SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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Faculty of Arts,
Subject .......... Ninor... Program. .in... Humanities ....... ..... . .............
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This proposal was discussed at a meeting of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies on November 13, 1979, and at a meeting of the Senate Committee on
Academic Planning on December 5, 1979. Action taken gives rise to the
following motion:
MOTION
That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board, as set
forth in S.80- 5, the proposed Minor Program in Humanities as
follows:
(i) Requirements for a Minor in Humanities
course
302-3
304-3
306-3
308-3
400-5
(ii) New
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The Golden Age of Greece: An Integrated Society
The Judeo-Christian Tradition in Western Culture
The Philosophical Question of the Humanities
The Humanities and Critical Thinking
Humanities Proseminar
It was indicated that a working committee, composed of faculty members in the
Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, had proposed a
program which builds on existing courses in both Faculties and on a few new
Humanities courses in the areas of Religion and Classical Studies. The
program will have a steering committee and be similar to programs in Area
Studies.
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Mr. H.M. Evans, Secretary
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MEMORANDUM
Sheila Roberts, Secretary
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Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee
1979-11-07
Date
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The Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee at its meeting of November
1, 1979 approved the Humanities program submitted by the Committee
on the Humanities. Would you please place this proaram on the agenda
of ne It S.C.U.S. meeting.
S. Roberts
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W.L. Cleveland for
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Attached is a proposal, with supporting documentation, for a
Minor Program in Humanities. It is our intention that the program be placed
in
the Faculty of Arts section of the university calendar between the
entries for History and D.L.L.L.
The proposal requires no new courses at the lower division. It
does, however., propose four new courses at the 300 level plus one 400
division próseninar. In the following paragraphs, the Committee has
endeavoured to present its understanding of the need and desire for a
more extensive program in the Humanities than currently exists in the
university, as well as providing the specific program details.
I. BACKGROUND
This program attempts to incorporate the results of extensive
consultation with faculty mathers througout the university. It origi-
nated with a document prepared by Associate Dean of Arts, W. L.
Cleveland, in which a variety of potential Humanities programs were
outlined. The document was circulated to sane 35 faculty members and
administrators. Response on the part of faculty was strongly favourable
while the President, Vice-President (Academic), and Associate Vice-
President (Academic) endorsed the concept in principal and encouraged
the formulation of a specific proposal. As a result, a meeting of
concerned faculty was held on 21 June, 1979 at which various views
were presented and at which the present Committee on the Humanities
was formed and urged to create 'a Minor Program as soon as possible.
The proposal that is before you represents the results of that mandate.
It became apparent in the course of the meeting of' 21 June,
1979, that a broad spectrum of faculty members were eager to express
what were, in many 'cases, sentiments of long gestation on the need for
more emphasis on the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. A stnnary
of those opinions might' be useful to the Committee.
A concern most frequently and strongly expressed related to the
failure of Simon Fraser to provide a core curriculum of any
kind.
Faèulty dissatisfaction over the
current
group requi.rcments was incense.
A program such as the one which is before you was seen as one possible
solution for eventually strengthening the Humanities canponent of our
group requirements while serving to fill an immediate need in the
sadly neglected areas of Classical and Religious Studies. A related
point, which was remarked upon by virtually every faculty member
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present, was the decided bias away from the Humanities so evident in
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the original S.F.U. curriculum. For reasons which no doubt appeared
sound at the tine,' several traditional departments were not included
(Classics, Religious Studies, Art) and instead of programs in Ccxrpara-
tive Literature or Humanities, responsibility for those subjects was
left within departments, especially English and D.L.L.L. This represents
an attempt partially to redress the early bias.
Much has been made about the disciplinary isolation which is
perceived to exist. at this University. It is our ingression that many
faculty see the development of a Humanities Program as one way of
increasing communications across departments and bridging the gap
which currently exists between even the most caTlpiimentary of disci-
plines.
II. OBJFC2IVES
In attempting to respond to these and other concerns, the
Committee was guided by the following set of beliefs which are put
forth as the principal objectives of the Minor Program.
The Humanities are subjects that are worth studying
in
and for
themselves. They also have the capacity to promote the growth
in
students of critical thinking, of sensitivity to tradition, of sensi-
bility in asthetic judgments, and of a literacy which will permit them
to speak and write to various audiences. It is the general objective
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of the Humanities Minor to encourage the acquisition of these attitudes
and skills.
We believe a specific program can assist in achieving this
objective by providing, our students with a greater opportunity to
discover the Humanities disci
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than they have previously enjoyed.
It is also expected that the Humanities Minor will enrich the curriculum
generally at S.F.U. and provide new opportunities for all students,
whatever their degree programs may be.'
iii. ccr OF THE PROGRAM
The Office of the Vice-President (Academic) encouraged the formu-
lation of a program in the Humanities. However, in doing so, Dr. Munro
made it quite clear that such a program would have to be mounted through
the. redeployment of existing 'faculty rather than through the appoint-
ment of new faculty. The Committee has designed a program to function
within this restriction. With the embarrassing exception of the course
on the Golden Age of Greece, faculty exist at S.F.U. who are willing
and able to teach the new courses. Indeed, we bel i.eve that once the
proposal is circulated, the pool of faculty will be more than sufficient.
Naturally, in most instances, the assignment of a faculty member to
teach a course in the Humanities will require his/her replaC(flflt in
his/her home department. Therefore, our proposal is not cost free. It
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will require two sessional stipends per year. However, it is our
impression that the two deans who will be most intimately involved
with this program are willing to re-allocate their stipend budgets
to provide this modest cost.
Because we believe the subjects included in the four new 300
level courses proposed for the Minor to be so essential to a univer-
sity education, we would be less than candid if we did not express
our hope that regular faculty appointments could eventually be rn&le
in the areas of Religious Studies and Classical Studies/or Classical
History. Indeed, the general faculty meeting of 21 June, 1979 which
gave this Ccmnittee its mandate, expressed its strong concern over
such an astounding gap in a university Faculty. However, it is not
our intention to propose appointments in the Humanities. Rather, ve
would hope that over time, positions might be re-allocated
in,
such a
way that the relevant departmental disciplines vould receive appoint-
ments in the Humanities subjects currently most lacking at this
university.
IV.
ADMINIRATIVE
STRUCFURE OF 'fl-[E PIO3R.AM
(a)
There will be a co-ordilnator/advisor. whwieeeieezt4pan&
(b)
There will be a committee of 3-4 individuals who will assist the
co-ordinator in arranging the proseniinar colloquia and in ensuring
that Humanities Minor students receive proper supervision.
(c)
As the proposal notes, we recarrnend that 10 faculty be associated
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with the Minor Program. These faculty members will constitute the
pool of acceptable advisors in any given year for the Humanities
Minor papers as proposed in HUM 400. The ten faculty will be
appointed by the Dean of Arts upon the recarmendations of the
previous carmittee for rotating terms of fran 2-3 years.
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HUMANITIES
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HUMANITIES PROGRAM
Committee on the Humanities:
E. Alderson, W. Cleveland, J. Tietz, J. Zaslove?
Coordinator: J. Zaslove (1980-81)
(+ 10 faculty appointed by Dean of Arts on recom-
mendation of previous committee for rotating 2
or 3 year terms)
The Humanities are broadly understood to be the integrated
study of human creativity, and culture. The Humanities study those
aspects of human endeavor that characterize given cultures or his-
torical periods -- philosophy, art, literature, religion, politics
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and a comparative approach to these aspects is central to the
concept of the Humanities. Knowledge of certain recurrent questions
and ideas implicit in any understanding of cultures both past and
present is the heart of a liberal education and is central to the
study of the Humanities. Through the study of civilization the
Humanities raises critical questions about the complex body of feel-
ings, attitudes, and ideas that define and express the human condi-
tion.
The Humanities Program is designed to encourage students to
obtain a grounding in the Humanities through course work in various
disciplines and to permit a more specific approach to humanistic
inquiry through a flexibly designed Minor Program at the Upper
Levels. Courses related to the Humanities are offered primarily
through regular departments in the University. The upper division
courses specifically within the Humanities Program are designed to
raise particular issues relevant to the study of the Humanities
outside the boundaries of a. particular discipline; they are not in-
tended to supplant the more specialized study of the material they
present which may be available within regular departments.
THE HUMANITIES MINOR
The Humanities minor is designed to afford interested students
the opportunity to develop and pursue under advice a course of study
related to their field of major concentration but extending it toward
key concepts of humanistic inquiry. The program has very few fixed
course requirements and encourages students to formulate a particu-
lar set of interests and.to
articulate these in a substantial essay.
The flexibility of the program is intended to make provision for many
different thoughtfully coherent programs of study, not to permit a
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casual accretion of program requirements. Each student will be
assigned an advisor to assist in formulating the individual program.
In order to qualify as a Humanities Minor, the student's program
must be approved by the Humanities Committee. The student will
participate with others in the program in at least one specifically
designed seminar course and in a series of colloquia designed for
Humanities students.
MINOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
As lower level prerequisites, students must complete 18 hours
of credits from among the Humanities Related courses listed below.
Courses from at least two different departments must be included.
These prerequisite hours may include courses also taken to fill
major prerequisites or Faculty
,
of Arts group 'requirements.
At the tipper levels, students will complete at. least 16 hours
of upper division credit, including two of Humanities 302, 304,
306, or 308, plus Humanities 400, plus two approved courses outside
the department of the major concentration.. Upper level requirements
maynot be fulfilled by any requirements or co-requisites for
.a
student's major or honors program.
The advisory system is essential to the program. Upon declaring
the intent to minor, students will be assigned an advisor from among
the Committee on Humanities. The advisor will discuss the proposed
program with the student, consult with the student's major department
where desirable, and seek approval of the student's program from the
Humanities Committee.
LOWER DIVISION: HUMANITIESRELATED COURSES
Listed below are lower division courses within the University
which deal with some aspect of the Humanities. These courses have
been grouped together under topic headings which emphasize an inter-
disciplinary approach. Students may wish either to sample from
different areas (for example, one course from Ancient Culture, one
from the Nineteenth Century, etc.), or to concentrate on a specific
historical period (for example, the art, history, and philosophy of
the Ancient World; or the history, politics, and art of the Enlight-
enment).
However, students may decide to select their lower division
prerequisites, it is important for them to have some familiarity
with philosophical concepts
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and to possess a broad awareness of the
human past. For this reason, History '105 and 106, and Philosophy
150 and 151 are designated as introductory courses to the Humanities.
The.student is advised to include all four in his or her program;
these courses provide the 'general background and information necess-
ary for the comparative study of Western Civilization.
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General Historical
and Philosophical Background
HIST
105
- Western
Civilization from the Ancient World to the Reformation Era
HIST
106
- Western
Civilization from the Reformation Era to the 20th Century
PHIL
150
- History
of Philosophy I
PHIL
151
- History
of Philosophy II
Man and Society
11151 105 -.Western Civilization from the Ancient World to the Reformation Era
MIST 106 - Western Civilization from the Reformation Era to the 20th Century
PHIL 120 - Facts and Values
PHIL 220 - The State
and
the Citizen
POL. Ill
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Political Theory
POL. 211 - Political Inquiry
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Thematic Studies
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Literature: WritingandCiviljzatjon
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PHIL 241 - Philosophy in Literature
ENGL 227 - Post-Classical; Literature
in
Translation
FREN 140 - French Civilization
GERM 140 - Introduction to German Civilization
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140 - Russian Civilization
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SPAN 140 - Hispanic Culture I
LIT. 140 - A Survey of General
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Literature I
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LIT.
141 -
A Survey, of General Literature IL
Arts, Music and Culture
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PHIL 242
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Philosophy of the Arts
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FPA 110 - The Arts in Context: The Renaissance
FPA 113
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- The Arts in Context: European Romanticism
FPA. 114 - The Arts in Context: The Modernist Era
FPA 102 Music in History I
FPA 103 - Music in History II
FPA 107 - Introduction to Art History - The Seventeenth Century
EPA 1087 Introduction to Art History - The Eighteenth Century
G.S. 106 - Opera
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Science, Communication and culture
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LING 103 - Counication and Language
PHIL 140 - The Nature of Science
PHIL 243 - Historical Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Religion ad Culture
PHIL 240 - Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Conceptual Analysis
PHIL 100 - Human Knowledge, Its Nature and Its Scope
PHIL 110 - Introduction to Philosophical Concepts and Reasoning
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PHIL 120 - Facts and-Values
Ancient Cultures
PHIL 150 - History of Philosophy I (Ancient, Medieval)
PHIL 350 - Ancient Philosophy
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HIST 216 -
The
Ancient World
HIST 219 - Byzantium and the Barbarian West fromthe Fourth to the Twelfth Centuries
ENGL 226 - Ancient Literature in Translation
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Middle Ages
HIST 220 -.Europe from the 12th to the Ilid-16th Century .
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PHIL 150 - History of Philosophy I(Ancient, Medieval)
ENGL 204 - Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
FPA 102 - Music in History I (to 1750) .
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Renaissance and Enlicihtenrnent
PHIL 151 - History of Philosophy II (Renaissance. and Modern)
ENGL 205 - Literature of the Late Renaissance and Enlightenment
HIST
223 -
Europe from the ifid - 16th Century to the French Revolution
FF'J'
102 -
Music in History 1
FPA
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102 - Music in History II
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FPA 107 - Introduction to Arts History - The Seventeenth Century
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FPA 108 - Introduction to Arts History - The Eighteenth Century
FPA 110 - The Arts in. Context: The Renaissance
19th and 20th Century
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PHIL 151 - History of Philosophy It
HIST 224 - Europe from the French Revolution to the 1st World War
.ENGL 206 - Literature of the Romantic and Victorian Periods
FPA 103 -Music
in
History
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FPA 113 --The Arts in Context: European Romanticism
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FPA
114 - The Arts in Context: The Modernist Era.
LANGUAGES ?
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The study of a language other than English forms a desirable part of a
humanities background. For this reason, 6 hours of any of French, German,
Spanish, Russian or Latin may be counted towards fulfilling the 18 hours
of lower level requirements.
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UPPER DIVISION -COURSES
HUM 302-3 The Golden Age of Greece: An Integrated Society (0-3-0)
The Fifth Century B.C. in Athens remains a period unique in
the record of human achievement. During the space of less than a
century, virtually all of the major humanistic fields were either
initiated or else received significant
new
impetus. This course
seeks to integrate the remarkable achievements of this 'Golden Age'
into one coherent examination of its elements, using slides or photo-.
graphs for the artistic and architectural material and
translated
original
texts as the basis of discussion.
HUM 304-3 The Judeo-Christian Tradition -in Western Culture (0-3-0)
This course examines the relation of religious belief and
practice to the cultural creativity of Western civilization. It
involves a comparative study of the major themes of Judaism and
Christianity as they have inspired the values, intellectual struc-
ture and art forms of Western culture from Moses to Luther.
(HUM
306-3 The Phiosophical Question of the Humanities (0-3-0)
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religion,
What
and
is
philosophy
intellectual
of
history?
the past
How
represent
does the
the inner-life
art, literatu
of
the period? Can we reconstruct that inner-life, or do we only
interpret the surface of the past in terms of our own desires and
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priorities? This seminar will investigate
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different ideas of his-
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tory particularly relevant to the study of culture.
HUM308-3 The Humanities and Critical Thinking (0-3-0)
The concept of the Humanities has been historically associated
with "the best that has been thought and said" throughout various
epochs. In spite of the association between the humanities and the
highest ideals of culture many critical thinkers have defined their
thought in opposition to the most cherished beliefs of culture.
This course will focus on the thought pf selected major figures
whose works imply radical departures
from traditional thinking. The
combinations of figures may vary from semester to semester. An ex-
ample
Dos toevsky.
of a typical course would be: Marx, Darwin, Freud and
HUM
400-5 Humanities Proseminar
This course requires the completion of a substantial essay-
on an approved topic related to the Humanities. The essay will
written
the Committee
under the
on the
supervision
Humanities.
of one
In addition,
of the faculty
students
members
will
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ticipate in a series of colloquia which are held in conjunction
with the course.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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Department HUMANITIES
Abbreviation Code: HUM. ?
Course Nu-nber: 302
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Credit Hours:
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Vector: ?
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Title of Course: The Golden Age of Greece: An Integrated Society
Calendar Description of Course:
The Fifth Century B.C. in
Athens remains a period unique
in the record of human achievement. During the space of less than a century, virtually
all the major humanistic fields weeither initiated or else received significant new
impetus. This course seeks to integrate the remarkable achievements of this
g olden Age'
into
a
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arc
on.choerent examt,ation
and
of
translated
its elenjent,.usjnq
original texts
slides
as the
or DhOtQqraIh
basis of discussion
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EMINAR
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
18
hours of humanities related courses at the lower level or permission of the Program
Coodi nator.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
None
2.
Scheduling
How frequently.will the course be offered?
Once
every two years
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
81-3
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
Sessional Instructor - Re-training of present faculty intended.
Objectives o
f
the C
ourse
To provide
students with an opportunity to develop and appreciate
the intellectual or artistic energies released during the Golden Age of Greece -
a
period which not only enriched world civilization permanently but also survived the Fall
of Athens for centuries to contribute to humanities and scientific traditions.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What
additional
resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Sessional Instructor
Staff
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Library
Audio Visual)
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None
Space
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Equipment ?
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5.
Approval
Date:_____________________
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(When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
ach course outline).
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HUM 302
Course Outline and Reading List
The course organization is chronological into the three constituent periods,
and within these topical.
I.
The Impetus. The remarkable victory of -Greece over the massive, invading Persian
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separate nations from Egypt to India, all advancing under unified command—
stimulated a great effusion of creative genius that initiated the Golden Age. The great
works of Pindar and Aeschylus in poetry/drama, of Herodotus in history, of the late
Pre-Socraties in
philosophy all reflect the exhilaration of this achievement; developments
In
architecture (the Temple of Zeus at Olympia) and sculpture (Myron's Discus-Thrower, for
example) embody something of this new spirit as well.
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(3 weeks)
READINGS: Aeschylus, The Persians; Herodotus VII-IX; selections from Heraclitus,
Parmenides, Empedocles. Examination of representative buildings and statues.
II.
The Interval. Greeks considered the period between the defeat of Persia in
1479
and
the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in
1431
a unified phase of development, the Pente-
contaetia or "Fifty-Year Period". Athens for the first time in history attempted to forge
an
empire using the awkward structures of its new democracy, and Sparta slowly constructed
a countervailing power. The afterglow of victory over Persia combined with a surmise that
hthnan potential might be unlimited, and an unprecedented efflorescence began: Socrates in
philosophy, Democritus in mathematics, Hippocrates in medicine, Sophocles in drama, the
Parthenon in architecture, the chrys elephant ine statue of Zeus (one of the Seven Wonders)
at Olympia by Phidias.
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P"DINGS: Plato, Symposium; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles, Antigone; Xenophon's
lorabilia of Socrates; Thucydides on the "Fifty Years". Architecture and art.
III.
The Culmination. What contemporaries saw as an inevitable collision dominated the
period from
1431
to lOb. Can a quick-witted, democratic people possessing a sea empire
co-exist
with a stolid, oligarchical people commanding.an
invincible land-force, or do
the internal dynamics of the two empires work themselves out unavoidably? Do men control
their social evolution, or do economic and military necessities fOrce accommodations which
poets and philosophers can only seek to justify? Athens at her height of. material and
intellectual
splendor can be brought low by her "inferior", with shock-waves felt throughout
the world. Euripides and
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Aristophanes reflect these forces in their dramatic work, the
Sophists and Plato deal with it philosophically, with a legacy for Aristotle, and the cool
observer Thucydides identifies the underlying permanencies in history. Pericles had completed
the first democracy but transformed
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it into an empire as he did so; others destroyed it.
Yet the momentum furnished to Athens carried its creativity through this dark period and
into the years after his death in
1429:
the Erechtheum was still to rise on the Acropolis,
and some of the greatest sculptors had not begun to work: Fraxiteles, Scopas, Lysippus. The
immense intellectual and. artistic energies released during the Golden Age not only enriched
world civilization permanently themselves, but also survived the fall of Athens to contribute
for centuries to the humanistic and scientific traditions. The representative selection from
this york permits the view that Greeks in their "Golden Age" managed to integrate the
artistic and intellectual
facets of man in a way never done before, and at a level probably
not met since. ?
(14
'weeks)
READINGS: Euripides, Hippolytus or Bacchae; Aristophanes, Lysistrata or Clouds; Plato,
Republic I-IV and X; Thucydides on the Funeral Oration, Corcyra, Melos, and the Sicilian
P'-edition. Art and architecture.
r.
Recommended reading:
1.
H.A. Groenewegen-Frankfort and B. Ashmole, The Library of
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Art History, Volume One: The Ancient World (Mentor MY 731;
New American Library of Canada, Ltd., 295 King Street East,
Toronto)
2.
P. MacKendrick and H. Howe, Classics in Translation, Vol. I:
Greek Literature (University of Wisconsin Press; Madison,
Wisconsin). This press is notoriously slow, so the order
ought to go out with a strongly-stated cancellation date if
not supplied by then.
3.
P. MacKendrick, The Greek Stones Speak (Mentor paperback)
MacKendrick, Paul Lachan, 1914-
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
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Calendar Information
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Department ?
HUMANITI.ES
Abbreviation Code:
HUM..
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Course Number: 304
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Credit Hours: 3 Vector: 0-3 0
Title of Course: The Judeo-Christian Tradition in Western Culture
Calendar Description of Course: This
course examines the relation of religious belief
and practice to the cultural creativity of Western civilization. It involves a comparative
study of the major themes of Juadaism and Christainity as they have inspired the values,
intellectual structure and art
forms
of Western culture from Moses to Luther
Nature of Course
SEMINAR
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
18 hours of humanities related courses at the lower level or permission of the Program
Coordinator
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
Once
2 years
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 82-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? A.
Rudrum. -
Objectives
of the Course This
course examines the relation
of religious belief and
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practice to the cultural creativity of Western civilization. It involves a comparative
study of the major themes of Judaism and Christianity as they have inspired the values,
intellectual structure and art fornof Western culture from Moses to. Luther. To acquaint
students with the religious roots of Western culture.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
i?aculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual
Space ?
NONE
Equipment
5.
Approval
Date:__________________________
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Department Chairman
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Dean ? Chairman, SCUS
F"JS73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
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JUDB)-QIRJSTIAN TRADITION IN WESTERN CUL1URE
Course Outline and Reading List:
(1) God
Made: Up from the Apes - Down from the Angels.
(2)
Good News:
Jesus and Rome.
(3)
Lions - Martyrs and Constantine.
(4)
Augustine - Plato -
The Barbarians.
(5)
The Celts and Roaming Monks.
(6) Greeks Refound: Jew
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Arab - Christian.
(7)
Ecclesia et Synagoga.
(8)
Canterbuty to Notre Dame: An (en Society.
(9) Love
Ballads
to
Monastic
Monastic Conmiitmnt.
Readings: (a) The Hubrew Scriptures - The Gospels and Epistles.
S(b).
Augustus to Constantine - Robert M. Grant.
(c Religipn and the Rise of Western Culture -.Christopher Dawson.
(d) The Evplution of Medieval Thought - David Knowles.
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Reading List
Primary Literary Source
Byron, George,
Chide Harold; Manfred; Don Juan.
Eliot, George, MiddleaarCh.
Flaubert, Gustave, aduaie Bovary.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust--selections.
Primary Musical Sources
Beethoven, Ludwig, The late 6tring quartets and Piano onataa
Mahler, Gtav, Lieder and Symphonies, especially 6ymphonies No. 6 and 9, and
Das Lied von der Erdee
Wagner, Richard,
Der
in&; des Niebelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger,
Parsifal.
These musical works will be discussed in class with reference to particular
selections. Students will be encouraged to do as mach listening, as possible,
but it is realized tnat those unfa;ailiar with these works (i.e., most students
taking this course) will not be able to hear than cofapleteiy, let alone absorb
their content. Several courses on music (and literature) exist within the
university, and students will
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be encouraged to take than.
Primary Philo
s ophical Sources
Hegel, W.G. Prefaces to the
P hiloso
p hie
s
of History, Art, and Religion.
Nietzsche, Fr.iedrich, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner.
Schoenhauer, Arthur, The world as Will and RepresentatiOfl8eleCtiOfl3.
Secondary Sources
Cassirer, Ernst, An Essay on Man: AnIntrodu
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a Philosophy of Human Cultu
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Heller, Erich,.The Artist's Journey into the Interior.
Meiland, Jack, Scepticism and Historical inowiedge.
Peckharn, Morse, Beyond the Tragic Vision.
Articles from The Encyclopedia of Ph112so,ph (Paul Edwards, ed.): Dilthey;
Troeltech; Historical Explanation; Historical Materialism; Historicism;
Great Man Theory of History; History and Value Judgements; Holism and Individualism
in Hist
ory
and Social Science; Philosophy of History; Speculative Systems of
History; GeisteswissensChaftefl; Idea of Progress; Sociology of Knowledge.
Note: This reading list is ,ieant to be suggestive, allowance will have to be made
for student's pocketbooks when tie time conies to submit a list of books to the
bookstore. °°iderable use will have to be made of the reserve-reading list
in the Library. (The Library now has copies of all of the above.)
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Abbreviation Code: HUM
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Course Number: 306 ?
Credit Hours: 3 Vector: 0-3-0
Title of Course: The Philosophical Question of the Humanities
Calendar Description of Course: What is intellectual history? How does the art, literature,
religion, and philosophy of the past represent the inner-life of the period? Can
we reconstructthat inner-life, or do we only interpret the surface of the past in
terms of our own desires and priorities? This seminar will investigate different
ideas of history particularly relevant to the study of culture.
Nature 'of Course
Seminar
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
18 hours of humanities related courses at the lower level or permission of the
Program Coordinator
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Once every two years
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 81-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
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Objectives of the CourseTO acquaint students with important issues in the philosophy and
methodology of history as they apply to the history of culture. How one goes about studyig
the past depends partly on
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one wants to study it, and there are many possible reasons
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each invol.ving different views of the nature of history. These issues are especially
important to the humanities after the Nineteenth Century (when many philosophers, artists,
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historians, and religious scholars saw that history was something more than chronicle even if
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
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(over)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty One Sessional Stipend every two years
Staff
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Audio Visual
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Equipment ?
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Approval ?
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Date:
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it was something less than "pure" interpretation). Students must confront the problem
of interpretation in history as a general issue involved in the understanding of past
culture. The general study of the philosophy of history will be applied to the cultural
features of
art ,
literature, religion, music, and science. The question of the purposes
of humanistic study can be addressed by investigating the roles which reconstruction and
interpretation Play in our understanding of past culture.
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Department KUNANITTES
Abbreviation Code:
H1JM
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Course Number:
308 ?
Credit Hours: 3 Vector: ______
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Title of Course:
The Humanities and Critical Thinking
Calendar Description of Course: The concept of the Humanities has been historically
associated with, "the best that has been thought and said" throughout various epochs. In
spite of the association between the humanities and the highest ideals of culture-many
critical thinkers have defined their thought in opposition to the most cherished beliefs of
culture. This course will focus on the thought of selected major figures whose works imply
Nature of Course
SEMINAR ?
(over)
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
18 hours of humanities related courses at the lower level or permission of the Program
Coordinator.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
None
2. Scheduling
How frequentlywill the course be offered?
Once every two years
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
J. Zaslove, J. Gallagher, R. Blaser
Ob ectives of the Course
This course will focus on the origins and development of critical
oncepts that have reacted against traditional ways of formulating the relationship between
man and his assumptions about the nature of man. The course will emphasize the way origin
theories have their genesis in social and historical conditions but should attempt to
demonstrate how particular issues transcend time-bound periods. The method of the course
will stress what particular thinkers share and how their works illuminate the underlying
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
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(over)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
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Library
Audio Visual
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None.
Space
Equipment ?
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5.
Approval
Date:
Department Chirmm
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radical departures from traditional thinking. The combinations of figures may vary from
semester to semester. An, example of a typical course would be: Marx, Darwin, Freud and
postoevsky.
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conflicts in a particular epoch. Central to the course should be an emphasis on the
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role the creative process,.or thought about the creative process, plays in the aesthetic
development of critical thinking At least one figure in any grouping of two to four
figures should therefore be a poet, novelist or artist.
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Sample Course Outline:
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Jerald Zaslove
Marx, Darwin, Freud & Dostoevsky: Ideology and Aesthetics
and the Scientific Critique of Culture and Ideals
This course will investigate the contexts commonly
shared by Marx, Darwin, and Freud's radical critique
of idealism and civilization. Their work will be
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tested against Dostoevsky's The
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aesthetic, political and psychological vision.
Problems to be illuminated:
1.
The critique of enlightenment ideas about the
autonomy of the mind.
2.
The rise of political economy as a dimension
of historical consciousness.
3.
The critique of authority and slave conscious-
nes
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s seen through the "discovery" of repression,
reification, "Entfremdung", and affirmative
culture.
4.
The relationship between animal nature, sexuality,
narcissism, and self-renunciation.
5.
The love-tragedy as the triumphant and dominant
literary form to emerge during the 19th century.
6.
The discovery of materialistic solutions and
"ways out" of the dead ends of culture ard idealism.
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Reading List:
Marx:
Darwin:
Freud:
The 18th. Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
The German Ideology
Grundrisse
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species
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(se1ctions)
Interpretation of Dreams
Totem and Taboo
selected essays from Collected Papers
Civilization and its Discontents
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Dostoevsky: ?
The Brothers Karamazov
Secondary Reading List
Walter Houghton ?
The
Victorian Frame or Mind
Herbert Marcuse. ?
Eros
and
Civilization
Reason
and
Revolution
Weston Labarre ?
The Ghost
Dance
The
Human Animal
Elie Halevy ?
The Growth of Philosophic
Radicalism
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i!i.ar1nform!ion
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Abbreviation Code: HUM.,
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Course Number:
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Credit Hours: 5 ?
Vector: ?
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Title of Course: Humanities Proseminar
Calendar Description of Course:Th
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S course requires the completion of a substantial essay
on an approved topic related to the Humanities. The essay
will
be written under the
supervision of one of the faculty members from the Committee on the Humanities. In
addition, students
will
participate in a series of colloquia which are held
in
conjunction
with the course
Nature 'of Course'
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N/A
Prerequisites (or special instructions): This course
is
only open to students who have
completed all other humanities minor requirements.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar
if this
course is
approved:
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None
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Every Semester as required
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 82-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? Many
Objectives of the Course The writing
of
an essay which reflects a familiarity with an
interdisciplinary approach to the humanitistic traditions of Western culture.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual
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None
Space
Equipment
5.
Approval
Date:
Department Chairman
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(
Dean ?
Chairman, SCUS
73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
.ach course outline).
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