Humanities in the Modern World

Humanities 304
Section 01 [H]
Spring 2013
SLN 08
MWF 1:10 – 2:00 pm.
Murrow 53
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 11:00 – 12:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


HUMANITIES
IN THE MODERN WORLD


January 7 — Introduction and Disorientation; L’Après-midi d’un faune.
                              Read the Course Description,
                              and my own Work Tips.
January 9 — Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 11 — Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism, Ashcan.

January 14 — Colette, Chéri.
January 16 — Art: Cubism, Orphism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada.
January 18 — Metropolis.

[January 21 — Martin Luther King Holiday.]
January 23 — Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 25 — Metropolis.

January 28 — Metropolis.
January 30 — Art: Bauhaus, École de Paris, Art Deco.
February 1 — Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.

February 4 — Sartre, No Exit.
February 6 — Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism, Surrealism & Dali.
February 8 — Jazz.

February 11 — Sartre, The Flies.
February 13 — Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.
February 15 — Electronic Music.

[February 18 — St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 20 — Beckett plays.
February 22 — Writing Advice.

February 25 — Fashion: Schiaparelli; Review.
February 27 — Exam #1 & Essay.
March 1 — Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage.

March 4 — Music: New Virtuosity, Cage.
March 6 — Minimalism in Music.
March 8 — Larger Questions.

[March 11 – 15 — SPRING BREAK.]

March 18 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 20 — Pop Art, Fluxus, Performance Art, Op Art.
March 22 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy; Churchill, This Is a Chair.

March 25 — Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.
March 27 — Postmodernism; Laurie Anderson.
March 29 — Churchill, Top Girls, Act I.

April 1 — Earth Art, Site Works, Super-realism, Video Art.
April 3 — No Obligations.
April 5 — Churchill, Top Girls, Acts II & III.

April 8 — Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.
April 10 — Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 12 — Art Museum Field Trip.

April 15 — Conference.
April 17 — High-Tech, Sound Art, Disposable Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.
April 19 — Exam #2 & Essay. Popular Culture.

April 22 — Review.
April 24 — Make-Up Exam.
April 26 — End Game.


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Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of English
delahoyd@wsu.edu
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