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            Lecture and Reading Schedule  
 
                   I. The New View: Scientific Revolution And The Enlightenment

	Topic	Date	Lecture	Required Reading
	Core 2 Introduction  and the New View of Nature and the Cosmos	1-8	Chad Pulver  Introducing Core 2: The Modern World	None
		1-10	Jennifer Coy  The Scientific Revolution	Galileo and the Scientific Revolution  Chapters 1-4
		1-15	Roger Olson  Faith and Reason: The Trial of Galileo	Galileo and the Scientific Revolution  Chapter 5- end
	Satire, Theism, and Deism: An Enlightenment Challenge to Society and Religion	1-1	John Rahe  Satire and Candide	Candide  Chapters 1-15
		1-22	Michael Malone  Rethinking the Divine:    Deism and the New View of God	Candide  Chapters 16-30
	New Ideas on the Nature of Government	1-24	Michael Malone  The Political Thought of Thomas Hobbes	Thomas Hobbes selection from Leviathan in the Core 2 Reader
		1-29	Michael Oakes  Locke's New Social Contract	John Locke selection from Second Treatise on Government in the Core 2 Reader

                       II. Political and Social Revolutions: 
                         Struggles For Liberty and Equality 

	Topic	Date	Lecture	Required Reading
	Enlightenment Principles in Practice: The American Revolution	1-31	Video  Rebels and Redcoats: How the British Lost America	Gordon S. Wood  The American Revolution pp. 3-44
		2-5	Illicia Sprey  TBA	Gordon S. Wood  The American Revolution pp. 45-109
		2-7	David Dixon  US Foundings, Cultures and Religion	Gordon S. Wood  The American Revolution pp. 110-166
	Struggle for Dignity and to End Slavery, The Civil War and Women's roles	2-12	Terese Yanan  Native American Culture
		2-14	Joseph Koczan  Slavery and Dehumanization	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapters I-VIII
	Decrying Dehumanization: the Struggle to End Slavery and the American Civil War	2-19	Heidi Rahe  Slavery and Dehumanization	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapters IX-XI
		2-21	Rob Reuter  On Civil Disobedience	Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience in the Core 2 Reader
		2-26	Michael Malone  Prelude to the Civil War	What They Fought For  Chs 1-2
		2-28	Chad Pulver  The American Civil War	What They Fought For Chs 3-end
		Spring Break
		3-11	Susan Chattin  TBA	Yellow Wallpaper, Seneca Falls

               III. Modernity And Its Critics

	Topic	Date	Lecture	Required Reading
	Machines, Monsters, and Modernity	3-13	Michael Wisma  The Industrial Revolution	Frankenstein Volume I
		3-18	Roger Olson  Frankenstein: Science Unleashed	Frankenstein Volume II
		3-20	April Toadvine  Themes and Symbols in Frankenstein	Frankenstein Volume III
	Significant Individuals Who Influenced the Modern World	3-25	Robert Brodman  Charles Darwin and the Survival of the Fittest	Charles Darwin Selection from The Origin of Species in the Core 2 Reader
		3-27	Michael Oakes  Laissez-Faire Economics and the Rise of Social Darwinism	William Graham Sumner That It Is Not Wicked To Be Rich in the Core 2 Reader
		4-1	Michael Malone Analyzing The Metamorphosis: Alienation and the Modern World	The Metamorphosis
		4-3	John Rahe Worker's Revolution	Marx The Communist Manifesto
		4-8	A. Hall Women's Movement	Gilman The Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
		4-10	Chad Pulver A Tale of Two Freuds	Freud, The Mind and Its Working in the Core 2 Reader
	Anxiety About the Future: The Modern Condition and the Brave New World	4-15	Mark Seely  Brave New World Psychology	Brave New World  Ch 1 - 6 , part 1
		4-17	Susan Chattin  Utopia to Dystopia: The Brave New World	Brave New World  Ch 6, part 2 - Ch 13
		4-22	Heidi Rahe  Characters, Themes and Content	Brave New World  Ch 14-end
		4-24	Chad Pulver  Summing Up Core 2

 

Core 2 Writing Program

Each student will write a minimum of 20 pages. Each student must complete a final research paper with bibliography or annotated bibliography. The sources for this paper must be varied with only limited internet sources. Core 2 emphasizes argumentative and analytical writing. Therefore, the core faculty will select their writing assignments from the following list: position paper, analytical response paper, compare and contrast paper, summaries, or satire paper. The faculty will emphasize certain skills germane to analytical, argumentative, and research writing: thesis statements, essay structure, use and integration of quotations, proper documentation, and summary and paraphrasing. This is in addition to the usual expectations concerning proper grammatical structure.

 

	Core 2 Faculty Collegial Agreements
	Each of the faculty of Core 2 agrees to… The final exam will include a comprehensive essay component. Frequently quiz students over assigned readings and lectures  Teach the research paper as process, giving students papers and exercises that build research and research writing skills