Note: Except for the lectures on Sept. 24 and Nov. 12, all Thursday night classes will meet in Coleman 151. On Sept. 24 and Nov. 12 we will meet in Carnegie 208. The two film screenings, on Oct. 19 and Nov. 16, will take place in Coleman 50.

Required Texts:

Coursepack (available through the Bucknell bookstore)

Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems (Harvest/HBJ)

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton)

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo (Vintage)

Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (Carol)

Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harvest/HBJ)

Requirements:

* Attendance and participation, including attendance at film screenings (20% of course grade)

* Three papers, 4-6 pages each (the first paper counts as 15% of course grade, and the second and third papers each count as 20%)

* Take-home final examination (25% of course grade)

Optional (Recommended) Class Trip: At the end of the week during which we discuss the Holocaust, on Saturday, October 24, the Humanities College will be making a trip to Washington, D.C. You are encouraged to join in this trip and visit the Holocaust Museum.

Film Screenings: There will be two film screenings in the course of the semester. Attendance at these screenings is required. The first will be a screening of a film on the Wannsee Conference, on Monday, Oct. 19; the second will be a screening of Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," on Monday, Nov. 16. Each film will be shown twice, at 4:30 and 8:00 p.m., in Coleman 50.

Note on Reading Assignments: You are expected to complete the reading for a given week prior to the Thursday lecture for that week.

Schedule of Lectures and Film Screenings:

Aug. 27

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (coursepack) by Professor Gary Steiner

Sept. 3

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (coursepack) and On the Genealogy of Morals by Professor Gary Steiner

Sept 10

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents by Professor John Rickard

Sept. 17

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (coursepack) and Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (coursepack) by Professor Glyne Griffith

Sept. 24

Modern Art (coursepack: Gabo, Tzara, Kandinsky, Picasso, and 2 futurist manifestos) by Professor Margo Thompson in Carnegie 208

First paper due

Oct. 1

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land by Professor John Rickard

Oct. 8

New Physics (coursepack: essays by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg) by Professor Tom Solomon

Oct. 15

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway by Professor Julie Vandivere

Oct. 19

Screening of film on the Wannsee Conference at 4:30 and 8:00 pm in Coleman 50

Oct. 22

The Holocaust (coursepack: Borowski, "This way to the gas, ladies and gentlemen" and Celan, "Death Fugue") by Professor Eric Mazur

Second paper due

Oct. 29

Existentialism: Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions and Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (coursepack) by President William D. Adams

Nov. 5

Feminism: Beauvoir, The Second Sex (coursepack) by Professor Glynis Carr

Nov. 12

Twentieth Century Music (coursepack: Crawford, "Twentieth Century Expressionism: Its Nature, Background, and Language" and "Edgard Varèse: The Liberation of Sound") by Professor Annie Randall in Carnegie 208

Nov. 16

Screening of Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" at 4:30 and 8:00 pm in Coleman 50

Nov. 19

Cinema: Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" by Professor Slava Yastremski

Third paper due

Nov. 26

THANKSGIVING

Dec. 3

Martin Luther King, "The Letter from the Birmingham Jail" (coursepack) and James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (coursepack) by Professor Glyne Griffith

Take-home final exam distributed