The Junior Colloquium: Skepticism & Affirmation Fall, 2001
Tentative Reading List and Schedule
Most of the texts are available on line. Our Barnard Library Course Specific Page directs you to them.
Sept 5 Introduction to Library: Course Specific Research Guides or
www.barnard.edu/library/courses/BC3159x.2.htm
12 More, Utopia (Norton or Penguin) 1478-1535
Film: A Man For All Seasons PR 6052.039M3 1985g
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly on-line 1466-1536
The English Reformation:
Film: God’s Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale BR 350.T8g6
1987g
[Renaissance 5: The Dissenters CB 359.R46 1993g]
19 The German Reformation:
Martin Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian," 1483-1546
"The Ninty-five Theses," "Theses for the Heidelberg Disputation" in Selections from his Writings (Anchor)
Films: Where Luther Walked BR325.W53 1992g
The Reformation BR 305.2.R375 1973g
Civilisation 6: Protest and Communication
26 Ficino, Five Questions Concerning the Mind 1433-1499
Pico della Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity of Man 1463-1494
Petrarch, Ascent of Mont Ventoux on-line & 1304-1374
in Cassirer, ed., Renaissance Philosophy of Man, (Phoenix)
Relevant Kenneth Clark video
Oct 3 Petrarch, Secret on-line
Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (Handout) 1452-1519
Sidney, A
Defence of Poesie on-line 1554-1586
Alberti, On Painting (Yale) [Sections handout] 1404-1472
Film: Caravaggio
Film: Artemisi
10 Machiavelli, The Prince (Norton) 1469-1527
Castiglione, The Courtier I, III, IV (Penguin) 1478-1529
Relevant Keenth Clark video
17 Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebonde 1533-1592
(Penguin or Ungar?)
Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (Crofts Classics) 1564-1593 Film:Marlowe’s Faust
24 Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy (Hill & Wang) 1575-1626
Middleton, The Changling (Bison, Nebraska) 1580-1627
Film: The Changeling
31 Kant,
Analytic of the Beuatiful” and 1724-1804
“Analytic of
the Sublime” in The Critique of Judgment (Oxford)
Election Break
Nov 7 A Shakespeare play
14 Milton Paradise Regained (Signet) 1608-1674
Bacon, The Great Instauration, The New Organon
1561-1626
Preface. Aphorismsup to #68 (Liberal Arts)
Video on 17th century science? or relevant Kenneth Clark lecture
21 Pascal, Pensees (Penguin) 1623-1662
Donne, Poetry (Norton) 1572-1631
28 Music, Poetry, painting, Films
Sir John Davies, "Orchestra" (Dance Horizons)
Wyatt (Handout); Shakespeare's Sonnets; St John of the Cross
Dec 5 Renaissance women poets: Sor Juana; Gaspara Stampa; Veronica Franco
Films: Dangerous Beauty
I, the Worst of All
Requirements:
In lieu of a Mid-term -- 8 one page, informal, but typed responses to any of the texts assigned for the week.
Final Examination -- will contain a choice of essay questions.
Term Paper -- 10 typed, numbered pages, with footnotes and bibliography, due Nov. 28. Please give the paper a title.
Texts are available at Labyrinth Books, 536 W 112th St.(between Broadway & Amsterdam).
Films are available at the Wollman Library Audio-visual Center, third floor.
Office: 402 Barnard Hall x42106 Office Hours: M 4pm-5pm Tu 4:15-5:15pm
e-mail: mjaanus@barnard.columbia.edu