Prontuario

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
College of Arts and Sciences
Humanities Department
HUMANIDADES 3112
Introducción a las culturas de occidente
Edad moderna temprana, moderna, y contemporánea
Spring Semester, 2008 • TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS
PROFESSOR SERENA ANDERLINI-D’ONOFRIO
Chardón 227
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00-3:15 pm
Office: Chardón 508-B - Telefono (office) 832 4040 #3192; mensaje #3160
Office hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00-2:00 pm, Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 pm, and by
appointment
Email: [email protected]; cell 787 538 1680
AVISO IMPORTANTE. Este curso es un espacio educativo bilingüe. Los dos idiomas usados
son inglés y español. El conocimiento de inglés es bien importante, como el de español. Los
materiales usados son en español cuando disponible, y en inglés cuando necesario. Las clases se
darán en inglés y en español. Los exámenes, las presentaciones, las preguntas por discusión y
otras tareas se podrán entregar en español o en inglés.
Además de la participación el las clases (con la visión de 4 películas y 2 presentaciones
visuales), se requiere la participación de cada estudiante en la proyección de dos películas
durante la hora universal y de dos o mas eventos en el calendario recomendado (ver p. 5).
1. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the styles, tropes, endeavors, and
traditions that characterize western culture, and to invite students to think critically about them.
We will focus on the early modern, modern, and postmodern ages. Each period will be
examined from a historical, geographical, cultural, social, and theoretical perspective. We will
work with textbook information and a number of primary sources. The shared theme of these
sources is love in its spiritual, affectional, romantic, and erotic manifestations. This thematic
continuity will provide the opportunity to explore the infinite variety of love’s forms and
expressions, and to reflect on the ever-changing cultural constructions related to this topic.
The story of the western tradition will be examined as a metanarrative that begs three main
questions:
1. Anecdotal theory: when Gandhi was asked what he thought about western civilization, he
supposedly answered “it would be a great idea!” Is western civilization really civilized,
and in that case, what do we mean by civilization?
2. If western civilization is about “our” past, why does the Caribbean or Puerto Rico hardly
appear in it? How can we adapt its metanarrative to our situated reality?
3. What are the distinctive characteristics of western civilization and what would the world
look like if they were applied on a global scale? To what extent is western civilization
ecologically sustainable?
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As a result of the experience of this course, students will develop a critical awareness of how the
concept of western civilization has been constructed throughout the past our culture chooses to
remember and of how this concept affects the present.
Students will be expected to prepare for class by reading carefully the assigned
materials and by taking informal notes of their observations and reactions, which they will
share in the class discussion. Written tests include reading quizzes (unannounced) and partial
exams (which have multiple-choice and essay questions of both the expository and the
personal kind). All exams will be written on blue books and will be double spaced.
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NORMAS
Cada estudiante será responsable para brindar su libro de texto y paquetes en cada reunión
de clase.
Cada estudiante tendrá que participar en trabajos de grupo, anotar impresiones en su diario, y
tomar pruebas cortas y parciales, según asignadas
Todos los exámenes deben estar escritos en las libretas verdes a doble espacio. No se
aceptarán trabajos entregados tarde. Se dará reposición de examen solo previo excusa
adelantada y/o certificado médico.
Son indispensables la puntualidad, la asistencia a todas las clases y actividades requeridas, y
la participación activa en estas actividades de clase. Las ausencias y los retrasos serán
penalizados. Las ausencias escusadas por adelantado tienen 50 % de penalidad. Cada
retraso cuenta como una media ausencia. Seis ausencias o más resultarán en el fracaso del
curso.
2. CRITERIOS DE EVALUACCION
Valor de las pruebas
Pruebas cortas (quizzes)
Examen parcial
Examen final
Notas
A = 100-91
10 %
30 %
40 %
B = 90-81
Participacion en actividades en el recinto
Atendencia y participación en clase
C = 80-71
D = 70-61
10 %
10 %
F = 60-0
3. TEXTOS
1. Sherman and Salisbury. Civilizaciones de Occidente, Vol. 2. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
2. Paquetes # 1, 2, 3, 4, y 5 disponibles en la sala de Reserva, en Magic Copy, y en línea al
Los paquetes contienen los textos de las fuentes primaria a leerse. Lo/as autore/as incluyen
Marie de France, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Franco,
Louise Labe, Wlliam Shakespeare, Jean Racine, Baise Pascal, Charles de Montesquieu,
Giacomo Casanova, George Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft, Gustave Flaubert, Fredrick Engels,
Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, and bell hooks.
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CALENDAR (subject to change, according to necessity).
Thursday
Tuesday
Thursday
Tuesday
Thursday
Tuesday
Thursday
Tuesday
Tuesday
Tuesday
Thursday
Tuesday
Thursday
Thursday
Tuesday
Thursday
Tuesday
WEEK ONE
January 10
WEEK TWO
January 15
Humanity and Gaia/the Earth: An Inconvenient Truth, FIILM
Looking at the past:
History as a metanarrative (un metarelato)
The three main questions of the course
Introduction to film A Midsummer Night’s Dream, love in early
modern Europe and England
2:00-3:30 pm, Film A Midsummer Night’s Dream
January 17
WEEK THREE
January 22
READING AND UNDERSTANDING THE SYLLABUS
The commitments of the course
January 24
Readings and quiz about Midsummer and poems in Paquete # 1
Discussion of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
WEEK FOUR
January 29
Introduction to film Dangerous Beauty, the poet/courtesan in early
modern Italy
January 31
2:00-3:30 pm, Film Dangerous Beauty
WEEK FIVE
February 6
Discussion of Dangerous Beauty
Textbook in class. Reading Chapters # 13, 14, and 15
Quiz on these chapters
Febrary 7
Lecture and discussion about absolutism, classicism, the Ancien
Régime, the Enlightenment
WEEK SIX
February 12
Reading of classical tragedy, Racine’s Phaedra, Paquete # 1
Quiz on this primary source
February 15
Discussion of Phaedra in the context of classicism and absolutism
WEEK SEVEN
February 19
MONDAY FOR THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR
February 21
Hora Universal (10:30-12:40) Film I, the Worst of All
Discussion: a poet and cultured nun in 17th century Mexico
February 21
Visual Presentation: The Two Phases of Modernity, Enchantment
and Control
WEEKS EIGHT
February 26
Textbook in class. Reading of Chapters # 16, 17, and 18
Quiz on these chapters
Lecture and discussion of the French Revolution, Romanticism, and
the Restoration
February 28
CLASS CANCELLED
WEEKS NINE
March 4
Reading of Casanova’s Life, selections; Montesquieu’s Lettres
Persanes, selection; Pascal, selection; Romantic poem Don Juan,
Canto X; and Wollstonecraft’s biography and Vindication of the
Rights of Women; Paquetes # 2, 3 y 4
Quiz on these texts
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Thursday
March 6
Discussion of romantic love, freedom and rights in relation to the
revolutionary climate in Europe Continuation
WEEK TEN
Tuesday
March 11
Review and preparation of Midterm Partial Exam
Thursday March 13
Midterm Partial Exam
March 17-21- HOLY WEEK RECESS
WEEK ELEVEN
Tuesday
March 25
Textbook in class. Reading of Chapters # 19, 20, and 21
Quiz on these chapters
Tuesday
March 27
Return and Discussion of Partial Exam
WEEK TWELVE
Tuesday
April 1
Lecture and discussion of nationalism, socialism, anarchism, realism,
naturalism, imperialism, 19th century history and the idea of progress
Thursday April 3
Reading of Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary, selections; and of
Engels’s The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State,
selections, and, Paquetes # 3 y 4
Quiz on this text
WEEK THIRTEEN
Tuesday
April 8
Hora Universal (10:40-12:40), film Camille Claudel
Tuesday
April 8
Discussion: a female sculptor in late 19th and early 20th century
France
Thursday April 10
Discussion of nineteenth history and culture in the context of
Engels’s thought
Textbook in class. Reading of Chapters # 22, 23, and 24
Quiz on these chapters
WEEK FOURTEEN
Monday
April 14
Last day to drop course
Tuesday
April 15
Lecture and discussion of modernism, Nazism communism, fascism,
colonialism, feminism, Freudianism, absurdism, the two World Wars
and the Cold War
Thursday April 17
Reading of Freud’s “On Femininity”; Friedan’s The Feminine
Mystique, selections; and bell hooks All About Love, selections,
Paquete # 5
Quiz on these texts
WEEK FIFTEEN
Tuesday
April 22
Visual Presentation: Romantic, Realist, Modern, and Post-Modern
Elements in the Visual Arts and Architectures
Tuesday
April 24
MONDAY FOR THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR
WEEK SIXTEEN
Tuesday
April 29
Discussion of 20th century’s evolving cultural climates in the context
of the films, art, and texts
Thursday May 1
Continuation
WEEK SEVENTEEN
Tuesday
May 6
Review and preparation for final exam
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HUMA 3112 – SPRING 2008 – DR. ANDERLINI - FILM SCHEDULE
DATE
TIME
WHERE
TITLE
Technical Specifications
January 17
2:00-3:30 pm
Chardon 227
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Film
January 31
2:00-3:30 pm
Chardon 227
Dangerous Beauty
Film
February 21
Hora Universal
Chardon 227
I the Worst of All
Film
February 21
2:00-3:30
Chardon 227
Visual Presentation # 1
Slides
April 8
Hora Universal
Chardon 227
Camille Claudel
Film
April 22
2:00-3:30
Chardon
Visual Presentation # 2
Slides
La Hora Universal es 10:30-12:30
Promoción Cultural – Calendario Recomendado
Martes, 12 de febrero - Westside Story (1961, Robert Wise y Jerome Robbins, USA)
Basada en la tragedia de Shakespeare, Romeo y Julieta, este brillante musical muestra un
particular retrato de la diáspora puertorriqueña en Nueva York. Su brillantez fílmica la hizo
ganadora de diez premios Oscar, entre ellos a la mejor película, a la mejor banda sonora, de
Leonard Berstein, y a la mejor actriz secundaria, la puertorriqueña Rita Moreno. Plaza de Colón
(Mayagüez), 7.30pm.
Martes y miércoles 4-5 de marzo II Coloquio del otro la’o: perspectivas sobre sexualidades
queer. Anfiteatro Figueroa Chapel, Actividades durante todo el día
Martes, 13 de marzo - Conferencia “Deleuze and Feminism, an Experiment.” Michelle
Kerner, ABD, Duke University. Chardón 121, 10:30-12:00
Martes, 22 de abril - El gran dictador (1940, Charles Chaplin, USA)
La primera película hablada de Chaplin constituye una ingeniosa sátira del fascismo y en
particular de Adolf Hitler, dibujando un manifiesto contra el horror de la guerra y contra la
represión con brillantes toques de humor. Plaza de Colón (Mayagüez), 7.30pm.