Mapes, Gwenyth B.

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University of Montana

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Syllabi Course Syllabi Spring 2-1-1999 LS 152.13: Introduction to Humanities Gwenyth B. Mapes The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Mapes, Gwenyth B., "LS 152.13: Introduction to Humanities" (1999). Syllabi. 4788. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/4788 This Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. Liberal Studies 152, Sections 13, 16 Sec. 13: TTh 12:40-2:00 p.m. LA 106 Sec. 16: TTh 7:10-9:00 p.m. LA 106 Prof. Gwenyth Mapes Office: LA151 Office Hours: TTh 5-7:00 p.m. or by appt. Office Phone: 243-5314 or 728-3624 - home Messages: 243-2171 (Lib. Stud. Dept.) e-mail: gwenyth@selway.umt.edu SYLLABUS Add /Drop Deadline: March 8, 1999 Final Exam: Sec. 13: 10:10-12:10 p.m., Friday, May 14, 1999 Sec. 16: 7:10-9:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 11 1999 Texts: The Merchant of Venice (Signet) Discourse on Method (LLA) Frankenstein (Bantam) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Penguin) Heart of Darkness (Penguin) ' A Room of One's Own (Woolft) Metamorphosis (Penguin) Ceremony (Penguin) Faculty Pack (available in UC Bookstore) Writing Assignments: 1) Weekly responses to the mandatory Thursday General Lectures (supplemented by e-mail discussions); 2) First paper due Tuesday, February 16; 3) Expansion of first paper due Tuesday, March 30; 4) A minimum of two responses are required for the four videos shown; and 5) Final exam (dates and times listed above) . All assignments must be typed and double-spaced. Late assignments are not accepted ·.vithout prior approval. Late papers will suffer the loss of a grade per day without prior approval. Thursday's General Lectures are mandatory (either attend at 11 a.m. in ULH or at 7 p.m. in SS352) -- see Fae. Pac. for schedule of speakers/topics. Grades and Attendance: Grades are an average of the (1) weekly responses, attendance, class participation, video/performance responses, (2) first paper, (3) second paper, and (4) final exam. Class participation can raise your grade if you are borderline, just as lack of class participation can lower your grade. Absences (more than two) will lower your grade. Week of: Readings: Jan.25 Montaigne (Fae. Pac.) Feb.2 Merchant of Venice Feb.8 Merchant of Venice (Movie: Merchant ofVenice) Feb. 15 Discourse on Method, Romantic Poetry, Whitman and Wollstonecraft (Fae. Pac.) Feb.22 Frankenstein March 1 Frankenstein March 8 Marx excerpts and Declaration~ oflndependence (Fae. Pac.) March 15-19 Spring Break March 22 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth (Fae. Pac.) (Movie: A Room of One's Own) March 29 A Room of One's Own, "Florence Nightingale" (Fae. Pac.) April 5 Heart of Darkness (Movie: Apocalypse Now) April 12 Heart of Darkness April 19 Metamorphosis April 26 Ceremony (Movie: Day After Trinity) May3 Ceremony Video Schedule: Merchant of Venice A Room of One's Own Apocalypse Now Day After Trinity Video showings (dates/times) will be announced 

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