Humanities 304
Section 01 [HUM]
Humanities 304
Section 01 [HUM]
Spring 2017
MWF 1:10 - 2:00
Humanities / Foreign Languages
SLN 01611
CUE 316
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 9 -- Introduction and Disorientation; L'Après-midi d'un faune. Read the Course Description, and my own Work Tips.
January 11 -- Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 13 -- Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism, Ashcan.

[January 16 -- Martin Luther King Holiday.]
[January 18 -- Wazzucalypse: no classes.]
January 20 -- Colette, Chéri.

January 23 -- Art: Cubism, Orphism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada.
January 25 -- Metropolis.
January 27 -- Metropolis.

January 30 -- Colette, The Last of Chéri.
February 1 -- Metropolis.
February 3 -- Art: Bauhaus, École de Paris, Art Deco.

February 6 -- Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.
February 8 -- Sartre, No Exit.
[February 10 -- Conference Work.]

February 13 -- [Sartre, The Flies;] Beckett plays.
February 15 -- Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism, Surrealism & Dali.
February 17 -- Jazz and Electronic Music.

[February 20 -- St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 22 -- Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.
February 24 -- Fashion: Schiaparelli; Review.

February 27 -- Writing Advice.
March 1 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.
March 3 -- Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage.

March 6 -- Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 8 -- Music: New Virtuosity, Cage.
March 10 -- Intermission.

[March 13 - 17 -- SPRING BREAK.]

March 20 -- Pop Culture.
March 22 -- Pop Art, Fluxus, Op Art.
March 24 -- Churchill, Top Girls, Act I.

March 27 -- Performance Art; Minimalism in Music.
March 29 -- Churchill, Top Girls, Acts II & III.
March 31 -- Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.

April 3 -- Postmodernism; Laurie Anderson.
April 5 -- Super-realism, Earth Art, Video Art.
April 7 -- Scholarly Research Things.

April 10 -- Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 12 -- Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.
April 14 -- High-Tech, Sound Art, Disposable Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.

April 17 -- Churchill, This Is a Chair.
April 19 -- End-of-Semester Exam.
[April 21 -- No formal class meeting.]

April 24 -- End Game.
April 26 -- Wrap-Up.
April 28 -- Finale.

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