Humanities 202

Instructor: Brian Campbell, Ph.D.
E-mail: bcpl at mail.rochester.edu or brianwcamp at yahoo.com
Phone: (778) 371-8468
Prerequisites: HIST 106 or PHIL 151 or 30 credit hours.

This course examines some of the seminal works in European literature and thought beginning with the Enlightenment and ending shortly after the Second World War. As a theme, this course will examine how European thinkers have confronted the alien and the unknown and their critique of European society's reactions. The course will also examine how European writers have used the foreign as a mirror held up to itself on issues such as the use of reason, technology, industrialization, psychology and imperialism.

Required Texts: Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Voltaire Candide Mary Shelley Frankenstein Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground Sigmund Freud Civilization and its Discontents Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front Albert Camus The Stranger We will also view several films including Frankenstein and Paths of Glory.

Course Requirements

Students are expected to read the assigned material, attend class regularly and participate in class discussions. Students will also prepare a class presentation. Students will research the day's readings and prepare a short report for the class. The report will facilitate class discussion by presenting important issues and questions to the class. Each student will write two short (4-5 page) essays and have a take home final exam in the form of an essay (5-7 pages). The first two papers will include a revision process including a rough draft and a meeting with the instructor. All essays will rely on class readings and discussion.

Grading:

• Class participation 15%
• Class presentation 15%
• Essay I (4-5 pages) 20%
• Essay II (4-5 pages) 20%
• Final exam (5-7 pages) 30%
• Students may opt to do one 5-7 page essay in lieu of the two shorter ones for 30% of the grade - the final paper will be worth 40% for these students.

Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty

Plagiarism and academic dishonesty has increased significantly since the appearance of study guides and so-called paper mills on the Internet. Instructors in turn have developed their own resources to discover cases of plagiarism, therefore it is necessary to remind students that any work submitted for a grade must be their own.

Simon Fraser University specifically defines plagiarism as the following: Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty in which an individual submits or presents the work of another person as his or her own. Scholarship quite properly rests upon examining and referring to the thoughts and writings of others. However, when excerpts are used in paragraphs or essays, the author must be acknowledged using an accepted format for the underlying discipline. Footnotes, endnotes, references and bibliographies must be complete. Plagiarism exists when all or part of an essay is copied from an author, or composed by another person, and presented as original work. Plagiarism also exists when there is inadequate recognition given to the author for phrases, sentences, or ideas of the author incorporated into an essay. A draft paper, proposal, thesis or other assignment may be subject to penalty for academic dishonesty provided the instructor/supervisor has informed the student(s) before the work is submitted.

Simon Fraser University has a detailed description of what constitutes academic dishonesty. For more information, visit: http://www.sfu.ca/policies/teaching/t10-02.htm. Penalties for academic dishonesty will be severe and may result in a failing grade for the assignment or class. Especially egregious cases will be forwarded to the appropriate authorities at SFU. For more information on specific policies on penalties, visit: http://www.sfu.ca/policies/teaching/t10-03.htm.

Final Essay Due at Final Exam Time (to be announced)