Schedule

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
T 8/20 Introduction
R 8/22 Art and the Human Body ·      Bring a photo (e.g. on your smartphone) of a work of art (painting, sculpted figure, doll) dated between 1700-1914, created anywhere in the world, that depicts the human body

·      Bring your commonplace journal (a small journal, preferably unlined)

 

T 8/27 Depths and Surfaces
  • William Blake, “The Tyger” (1794)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet: Lift Not the Painted Veil” (1824)
  • Charles Baudelaire, “Gamblers” from Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)

 
R 8/29 Fashion, Fiction, and Philosophy

 
  • Denis Diderot, from “Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown” (1769)
  • Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus (1831)
  • Thornstein Veblen, from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

 

 Experiment 1 due on Blackboard by 11:59PM 8/30

 

T 9/3 The Duality of Human Nature Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde (1886)
(Read pages 15-30)
R 9/5 The Duality of Human Nature Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde (1886)
(Read pages 31-54)

 

T 9/10 Philosophies of Sculpture and Performance

 
  • Arthur Symons, from “Rodin” (1902)
  • Sculpture: Auguste Rodin, The Kiss (1882)
  • Arthur Symons, “Eleanora Duse” (1900)
R 9/12 Authenticity on the Stage

 

 Arthur Symons, “Esther Kahn” from Spiritual Adventures (1905)

 

 

 

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
T 9/17 Authenticity in Dance

 
  • Isadora Duncan, from My Life (1927)
  • John Dos Passos, “Art and Isadora” from The Big Money (1933)
R 9/19 Workshop  Project 1 due on Blackboard by 9/20 11:49PM

 

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
T 9/24 Introduction to Invention & Technology

 

 Taylorism and the Gig Economy

From “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” The New York Times (2015), by Sherry Turkle
R 9/26

 

 Division of Labor

 
  • Adam Smith, “On the Division of Labor” (1776)
  • Brothers Grimm, “The Three Spinners” (1812)
  • Taylorism in The Big Money (1933)

 

 

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
T 10/1 E.M. Forster, “The Machine Stops” (1909)
R 10/3 E.M. Forster, “The Machine Stops” (1909)

 

 

 

 

 

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
T 10/8 Humanizing Labor

 

 ·      John Ruskin, from On the Nature of Gothic Architecture (1853)

·      Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of the Times” (1829)
R 10/10  Experiments & Projects Complete your experiment and begin drafting your project. Experiment 2 Due on Blackboard Discussion Board before 11:59PM

 

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
T 10/15 Animation Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein (1818)
R 10/17 Animation Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein (1818)

 

Class Frameworks & Additional Contexts Preparing for Class Graded Assessments
 T 10/22  Workshop Bring draft of Project 2
R 10/24 Workshop Bring draft of Project 2  Project 2 Due on Blackboard by 10/25, 11:59PM

 

T 10/29 Contact Zones
  • Gloria Anzaldúa, from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)
  • Mary Lousie Pratt, from “The Arts of the Contact Zone” (1991)
R 10/31 Border Crossings
  • Toru Dutt, “Our Casuarina Tree” (1881)

·      Toru Dutt, “Jogadhya Uma” (1881)

 

T 11/5 Zitkala-Sa, “A Warrior’s Daughter” (1902)
R 11/7 No class meeting. Work on experiment. Experiment 3 due

 

T 11/12 Sultana’s Dream, 1905
R 11/14 Sultana’s Dream, 1905

 

T 11/19 Invention and Workshop
R 11/21 Invention and Workshop Project 3 Due on Blackboard by 11/22 11:59PM

 

11/26-11/28 THANKSGIVING WEEK

 

 

T 12/3
R 12/5 Frankenstein’s Creature due on 12/6 at 11:59PM

 

W 12/11 Final Letter due