Humanities 304
Section 01 [H]
Spring 2008
SLN 34983
MWF 1:10 - 2:00
Thompson 21


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 7 -- Introduction and Disorientation; L'Après-midi d'un faune.
January 9 -- Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 11 -- Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada.

January 14 -- Colette, Chéri.
January 16 -- Metropolis.
January 18 -- Metropolis.

January 23 -- Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 25 -- Metropolis.

January 28 -- Kafka, The Metamorphosis.
January 30 -- Freud and Psychoanalytic Criticism; Kafka essays.
February 1 -- Snow Day.

February 4 -- Art: Bauhaus, Art Deco, École de Paris, Concrete Art, Social Realism.
February 6 -- Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.
February 8 -- Čapek, R.U.R.

February 11 -- Art: Surrealism & Dali.
February 13 -- Jazz. Project #1 Due.
February 15 -- Sartre, No Exit.

February 20 -- Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.
February 22 -- Sartre, The Flies.

February 25 -- Fashion: Schiaparelli.
February 27 -- Exam #1.
February 29 -- Beckett plays.

March 3 -- Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage, Pop Art.
March 5 -- Music: Varèse, Cage.
March 7 -- Borges stories.

SPRING BREAK

March 17 -- Researching 20th-Century Humanities; Borges stories.
March 19 -- Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 21 -- Art: Performance Art, Fluxus, Op Art.

March 24 -- Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 26 -- Art: Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.
March 28 -- New Virtuosity & Minimalism: Riley, Reich, Glass.

March 31 -- Art: Super-realism, Video Art, Earth Art, Site Works, Postmodernism.
April 2 -- Conference.
April 4 -- Conference.

April 7 -- Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 9 -- The Rise of Cultural Studies.
April 11 -- Laurie Anderson.

April 14 -- Later Beckett plays.
April 16 -- Late-Century Music: New Virtuosity, Scott, Daugherty; Project #2 Due.
April 18 -- High-Tech, Sound Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.

April 21 -- Graphic Novels.
April 23 -- Review.
April 25 -- A Thing We Are Not Exactly Calling Exam #2.


20th-Century Arts and Humanities Index


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