Instructor: James H. Donelan

Email: donelan@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Monday, Wednesday 2:00-3:15, Girvetz 1112
Enroll No.: 45278
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-1:50, Wednesday 1:00-1:50 or by appointment.
Office: Girvetz 1310

Texts: Bübner, German Idealist Philosophy
Shelley, Frankenstein
Vaughan, Romanticism and Art
A reader available at Graphikart in Isla Vista

Books are available at the UCen book store.

Course Description: The course will allow students to refine their skills in scholarship and writing in several humanistic disciplines. Students will address the issues of evidence, interpretation, and critique within each individual discourse and as part of a general understanding of the humanities.

Requirements: The course requires regular attendance, active participation in class discussion and activities, and timely completion of all assignments, including reading journal entries, a short essay (5-6 pages), an annotated bibliography, and one longer essay (8-10 pages). Students will also give an oral presentation on a topic related to the longer essay.

In addition, please do your best to observe the following rules:

• Good, clean printing on all assignments: no draft-output setting or faint cartridges.
• Use twelve point Times New Roman or Garamond type and standard line length and spacing. Do not alter typographical elements in order to change the length of the paper.
• Papers should be no longer or shorter than the length assigned and submitted on time.
• Papers should be delivered to my mailbox in South Hall by noon on the date due or in class the same day. Late papers will result in grade reductions.
• Never hand in a paper without proofreading it carefully.
• Your classmates and your instructor depend on your presence in class and your full participation. Do not miss class unless you must.
• All university regulations regarding academic dishonesty will be enforced.

I: Poetry: The Wordsworths and the Shelleys

1/8
Introduction and Logistics

1/10
Vaughan, Chapter 1
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book I
Writing: Reading Journal Entry

1/15 Happy Martin Luther King Day!

1/17
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book VI
Lindenberger, "Images of Interaction in The Prelude"
Hartman, "Via Natualiter Negativa"
Writing: Reading Journal Entry

1/22
Liu, "The History in ‘Imagination’"
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume II

1/24
Library Visit—Davidson Library  Need help with research?
Writing: Reading Journal Entry

1/29
Darlington, "Reclaiming Dorothy Wordsworth’s Legacy"
Homans, "Introduction to Women Writers and Poetic Identity
Writing: Essay Outline

1/31
Percy Shelley, "The Triumph of Life"
Abrams, "English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age"
Rajan, "The Broken Mirror"
Writing: Essay Draft

2/2
Essay on Poetry Due  Literature Essay Topics

II: Philosophy: German Idealism

2/5
Kant, Excerpt from Critique of Pure Reason and "Idea of a Universal History" in German Idealist Philosophy

2/7
Fichte, Introduction to Science of Knowledge
Excerpt from Hegel for Beginners (reader)
Hegel, Introduction to The Phenomenology of Spirit
Writing: Reading Journal Entry

2/12
Hegel, excerpt from The Philosophical History of the World

III: History and Culture

2/14
Vaughan, Chapter 3
Jacobus, "Geometric Writing and Romantic History"
Writing: Prospectus Due; Reading Journal Entry

2/19 Happy Presidents’ Day!

2/21
Keegan, "Wellington: The Anti-Hero"
Hughes, "A Horse Foaled by an Acorn"
Gaull, "Science"
Writing: Annotated Bibliography Draft

2/23
Annotated Bibliography Due

IV: Music: Beethoven

2/26
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3
Burnham, "Beethoven’s Hero"
In-class: Progress Report

2/28
Beethoven continued.
Writing: Outline Due; Reading Journal Entry

V: Art: Constable, Turner, and Friedrich

3/5
Vaughan, Chapters 5-8

3/7
Kroeber, "Wordsworth and Turner"
Writing: Rough Draft Due

3/12
Oral Presentations.

3/14
Final Class. Evaluation and assessment of class.

3/16
Final Essay Due.