Interdisciplinary Studies 8501

Syllabus

Schedule

Assignments

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Schedule

22 January Introductions, course overview
A brief history of ethics
29 January Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5 February William Shakespeare, Hamlet
12 February Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
19 February Twain, continued
26 February Guest Lecture
5 March Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
12 March Dostoevsky, continued
19 March Spring Break
26 March Dostoevsky, continued
2 April Dostoevsky, continued
9 April Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
16 April Toni Morrison, Beloved
23 April Toni Morrison, continued
30 April T. C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth
7 May Final presentations and review
John D. Schwetman
31 January 2003