Fall 2006
FALL 2006 READING LIST
Students should purchase their own copies of the assigned readings not reprinted in the Paideia I Reader. In addition, the Paideia I faculty require that students own a good hardback dictionary such as The American Heritage, The Random House, or The Webster’s New Collegiate.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam Classics, 1994.
Antigone. Director Don Taylor. Produced by Films for the Humanities, Princeton, N.J., 1980.
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War. Trans. Barbara Stoler Miller. New York: Bantam Classics, 1986.
Dante. The Inferno. Trans. John Ciardi. Signet Classics. New York: New American Library, 2001.
Darwin, Charles. “Introduction,” “Struggle for Existence.” And “Natural Selection; or The Survival of the Fittest” from Origin of Species. New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1900. Paideia I Reader 95-121.
Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. 1976, 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Erasmus and Martin Luther. Discourse on Free Will: Milestones of Thought. Trans. Ernst F. Winter. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 2005.
Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World. New York: Random House, 2003.
Lunsford, Andrea. A. Easy Writer: A Pocket Guide. 3rd ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. New York: International Publishers Company, 1948.
Paideia I Reader: Fall 2006. Storm Bailey. Decorah, IA: Luther College, 2006.
Sophocles, Antigone. Oedipus the King and Antigone. Trans. Peter D. Arnott. Arlington Heights, IL: Davidson, Crofts Classics, 1960.
FALL 2006 SYLLABUS
How do individuals and communities exercise agency in the face of forces that constrain them?
Monday, August 28 (Week I)
• Paideia I Reading Guide: Summer 2006
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Wednesday, August 30
• Reader (14-19)
• Mountains Beyond Mountains
Friday, September 1
• Reader (20-32)
• Mountains Beyond Mountains
• General Notes on Writing in Paideia I
Monday, September 4 (Week II)
• LECTURE: Maya Angelou; the constraints of race and gender
(M. Klammer)
• Reader (33-39)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Chs. 1-5 (1-33)
• Paper 1 due in class
Wednesday, September 6
• Reader (39-40)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Chs. 6-16 (34-111)
Friday, September 8
• Reader (40)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Chs.17-25 (112-200)
Monday, September 11 (Week III)
• Reader (40-41)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Chs. 26-36 (201-281)
Wednesday, September 13
• Reader (42-46)
• Getting Ready for Paper Two: Writing Thesis-Driven Papers
• Easy Writer, 12-31
Friday, September 15
• LECTURE: Franz Fanon; economic determinism and social injustice (J. Stonerook)
• Reader (47-48)
• The Communist Manifesto, “Bourgeois and Proletarians” and “Proletarians and Communists” (9-31)
Monday, September 18 (Week IV)
• Reader (49-54)
• Wretched of the Earth, “On Violence” (1-17, 30-36, 52-62)
Tuesday, September 19
• Reader (55)
• Fall Distinguished Lecture: Arun Gandhi (7:30 p.m. CFL)
Wednesday, September 20
• Reader (55-56)
• Wretched of the Earth, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (97-144)
Friday, September 22
• Reader (56-57)
• Wretched of the Earth, “Colonial War and Mental Disorders” and “Conclusion” (181-207, 219-233 and 235-239)
Monday, September 25 (Week V)
• Reader (58-59)
• In-Class Workshop for Paper 2
Wednesday, September 27
• LECTURE: How are people constrained by duty? (B. Caton)
• Reader (60-65)
• Bhagavad-Gita, “Introduction” and “Translator Note” (1-17)
Friday, September 29
• Reader (66)
• Bhagavad-Gita, 21-69
• Paper 2 due in class
Monday, October 2 (Week VI)
• Reader (67)
• Bhagavad-Gita, 71-113
Wednesday, October 4
• Reader (67-68)
• Bhagavad-Gita, 115-154
Friday, Monday, Wednesday/October 6, 9, 11
• Reader (68-71)
• Thomas More, Utopia, or alternative reading
• Paper Three: Revision, Reconsideration, Expansion
Friday, October 13
• Common Quiz 1 and Midsemester Exam
Saturday, October 14—Wednesday, October 18
Fall Break
Friday, October 20
• Reader (72-76)
• LECTURE: Dante’s Inferno; human action and divine will
• Read The Inferno, “Introduction” and “Cantos I-II” (xiii-xxvi and 27-40)
Monday, October 23 (Week VIII)
• Reader (76, 78-81)
• The Inferno, “Cantos III-X” (41-102)
Wednesday, October 25
• Reader (77-81)
• The Inferno, “Cantos XI-XVII” (103-156)
Friday, October 27
• Paper 3 Workshop
Monday, October 30 (Week IX)
• Reader (82-83)
• The Inferno, “Cantos XVIII-XXVI” (157-226)
Wednesday, November 1
• Reader (83-84)
• The Inferno, “Cantos XXVII-XXXIV” (227-288)
Friday, November 3
• LECTURE: Luther and Erasmus; freedom of the will?
(V. Christman)
• Reader (85-89)
• Discourse on Free Will: Milestones of Thought, “Introduction” (v-x)
• Paper 3 due in class
Monday, November 6 (Week X)
• Reader (89-90)
• Discourse on Free Will
Erasmus I: “Preface: Man and Truth” (3-11)
Luther I: “Introduction” (85-87)
Luther II: “Refutation of Erasmus’ Preface” (88-99)
Erasmus II: “Introduction: Objective Criterion for Truth” (12-18)
Luther III: “Refutation of Erasmus’ Introduction” (100-102)
Wednesday, November 8
• Reader (90)
• Discourse on Free Will
Erasmus III: “Old Testament Proofs Supporting the Free Will”
(19-32)
Erasmus IV: “New Testament Proofs Supporting the Free Will”
(33-39)
Luther IV: “Refutation of Erasmus’s Old and New Testament Proofs Supporting the Free Will” (103-110)
Erasmus V: “Apparent Proofs Against the Free Will” (40-52)
Friday, November 10
• Reader (91)
• Discourse on Free Will
Erasmus VI: “Luther’s Proofs Against the Free Will” (53-59)
Erasmus VII: “Postscript on Apparent Proofs Against the Free Will” (60-67)
Luther V: “Comments on Erasmus’ Treatment of Passages Denying Free Will” (111-115)
Erasmus VIII: “Summary and Conclusion” (68-81)
Luther VI: “Summary on the Bondage of the Will” (116-118)
Luther VII: “Conclusion” (119-120)
Monday, November 13 (Week XI)
• LECTURE: Darwin and Dawkins; can we upset our genetic design? (S. Bailey)
• Reader (92-125)
• Origins of the Species, “Introduction,” Chs. III and IV (Included in Reader) and The Selfish Gene, Chs. 1-2 (1-20)
Wednesday, November 15
• Paper 4 Workshop
Friday, November 17
• Reader (126)
• The Selfish Gene, Chs. 3-5 (21-87)
Monday, November 20 (Week XII)
• Reader (127-129)
• The Selfish Gene, Chs. 10-11 (166-201)
Tuesday, November 21
• Paper 4 (due 12 noon, instructor’s office)
Wednesday, November 22 — Sunday, November 26
Thanksgiving Vacation
Monday, November 27 (Week XIII)
• Reader (130)
• The Selfish Gene, Chs. 12-13 (202-266)
Wednesday, November 29
• LECTURE: Antigone; constraints of character (D. Faldet)
Friday, December 1
• Reader (131-135)
• Antigone (lines 1-215)
Monday, December 4 (Week XIV)
• Reader (135-136)
• Antigone (lines 216-1275)
Monday, December 4/Tuesday, December 5
• Reader (136-137)
• FILM: Antigone (4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Channel 73 or Hovde Lounge)
Wednesday, December 6
• Review Antigone
Friday, December 8
• Portfolios due
Exam Week Dec. 11 thru Dec. 13
• Common Quiz 2 and Final Exam