Course Schedule
January 11
January 13
January 15
January 18
January 20
January 22
January 25
January 27
January 29
February 1
February 3
February 5
February 8
February 10
February 12
February 15
February 17
February 19
February 22
February 24
February 26
March 1
Introduction to the Course
Finish Introduction to the Course
Introduction to the Human Person and Identity
Introduction to the Human Person and Identity
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No Class
Movement 1: What is the Human Person?
Read Chapter 1 – Confucianism: The Way of the Sages
Group #1 Presentation: Confucianism
Read Chapter 3 – Buddhism: In the Footsteps of the Buddha
Group #2 Presentation: Buddhism
Read Chapter 4 – Plato: The Rule of Reason
Group #3 Presentation: Plato
Finish Embracing Plato and Others
Read Chapter 5 – Aristotle: The Ideal of Human Fulfillment
Group #4 Presentation: Aristotle
Finish Embracing Aristotle and Others
Read Chapter 7 – Kant: Reasons and Causes, Morality and Religion
Group #5 Presentation: Kant
Literary Explorations:
Read Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” “Minister’s Black Veil,”
Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and Frost’s “Design”
Biblical and Theological Explorations:
Read Genesis 1-3, Job, and Chapter 6 from Stevenson’s Text
Read Chapter 8 – Marx: The Economic Basis of Human Societies
Group #6 Presentation: Marx
Finish Embracing Marx and Others
Read Chapter 9 – Sartre: Radical Freedom
Group #7 Presentation: Sartre
Read Freud: The Unconscious Basis of the Mind (Handout)
Group #8 Presentation: Freud
Finish Embracing Freud and Others
Read Augustine (Handout)
Group #9 Presentation: Augustine
Read Chapter 10 – Darwinian Theories of Human Nature
Group #10 Presentation: Darwin
The Biological Self and Sexual Identity
Special Assignment Due: Blog Entry #1 Due
Movement 2: What Outside Forces Constrain the Self?
Biblical and Theological Explorations:
Read Genesis 4 and 11, and the Gospel According to Luke
March 3
March 5
March 8
March 10
March 12
March 15
March 17
March 19
March 22
March 24
March 26
March 29
March 31
April 2
April 5
April 7
April 9
April 12
April 14
April 16
April 19
April 21
April 23
Literary Explorations:
Read O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and Jackson’s “The
Lottery”; Social Location Definition Paper Due
Biblical and Theological Explorations:
Read Excerpt from Lisa Cahill’s Sex, Gender & Christian Ethics; Blog
Entry #2 Due
Literary Explorations:
Read Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Stones of the Village,” Dunbar’s “We Wear
the Mask,” Hughes’s “A Dream Deferred,” Chopin’s “The Storm”
Social Location in the Experience of the Other: Race
Native Son Book Club Presents; Critical Essays Due
Finish Exploration of Richard Wright’s Native Son; A Special Breakfast
Potluck
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
Social Location in the Experience of the Other: Economic Class
Of Mice and Men Book Club Presents; Critical Essays Due
(Also includes Albert Haley’s “Canoe” and Doris Lessing’s “To Room
Nineteen”)
Finish Exploration of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Albert Haley’s
“Canoe,” and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”
Social Location in the Experience of the Other: Gender
Poisonwood Bible Book Club Presents; Critical Essays Due
Finish Exploration of Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible; A Special
Breakfast Potluck
Movement 3: Who Are You?
No Class Due to Upcoming Movie Night
Good Friday/Easter Holiday; No Class
Movie Night – Location: TBA
Cinematic Explorations – A Discussion
Social Location and the Experience of the Other: Hospitality as Virtue
Read Excerpts from Volf’s “The Cross, the Self, and the Other” and
Derrida; Blog Entry #3 Due
Living Artifact: This Is Who I Am – Dr. Vic McCracken
Living Artifact: This Is Who I Am – Dr. Steven Moore
Toward Christian Identity:
Self, Notions of Power in Relation to the Other
Biblical and Theological Explorations: TBA
Literary Explorations:
Read Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and Anderson’s “Hands”
Living Artifacts – Presentations
Living Artifacts – Presentations
April 26
April 28
April 30
May 4
Living Artifacts – Presentations
Living Artifacts – Presentations
Living Artifacts – Presentations
10:00—11:45 AM, Final Examination Day, Brown Library 235