Civilization Sequence Program

CVSP 204: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE  Fall 2008-09

Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, TUESDAYS, 2:00 PM

Date

Lecture

Assignment

Sept 29 – Oct 3

Introduction

Darwin, The Origin of Species (Mentor).  (CVSP Reading Selection)

Oct 6-10

Darwin

Darwin, The Origin of Species (continued)

Oct 13-17

Hawking/ Popper

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8.

or

Karl Popper, Selections from The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Poverty of Historicism and "Replies to My Critics"  (CVSP Reading Selection)

Oct 20-24

Nietzsche

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin), Preface, Part I, Sec. 1-6, 11, 13, 16-17, 19, 23; Part II, Sec. 29, 34-36, 41-44; Part V, Sec. 186-203; Part VII, Sec. 214-239; Part IX, Sec. 257-265.

Oct 27-31

Freud I

Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (Norton).

Nov 3-7

Freud II

Freud [continued]

Nov 10-14

No lecture

No new assignment

Nov 17-21

Mann

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice in Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (Vintage).

Nov 24-28

Beckett

Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot (Faber & Faber).

Dec 1-5

Solzhenitsyn

A. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)

Dec 8-12

S. de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex  (CVSP Reading Selection)

Dec 15-19

E. Said

Edward Said, Orientalism (Penguin), pp. 1-28, 31-49, 284-328, 329-354.

Mon Dec 22

- Tues 23 Dec

No lecture

No new assignment

Wed Dec 24

- Wed Jan 7

                Christmas and New Year vacation (Dec. 24 to Jan. 7)

Thurs Jan 8

-Fri Jan 9

No lecture

No new assignment

Jan 12-16

T. Salih-I

Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann).

Jan 19-23

T. Salih-II

Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann).