Humanities 304
Section 01 [HUM]
Spring 2016
MWF 1:10 - 2:00

Humanities / Foreign Languages
SLN 02326
Todd Hall 304
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00 - 10:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


HUMANITIES
IN THE MODERN WORLD


January 11 -- Introduction and Disorientation; L'Après-midi d'un faune.
                              Read the Course Description,
                              and my own Work Tips.
January 13 -- Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 15 -- Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism, Ashcan.

[January 18 -- Martin Luther King Holiday.]
January 20 -- Colette, Chéri.
January 22 -- Art: Cubism, Orphism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada.

January 25 -- Metropolis.
January 27 -- Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 29 -- Metropolis.

February 1 -- Metropolis.
February 3 -- Art: Bauhaus, École de Paris, Art Deco.
February 5 -- Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.

February 8 -- Sartre, No Exit.
February 10 -- Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism, Surrealism & Dali.
February 12 -- Jazz.

[February 15 -- St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 17 -- Sartre, The Flies.
February 19 -- Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.

February 22 -- Electronic Music.
February 24 -- Beckett plays.
February 26 -- Fashion: Schiaparelli; Review.

February 29 -- Writing Advice.
March 2 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.
March 4 -- Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage.

March 7 -- Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 9 -- Pop Culture: Herpetophobia.
March 11 -- Intermission.

[March 14 - 18 -- SPRING BREAK.]

March 21 -- Music: New Virtuosity, Cage.
March 23 -- Pop Art, Fluxus, Op Art.
March 25 -- Complete Minimalism!

March 28 -- Performance Art; Minimalism in Music.
March 30 -- Intermission.
April 1 -- Churchill, Top Girls, Act I.

April 4 -- Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.
April 6 -- Churchill, Top Girls, Acts II & III.
April 8 -- Postmodernism; Laurie Anderson.

April 11 -- Super-realism, Earth Art, Video Art.
April 13 -- Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 15 -- Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.

April 18 -- High-Tech, Sound Art, Disposable Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.
April 20 -- End-of-Semester Exam.
April 22 -- No formal class meeting.

April 25 -- Churchill, This Is a Chair.
April 27 -- End Game.
April 29 -- Finale.


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Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Clinical Professor, Department of English
delahoyd@wsu.edu
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This page last updated 11 April 2016.