WoK
Assignments
(Spring 2007)
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Week One |
Before
4/4 (Wednesday) 8pm
Learn
Site (FirstClass Tutorial)** and place biographical information
online
(Future assignments will
be due on Tuesdays and Fridays - with some rare exceptiions.)
See
instructions for how to download our FirstClass classroom software
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Before 4/6
(Friday) 8pm
The Free
City, by Willis Nutting (read Chapters One through four online)
Click here for study questions
and seminar online assignment (to be posted shortly).
Seminar discussion questions
can be found
here. Please post your responses to the questions into
the "whole class seminar" folder as soon as you are able
so that you may respond to as many classmates as
possible.
Last Date for posting is Friday at 8PM. Initial postings should begin
now so that the whole discussion can be completed by Fri evening.
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Week Two |
Before 4/10 (Tue)
8PM
Read:
Plato,The
Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Read: Lectures
Write: SQs and DQs
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Before 4/13 (Friday)
8PM
Read:Oedipus
Rex found in Robert Fagles The Three Theban
Plays. (pages 159-251) and the Introduction (afterwards,
pages 131-153).
Read: The introduction: "Greece and the Theatre" on
pages 13 through 30 in the same text and Oedipus: The Set-up
mini-lecture.
Write:SQs
Write: DQs |
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Week Three |
Before 4/17 (Tue)
8PM
Read:
Francis Bacon, Idols that Beset Men's
Minds
• Bacon Intro lecture
Write: SQs for Bacon (post
in SQs folder)
Write and discuss DQs for
Bacon in seminar folder |
Before 4/20 (Friday)
8PM
Read: Peirce's
essay
Read: Mini-lecture on
Peirce
Write: SQs for Peirce
Write: DQs for Peirce |
Second Writing
Assignment:
Due by Saturday
Evening at 8PM. Post in the papers folder. Click
here for the assignment.
Mid Quarter Self
Evaluation - Due by Monday at 8PM
Download
SE Form here
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Week Four |
Before 4/24 (Tue)
8PM
Read:Read
Mini Lecture and Intro to Brecht
Read:Read Brecht's Galileo translated by Eric Bentley
(do not read the introduction).
Write:SQs
Write: DQs |
Before 4/27 (Friday)
8PM
Read:Pinter
Lectures
Read: Pinter's The
Collection
Write:SQs
Write: DQs |
Writing
Assignment
Please
Click here for assignments for
Week Five;
these writing assignments will occupy the full week.
The Lectures
for next week are being posted early if you wish to get a head start.
Please make sure that you give full attention to the writing assignment
for this week, though, before becoming too immersed in them, although
reading them ahead and then again is a good idea. |
Week Six |
Before 5/8
(Tue) 8PM
Rd:Epistemology
Lecs: Part I
DQs
for Epistemology |
Before
5/11 (Friday) 8PM
Read:
continue Epistemology I
• Discuss Locke |
Week Seven |
Before
5/15 (Tue) 8PM
Read:Epistemology
Lecs II
Discuss Berkeley, Hume & Kant |
Before
5/18 (Friday) 8PM
Read:Lecture
: Intro to Copenhagen - Other lectures are optional (but
good)
Read: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn -
the recording is now available for you in the FirstClass folder. Please
listen along as you read. Please read and listen more than one time.
Write:SQs
Write: DQs |
Paragraph due
Writing assignment will be a paragraph due by Sunday evening.
Click here
for writing assignment.
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Week Eight |
Before
5/22 (Tue) 8PM
• continue
with Copenhagen
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Before
5/25 (Friday) 8PM
Read:Edwin
Abbott, Flatland Part
I, chps 1 & 2; Part II, all chps.
Read:Introduction
to Flatland
SQs
• DQs
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Paragraph
assignment on Flatland due by Sunday evening at 6PM
Click
here for assignment
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Week Nine |
Before
5/29 (Tue) 8PM
Read:Introduction
to August Wilson and his work. Click
here.
Read: The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
Write:Discussion questions only
this week. No SQs. |
Before
6/1 Friday) 8PM
rd: Preface,
chp 1, and chp 5 of Huston Smith's Forgotten Truth
wt:SQs for Forgotten
Truth
wt/disc: DQs for Forgotten
Truth
wt: click
here for new writing assgmt
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Writing
assignment: See "click here" above.
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Week Ten |
Before
6/5 (Tue) 8PM
Rd:
Re-read Smith FT assgmt
Wt:Continue discussing Smith Qs |
6/8 (FRI) 8PM
Read:
these parts of Underhill's Mysticism:
• Preface to the 1st edition;
• Part One chapters 1 and 4;
• Part Two, Chapters 1, 2, and the Conclusion
Write: Answer Study
Questions
Write: Discuss
DQs |
Week Eleven |
Before
6/12 (Tue) 8PM
Thesis paper final
draft due Wednesday the 8th.
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• Final
Exam posted by Wednesday 8pm
• Final Exam discussion completed by Fri 8pm
•Final
SE due between Friday at 6pm (not before) and Saturday
at 6pm (not after)
•Download
Final SE Form here.
The final SE should cover your work for the entire quarter.
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