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.