HUM2250: Twentieth century Humanities
M/W 5:30-6:45
Spring 2014
January
6 Introduction – Review Syllabus
8 Why Paris? The Birth of the Modern
13 Deconstructing Tradition: Picasso, Braque, Apollinaire, and Stravinsky
15 Modernism beyond Paris: German Expressionism. Alfred Stieglitz,
Advent of Film
20 NO CLASSES
22 WWI: Its Antecedents and Aftermath; Dada; Russia: Deconstructivism
and Revolution12 Wilfred Owen and the Poets of WWI
27 Freud And the Surrealists
29 Modernist Literature: Woolf, Joyce and the Stream-of-Conscious
narrative
February
3 Review
5 Exam 1
10 Between the Wars: The Great Depression in America; Regionalism in
American writing; Frank Lloyd Wright
12 Jazz Age: Watch Episode 3 of Jazz by Ken Burns. Answer sheet due at
the end of class.
17 Germany between the Wars – Rise of Fascism; Modernist Architecture
19 Degenerate Art
24 The Golden Age of Cinema: The Studio System and Wartime
Propaganda
26 Film - TBD
March
3 Spring Break – No Classes
5 Spring Break – No Classes
10 WWII and the Holocaust
12 Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Existentialism
17 Existentialism con’t
19 The New York School: Abstract Expressionism
24Consumerism
26 Review
31 Exam 2
April
2 In-class essay writing assignment
7 Student Presentations
9 Student Presentations
14 Student Presentations
16 Student Presentations
Final Exam: WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 (5:00PM – 7:30PM)