Structured Liberal Education Syllabus: SLE Schedule

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SLE Schedule Spring 2011
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Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

WEEK ONE

Legacies of the Revolution I

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Tuesday, March 29
3:30

Romantic Poetry, Profes s or Vermeule (Englis h) (LOCATION: Roble Theater) | Lecture s lides

6:00

Schleiermacher, Profes s or Socknes s (Religious Studies ) (LOCATION: Roble Theater)

Wednesday, March 30
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Frankenstein, Dr. Melis s a Stevens on (UAR) (200-002; His tory Corner bas ement)

Thursday, March 31
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Beethoven, Profes s or Stephen Hinton (Mus ic) (LOCATION: Roble Theater)

Readings:
Romantic Poetry Selections (click on links to download: pdf 1 of 2, pdf 2 of 2)
On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (excerpts ), Friedrich Schleiermacher (excerpt ins tructions here)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Symphony no. 9, Beethoven (This is a lis tening as s ignment -- click here for ins tructions )

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WEEK TWO

Capitalism and Critique

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Monday, April 4
Firs t of two opportunities for Green Library Works hops (ins tructions )
Tuesday, April 5
3:15

Indus trialization, Profes s or Mancall (His tory)

6:00

Marx I, Profes s or Mancall (His tory)

Wednesday, April 6
3:15

Dis cus s ion Seminars

6:00

Marx II, Profes s or Mancall (His tory)

Thursday, April 7
3:15

Dis cus s ion Seminars

6:00

Film: Metropolis (Lang, 1927; 127")

Friday, April 8
Second of two opportunities for Green Library Works hops (ins tructions )
Readings:
The Marx-Engels Reader (excerpts from "Economic and Philos ophic Manus cripts " (pp. 66-93), "Thes es on Feuerbach" (pp. 14345), "German Ideology" (pp. 155-75), "Capital" (pp. 302-12, 319-29, 351-61, 419-31), and "Communis t Manifes to" (pp. 469500))
The Condition of the Working Class in England, Frederick Engels ("The Great Towns " and "The Attitude of the Bourgeois ie
toward the Proletariat") (Full book found on-line here; for a printable copy of the s pecific chapters : docx or pdf)
Handout: Marx s tudy guide pdf (print and bring to lectures )
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WEEK THREE

Legacies of the Revolution II

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Monday, April 11
12:00, 1:00, 3:00, or 4:00
Hume Writing Center Works hop opportunity 1 of 3, "Defining the Res earch Topic" (s ign-up ins tructions ) (LOCATION: Hume
Writing Center, bas ement of Margaret Jacks Hall, front of Quad)
Tuesday, April 12
12:00 or 1:00
Hume Writing Center Works hop opportunity 2 of 3, "Defining the Res earch Topic" (s ign-up ins tructions ) (LOCATION: Hume
Writing Center, bas ement of Margaret Jacks Hall, front of Quad)
3:30

Liberalis m and its Limits : The Cas e of J.S. Mill, Profes s or Sheehan (His tory)

**5:00** What Do We Call 'Clas s ic' Today, and What Does this Mean for Our Relations hip to the Nineteenth Century?,
Profes s or Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature and French & Italian) (NOTE early s tart time)
Wednesday, April 13
12:00
Hume Writing Center Works hop opportunity 3 of 3, "Defining the Res earch Topic" (s ign-up ins tructions ) (LOCATION: Hume
Writing Center, bas ement of Margaret Jacks Hall, front of Quad)
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Balzac's Pere Goriot, Dr. Linda Pauls on (Continuing Studies )

Thursday, April 14
12:00 Hoover Archive works hop at Hoover -- opportunity 1 of 2 (s ign-up)
1:00

Hoover Archive works hop at Hoover -- opportunity 2 of 2 (s ign-up)

3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

SLE Salon: Jean-Michel Frodon, "Cinema and the Revolution in New Media"

7:00

Dinner with Jean-Michel Frodon (s ign-up)

Readings:
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac

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WEEK FOUR

Genealogies of the Human

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Tuesday, April 19
10:00 Paper miles tone: pros pectus due
3:30

Nietzs che I, Profes s or Anders on (Philos ophy)

6:00

Nietzs che II, Profes s or Anders on (Philos ophy) and Profes s or Hus s ain (Philos ophy)

Wednesday, April 20
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

5:45

Darwin, Profes s or Durham (***Note early s tart time***)

Thursday, April 21
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

SLE Salon: Gerhard Cas per (Pres ident Emeritus of Stanford)

Readings:
Darwin: The Indelible Stamp, Charles Darwin (from "On the Origin of Species " pp. 339-348, 369-454, 585-601 and from "The
Des cent of Man" pp. 603-614, 630-702)
Genealogy of Morals, (Preface, Firs t Es s ay, and Second Es s ay), Friedrich Nietzs che
Selections from The Gay Science (click here to download a pdf of this reading)
Nadeem J.Z . Hus s ain, "Hones t Illus ion: Valuing for Nietzs che's Free Spirits " (click here for pdf)
SATURDAY, April 23
Sartre's "No Exit" at San Francis co ACT
Bus es leave at 12:30, s how at 2:00 (If you can't attend, plus put your name on this lis t)

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WEEK FIVE

The Problem of Equality

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Monday, April 25
1:00

HWC works hop opportunity 1 of 6 (s ign-ups )

2:00

HWC works hop opportunity 2 of 6 (s ign-ups )

Tuesday, April 26
3:30

Lenin and Rus s ian Revolution, Profes s or Weiner (His tory)

6:00

Firs t World War, Profes s or Z ippers tein (His tory)

Wednesday, April 27
1:00

HWC works hop opportunity 3 of 6 (s ign-ups )

2:00

HWC works hop opportunity 4 of 6 (s ign-ups )

3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:15

"The Was te Land", Profes s ors Nicholas Jenkins (Englis h) and Roland Greene (Englis h and Comparative Literature)

Thursday, April 28
11:00 HWC works hop opportunity 5 of 6 (s ign-ups )
12:00 HWC works hop opportunity 6 of 6 (s ign-ups )
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

SLE Salon: "Guilt", with Profes s or Herant Katchadourian, Emeritus (Ps ychiatry and Human Biology)

Readings:
"The State and Revolution" in The Essential Works of Lenin
"The Was te Land" (Norton Edition), T.S. Eliot (the as s ignment is the poem its elf, but you're encouraged to look through the
other Norton edition material)
Chapter from Katchadourian's book Guilt (to be dis tributed on Tues day)

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WEEK SIX

The Divided Self

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Paper milestone: Small group meetings to dis cus s a current bes t-gues s outline of your paper as well as a bibliography and
three pages of s ample writing. Details of the meeting and s ubmis s ion guidelines to be determined by your s ection leader.
Tuesday, May 3
3:30

Freud, Profes s or Yearley (Religious Studies )

6:00

Benjamin, Dr. Yoon Sook Cha (SLE)

Wednesday, May 4
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Art of the Avant Garde, Dr. Eram (SLE) (pdf of lecture s lides )

Thursday, May 5
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Film: Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel and Dali, 1929) (This s es s ion will las t about one hour)

Readings:
The Freud Reader, "On Dreams ," "The Theme of the Three Cas kets ," "Mourning and Melancholia," "The Ego and the Id," (pp.
142-172, 514-522, 584-589, 628-658)
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" (in "Materials " on Cours ework)
Caucasian Chalk Circle, Bertolt Brecht
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WEEK SEVEN

The Problem of Equity

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Tuesday, May 10
3:30

Modern Feminis m, Profes s or Freedman (His tory)

6:00

Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Profes s or Cas tle (Englis h)

Wednesday, May 11
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Feminis m and Exis tentialis m: Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Dr. Jeremy Sabol (SLE)

Thursday, May 12
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Film: Orlando (Potter, 1992; 93")

Readings:
Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Simone de Beauvoir (s election available in Cours ework "Materials ")
Selections from Justice, Gender, and the Family, Sus an Okin (cours e reader to be s old in clas s )

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WEEK EIGHT

Genocide

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Tuesday, May 17
10:00 Complete paper due - vers ion one (turn in to tutor)
3:30

Holocaus t, Profes s or John Fels tiner (Englis h) and Profes s or Mary Fels tiner (His tory)

6:00

Night and Fog (Res nais , 1955; 32")

Wednesday, May 18
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

World War II, Profes s or Scheffer (His tory)

Thursday, May 19
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

7:00 SPECIAL EVENT: George Packer in Convers ation with Tobias Wolff and Profes s or Satz in Annenberg Auditorium (IT IS
VERY IMPORTANT TO ARRIVE EARLY SO YOU CAN GET A SEAT)
Friday, May 20
12:00 Pizza SLE Salon with George Packer
Readings:
Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt, Chapters 1-8, 14, 15, Epilogue, and Pos ts cript
Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi

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WEEK NINE

Things Fall Apart

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Tuesday, May 24
10:00 Complete paper due - final vers ion (turn in to tutor and s ection leader)
3:30

The Breakdown of Imperialis m, Profes s or Roberts

6:00

Fanon, Dr. Eram (SLE)

Wednesday, May 25
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Exis tentialis m, His tory, Theatre, Dr. Sabol (SLE)

Thursday, May 26
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00

Cache (Haneke, 2005) (a recommended movie due to the res cheduling of the SLE play)

Readings:
Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth ("Preface" by Sartre, "On Violence", "Colonial War and Mental
Dis orders " (Series A and Series C); pp. xliii - lxii, 1-62, 181-199, 207-216)
Locked Up, Jean-Paul Sartre (trans lated by Jeremy Sabol) (for pdf, click here; hard copies to be s old in clas s )

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WEEK TEN
Monday, May 30
6:00

SLE PLAY! (The Wizard of Oz)

Tuesday, May 31
3:30

Dis cus s ion s eminars

6:00 Mus ic by Computer, Dr. Ruviaro (Center for Computer Res earch in Mus ic and Acous tics ) ***LOCATION*** At the Knoll,
the building directly behind Flo Mo
Wednesday, June 1
3:15

Dis cus s ion s eminars

5:15

SLE Salon Banquet, Alondra Dining Hall -- Special Gues t: Profes s or Mark Mancall (Appetizers at 5:15, dinner at 5:30)

Thursday, June 2
Study period
Readings:
Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohs in Hamid
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FINAL EX AM INFORMATION:

Friday, June 3 - Saturday, June 4

20 minute oral final exams will be s cheduled during this two-day period. Students will be allowed to s ubmit times they are
NOT able to take an exam, but the SLE teaching team will make the exam as s ignments (i.e., by whom you will be examined
and when). Each s tudent will be examined by a SLE faculty member who has NOT been a s eminar leader for the s tudent in
any of the three quarters .
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