Humanities 304
Section 01 [H]
Spring 2009
SLN 35444
MWF 1:10 - 2:00 pm.
Todd 404
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:45, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


HUMANITIES
IN THE MODERN WORLD


January 12 -- Introduction and Disorientation; L'Après-midi d'un faune.
January 14 -- Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 16 -- Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism.

January 21 -- Colette, Chéri.
January 23 -- Art: Cubism, Futurism, Dada.

January 26 -- Metropolis.
January 28 -- Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 30 -- Metropolis.

Febuary 2 -- Metropolis.
Febuary 4 -- Kafka, The Metamorphosis.
February 6 -- Art: Bauhaus, Art Deco, École de Paris, Surrealism.

February 9 -- Freud and Psychoanalytic Criticism; Kafka essays.
February 11 -- Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism, Surrealism & Dali.
February 13 -- Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.

February 18 -- Čapek, R.U.R.
February 20 -- Writing Advice.

February 23 -- Jazz. Project #1 Due.
February 25 -- Sartre, No Exit.
February 27 -- Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.

March 2 -- Sartre, The Flies.
March 4 -- Fashion: Schiaparelli.
March 6 -- Exam #1.

March 9 -- Beckett plays.
March 11 -- Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage, Pop Art.
March 13 -- Borges stories; Scraps.

SPRING BREAK

March 23 -- Pop Art; Borges stories; Researching 20th-Century Humanities.
March 25 -- Music: Varèse, Cage.
March 27 -- Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.

March 30 -- Art: Performance Art, Fluxus, Op Art.
April 1 -- Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
April 3 -- Art: Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.

April 6 -- New Virtuosity & Minimalism: Riley, Reich, Glass.
April 8 -- Art: Super-realism, Video Art, Earth Art, Site Works, Postmodernism.
April 10 -- The Rise of Cultural Studies.

April 13 -- Laurie Anderson.
April 15 -- Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 17 -- Conference.

April 20 -- Conference.
April 22 -- Project #2 Due; Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.
April 24 -- Exam #2: Part 1.

April 27 -- Disposable Art, High-Tech, Sound Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.
April 29 -- Last Words.
May 1 -- Workers Day.

May 5 (Tuesday) -- Exam #2: Take-Home Parts 2 & 3 due 11:00 am.


20th-Century Arts and Humanities Index


Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of English
delahoyd@wsu.edu
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