Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays
from 6:00 to 9:30
Meeting place: Sem2 A1107
Field trip: There will be a Saturday
field trip to Tacoma from 10:00 to 4:00 on Saturday, April 22.
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What was life like one hundred years ago?
In 1905, Einstein published papers that revolutionized physics, and Freud published works that described his non-traditional approaches to psychology. It was the year that established Willa Cather as a great writer. It was a time when artists, architects and musicians were pushing the boundaries of what was "acceptable." It was the year that Mark Twain used a book to raise awareness of the abuses in the Belgian Congo and the year that Upton Sinclair worked to expose the abuses of the meat-packing industry in the United States.
It was a time of tremendous change. It was a time in which amazing historical figures were alive. Join us as we attempt to transport ourselves back in time by reading the newspapers, books and magazines of the time and by getting to know the people and ideas that were alive in 1905. Help us reconstruct some of what life was like one hundred years ago.
Students wishing to earn 12 credits should consider taking the 4-credit Paradoxical Physics course as a companion to this program.
Books:
We will be reading seven books in this program, but you will get to pick two of them yourself (with our approval) to read and seminar on in your research group. The five books that everyone will read are as follows:
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Bantam Classics, ISBN 0553212451)
- Dora by Sigmund Freud (Touchstone, ISBN 0684829460)
- The Troll Garden by Willa Cather (U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803264038)
- King Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain (International, ISBN 071806871 -- Only 20 copies of this book will be carried in the bookstore. You can read it online or order it.)
- Einstein 1905 by John S. Rigden (Harvard UP, ISBN 0674015444)
Einstein 1905 is about Einstein's papers which were published in 1905, and all four other books were originally published in 1905.
Credit Equivalencies:
- 3 quarter credits in 20th Century American History
- 3 quarter credits in Historical Research Methods
- And 2 additional quarter credits in project area
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| Sigmund Freud with his mother Amalia and his wife Martha, 1905 |
Albert Einstein, 1905 links: 1 2 |
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| Picasso's Boy Leading a Horse 1905-06 links: 1 |
Monet's Waterlillies I, 1905 links: 1 |