HE 218 Course Syllabus
Texts:
Swift, Jonathan
Voltaire
Goethe, Wolfgang von
Austen, Jane
Dickens, Charles
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Conrad, Joseph
Nietzsche, Fredrich
Sartre, Jean-Paul
ed. Oscar Williams
Date
10 JAN
12 JAN
14 JAN
Gulliver’s Travels
Candide
Faust
Pride and Prejudice
Hard Times
Notes from Underground and The Grand Inquisitor
Heart of Darkness
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Flies
Immortal Poems of the English Language
Class Discussion
Course introduction; “To be or
not to be”
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels
Assignment for Next Class
Gulliver’s Travels, Book I
Gulliver’s Travels, Book II
Gulliver’s Travels, Book III
19 JAN
21 JAN
Martin Luther King’s
Birthday
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels, Book IV
Candide, I-XVI
24 JAN
26 JAN
28 JAN
Candide
Candide
Pope
Candide, XVII-XXX
Pope, “An Essay on Man” (Handout)
Faust, “Dedication”-”Faust’s Study (I)”
31 JAN
Faust
02 FEB
04 FEB
Faust
Faust
Faust “Faust’s Study (II)”-”The
Neighbor’s House”
Faust “A Street”-”A Prison”
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. I-X
07 FEB
09 FEB
11 FEB
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. XI-XX
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. XXI-XXX
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. XXXI-XL
14 FEB
16 FEB
18 FEB
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. XLI-L
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. LI-LXI
Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey” (255); “The world
is too much with us” (260)
21 FEB
23 FEB
President’s Day
Wordsworth
Essay #1 Due
Shelley, Keats
17 JAN
25 FEB
Shelley, “Ozymandius” (295); Keats,
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (325)
Hard Times, Book One, Ch. 1-7
Date
28 FEB
01 MAR
03 MAR
Class Discussion
Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times
Assignment for Next Class
Hard Times, Book One, Ch. 8-16
Hard Times, Book Two, Ch. 1-6
Hard Times, Book Two, Ch. 7-12
06 MAR
08 MAR
10 MAR
Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times, Book Three, Ch. 1-4
Hard Times, Book Three, Ch. 5-9
11 MAR–19 MAR
Spring Break!!!!!!! (Read Notes from Underground)
20 MAR
22 MAR
24 MAR
Notes from Underground, Part I
Notes from Underground, Part II The Grand Inquisitor (Handout)
The Grand Inquisitor
Tennyson, “Ulysses” (375); Arnold,
“Dover Beach” (428)
27 MAR
29 MAR
31 MAR
Tennyson, Arnold
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness, Ch. I-II
Heart of Darkness, Ch. III
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue,
Speeches, Part I, 1-6
03 APR
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, 7-22;
05 APR
07 APR
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Essay #2 Due
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
10 APR
12 APR
14 APR
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, 1-10
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, 11-20
Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
(Handout), “Arms and the Boy” (551)
17 APR
Owen
19 APR
21 APR
Stevens, Thomas
The Flies
Stevens, “Sunday Morning” (517);
Thomas, “Fern Hill” (615)
The Flies, Act I
The Flies, Act II
24 APR
26 APR
28 APR
The Flies
The Flies
Steiner
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part II
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III
The Flies, Act III
Steiner, “Humane Literacy”