Great Works 2850 (5:40-7:55)

Required Texts: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery (available in the bookstore), and supplemental materials provided on blogs.

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Schedule:

W 6/2 Introduction, Power Point on Greek Philosophy

R 6/3 [At home] Little Prince pp. 1-13 (Chapters I-IV)

M 6/7 Greek Philosophy (http://gworksgreek.blogspot.com/) and LP Discussion

T 6/8 Voicethread Activity [Online]: Ancient Greek Philosophy/ Evaluating a painting

W 6/9 Philosophies of Good and Evil (http://gworksgev.blogspot.com/)

R 6/10 Little Prince pp. 13-25 (Chapters V-VIII)

M 6/14 group library day

T 6/15 Philosophies of Value: Marx and other Economists

W 6/16 Little Prince pp. 25-47 (Chapters IX-XV)

R 6/17 take-home exam 1

M 6/21 group library day

T 6/22 Peer Review of Project 1 (Bring 2 printed copies to class, revision due 6/24)

W 6/23 Philosophy of Being and Time: Descartes, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Heidegger

R 6/24 Little Prince pp. 47-66 (Chapters XVI-XXIII)

M 6/28 final group library day

T 6/29 Little Prince pp. 66-end (Chapters XXIV-XXVII)

W 6/30 Philosophies of Identity: Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, Foucault

R 7/1 Group Presentations

M 7/5-R 7/8 Complete Final Project and submit by Sunday 7/11 via email

Expectations:

1. Participation: This is NOT a lecture course. A small portion of class will be devoted to providing you with background information; the vast majority will be a round-table discussion. Therefore, it is critical that you prepare the readings and come to class prepared to share your ideas and questions. Each class I will assign 2-3 students to prepare one question in relation to the readings.
2. Writing: Two take-home essays and a take-home final of 5-7 pages each are required—these exams will be analytical and creative rather than ask you to regurgitate information discussed in class. Additionally, you will submit 1-page write-ups of the blog activities, which are based on improving your writing techniques.
3. Presentation: Five library days have been designated for your group to prepare a “How to” multimedia presentation the last week of class. This presentation will be interactive and creative, and will demonstrate a process/ topic of your group’s choosing.

Grade Distribution:

Participation: 20%

One formal essay: 30%

Final Project: 35%

Presentation: 15%

Note: Assignments may be revised for additional credit; therefore, plagiarism and cheating will not be tolerated and will result in automatic failure of this course, NO EXCEPTIONS.