Sec 21, MW 9:30-11:10, Welles 119 Sec 22 MW, 12:30-2:10. Newton 212
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Ibsen, An Enemy of the People Dover Thrift Edition
Shelley, Frankenstein. New American Library
Swift, Gulliver's Travels Dover Swift
Miller, Incident at Vichy , Dramatists.
Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Harlan
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author ++ Any edition including online.
Marx, The Communist Manifesto , International
Darwin, The Origin of the Species , Signet Classic
Camus, The Stranger, Vintage
Shaw, Pygmalion , Dover Thrift
Reserve readings, MyC, handouts as assigned.
All reading assignments (including reserve, MyC, and online readings) are to be completed in their entirety prior to the date on which they appear on the course calendar (attached). Students are expected to have prepared material so that, at a minimum, they are capable of: a) describing the major arguments, plot lines (such as they can be discerned), points, theme(s), or etc. of the principal texts as well the major points of argument in secondary critical, historical, philosphical and theoretical essays as assigned;
drawing fundamental comparisons and contrasts between/among assigned authors and their works;
identifying the title, date, author (name and nationality) of assigned works;
passing a quiz (usually 60%) on a, b, and c.
Grading is based on the A thru E, plus/minus system as described in the College Bulletin. Grades will be computed as follows:
Exam 1, M Feb 27 20%
Exam 2, M April 30 20% (Exam 2 and 3 combined)
>Exam 3, F May 4 (Final Exam Pd for each sec.)
Paper #1 W Mar 7 20%
Paper #2 F Apr 25 20%
*Preparation and Professionalism Grade) 20%
(*Includes quizzes, participation, class and group
activities; a C+ in Preparation... must be achieved to receive
a final grade of B[3.0] or higher).
100%
In rare instances, the instructor may evaluate a work as “satisfactorily completed,” in which case a student will be given credit but not a letter grade for the work. No grading penalty accrues to the student in such instances.
Unless otherwise specified, papers are to be prepared for hard copy submissions (see “Paper Submission” policy below).
Place your name, date, campus address, phone number and course (HUMN 221, ENGL 321, etc.), and a shorthand topic/assignment note (“Scene Analysis I,” etc.) in the upper right-hand corner. Please provide a title for the paper, centered and double-spaced above the opening sentence of the paper. Staple the paper in the upper left-hand corner.
Please number all pages. Please do not: a) use a title page; b) include an outline; c) put the paper in a cover; d) paper clip, “dog ear,” the paper.

You may use citation methods from any discipine with which you are familiar as long as you are clear and concsistent in its use. If you are not certain of what citation model to use, you may use that of the Modern Language Association, 7th ed. guidelines Models for paper documentation are available in Course Materials on MyCourses.
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Unless otherwise specified , papers (including take-home exam if any) are to be submitted in class on the due date by the author. This is the only “approved” method of submitting a paper. Students submitting papers by proxy, through mail or email, to work study students or secretaries, etc. – with or without advance permission to do so – indeed do so at their own risk. All students submitting papers are advised to keep a second or back-up copy.
Students must maintain an electronic and/or file copy of all papers and out-of-class written assignments submitted work until the end of the final exam grading period: May 14 th 2012. Students are expected to provide an additional copy upon request.
I have no objection to receiving late papers without explanation or excuse. Students just take the default late penalty noted below at your discretion. You do not have to request this but you should probably let me know the day or so before (email is fine) so there is no confusion when papers are handed in.
Extensions without penalty must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of paper deadlines and are granted or denied by the instructor on a case by case basis. Among the factors considered in the instructor’s decision are: reason for extension, length of extension, student’s class attendance (and/or promptness), and overall performance in class.
Penalties for late papers: 1-4 school days (M-F) = 1 letter grade penalty
5 or more class days = a paper is subject to an automatic F grade
Late papers, excused or not, are likely to take longer to return and are likely to have fewer comments than those handed in on time.
Quizzes are unannounced and cannot be made up even if students miss them for valid reasons. (They are a given to assess daily preparation of material and, therefore, make-up quizzes serve no purpose.). Students missing a quiz for a valid reason (see below under “Attendance”) receive “Credit” for that quiz. There are two types of quizzes.
 Preparation quizzes – test students’ basic knowledge and retention of assigned readings for the day and/or recent class discussion and lecture (in class or “email’ lecture). These quizzes are graded A-E and are recorded as the principal part of the preparation grade.
 Parimutuel quizzes -- are brief and are intended to remind people who do not attend class as often as they might how much I miss them. These are graded Pass/S (Satisfactory) or E. The E counts as an E (or F) in a Preparation quiz.
Quizzes are generally, but not necessarily always, given at the beginning of a class period. In any case, I reserve the right to penalize a student’s quiz grade or to decline to give a quiz to any student who is not present for the quiz five minutes or more after a quiz has begun.
Attendance
Attendance may be taken as part of the course history. Although no final grade penalty is assessed for a fixed number of absences per se , attendance is a factor in your overall “Preparation/professionalism...” grade (20% of the final grade and a threshold requirement for a final grade of B or higher). Quizzes and class discussion/participation/group work as assigned are also factored into the Preparation...grade. Attendance is also factored heavily in granting requests for work extensions,* forgiveness and penalties for late or missed work, resolution of “borderline” grades, forgiveness of course problems arising from human error and the vicissitudes of life, to say nothing of the overall cheerful disposition of the instructor, etc. In other words, show up!
*The only 100% valid excuses for missing coursework (including regularly scheduled class meetings) without penalty and/ or opportunities for extensions and make-up work are religious holidays (per state law), military service and/or medical or emergency service (documented) where the student renders these services, and exemptions duly authorized by the College’s Office of Disabilities Services. In almost all cases, I will also

excuse documented illness, serious illness or death of immediate family, and selected approved off-campus, college-sponsored events (e.g., intercollegiate athletic ‘away’ events, model UN conference, etc.) if overall class preparation and attendance are fully satisfactory (applicable or reversible retroactively as necessary if absences and excuses are abused). A professor, college staff. or activities advisor or officer may NOT require you to miss another professor’s class.** Generally, not excused for make up work, extensions, etc. are rides home; weddings, reunions, social gatherings; employment opportunities that conflict with the semester; “required” on campus or local meetings or activity for another class or activity (including res life, clubs, etc.); too busy.
Late arrivals . Lateness to class, although sometimes unavoidable, is invariably inconvenient and potentially disruptive.
If you must be late, please enter quietly and without ceremony.
During class, audible “ringing” and signaling from phones, pagers, Icrap, Padtops, Smartbooks, Facepods,
Angrybirds, or whatever all else is out there is an act of disruption and rudeness. Please turn your electronic stuff off while in class. Audible and other conspicuous electronic interruptions during a business or professional meeting are widely viewed as inappropriate behavior unless you are the boss. (P.S. Class is a business meeting and “you ain’t the boss.”)
The syllabus and calendar of reading material represent the instructor’s best estimate of the structure of the course. The instructor reserves the right to modify syllabus and assignments. Changes in the syllabus will be announced in class and emailed. Students are responsible for such changes.
**No Geneseo faculty member, staff, or advisor may require you to miss my class for another activity, academic or otherwise. You (or the faculty and staff member on your behalf) may request your excused absence at least two days before (which, depending upon the student and the request, I may or may not grant). Otherwise students are responsible for any material, quiz, or other graded activity with no opportunity to make up any “lost” grades or credit. If a faculty member, activities staff member, or a student/staff officer of a group or activity pressures or requires you to miss my class, I encourage you to show that individual the following statement from our syllabus:
“Dr. Greenfield is a total a$$hole about attendance and I could readily receive an F on a quiz for an unexcused absence; he can also be an a$$hole about determining what is and what is not an unexcused absense.”

Humanities 221, Sec 21, MW 9:30-11:10. HUMN 221 Sec 22 MW, 12:30-2:10. Readings are to be completed in their entirety before the class period in which they are do. Quizzes are unannounced, based on the readings for the day and recent lectures and class discussions.
Books: Ibsen, An Enemy Of The People ; Freud , Civilization And Its Discontents ; Shelley, Frankenstein ; Swift, Gulliver's Travels ; Miller,
Incident At Vichy ; Shaw, Pygmalion; Locke, Second Treatise of Government ; Pirandello, Six Characters In Search Of An Author (Act 1 only); Marx, The Communist Manifesto ; Darwin, The Origin of the Species ; Camus, The Stranger.
M W
Jan 16. Martin Luther King Day, No Classes.
Jan
23
Jan
30
Locke
Feb.
13
Locke: II. VII (sec 77-86). Hobbes (MyC)
TBA
Feb. 6 Gulliver , continued; Book I start IV
(Houyhnhnms)
““English Bill of Rights,” “Declaration of
Independence” MyC
Jan
18
Jan
25
Feb
1
Feb
8
Feb
15
Course Intro. Bring Locke to class. Read for class today Locke, xix-xxiv, Ch. 1
Locke: XVII, XVIII, XIX. (MyC). Selection.
Finish Locke as needed. Swift mini-lecture (MyC), Swift,
Gulliver’s Travels Book I (Lilliput),
Finish Swift. If time, “English Bill of Rights,” “Declaration of
Independence” (MyC)
Feb
20
US Documents
(MyC)
Martineau, Political
Non-Existence of
Women “Frederick
Douglass, 4 th of July.”
Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments”; “The
Destructive Male”
(MyC)
US Documents
(MyC), Martineau,
“Political Nonexistence of Women.
Frederick Douglass,
4 th of July ,” Martin
Luther King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,
” Malcolm X, “On the
Civil Rights
Movement.” ( All MyC)
Romanticism/ Frankenstein Mini-Lecture,
MyC. Shelley, Frankenstein Ch 1-13.
Feb
22
“English Bill of Rights,” “Declaration of Independence” continued and/or
US Documents
(MyC)
Martineau, Political Non-
Existence of Women “Frederick
Douglass, 4 th of July.” Stanton,
“Declaration of Sentiments”;
“The Destructive Male”
US Documents (MyC),
Martineau, “Political Nonexistence of Women. Frederick
Douglass, 4 th of July ,” Martin
Luther King, “Letter from
Birmingham Jail.” Malcolm X,
“Excerpts, God’s Judgment on the
White Man.” ( All MyC)
Finish Frankenstein
Feb.
27
Exam 1
Mar 5 Marx/Smith; Locke V Of Property.
Feb
29
Mar
7
Marx/Smith Terminology (MyC) Marx, Communist Manifesto.
Ch 1 Ch 2; (MyC)
Paper #1 Due . Intro to Darwin, Bring Origin of the Species to class.
Mar 19 Last pgrh of Book, Ch 1, Ch 2 (summary only);
Mar 21 Darwin Ch. 3 and other section(s) TBA.
March
26
Finish Darwin as necessary. Ibsen , An
Enemy of the People (all of it)
April 2 Freud: Terminology (MyC). Civilization and its Discontents ch 1 (skim for
“oceanic feeling of religious belief”), ch
2)
April 9 Shaw Pygmalion
Mar 28 Finish Ibsen. Bring Freud to class.
Apr 4 Freud, Ch 3.
Apr 11 Excerpt from Gobineau, Inferiority of the Races (MyC); Arendt,
Eichmann in Jerusalem (MyC) .
Bring Miller, Incident at Vichy to class.
Apr218 Camus, “Myth of Sisyphus” (MyC); The Stranger Part 1 April
16
April
23
Miller, Incident at Vichy.
Camus, The Stranger (finish). If time,
Six Characters in Search of an Author
(Act 1 only).
Apr 30 Last Day of class. Exam II pt 1
Apr
25
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Due (opt 1).
Fr May
4
Exam II Part II.
Paper II (opt 2) Due by 4
Sec 21,
(9:30)
PM in Welles 226 (No late
8:00
-11
AM papers accepted after this unless excused for documented emergency).
(Act 1 only). Paper II
Fr May
4,
Exam II Part II.
Paper II (opt 2)
12 PM,
Sec 22
(12:30)
Due by 4 PM in
Welles 226 (No late papers
12 noon
- unless excused for

* documented emergency).

The Learning Outcomes for Western Humanities Song
(“Everybody Has to Take Hummmmm”)
Sing-a-long chorus
We hope you’ll argue your convictions without shame or fear
And hear their opposition with a sharper ear.
Oh you can blow it off until your senior year
But everybody has to take Hummmmmm (Some!)
EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE HUMANITIES
TO SEPARATE TRUE WISDOM FROM INNANITIES
AND SAVE THE WORLD FROM FOLLY AND CALAMITIES
EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE HUMMMMMM
Group A Hum,Hum, Hum, Hum, (etc.) Group B Hummmmmm, Hummmm,
(Reading of the Outcomes)
Students will:
* demonstrate knowledge of the contributions of significant Western thinkers to ongoing intellectual debate about moral, social, and political alternatives;
* demonstrate knowledge of the major trends and movements that have shaped and responded to this debate: e.g., monotheism, humanism, etc.
* demonstrate the ability to think critically about moral, social, and political arguments in the Western intellectual tradition, evaluating the logic of these arguments and relating them to the historical and cultural context;
* consider moral, social, and political issues from an interdisciplinary perspective
Chorus: EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE HUMANITIES
TO SEPARATE TRUE WISDOM FROM INNANITIES
AND SAVE THE WORLD FROM FOLLY AND CALAMITIES
EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE HUMMMMMM
You will read some masterpieces ‘til your eyeballs break,
Maybe you will join in on the give and take,
By June you might conclude it was a big mistake…
But …everybody has to take Hummmmm (Chum!)
EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE HUMANITIES/TO SEPARATE TRUE WISDOM FROM INNANITIES
AND SAVE THE WORLD FROM FOLLY AND CALAMITIES/EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE
(THAT’S TOO BAD BUT THEM’S THE BREAKS)
EVERYBODY HAS TO TAKE HUMMMMMM