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Freshman Foundations 100 Syllabus Page for Fall 2002 Al Drake. Office: 231 Wilkinson, MW 2:15-3:15 | 714-434-1612 Note: Other sites are available from my Portal. General: College | Sample Paper | Grammar Guide | Deductive Essays | Citation | Analysis | Editing | Plagiphrasing | Rubric | Links Guides: Titus: Honorable | Titus: Lucretia | Titus: Scaevola | Odyssey Frame | Dantean Allegory | Renaissance Soul | Tragedy | Typology | Marx on Commodities Questions: Homer | Plato | Ovid | Dante | Machiavelli | Shakespeare | Voltaire | Rousseau | Marx | Dostoyevsky | Borges | Camus Audio Note: Lectures were made available online after class. [Audio has been removed since the class is no longer current.] Ancient Literature and Philosophy: Foundations Week 1 Mon. 08/26. Intro to class and to Homer's Odyssey. Wed. 08/28. Homer, The Odyssey. Week 2 Mon. 09/02. Labor Day Holiday Wed. 09/04. Homer, The Odyssey. Week 3 Mon. 09/09. Homer, The Odyssey. Wed. 09/11. Plato, The Symposium. Week 4 Mon. 09/16. Plato, The Symposium. Wed. 09/18. Ovid, from Metamorphoses: Required: "Pentheus and Bacchus" (66-73); "The Rape of Proserpine" (109-16); "Arethusa" (116-18); "Tereus, Procne, and Philomela" (134-42); "Orpheus and Eurydice" (225-28); "The Death of Orpheus" (249-52) Suggested: "Diana and Actaeon"; (55-58); "Narcissus and Echo" (61-66); "Hyacinth" (230-32); "Pygmalion" (232-34); ; "Caenis" (279-80); "The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar" (374-78); "Epilogue" (379). I may refer to some of these stories in our session on Ovid, so if you have time, look them over. Week 5 Mon. 09/23. Intro to Medieval period. Dante, Inferno. Wed. 09/25. Dante, Inferno. Week 6 Mon. 09/30. Dante, Inferno. Wed. 10/02. Intro to Renaissance. Machiavelli, The Prince. Week 7 Mon. 10/07. Machiavelli, The Prince. Wed. 10/09. Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus. Final Draft of Paper #1 due. Week 8 Mon. 10/14. Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus. Wed. 10/16. Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus. Week 9 Mon. 10/21. Midterm Exam. (*Note the changed date) Wed. 10/23. Intro to Enlightenment. Voltaire, Candide. Week 10 Mon. 10/28. Voltaire, Candide. Wed. 10/30. Voltaire, Candide. Week 11 Mon. 11/04. Rousseau, from Confessions. (Books 1-2 only) Wed. 11/06. Rousseau, from Confessions. (Books 1-2 only) Week 12 Mon. 11/11. Marx. Communist Manifesto Sects. 1-2. Wed. 11/13. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Week 13 Mon. 11/18. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Wed. 11/20. Optional Attendance Day: Rough Drafts discussed in class. Rough Draft of Paper #2 due Wed., 11/20. Week 14 Mon. 11/25. Intro to C20 Lit. Borges, from Ficciones--"The Circular Ruins," "The Babylon Lottery," "The Secret Miracle," and "The South." Wed. 11/27. Thanksgiving Holiday. Week 15 Mon. 12/02. Camus, The Stranger. Wed. 12/04. Camus, The Stranger. Week 16 12/09-12/14. Turn in Final Exam on Tuesday, December 10th from 1:30-4:00 pm, in our usual room, 202 Argyros Forum. You may also turn in the exam before that date and time if it proves convenient for you. Final Draft of Paper #2 due on Friday of Finals Week or earlier.
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