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All students must check in on the Bulletin Board System (BBS) For BBS go to: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/cgibin/webbbs/FYS_bbs/FYS_bbs.pl Be sure and reset the preferences in the BBS to permit you to view all messages posted for the last four months....There are assignments within these messages and I expect them to be fulfilled before the class meets for the first time.

Course Description:

This course is one of the series of Humanities 100 courses required of all Freshmen at Pacific University. Each section has a focus of its own. Ours is "Thinking About War." We will read widely and write quite a bit, and rely heavily upon electronic methods of communication, including E-mail and the BBS. This course will also share certain elements with an Honors course of college-bound graduating seniors to be taught simultaneously at Newberg High School. That group will read some of our texts, but not all of them. We will work out the details of this partnership as we proceed

REQUIRED TEXTS:

These are the texts that you will be using in Hum 100 in our section. These will be at the bookstore in the Fall, but you might want to find used copies instead of buying new ones. You could use any translation of Antigone, (the Sophocles book), or of Shakespeare's King Henry V, or of the Iliad. Those listed below are the most current and most popular ones at present.

Craik, T.W. (ed.) King Henry V, (The Arden Shakespeare), 2000 Thomson Learning reprinted. Any edition of King Henry V is OK.

Fagels, Robert. (trans.) Sophocles, the Three Theban Plays. Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-044425-4 We are reading this for The Antigone, which you will see performed at Reed College, and you could use any translation.

Fagles, Robert. (Trans.) The Illiad. Penguin Books. Paperback. Any translation is OK.

Pressfield, Steven. Gates of Fire. Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-58053-1 A popular paperback novel. Read it this summer if you have the time, I think you will enjoy it.

Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam; Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. (GET PAPERBACK!)

You have already received Nickel and Dimed in America or will receive it from the school, do not buy it. You must have read this book before you arrive at Pacific in August. We will be going to a play in Portland to see the book "performed".

WWW SITES

We will be using a variety of WWW sites to complement the assigned readings and they will be listed here as we develop them.

"Don't Let "Em Fade" <http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/dlef/index.html > This site has interviews with several families of men who died in Vietnam, or with their comrades. We will use it to discuss the topic of war and memory.

An Electronic Concordance for searching The Bible: < http://www.biblestudytools.net/ > We will use this for researching biblical attitudes toward war. Obviously you may use any version of the bible you wish, and texts from other religions as well.

The Koran < http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-koran?specfile=/lv2/english/relig/koran/www/koran.o2w >

A good site for electronic religious texts: <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/texts.html >

Marxist Internet Archive: <http://www.marxists.org/> We will study Marxist notions of "class warfare" in this site and use it also in reading Nickel and Dimed.

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