Honors 293:
Representing Animals/Special Topics, Literature
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| Dr. Morillo |
Tompkins G117 M, W 1:30-2:45 |
| Spring 2012 |
Office=Tompkins 270; phone: 513-8040 |
| email = morillo@unity.ncsu.edu | |
| web page syllabus = http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/hon293 | |
| Office Hours: M W F 10-11 and by appointment | |
At the end of the course students
should be able
to:
Percentages for
each required graded category are figured via a
percentage of a 12-pt. scale in which
an A+ =12 and
an F=0 points. For example, a B+ on paper 1 would net you 9 x .15 or
.1.35 points. Or, a C on participation nets you 5 x .15 or
.75. I then add up the percentage points for each required
category to
determine
your grade. For example, an 8.2 final score = B for the class.
Participation includes your grades on periodic quizzes, and coming to class prepared, having done the readings and being able to talk and write about them intelligently.
You must complete all the required work to pass the class. I will grade plus/minus.
Attendance: You are allowed 3 absences. If you are absent, unexcused, more than 3 times over the course of the semester, your absences will count progressively against your final grade, as a significant part --10%--of your final grade. Every 2 unexcused absences beyond the allowed 3 loses you a half letter grade. Anyone who misses the first two classes can be immediately dropped from the class. For university attendance policy an dthe definition of an unexcused absence
Plagiarism:
Anyone convicted will receive an F for the paper,
or the course at my discretion.
And yes, I have caught people in the past.
Late Papers:
Papers received ONE class session late will be
accepted
but docked a full grade.
No late papers accepted after one class session late.
Disabilities:
Reasonable accommodations will be made for
students
with verifiable disabilities. In order to take advantage of available
accommodations,
students must register with Disability Services for Students at 1900
Student
Health Center, Campus
Box 7509, 515-7653. http://www.ncsu.edu/dso/
Academic
Integrity Assumption
Universities are unique communities committed to creating and
transmitting
knowledge. They depend on freedom - individuals' freedom to explore
ideas
and to explore and further their own capabilities. Those freedoms
depend
on the good will and responsible behavior of all the members of the
community,
who must treat each other with tolerance and respect. They must allow
each
other to develop the full range of their capabilities and take full
advantage
of the institution's resources.
Required
Texts
& Resources
Print Texts --available now in the NCSU bookstore.
1. Aesop, Fables.
Ed. Laura Gibbs. NY: Oxford UP, 2008.
2. Moore, Sterling. Rascal.
NY: Scholastic, 2003.
3. Masson, Jeffrey. When Elephants
Weep: the Emotional Lives of Animals. NY: Bantam/Doubleday, 1995.
4. Bennett, Barbara. Soul of a Lion.
Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2010.
Required Online Texts
5. King James
Bible
Online http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/
6. Pliny, Natural History http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/home.html
7.
Lucretius,
On the Nature of Things http://www.gutenberg.org/files/785/785-h/785-h.htm
8. A
Medieval Bestiary http://bestiary.ca/index.html
9. Reynard the Fox, trans.
William Caxton
http://bestiary.ca/etexts/morley1889/morley%20-%20history%20of%20reynard%20the%20fox.pdf
10. Perrault, Charles. Puss in Boots
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault04.html
(copied in puss.html)
11. Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe, Ch. 20 http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=DefCru1.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=20&division=div1
12. Taylor, John. A
Vindication of
the
Life of Brutes (In Eighteenth-Century Collections Online [ECCO]
database via D. H. Hill Library)
13. Darwin, Introduction to Origin
of Species http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/introduction.html
14. Darwin, Expression of Emotion in Man and
Animals http://human-nature.com/darwin/emotion/chap5.htm
15. Kipling, Rudyard. The
Jungle Book
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/236/236-h/236-h.htm#2H_4_0009
16. Herzog, Werner, dir. Grizzly
Man. (DVD shown in Honor's Village tba)
How to Use the Oxford English Dictionary Online (Morillo)
Help with Writing Argument
revised
paper structure diagram
points
and paragraphs
introductions
Sample Works for Final Research Papers:
<>Seton, Ernest. Wild Animals
I Have
Known (1898; Canadian
non-fiction) <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3031>
Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller (1956; American young adult fiction)
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty (1877; British young adult fiction)
Benchley, Peter. Jaws
(1974; American adult fiction)
/
Speilberg, Steven. Jaws (1975; American film)
Samuel Pratt, Pity's Gift a collection of
interesting tales, to excite the
compassion of youth for the animal creation. (1798; Children's literature, British).
(ECCO
database)
Robert Morris, A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation
(1746; British non-fiction, argument
for vegetarianism)
Downer, John. Wildlife
Television ( 2011; British
documentary films of animals via remote-robotic cameras) <jdp.co.u>
Orvis, Charles. Fishing with the Fly
(1883; American non-ficition)
Beauties
of Natural History (1777
British non-fiction) (ECCO
database)
Delineation of Curious Foreign Beasts and
Birds, Exeter
Change Exhibition Catalog/ illustrations (1791 British non-fiction) (ECCO
database)
Multum in parvo;
or, everyman His own Vermin-Killer.... By a farmer, Who has
made it
his Study these seven Years. (1771
British, non-fiction) (ECCO
database)
Durrell, Gerald. Encounters
with Animals (1958); A Zoo in
My Luggage (1960) ( British,
non-fiction, worked as collector for zoos)
Green, Wallon. The Hellstrom
Chronicle (1971; American film,
man vs. insects for world domination)
Jacquet, Luc. March of the
Penguins
(2005; French, documentary film)
Nagle, Thomas. "What is it Like to Be a Bat?" ( 1974; American philosophy)
Orwell, George. Animal Farm (1945; British satire, fiction)
Kohl, Herbert. Should We Burn Babar? Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories (1995 American essays)
Collier, John. His Monkey Wife (1931 British./American satire, fiction)
SYLLABUS
| M. Jan. 9 |
Introduction . Snakes and Words |
| W. Jan 11 |
Herodotus, Histories,
on Animals in Africa: (440
BCE) |
| M. Jan 16 |
M. L. KING DAY no class |
| W. Jan 18
|
Masson, Emotional Lives of Animals: Ch. 2
"Unfeeling Brutes" (pp. 24-44) Aesop, Fables (6th century BCE?) about Lions: Read fable numbers in Gibbs' Oxford ed. = 13-21; 50-56, 61,62, 69, 70, 99, 106, 145, 165, 169, 186, 217, 222, 228-30, 235, 243-7, 269-70, 286, 313, 330, 355, 376, 422, 438, 459, 466 |
| M. Jan 23 |
Lucretius On the Nature of Things from
Bks. 4, 5 (50 BCE). Use the headings
in blue to jump to where you need to read: From Book 4 Read
starting at the heading The Passion of Love, to th e end of
that Book. From Book 5 Read the last 3 sections: Origins of
Vegetable and Animal Life; Origins and Savage Period of
Mankind; Beginnings of Civilization. Pay particular
attention the animal/man dynamic in the savage man period, and to
Lucretius' final an d longest example , about men using
animals in war.
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| W. Jan. 25 |
Lucretius continued |
| M. Jan. 30 |
Plinius Secundus (Pliny the
Elder) (77 CE) Pliny biography Preface
to Natural History (just look at the
very beginning of this) Selections: Natural History : If this
link goes out of service here's another English translation, more
modern: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+toc READ: Required Book 8 Elephants. Read Chapters I (one) through XII (12). Then, Lions, Book 8 Ch (XVI) 16 Additional/optional:: bears (Bk 8 Ch XXXVI [36]) Hares and Conies (Bk 8 Ch LV (55) |
| W. Feb. 1 |
Selections
from a Medieval Bestiary
(14th Century) |
| M. Feb. 6 |
First
Paper Due |
| W. Feb. 8 |
Reynard the Fox (Cartwright trans., 1902; pp. 1-120) optional: IF you want to
see the first English translation in pp. (1-100)
(Caxton
trans. 1481) http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/barten1.7.html A short video with clips from the 1942 animated Reynard: |
| M. Feb.13 |
Perrault, Puss in Boots (1697) (all) Walt Disnesy, dir. & animator Puss in Boots (1922) 10 min. film Eugene Marner, dir. Puss in Boots (1988) watch the first 10 minutes or so of the film--live-action musical Hayao Miyazaki, dir & animator Puss in Boots (199-) trailer Chris Miller, dir.Puss in Boots (2011). watch the trailer and the featurette |
| . Feb.15 | Defoe, Robinson
Crusoe (1719) Chapter 20 CHAPTER XX - FIGHT BETWEEN FRIDAY AND A BEAR |
| M. Feb 20 |
William
Cowper, selected poems: "Epitaph
on a Hare"; "On
a Goldfinch Starved to
Death in his Cage"; "To
the Immortal Memory of the Halibut on which I
Dined this Day" (1784) |
| W. Feb 22 |
Thomas Taylor, A Vindication of the
Life of Brutes (1792)
103 pp. (ECCO database)continued |
| M. Feb 27 |
Taylor
cont. |
| W. Feb 29 |
MIDTERM |
| M. Mar 5 |
SPRING BREAK NO CLASS |
| W. Mar 7 |
SPRING BREAK NO CLASS |
| M. Mar12 |
Darwin Origin
of Species (1859) Introduction
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| W. Mar 14 |
Kipling,
The Jungle Book (1894) "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
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| M. Mar 19 |
North, Rascal (1963) (ch 1 - 4 ) |
| W. Mar 21 |
continued (ch 5-9) |
| M. Mar 26 |
Masson, Why Elephants Weep (1995) chapters 1-5 |
| W. Mar 28 |
Masson
continued chapters 6-11 |
| M. Apr 2 |
Bennett, Soul of a Lion (2010) |
| W. Apr 4 |
cont. |
| M. Apr 9 |
Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) (Ch 1-10 ) Research Proposals Due |
| T Apr. 10 | Will be showing DVD of Grizzly Man in Honors Village Conference Room on Tuesday, April 10 at 7m |
| W. Apr 11 |
Dick cont. (Ch 11-22) |
| M. Apr 16 |
Herzog, Grizzly Man (2005, DVD |
| W. Apr 18 |
Presentations
of Research in Progress: Alsous, Ballard, Blanchard, Brinkworth, Bryant, Chapman |
| M .Apr 23 |
Presentations of Research in Progress : Ellington, Farkas, Gabow, Guhne, Ibrahim, Luizzo |
| W Apr 25 |
Presentations of Research in Progress : Mangum, Montgomery, Owczarski, Owoc, Perry, Vincent, Waldrip |
| TBA |
Final Research Paper Due : Friday, May 4 by 5pm, as emailed file |
