REVISED 2/27/11
Course:
FRST 101: Freshman Studies II
Term:
Winter 2011
Class: MWF 11:10 AM-12:20 PM, Youngchild Hall 115
Instructor: Matt Stoneking, Professor of Physics
Contact: stonekim@lawrence.edu 832-6724 Younchild Hall 110
Office
Hours: Tuesdays 10:00 – 11:30 AM,
Thursdays 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Catalog description:
Required
of first-year students and selected transfer students. A continuation of Freshman
Studies I, this course is designed to help students refine their abilities
as readers, writers, and thinkers. As in Freshman Studies I, instructors
stress close reading, cogent discussion, and clear writing. Regular
class sessions are again supplemented by lectures and performances by Lawrence
faculty members or by visiting scholars or artists.
Works:
Stanley
Milgram, “Obedience to Authority”
Stephen
Jay Gould, “Bully for Brontosaurus”
Igor
Stravinsky, “The Rite of Spring”
Jorge
Luis Borges, “Collected Fictions”
Zhuangzi,
“Basic Writings”
Graded Elements:
Discussion
/ Lecture Summaries 15%
Paper
1 (3-5 pages) 10%
Paper 2 (3-5 pages)
15%
Paper 3 (5-7 pages)
20%
Re-write
of paper 1 10%
Midterm
Exam 15%
Final
Exam 15%
Links to documents:
Schedule:
Obedience
to Authority,
by Stanley Milgram
M
1/3 Introduction
W
1/5 Re-read chapters 1-5
F
1/7 Lecture by Professor Matt Ansfield
M
1/10 Re-read chapters 6-9
Lecture
summary #1 due
W
1/12 Re-read chapters 10-15 and the appendices
Bully for Brontosaurus, by Stephen Jay Gould
F 1/14
Read essays #11 (Life’s Little Joke)
and #27 (Genesis and Geology)
M
1/17 MLK Day, no class
W
1/19 Lecture by Professor Bart DeStasio
Also read essay #18 (To Be a Platypus)
Paper #1 due (3-5
pages)
F
1/21 Read essays #9 (Not Necessarily a
Wing) and #22 (Krapotkin was No
Crackpot)
Lecture
summary #2 due
M 1/24 Read essays #8 (Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples), #3 (The Creation Myths of Cooperstown) and
#31 (The Streak of Streaks)
W 1/26 Read essays #15 (Petrus Camper’s Angle) and #12 (The Chain of Reason Versus the Chain of
Thumbs)
F
1/28 Read essays #21 (In a Jumbled Drawer)
and #5 (Bully for Brontosaurus)
M
1/31 Midterm
Exam
Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky
W 2/2 Introduction and overview. Listen to the entire piece at least twice before class.
F
2/4 Lecture by Professor Julie McQuinn
M 2/7 The scenario and the ballet: Watch the Joffrey Ballet reconstruction of the 1913 production before class.
Lecture summary #3
due
W 2/9 The score.
F
2/11 READING PERIOD, no class
Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
M
2/14 Read The Circular Ruins (p. 96)
and The Immortal (p. 183)
W
2/16: Lecture by Professor Rosa Tapia
Paper #2 due (3-5
pages)
Also read Borges and I (p. 324) and Man
on Pink Corner (p. 45)
F
2/18 Read The Library of Babel
(p.112) and The Lottery of Babylon
(p. 101)
Lecture
summary #4 due
M
2/21 Read The South (p. 174) and Death and the Compass (p. 147)
W 2/23 Read Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (p. 88) and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (p. 68)
Re-write of paper #1 due
F
2/25 In collaboration with your partner(s), prepare a
7-9 minute presentation on your assigned story:
·
A Survey of the Works of Herbert
Quain (p.107)
·
The Aleph (p. 274)
·
The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim (p. 82)
·
The Garden of Forking Paths (p. 119)
·
Funes, His Memory (p. 131)
·
The Gospel According to Mark (p.397)
·
The Ethnographer (p. 334)
Basic Writings, by Zhuangzi
M
2/28 Read Sections 1-3 (pp. 23-48)
W 3/2 Lecture by Professor Karen Carr
Also read Sections 4-7 (pp. 49-95)
F
3/4 Read the remainder of the book (pp. 97-141)
Lecture
summary #5 due
M 3/7 Re-read Sections 1-6 (pp. 23-88)
T 3/8 Paper #3 due (5-7 pages)
W 3/9 Re-read the remainder of the book (pp. 89-141).
Sa
3/12 3:00-5:30 PM Final
Exam