Michael Delahoyde, PhD

Professor of English

Modern Humanities Syllabus

Humanities 304
Section 01 [HUM]
Spring 2020
MWF 1:10 – 2:00
Humanities / Foreign Languages
SLN 03335
CUE 418
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 10:00 – 11:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
 


HUMANITIES
IN THE MODERN WORLD


 

January 13 — Introduction and Disorientation; L’Après-midi d’un faune.
Read the Course Description, and my own Work Tips.
January 15 — Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 17 — Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism (SB), Fauvism, Ashcan.

[January 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day.]
January 22 — Kafka; Colette, Chéri.
January 24 — Art: Cubism, Orphism (AK), Futurism, Dada.

January 27 — Metropolis.
January 29 — Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 31 — Metropolis.

February 3 — Art: Bauhaus, École de Paris (RP), Art Deco.
[February 5 — Snow Day.]
February 7 — Metropolis.

February 10 — Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.
February 12 — Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism (HB), Surrealism (BS) & Dali.
February 14 — Sartre, No Exit.

[February 17 — St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 19 — Sartre, The Flies.
February 21 — Jazz and Electronic Music.

February 24 — Art: Art Brut (MB), Existential, Organic Abstraction (KM), Kinetic (EL).
February 26 — Beckett plays.
February 28 — Review & Writing Advice.

March 2 — Midterm Exam & Essay.
March 4 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 6 — Art: Kitchen Sink School (JB), Assemblage, Funk Art (OJ).

March 9 — Music: New Virtuosity, Cage.
March 11 — Pop Culture.
[March 13 — No Class.]

[March 16 – 20 — SPRING BREAK.]

March 23 — Zoom: Minimalism in Music, Riley In C, Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
March 25 — Zoom: Pop Art (AT), Fluxus (JS), Op Art.
March 27 — Fashion: Total Class Collaboration.

March 30 — Zoom: Churchill, Top Girls, Act I.
April 1 — Zoom: Minimalism (TT), Conceptual Art (SR), Body Art (VN), Installation (NP).
April 3 — Churchill, Top Girls, Acts II & III.

April 6 — Zoom: Postmodernism (BD); Performance Art (LM), Laurie Anderson.
April 8 — Zoom: Earth Art (AS), Site Works (JM), Super-realism (SA), Video Art (RS).
April 10 — Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.

April 13 — Zoom: Churchill, This Is a Chair.
April 15 — Zoom: High-Tech, Sound Art (CB), Disposable (EK), Digital (NG), Internet Art (EA).
April 17 — Zoom: Kinetic Architecture (SS).

April 20 — Zoom: Food (KK and all).
April 22 — Zoom: Review.
April 24 — End-of-Semester Exam.

April 27 — Final Essay Due.
April 29 — Optional Zoom: What I Did on My Summer Vacations.
May 1 — Optional Zoom: Wrap-Up Extra-Credit Option due.