{"id":172,"date":"2014-02-17T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/?p=172"},"modified":"2025-08-06T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:31:20","slug":"course-schedule-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/2014\/02\/17\/course-schedule-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, even after the syllabus has been posted, be aware that assignments may change.  HONS2103 students are always encouraged to  watch the Announcements section of the course&#8217;s blackboard site and their emails, and to listen and make note of any changes as they are announced in class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2025\/08\/HONS-2103-Syllabus-Fall-2025-most-current-version.pdf\">HONS1101 printable syllabus for Fall 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">PLEASE NOTE: The schedule information that follows hereafter is &#8220;under construction.&#8221;  In the meantime, refer to the course schedule that is included in the syllabus (which can be accessed by clicking the green link above)<em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<dl><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/the-world-of-the-reformation\/'  title='What\u2019s modern about the modern world? (The World of theReformation)'>What\u2019s modern about the modern world? (The World of theReformation)<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/martin-luther_small-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/martin-luther_small-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/martin-luther_small-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Luther, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529. Uffizi, Florence<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, August 27, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luther, <em>On Christian Liberty<\/em> (<em>Introduction to Contemporary Civilizations in the W<\/em>est (hereafter, ICCW, 717-728)<\/li>\n<li>Luther, <em>Address to the Nobility of the German Nation<\/em> (ICCW 702-704, 713-17); \u201cOn Temporal Authority\u201d (Course packet, hereafter CP, 1-4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/the-reformation-of-the-world\/'  title='The Reformation of the World'>The Reformation of the World<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2018\/07\/John-Calvin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Calvin, Oil on wood, attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, August 29, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calvin, <em>Institutes of the Christian Religion<\/em> (ICCW 731-751)<\/li>\n<li>St. Ignatius of Loyola, Thinking with the Church (ICCW 767-773)<\/li>\n<li>The Council of Trent (ICCW 770-773)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/origins-of-socialism-and-anarchism\/'  title='Conquest, Conversion, and Encounter in New Spain'>Conquest, Conversion, and Encounter in New Spain<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2021\/07\/Juan-Gines-de-Sepulveda-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Gin\u00e9s de Sep\u00falveda<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, September 3, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instructions to Nicolas de Ovanda, Governor of Hispaniola, from King Ferdinand and Isabella, 1501 (CP 5-6)<\/li>\n<li>Sepulveda, <em>Democrates Alter<\/em> (ICCW 523-529)<\/li>\n<li>Las Casas, <em>Apologetic History of the Indies, Thirty Very Juridical Propositions, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, <\/em>ICCW 530-43, <em>Norton Anthology of World Literature<\/em>, hereafter NAWL, 566-571)<\/li>\n<li>Gonzales Jimenez de Quesada, \u201cOne After Another, they All Fell under Your Majesty\u2019s Rule\u201d (Colombia Reader 22-33)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/spain-in-the-age-of-explorationnew-spain\/'  title='Early Modern England: Divine Right or Democracy?'>Early Modern England: Divine Right or Democracy?<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2016\/07\/lillbourne-150x150.png\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Lilburne (engraving by George Glover, 1641)<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, September 5, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong><br>\nRead before class:<\/strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queen Elizabeth I speech to the troops at Tilbury, 1588 (CP 7)<\/li>\n<li>King James I, <em>The Trew Law of Free Monarchies<\/em> (ICCW 923-931)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn Agreement of the People\u201d (ICCW 941-957)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/an-encounter-of-cultures-in-new-france\/'  title='Early Modern France: The Creation of the Sovereign State'>Early Modern France: The Creation of the Sovereign State<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/jeandebrebeuf_small-114x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Jean de Br\u00e9beuf, S.J.<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, September 10, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong><br>\nRead before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cardinal Richelieu, <em>Political Testament<\/em> (ICCW 867-871)<\/li>\n<li>Montaigne, \u201cIntro&#8221; and &#8220;To the Reader\u201d (NAWL 318-321); &#8220;That is is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity,&#8221; (CP, 8-10)<\/li>\n<li>Fenelon (ICCW 880-885)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Jesuit Relations<\/em> (CP 11-21)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/who-owns-the-revolution\/'  title='A New Science of Politics'>A New Science of Politics<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/leviathan_small-125x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frontispiece of \"Leviathan\"<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, September 12, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong><br>\nRead before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hobbes, <em>Leviathan<\/em> (ICCW 961-972, 979-993)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/western-religion-and-chinese-culture\/'  title='Late Ming and Early Qing China'>Late Ming and Early Qing China<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"91\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Huang_Zong-Xi_sm-91x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huang Zongxi<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, September 17, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong><br>\nRead before class<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese responses to early Christian contacts (Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume II, hereafter SCT 142-154)<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese Rites Controversy (CP 22-23)<\/li>\n<li>Yuan Huang, Ledger of Merit and Demerit (SCT, <em>Volume 1 &#8212; note this is Volume I &#8212; <\/em>906-911)<\/li>\n<li>Huang Zongxi, <em>Waiting for the Dawn<\/em> (SCT 4-12)<\/li>\n<li>Wang Fuzhi, selections (SCT 26-35)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/politics-and-property\/'  title='Politics and property'>Politics and property<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/John_Locke_Kneller_small-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/John_Locke_Kneller_small-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/John_Locke_Kneller_small-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\"> John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Museum<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, September 19, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong><br>\nRead before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locke, <em>Second Treatise of Government<\/em> (ICCW 1010-1025, 1032-1039, 1044-1053)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/a-revolution-in-science\/'  title='A Revolution in Science'>A Revolution in Science<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"127\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei_1636_small.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galileo Galilei, portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1636<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, September 24, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bacon, <em>Novum Organum, The Advancement of Learning<\/em> (CP 24); (Readings in Epistemology, hereafter RE, 3-10)<\/li>\n<li>Galileo, <em>The Assayer, Letter to Grand Duchess Christina<\/em> (ICCW 786-799)<\/li>\n<li>Bellarmine, \u201cLetter on Galileo\u2019s Theories\u201d (CP 25-26)<\/li>\n<li>Newton, <em>Principia<\/em>, (ICCW 849-852)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>First Paper Due<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/rationalism-and-method\/'  title='Rationalism and Method'>Rationalism and Method<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Descartes_after_Hals_Louvre_sm-133x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ren\u00e9 Descartes, by Frans Hals.   Paris: Louvre<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, September 26, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Descartes, <em>Discourse on Method<\/em>, <em>Meditations on the First Philosophy<\/em> (RE 19-33, 35-43, 46-53)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/humanism\/'  title='Europeans and Ottomans'>Europeans and Ottomans<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2016\/07\/Muhammad-Ali-by-Auguste-Couder-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">1840 portrait of Muhammad Ali Pasha by Auguste Couder<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, October 1, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>De Busbecq, <em>The Turkish Letters <\/em>(CP 27-28)<\/li>\n<li>Celebi, <em>The Book of Travels<\/em> (NAWL 70-75)<\/li>\n<li>Lady Montagu, <em>Turkish Embassy Letters<\/em> (29-36)<\/li>\n<li>Pasha, <em>The Book of Counsel for Viziers and Governors<\/em> (CP 37-40)<\/li>\n<li>Status of Christians &amp; Jews 1772 (CP 41-43)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Test 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/has-modern-society-made-us-better\/'  title='Has modern society made us better?'>Has modern society made us better?<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/rousseau_small-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/rousseau_small-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/rousseau_small-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1753.  San Quentin: Mus\u00e9e Antoine L\u00e9cuyer<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, October 3, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kant, <em>What is Enlightenment<\/em> (CP 44-47)<\/li>\n<li>Rousseau, <em>Discourse on the Origins of Inequality<\/em>, <em>The Social Contract, <\/em>(The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings, hereafter CMRW 1-19, ICCW 1269-1282, 1295-1306)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/religion-in-the-enlightenment\/'  title='Empiricism and Skepticism'>Empiricism and Skepticism<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/07\/David_Hume_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/07\/David_Hume_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/07\/David_Hume_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hume, painted by Alan Ramsey<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, October 8, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hume,\u00a0 <em>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding<\/em> (RE 129-152)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/reason-and-its-limits\/'  title='Reason and its Limits'>Reason and its Limits<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/KANT_small-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/KANT_small-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/KANT_small-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immanuel Kant<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, October 10, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kant, <em>Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics<\/em>, <em>Critique of Pure Reason<\/em>, <em>Preface to the First Edition, Preface to the Second Edition<\/em> (RE 155-171, 188-201)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/qing-china-tradition-and-adaptation\/'  title='Qing China: Tradition and Adaptation'>Qing China: Tradition and Adaptation<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/07\/QianLong_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/07\/QianLong_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/07\/QianLong_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emporer Quian Long<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, October 17, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sacred Edict (SCT 70-72)<\/li>\n<li>Chen Hongmou, selections (SCT 156-168)<\/li>\n<li>Hong Liangji, selections (SCT 172-179)<\/li>\n<li>Emperor Qian Long, \u201cLetter to King George III\u201d (CP 48-50)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/money-and-morals\/'  title='Money and Morals'>Money and Morals<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/adam_smith2small-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/adam_smith2small-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/adam_smith2small-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Smith <\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, October 22, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong><br>\nRead before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smith, <em>The Theory of Moral Sentiments<\/em>, <em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em> (CP 53-57) (ICCW 1314-1333)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/the-holy-spirit-in-colombia-and-mexico\/'  title='The Holy Spirit in Colombia and Mexico'>The Holy Spirit in Colombia and Mexico<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2021\/07\/Sor-Juana-de-la-Cruz-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from posthumous portrait of Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz (by Miguel Cabrera  -- oil on canvas, 1750)<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, October 24, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Maria Splendiani and Tulio Aristizabal, Miracles Made Possible (Colombia Reader 105-109)<\/li>\n<li>Francisca Josefa Castillo, My Soul Impoverished and Unclothed (Colombia Reader 110-112)<\/li>\n<li>Sor Juana de la Cruz, \u201cYou Foolish Men\u201d (CP 51)<\/li>\n<li>Sor Juana de la Cruz, <em>Reply to Sor Filotea<\/em> (CP 52)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/revolution-those-unruly-colonies\/'  title='Revolution: Those Unruly Colonies'>Revolution: Those Unruly Colonies<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Peale_Jefferson_small-148x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale, 1805.  New York Historical Society<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, October 29, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paine, \u201cAppendix to Common Sense\u201d (CMRW 56-62)<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson, \u201cA Summary View of the Rights of British America\u201d (CMRW 41-55)<\/li>\n<li>Gordon and Trenchard, <em>Cato\u2019s Letters<\/em> (CP 58-64)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second paper due<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/revolution-virtue-and-terror\/'  title='Revolution: Libert\u00e9, egalit\u00e9, fraternit\u00e9!'>Revolution: Libert\u00e9, egalit\u00e9, fraternit\u00e9!<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Death_of_Marat_by_David_small.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Death of Marat, by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, October 31, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sieyes, What Is The Third Estate? (CMRW 70-74)<\/li>\n<li>Decree upon the National Assembly (CMRW 75-76)<\/li>\n<li>The Tennis Court Oath (CMRW 77-78)<\/li>\n<li>Marat, \u201cAre We Undone?\u201d (CMRW 82-84)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLa Marseillaise\u201d (CP 65-66)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Test 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/revolution-virtue-and-terror-2\/'  title='Virtue, Terror and Slavery in France and Haiti'>Virtue, Terror and Slavery in France and Haiti<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2020\/09\/cugoana-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">18th Century Oil on Canvas thought to be a portrait of Ottabah Cugoana<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, November 5, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burke, <em>Reflections on the Revolution in France<\/em> (CP 67-73)<\/li>\n<li>Robespierre, \u201cSpeech on the Principles of Political Morality\u201d (CP 74-77)<\/li>\n<li>Ottabah Cugoana, \u201cThoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery\u201d (CP 78-81)<\/li>\n<li>Toussaint L\u2019Ouverture, Final Declaration 1801 (CP 82-83)<\/li>\n<li>Anonymous, \u201cThe Revolution in Saint-Dominique\u2026\u201d (CP 84-90)<\/li>\n<li>Wordsworth, To Toussaint L\u2019Ouverture (CP 91)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/rights-talk\/'  title='Rights Talk'>Rights Talk<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Declaration_of_Human_Rights_small-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Declaration_of_Human_Rights_small-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Declaration_of_Human_Rights_small-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, November 7, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Declaration of Independence (CMORW 63-66)<\/li>\n<li>Madison, <em>The Federalist<\/em>, no. 10 (ICCW 1307-1313)<\/li>\n<li>The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (CMORW 79-81)<\/li>\n<li>Wollstonecraft, <em>The Vindication of the Rights of Women <\/em>(CP 92-97)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/revolution-liberte-egalite-fraternite\/'  title='The Emergence of Nationalism'>The Emergence of Nationalism<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/07\/Napoleon-crossing-the-Alps-First-Versailles-Version-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/07\/Napoleon-crossing-the-Alps-First-Versailles-Version-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/07\/Napoleon-crossing-the-Alps-First-Versailles-Version-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Louis David - Bonaparte crossing the Great St. Bernard , 20 May 1800<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, November 12, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DeMaistre, <em>Considerations on France, Study on Sovereignty<\/em> (CP 98-99)<\/li>\n<li>Fichte, <em>Addresses to the German Nation<\/em> (CP 100-102)<\/li>\n<li>Hegel, <em>Introduction to the Philosophy of History<\/em> (CP 103-107)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/bolivar-and-south-american-independence\/'  title='Bolivar and South American Independence'>Bolivar and South American Independence<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2021\/07\/Simon-Bolivar-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posthumous portrait of Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar (by Ricardo Acevedo Bernal)<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, November 14, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<ul>\n<li>To Santaf\u00e9! To Santaf\u00e9! (Colombia Reader 182-188)<\/li>\n<li>Gregorio Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena, A King of Cups (Colombia Reader 113-117)<\/li>\n<li>Bolivar, \u201cWar to the Death\u201d (Colombia Reader 328-330)<\/li>\n<li>Bolivar, <em>Address to the Congress of Angostura<\/em>, 1819 (CP 108-114)<\/li>\n<li>Bolivar \u201cLetter to General Juan Jose Flores, 9 November 1830\u201d (CP 115)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Third paper due<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/england-rights-power-and-property\/'  title='Romanticism and Science'>Romanticism and Science<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2018\/07\/Frankenstein_or_the_Modern_Prometheus-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork from the 1831 edition of \"Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus\"<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, November 19, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Shelley, <em>Frankenstein<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/the-romantic-sensibility-i\/'  title='The Romantic Sensibility I'>The Romantic Sensibility I<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2021\/07\/Margaret-Fuller-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Fuller in 1846 (Daguerreotype by John Plumbe)<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, November 21, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rousseau, <em>The Confessions<\/em> (CP 116)<\/li>\n<li>Wordsworth \u201cLines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey\u2026\u201d (CP 117-120)<\/li>\n<li>John Keats, \u201cOde to Autumn\u201d(CP 121)<\/li>\n<li>Goethe, <em>Poetry and Truth, Conversations with Eckermann<\/em> (CP 122-125)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/romanticism-and-the-napoleonic-age\/'  title='The Romantic Sensibility II'>The Romantic Sensibility II<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/07\/Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein_-_Goethe_in_the_Roman_Campagna-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/07\/Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein_-_Goethe_in_the_Roman_Campagna-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/07\/Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein_-_Goethe_in_the_Roman_Campagna-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goethe in the Roman Campagna (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Oil on canvas, 1786)<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, November 26, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966\"><strong><em>This class will feature a special presentation by Dr. Dena Levine: Romanticism in Music<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schiller, Ode to Joy (CP 126-127)<\/li>\n<li>Adam Mickiewicz, Selections (CP 128)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Moore, \u201cThe Last Rose of Summer\u201d (CP 129)<\/li>\n<li>Percy Bysshe Shelley, &#8220;Ozymandias&#8221; (CP 130)<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Fuller, \u201cMeditations\u201d and \u201cFlaxman\u201d (CP 131-133)<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Taylor Coleridge, \u201cFrost at Midnight\u201d (CP 134-135)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1101, HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/thanksgiving-day-university-closed\/'  title='Thanksgiving Holiday'>Thanksgiving Holiday<\/a><\/h4>\n <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, November 28, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1101, HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/introduction-what-e2-80-99s-modern-about-the-modern-world\/'  title='Modernity and the Middle East'>Modernity and the Middle East<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2021\/07\/Tahtawi-Statue-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"Statue of Al-Tahtawi at Sohag University, Egypt\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statue of Al-Tahtawi at Sohag University, Egypt<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, December 3, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Al Wahhab, <em>The History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis<\/em> (Norton Islam 250-256)<\/li>\n<li>Ottoman Imperial Proclamation \u201cThe French Revolution Refuted\u201d (CP 136)<\/li>\n<li>Al-Jabarti, <em>Chronicles<\/em> (Norton Islam 518-526)<\/li>\n<li>Al-Tahtawi, <em>The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris, The Honest Guide for Girls and Boys <\/em>(CP 137-143)<\/li>\n<li>The G\u00fclhane Decree (CP 144-147)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/the-ambivalence-of-modern-democracy\/'  title='The Ambivalence of Modern Democracy'>The Ambivalence of Modern Democracy<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Tocqueville_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Tocqueville_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Tocqueville_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis de Tocqueville, by Theodore de Chasseriau, 1850<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, December 5, 2024<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 2103<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tocqueville, <em>Democracy in America<\/em>, selections (CP 148-162)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Test 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"okta-plugin-message-channel-available\"><\/span><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1101, HONS 2103\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/chinese-texts-confucius\/'  title='Fall Break - No Classes'>Fall Break &#8211; 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