-79, 980-982, 1003
31 August J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism and Individualism
Wednesday Read: Philosophic Classics: J.S. Mill, “Utilitarianism,” 920-934
J.S. Mill, “On Liberty” (excerpt) (Website)
4
5
6
7
5
September
7
September
Wednesday
12
September
Monday
LABOR DAY – Campus Closed
14
September
Wednesday
19
September
Monday
The American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln
Darwin and Defining the Human
Read: Darwin, Chapter 4, “Natural Selection,” from The Origin of Species (Website)
Slavery and Abolitionism
Read: Heffner, A Documentary History, Chapters 10: 142-148; 11: 148-167; 12: 72-191
Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth” (Website)
Read: Heffner: Chapters 13: 192-204; 14: 204-210; 15: 211-217
Transcendentalism and American Philosophy
Read: Emerson, Self-Reliance (19-38)
Thoreau, Excerpts from “Walking” (Website)
Philosophic Classics: William James, “Pragmatism,” 1019-1026
Lecture
8
9
10
11
Date
Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
21
September
Wednesday
26
September
Monday
28
September
Wednesday
Tolstoy: Looking Forward to Modernism
3 October
Monday
Colonialism and Joseph Conrad
Read: Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Norton, Volume E: 735-778
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Art
Read: Art History (Portable Edition, Volume 6): 986-1001, 1006-7, 1012-15
Art of Africa
Read: Art History (Portable Edition, Volumes 3 and 5): Chapters 14 and 29
Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Norton, Volume F: 14-41.
Read: Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Norton, Volume F: 41-78.
12
Friederich Nietzche: The Limits of Knowledge and the Revaluation of Values
5 October
Wednesday Read: Philosophic Classics: Nietzsche, 1033-1044, 1053-1060
13
10 October
Monday
Freud and the Psychological Revolution
Read: Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Chapters III, IV, V, VI, VIII
14
12 October Art: From Picasso to World War II
Wednesday Read: Art History (Portable Edition, Volume 6): 1004-6, 1016-44, 1052-71
15
17 October
Monday
Architecture: From the 19th-20th Centuries
Read: Art History (Portable Edition, Volume 6): 958-9, 962-6, 1007-12, 1044-50,
1104-7, 1126-27
16
19 October
Wednesday Lecture: MIDTERM EXAM
17
24 October
Monday
African Literature and the Response to Colonialism
Read: Achebe, Things Fall Apart
18
26 October World War I
Wednesday Read: Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1-186.
19
31 October
Monday
20th Century Revolutions and Karl Marx
Read: Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 187-296
Philosophic Classics, Marx "Manifesto of the Communist Party," 995-1003
Lenin and Mao Tse Tung selections (Website).
Lecture
Date
Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
20
The Great Depression and the New Deal
2
November Read: Heffner, Chapters 22: 344-359; 23: 359-377 (introduction and
Roosevelt speeches)
Wednesday
21
7
November
Monday
Modernism and 20th Century Poetry
Read: Norton, Volume F
Cavafy, "The City," "A Sculptor from Tyana," and "Ithaka," 513-515.
Yeats, "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan," and
"Sailing to Byzantium," 522-526
Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," 535
Eliot, "Prufrock," 541-544
“Modernism: Four American Poems” handout (Website)
22
French Existentialism
9
November Read: Camus, “The Guest,” Norton, Volume F, 751-762
Philosophic Classics: Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism,” 1156-73
Wednesday
23
14
November
Monday
16
November
Wednesday
21
November
Monday
Totalitarianism, World War II and the Holocaust
23-25
November
Thanksgiving Holidays
Wednesday, November 23, campus is open (Non-Instructional Day)
Thursday-Friday, November 24-25, campus is closed
Equal Protection of the Law: The Struggle for Civil Rights
24
25
26
27
28
November
Monday
Read: Elie Wiesel, Night
Mussolini, “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism” (Website)
California Government
Read: Guide to California Government, League of Women Voters, parts I-III
Pop Music
Read: Guide to California Government, League of Women Voters, parts IV-VI
TEST on CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS in Seminar
Read: Heffner, Chapter 25: 431-436
Malcolm X, “Not Just an American Problem, But a World Problem”
Cesar Chavez, “Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (both on Website)
30
The Cold War, Vietnam and Watergate
November
Wednesday Read: Heffner, Chapters 25: 406-412; 27: 439-448, 524-529 (Watergate articles),
Reagan Inaugural, 551-555,
Obama Inaugural, 663-669
Lecture
28
Date
5
December
Monday
Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
Women and Women’s Rights: From the 20th to the 21st Century
Read: Philosophic Classics: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1174-1188
Heffner, Chapters 28: 481-490; 29: 538-548
29
Art Since 1945
7
December
Read: Art History (Portable Edition, Volume 6): 1073-79; and Chapter 33
Wednesday
30
12
December
Monday
Final
Exams
Lecture (Short Answers): 9:45-12:00
14
.
December
Wednesday
16
December
Friday
Summary/Commentary, Graduation and Farewells.
Seminar (Long Answers): 9:45-12:00
(Bring two blue/green books to the seminar classroom.)
New Books for Humanities 2B:
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Anchor/Random House. ISBN: 978-0-385-47454-2
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self-Reliance and Other Essays. Dover. ISBN: 978-0-48627790-5
Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Norton. ISBN: 978-0393304510.
Guide to California Government by the League of Women Voters. 15th Edition. ISBN:
978-0963246516
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Ballantine Books. ISBN: 9780449213940
Tolstoy, Leo. Translated by Lynn Solotaroff. The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Bantam. ISBN:
9780553210354
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam. ISBN: 978-0553272536
Books used in Hum 2B from previous semesters:
Baird, F. E. and Kaufmann, W. Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Nietzsche. 6th
Edition. Prentice Hall, 2010.
Heffner, R.D. A Documentary History of the United States. 8th Edition. Penguin, 2009.
Lunsford, Andrea. The Everyday Writer. 5th Edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013.
Mack, M., et al., eds. Norton Anthology of World Literature. 3rd Edition. Norton, 2012.
Volumes D, E, F.
Stokstad, M. Art History. Portable 5th Edition. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2014. Vols. 5 and 6.
Class Website: (includes readings not in specific texts)
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/james.lindahl/