Core Course
Palazzolo
Spring 2000

Office Hours: I am available for consultation in Political Science 114 on MWF from 10:30-11:30. You may also make an appointment by e-mail (dpalazzo@richmond.edu), or by phone 289-8973.

Assignments:

February 14 First Paper (6-8 pages doubled spaced): 20%
March 3 Midterm Examination: 15%
March 27 Second Paper (6-8 pages doubled spaced): 25%
April 24 Final Exam: 25%
Class Preparation and Participation: 15%

Paper Policy: Each student is responsible for turning papers in on time. Papers are due at the beginning of class on February 14 and March 27, and everyone is expected to attend class on those days. Papers submitted late will earn a letter grade deduction for each day. I am flexible in cases of emergency, but I do not give slack for extra-curricular activities, weekends away, or "work overload."

Attendance: Everyone is expected to attend class unless they are ill or excused. Attendance is counted in the preparation and participation portion of the grade.

Readings and Presentations:

I. Order and Subversion

Week of January 10, The Gospel According to Matthew

Week of January 17 (Group 1)
January 17, Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 1
January 19, Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 2 (sections 16-18; 24)
January 21, Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 3 (sections 1, 11-27)

Week of January 24 (Group 2)
January 24, Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Ch. 1-3 (pp. 3-57)
January 26, Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Ch. 4-5 (pp.58-94)
January 28, Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Ch. 6 (pp. 95-114)

Week of January 31 (Group 3)
January 31, Rich, "When We Dead Awaken" (pp.166-176), "Aunt Jennifer's
Tigers," "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law"(pp. 4, 9-13), "Planetarium" (pp. 38-9), "Diving into the Wreck" (pp. 53-4), "The Phenomenology of Anger"(pp. 55-58)

February 2, Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (pp. 203-
23), "Twenty-one Love Poems" (nos. 1, 3, 6-12, 17, 21, in pp. 77-85); Rich, "Blood, Bread, and Poetry" (pp. 239-251), "North American Time" (pp.114-17), "Poetry I" (pp. 123), "Poetry III" (pp. 123)
February 4, Rich, "The Genesis of Yom Kippur 1984" (pp.252-257), "Yom
Kippur 1984" (pp.124-26), "An Atlas of the Difficult World" (pp. 142-57)

II. Contingency and Destiny

Week of February 7 (Group 4)
February 7, Darwin, On the Origin of Species, pp. 160-190
February 9, Darwin, On the Origin of Species, pp. 190-215
February 11, Darwin, On the Origin of Species, pp. 242-276

Week of February 14
February 14, First Paper is Due: Presentation
February 16, Paper Presentation
February 18, Oe, A Personal Matter, pp. 1-66

Week of February 21 (Group 5)
February 21, Oe, A Personal Matter, pp. 67-129
February 23, Oe, A Personal Matter, pp. 130-166
February 25, Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Act One

Week of February 28(Group 1)
February 28, Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Act Two
March 1, Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Act Two
March 3: Midterm Exam

Spring Break
III. Freedom and Subjection

Week of March 13 (Group 2)
March 13, Marx, "The Communist Manifesto", pp. 158-186
March 15, Marx, "Alienated Labor," pp. 58-68
March 17, Marx, "The German Ideology," pp. 103-156

Week of March 20 (Group 3)
March 20, Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapters 1-8
March 22, Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapters 9-13
March 24, Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapters 14-25

Week of March 29
March 27, Second Paper Due and Presentation
March 29, Paper Presentation
March 31, Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapters 1-6

Week of April 3 (Group 4)
April 3, Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapters 7-11
April 5, Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapters 12-14
April 7, Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapters 15-20

Week of April 10 (Group 5)
April 10, Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Chapters I-VII
April 12, Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Chapters VIII-XV
April 14, Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Chapters XVI-XXI

Week of April 17
April 17, Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Chapters XXII-XXV
April 19, Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Chapters XXVI-Epilogue
April 21, Conclusion

April 24, Final Examination (2-5)