Humanities 304
Section 01 [H]
Spring 2009
SLN 35444
MWF 1:10 – 2:00 pm.
Todd 404
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:45, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
HUMANITIES
IN THE MODERN WORLD
January 12 — Introduction and Disorientation; L’Après-midi d’un faune.
January 14 — Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 16 — Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism.January 21 — Colette, Chéri.
January 23 — Art: Cubism, Futurism, Dada.January 26 — Metropolis.
January 28 — Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 30 — Metropolis.Febuary 2 — Metropolis.
Febuary 4 — Kafka, The Metamorphosis.
February 6 — Art: Bauhaus, Art Deco, École de Paris, Surrealism.February 9 — Freud and Psychoanalytic Criticism; Kafka essays.
February 11 — Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism, Surrealism & Dali.
February 13 — Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.February 18 — Čapek, R.U.R.
February 20 — Writing Advice.February 23 — Jazz. Project #1 Due.
February 25 — Sartre, No Exit.
February 27 — Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.March 2 — Sartre, The Flies.
March 4 — Fashion: Schiaparelli.
March 6 — Exam #1.March 9 — Beckett plays.
March 11 — Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage, Pop Art.
March 13 — Borges stories; Scraps.SPRING BREAK
March 23 — Pop Art; Borges stories; Researching 20th-Century Humanities.
March 25 — Music: Varèse, Cage.
March 27 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.March 30 — Art: Performance Art, Fluxus, Op Art.
April 1 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
April 3 — Art: Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.April 6 — New Virtuosity & Minimalism: Riley, Reich, Glass.
April 8 — Art: Super-realism, Video Art, Earth Art, Site Works, Postmodernism.
April 10 — The Rise of Cultural Studies.April 13 — Laurie Anderson.
April 15 — Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 17 — Conference.April 20 — Conference.
April 22 — Project #2 Due; Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.
April 24 — Exam #2: Part 1.April 27 — Disposable Art, High-Tech, Sound Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.
April 29 — Last Words.
May 1 — Workers Day.May 5 (Tuesday) — Exam #2: Take-Home Parts 2 & 3 due 11:00 am.
20th-Century Arts and Humanities Index
Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of English
delahoyd@wsu.edu
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