COURSE OBJECTIVES

The purposes of this course are to:

• Become acquainted with three periods of human history in some of their cultural aspects.

• Consider the meanings of "culture," "progress," and "evolution."

• Grapple with some of the key questions about the relation of the individual to the community.

• Practice thinking and writing about general ideas in terms of specific examples.

BOOKS REQUIRED

• Plato, Republic, translated by H. D. Lee, Viking Penguin Books

• Sophocles, Antigone, translated by Richard Emil Braun, Harper/Collins

• Mumford, Lewis, The City in History, Harbrace Brace

• More, Thomas, Utopia, Viking Penguin Books

• Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man, Random House, Inc.

• Shakespeare, William, The Tempest, Signet

• Zamiatin, Eugene, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, E.P. Dutton

• Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind (P), Ballantine Books (Random House), 1991

• Joseph Gibaldi and Walter Achtert, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (New York: 1988). ISBN #0-87352-379-2. (Note: This book is required for all HUX Courses.)

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