Feb 1 W   Unit introduction in small group (HC114)

                 Follow-up on Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins”

                 Reading: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html

                 Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), “Sancho and Ricote” Part II, Chapter 54, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

                 Reading: http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading1.html

       3 F     Watch/discuss video, Carlos Fuentes’s The Buried Mirror (HC 114)

      6 M.  Charles Mann's “Native Intelligence: Squanto and the Pilgrims” (ER #1)

      8 W.  Mary Rowlandson's “Captivity Narrative” (ER #2)

     10 F.  Samson Occom's “Short Narrative”( ER #3) and Gertrude Bonnin's “Big Red
               Apples” (ER #4).

     13 M. James Fenimore Cooper readings (ER #5).

     15 W. Mark Twain's “Digger Indians” (ER #6) and Black Elk Speaks (ER #7).

     17 F.  excerpts from the film Dances with Wolves.

     20 M. Silko's “Yellow Woman” (ER #8).

     22 W. Erdrich's “Red Convertible” (ER #9).

     24 F.  Alexie's “Every Little Hurricane,” “Because My Father...,” and “Crazy Horse
              Dreams.”

     27 M. Alexie's “This Is What It Means...,” “The Fun House,” and “The Trial of
               Thomas Builds-the-Fire.”

Mar 1 W.  Alexie's “A Good Story,” “The Approximate Size...,” and “The Lone Ranger
                and Tonto...”

       3 F.  examination. 

Rod Stewart’s unit:

       6 M   Masters, slaves, barbarians and freaks of nature

                        E-R: selections from Aristotle’s Politics

      8 W   Just War Theory I

                 Requerimiento, http://www.dickinson.edu/~borges/Resources-Requerimiento.htm

                 Papal decree Inter Caetera,

http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/indig-inter-caetera.html

                  E-R: Sagoyewatha, “Speeches”

    10 F      Just War Theory II

                  E-R: Las Casas, Sepulveda, Vitoria

     13 M    17^th century dissenter

                  E-R: Sor Juana, “Reply to Sor Philothea,” “Hombres necios”  (by email)

                           Jovita Gonzalez, “Shades of the 10^th Muses,”; video, I the Worst of All

                            Background: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/Chronology.html

                              http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/cruz.html

15W   Locke, the Enlightenment & the Social Contract, 2^nd Treatise

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/locke/ECCG/governxx.htm

           (Read/print off Chapters 1-5, Ch.9 on-line; paragraphs 175-176 and 196 from Ch.16 and then paragraphs 222, 240-242 from Chapter 19 will be sent as an email attachment)    

       17F      U.S. Enlightenment & the Sexual Contract

                    E-R: Ben Franklin; Ann Firor-Scott, “Three Portraits”; Deborah White

SPRING BREAK

       27M          U.S. and the Racial Contract in 19^th century

                          Thomas Jefferson,  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.htm

                          Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/readex/24073.html

                          Justice Marshall, http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1801-1825/marshallcases/mar03.htm

                           E-R: Churchill/Morris, “Key Indian Laws…”/”International law…” (background for Marshall reading)

       29W      The Social Contract re-visited

                       E-R: J.S.Mill on tyranny of the majority; Roger Hatch, “American Racism”; Bill Lawson on fixed minorities

       31F        Is Race Real?

                      E-R: Langston Hughes, “Passing”; Sharon Begley, “3 is not enough”;

                              Charles Mills, “But what are you really?”; Linda Martin Alcoff, “Mestizo Identity”

                               Or: what is Hughes’ “question” for us and how do Begley, Mills, and Martin Alcoff  “answer” it?        

April 3M        Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Act I 

         5W       Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Act II

          7 F        Rod Stewart’s Unit Exam      

       10M     Quixote: "Mambrino's Helmet" (I: 21, 25, 44-46)
                       http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading2.html; and "Barcelona" (II, 59).
                       http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading3.html

        12W    V.S. Naipaul (1932), Loss of Eldorado (11-69) (E-R)

       14F      El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), The Royal Commentaries (E-R).

        17M     D.F.Sarmiento (1811-1888), Facundo (1845) (E-R)

        19W    Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), "Funes" and "The South" (1944) (E-R)

        21F    Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), The Lost Steps (1953), beginning to p. 75.

        24M    The Lost Steps, pp. 76-157.

        26W    The Lost Steps,  pp. 158-238.

        28F    The Lost Steps,  pp. 239-278.  Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), The Storyteller (1987), beginning to p. 36.

May

         1M    The Storyteller, pp. 70-108; 146-188.

         3W    The Storyteller, pp. 235-246.

          5F   Patrick Duffey’s unit exam

          8M   Connections, evaluations (WCC 254)