Feb 1 W   Unit introduction in small group (AD 206)

                 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   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

        20M          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)

       22W      The Social Contract re-visited

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

       24F        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?        

         27M        Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Act I 

March
         1W       Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Act II

          3F        Rod Stewart’s Unit Exam    

6   M           Patrick Duffey's unit:  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

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

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

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

27   M   The Lost Steps, pp. 76-157.

29 W  The Lost Steps,  pp. 158-238.

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

April

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

5  W  The Storyteller, pp. 235-246.

7   F  Patrick Duffey's unit exam

Jim Gray's Unit             

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

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

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

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

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

     21 F.  excerpts from the film Dances with Wolves.

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

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

     28 F.  Alexie's “Every Little Hurricane,” “Because My Father...,” and “Crazy Horse
              Dreams.”
May
     1 M. Alexie's “This Is What It Means...,” “The Fun House,” and “The Trial of
               Thomas Builds-the-Fire.”

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

      5 F  examination.

      8M   Connections, evaluations (WCC 254)