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University 		CORE 152 IJ
Challenge of Modernity 		Prof. Gregory
Fall 2001
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Course Schedule:

Readings are to be completed by the date on which they appear. Check back here often, as I will extend and revise the calendar as the semester progresses. Readings marked with an ‘*’ appear in the Course Packet. Those with a ‘**’ are available online—the title is a hyperlink. Click on film title to access film notes.

Attendance to evening events (screenings, concerts, lectures) is required, unless otherwise noted. (Blue=Required; Green=Optional) Usually evening screenings will be over by 10:30—bring paper and pen to jot down notes. Candy and such will be available. Bring your own non-alcoholic beverages.

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1		 Aug
27		 Preliminaries
Aug
29		 Kant—What Is Enlightenment?** (Alternate translation including complete text**)
The Declaration of Independence**
Aug
31		 Borde & Chaumeton - Towards a Definition of Film Noir*
Place & Peterson - Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir*
Silver - Introduction*
In-Class Video - American Cinema—Film Noir
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2		 Sep
2		 Sunday Night Film Screening
The Maltese Falcon — 8:30-10:30 Golden Auditorium
Sep
3		 Film Discussion
Sep
5		 Paley - Natural Theology (in Darwin 41-44)
Darwin - The Origin of Species: Intro-Ch.IV, Organs of Extreme Perfection..., Ch.XIV (in Darwin 95-135, 144-145, 158-174)
Sep
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14		 Dawkins - The Replicators*; Explaining the Very Improbable (Darwin 301-304)
Dennett - Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process (Darwin 483-489)
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4		 Sep
16		 Sunday Night Film Screening
Double Indemnity — 8:30-10:30 Golden Auditorium
Sep
17		 Film Discussion
Sep
18		 Tuesday Night Optional Film Screening:
Alternative Cinema: Metropolis and two short films — 7:00 Golden Auditorium
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21		 Marx - Selections from the early writings*
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5		 Sep
24		 Marx & Engels - The Communist Mannifesto
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28		 Simmel - The Metropolis and Mental Life**
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6		 Sep
30		 Sunday Night Optional Lecture:
John Knecht: “Early Film and the Modern Mind” — 7:00 Golden Auditorium
Oct
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3		 Simmel - The Metropolis and Mental Life**
Oct
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7		 Oct
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10		 Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality First Treatise
Oct
12		 Genealogy Second Treatise
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8		 Oct
14		 Sunday Night Film Screening
Laura — 8:30-10:30 Golden Auditorium
Oct
15		 Film Discussion
Oct
17		 Synthesis and Review
Oct
19		 MIDTERM EXAM
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9		 Oct
22		 Manet (no reading)
Oct
24		 Paper 1 Due
Manet (no reading)
2:45-3:35 MSQ class in the Chapel
Oct
25		 10:20-11:10 MSQ class in the Chapel
1:45-2:35 MSQ class in the Chapel
Thursday Evening Concert
Manhattan String Quartet: Webern — 5-7 Memorial Chapel
Oct
26		 9:20-10:10 MSQ class in Chapel
10:20-11:10 MSQ class in Chapel
Eliot - The Waste Land*
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10		 Oct
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31		 Woolf - To The Lighthouse The Window (3-124)
Nov
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11		 Nov
5		 Lighthouse Time Passes (125-143)
Nov
6		 Tuesday Evening Concert
Jazz — 5-6 Donovan’s Pub
Nov
7		 Lighthouse The Lighthouse (145-209)
Nov
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12		 Nov
11		 Sunday Night Video Screening
Merchants of Cool — 8:30-10:30 Golden Auditorium
Nov
12		 Video Discussion
Nov
14		 Du Bois — The Souls of Black Folk Forethought, I, II
Nov
16		 Du Bois — Souls III-V
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13		 Nov
19		 Du Bois — Souls XIII-XIV, The Afterthought
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14		 Nov
26		 Speigelman - Maus I
Nov
28		 Maus II
Nov
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15		 Dec
2		 Sunday Night Video Screening
Cornell West - Colgate University - 9/26/96 — 8:30-10:30 Golden Auditorium
Dec
3		 Video Discussion
Dec
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