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Civilization Sequence Program
CVSP 204: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE Fall 2011-12
Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, TUESDAYS, 2:00 PM |
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Date |
Lecture |
Assignment |
Sept 26- 30 |
[No lecture] |
Darwin, The Origin of Species (Mentor). (CVSP Reading Selection) |
Oct 03 - 07 |
Darwin |
Darwin (continued) |
Oct 10 – 14 |
Hawking |
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8 |
Oct 17 – 21 |
Nietzsche |
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin), Preface, Part I, Sec. 1-6, 11, 13, 16-17, 19, 23; Part II, Sec. 29, 34-36, 41-44; Part V, Sec. 186-203; Part VII, Sec. 214-239; Part IX, Sec. 257-265. |
Oct 24 – 28 |
Freud I |
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (Norton). |
Oct 31 – Nov 04 |
Freud II |
Freud (continued) |
Nov 07 – 08 |
AL-ADHA HOLIDAY |
Nov 09-11 |
[No lecture] |
Freud (continued) |
Nov 14 – 18 |
Mann
OR
Solzhenitsyn |
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice in Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (Vintage).
OR
A. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics). |
Nov 21 – 25 |
[No lecture]
Independence Day |
Mann or Solzhenitsyn (continued) |
Nov 28 – Dec 02 |
Beckett |
Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot (Faber & Faber). |
Dec 05 – 09 |
S. de Beauvoir |
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (CVSP Reading Selection) |
Dec 12 – 16 |
Conrad |
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin). |
Dec 19 – 23 |
E. Said |
Edward Said, Orientalism (Penguin), pp. 1-28, 31-49, 284-328, 329-354. |
Dec 26 – Jan 01 |
Christmas and New year Vacation (Dec 24- Jan. 01) |
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Jan 02- 06 |
T. Salih
OR
Elias Khoury |
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann)
OR
Elias Khoury, Journey of Little Gandhi (Picador) |
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Jan 09 – 13 |
[No lecture] |
Tayeb Salih or Elias Khoury (continued) |