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Syllabus

Faculty:  Marianne Bailey, Stacey Davis, Stephen Beck, Judith Gabriele

Class schedule:

All program meetings:

Monday 9:30-12:  lecture, LH2

Thursday 9:30-12: lecture/workshop Sem II D1107

Thursday 1-3:30: history seminar in Sem II E2109; literature seminar in Sem II E2107

 

French classes:

Beginners:

    Monday , 1-3, Sem II D2107

    Wednesday, 10-11:30 Sem II A2109 and 11:30-1pm Sem II A3109 (workshop)

 

Advanced Beginners:            

    Monday, 1-2:30 Sem II C2109 (workshop) and 3-5 Sem II D2107 Wednesday,  11:30-1pm Sem II A2109

 

Intermediate/Advanced:

    Monday, 1:30-5, Sem II D2109        

 

Lecture and reading assignments:

 

 

Monday lecture

LH 2

9:30 - 12

Thursday all-program and workshop SEM II D1107

9:30 to 12

Thursday

Literature Seminar

SEM II E2107

1 - 3:30

Thursday

History Seminar

SEM II E2109

1 - 3:30

Week 1

Marianne - introduction:

Self & World

Marguerite Yourcenar, The Abyss

The Abyss

The Abyss

Week 2

Stacey on the Reformation, Wars of Religion, witchcraft, exorcisms, gender.

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre

P. Clitandre, The Cathedral of the August Heat

The Return of Martin Guerre, plus handouts (see history syllabus)

Week 3

Due Thursday: Research Topic

Holiday - no class

Lucien Febvre, Life in Renaissance France; Montaigne, Essays

Montaigne; Camus, Myth of Sisyphus

Life in Renaissance France; Michael Wolfe, Changing Identities in Early Modern France, plus handouts (see history syllabus)

Week 4

Due Thursday: Research Annotated Bibliography

Marianne on theatre and the absurd;

Stacey on 17th century absolute monarchy, Louis XIII and XIV

Guest Olivier Soustelle on Renaissance and Baroque Decorative Arts;

Article handout, "Printing and the People"

Ionesco, Hunger and Thirst; Jarry, Ubu roi

Changing Identities, selections, plus handouts (see history syllabus)

Week 5

(Note:  History seminar essay due Thursday)

Guest Bob Haft on Renaissance Art

Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Film on Versailles

Rabelais

Lisa Silverman, Tortured Subjects:  Pain, Truth and the Body in Early Modern France

Week 6

Due Thursday: Research Project Outline

Marianne on alchemy

Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

NO SEMINARS:

Research workshops weeks 6 and 7, Thursdays from 1-4pm;

 

 

 

 

Weeks 8 and 9 there will be no Thursday afternoon meeting.

Week 7

Due Thursday: 3-5 pages of Research paper

Holiday - no class

Renaissance poetry, selections

Week 8

Due Thursday: Final Research Paper

Marianne

Baroque/Classique Le Monstre et le Miroir

Racine, Phèdre

Week 9

Due Thursday: All-Program Exam

Stephen Beck

on Descertes

Descartes, Meditations

Week 10

Due Monday:

All-Program Reading Response Essays

Film: "Dangerous Liaisons"

Cholderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

Projects:  Presentation of Research Projects

 

 

All-program assignments:

 

Weekly all-program reading response essays:  Each week, after the Thursday morning workshop, write a 1-2 page typed response to one of that morning's workshop questions.  Keep all your response essays together.  You will turn them in at 9:30am on Monday of week 10 (March 10).  Your faculty will not accept late essays.  These essays are worth 2 credits.

 

All-program essay exam:  You will write two 2-4 page synthetic essays for the take-home essay exam.  Topics for the exam will be distributed week 7.  These essays are due at 9:30am Thursday, week 9 (March 6).  Your faculty will not accept late essays.  The exam is worth 2 credits.

 

Individual Research Projects and Papers:  This quarter you  will complete a major individual research project which will culminate in a 10-15 page research paper.  Choose a topic which will inspire your spring quarter individual pilgrimage either in France or here at Evergreen.  The research project/paper is worth 4 credits. Here are the main due dates associated with this project:

 

Week 3:  Thursday at 1pm (Jan 24):  A one paragraph explanation of your project topic, and how it relates to your spring quarter pilgrimage. 

 

Week 4:  Thursday at 1pm (Jan 31):  A full annotated bibliography for your project.  You must include at least 7 sources, and you should aim for 10-15 sources, the majority of which must be books/articles published by academic, university or other scholarly presses.  "Annotated" means that besides noting the author, title, publisher and publication date/place for each source, you include a one or two-sentence description of each source which also explains how that source is useful to you for your project.

 

Week 6: Thursday at 1pm (Feb 14):  A full outline (1-3 types pages) of your research paper.  Include your thesis (described in several sentences) at the top of the outline. Make four copies of this outline:  your peers will read and critique it during the research workshop 1-4pm.

 

Week 7:  Thursday at 1pm (Feb 21):  3-5 pages of your research paper.  Don't bring the introduction (which you should always write last!)  Bring 3-5 typed pages from somewhere in the body of your paper.  Bring four copies of these 3-5 pages:  your peers will read and critique it during the research workshop 1-4pm.

 

Week 8:  Thursday at 1pm (Feb 28)  Final full research paper.  The faculty will not accept late papers. 

 

 

 

 


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