US 320/317: The Great Conversation IV
Nature and Technology

Supplementary Resources

Spring 2002
US320 - Section 84265
US317 (Honors) - Section 84723

Fridays, 1:25-4:25 in Glocker 228

Description

Many of the works we will be discussing this semester deal with nature and technology. These include Bacon (New Atlantis), Shakespeare (Tempest), Rousseau (Origins of Inequality), Goethe (Faust), Shelley (Frankenstein), the Romantics, Emerson (Nature) and Darwin (Origin of the Species).

Contact Information:

Bruce MacLennan, Ph.D.
Phone: 974-5067
Office: 217 Claxton Complex
Hours: TBA or make an appointment
Email: maclennan@cs.utk.edu
Linda Bensel-Meyers, Ph.D.
Phone: 974-5401
Office: 310 McClung Tower
Hours: TBA or make an appointment
Email:lbenselm@utk.edu
This page: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US320/

General Resources

If you find additional Internet resources relevant to this course, please let me know.

Resources for Specific Readings

Montaigne's Essays - Bacon's Essays and New Atlantis - Shakespeare's Tempest - Milton's Areopagitica - Voltaire's Candide - Rousseau's Origins of Inequality - Goethe's Faust - Romanticism - Shelley's Frankenstein - Emerson's Nature - Nietzsche's Zarathustra - Darwin's Origin of Species
  1. Montaigne [1580-1592]: Essays selections
  2. Francis Bacon [1627]: Essays and New Atlantis
  3. Shakespeare [c. 1611]: Tempest
  4. Milton [1644]: Areopagitica
  5. Voltaire [1759]: Candide
  6. Rousseau [1754]: Discourse on Origins of Inequality
  7. Goethe [1808, 1832]: Faust (Pt. I & Pt. II)
  8. Romanticism [1789-1832]: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Scott, Schiller, Novalis, Poe, Longfellow,...
  9. Shelley [1818]: Frankenstein
  10. Emerson [1836]: Nature
  11. Nietzsche [1883-92]: Thus Spake Zarathustra selections
  12. Darwin [1859]: Origin of Species selections

Course listserv Information

To get on the course listserv (so that we can continue the "great conversation" after class), send mail to listserv@listserv.utk.edu(note that there is no "e" at the end of "listserv"). The body of the message should be:
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Don't put anything in the Subject line (or just a blank).

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