General Requirements for Cultural History Courses (Hum 211, Hum 212)

· The courses emphasize cultural, rather than diplomatic, military, political, or social history. However, other kinds of history ought to provide context for a focus on the cultural. The courses contextualize cultural creations within a historical continuity; chronological and geographical perspectives are mainstays of the courses. Cultural artifacts (e.g., poems, operas, paintings, temples) should reside in a course's foreground.

· Instructors should find occasions and material to relate Western to non-Western cultures; the courses are to be Western-oriented but global in scope.

· History, literature, philosophy, performing and visual arts should all be considered.

· The courses are designed to inculcate critical thinking, primarily through the study of primary materials.

· The courses are to be writing- and reading-intensive. They are therefore to operate under the assumption that writing is a mode of thought, a means of clarification, and they are to include a multi-staged research paper (at least three stages--see a possible model for this project here), that is, a multisourced and analytical research paper, and exam essays; in-class writing is an option, as are other writing assignments.

· There will be at least two exams, one of them a final exam, each including essay writing.

· Some group work should be encouraged in the course, possibly with several individual projects as outcomes (i.e., a group might work together on a broadly related set of topics but each group member would produce an individual report, paper, or website).

· The courses ought to include some oral reporting; for example, the documented paper project might well include an oral report.

· The courses are to culminate in a portfolio of student work. Teachers will engage in group readings of student research papers.

· There is a common text  for each respective course. For Hum 211 the text will be a customized version of Janetta Rebold Benton, and Robert Di Yanni, Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Custom Vol.. I Package (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2005), a special version of the normal first volume, specifically designed for NJIT (ISBN 053646281x); when this book is ordered with this ISBN, the book will automatically come with a student study guide, a Signet edition of Hamlet, and a Signet edition of The Odyssey (thesethree books are free with the Benton and Di Yanni volume 1). For Hum 212 the text will be Janetta Rebold Benton, and Robert Di Yanni, Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Vol.. II Package (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2005); the ISBN for this book is 0536463050. In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that a history text be adopted, such as:  Bulliet, Richard W., et al. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Brief 2nd Ed. (Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003); or, Anglin, Jay Pascal, and William J. Hamblin, World History to 1648 (New York: HarperCollins, 1993) and Allen, J. Michael, and James B. Allen, World History from 1500 (New York: HarperCollins, 1993). Another text that may prove useful is: Mack, Maynard, ed., The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), or other texts with complete primary sources. It is also expected that other sources such as novels would be used in the courses. Below please find a list of Penguin editions that are discounted when ordering the Benton and Di Yanni books. See also specific respective requirements for each course.


List of discounted Penguin editions when ordering one of the above Benton and Di Yanni books:

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

ISBN

OUR PRICE

Penguin Dictionary of Sociology

Abercrombie

0140513809

$6.00

Twenty Years at Hull House

Addams

0141180994

$5.25

Life of St. Columbia

Adomnan

0140444629

$6.00

Prometheus Bound & Other Plays

Aeschylus

0140441123

$4.00

The Orestia

Aeschylus

0130417832

$4.00

Selected Poems

Akhmatova

0131775928

$4.75

The Inferno

Alighieri

0131115367

$2.25

How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

Alvarez

0452268060

$5.25

How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent

Alvarez

0452268060

$5.50

Untouchable

Anand

0131831801

$4.75

Classic American Autobiographies

Andrews

0451628527

$3.00

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

014044100X

$3.75

Aquinas, Selected Writings

Aquinas

0144436324

$6.00

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

0131837680

$2.25

Aristotle, Ethics

Aristotle

0140440550

$4.50

Aristotle, Politics

Aristotle

0140444211

$5.50

Aristotle, The Metaphysics

Aristotle

0140446192

$5.00

Plato, Republic

Aristotle

0140440488

$4.00

The Athenian Constitution

Aristotle

0140444319

$4.50

Woodrow Wilson

Auchincloss

n/a

$8.00

Augustine, City of God

Augustin

0140444262

$7.00

Augustine, Confessions

Augustin

0451624742

$3.00

Emma

Austen

0451526279

$2.00

Pride and Prejudice

Austen

0131401912

$3.00

City of Glass

Auster

0140097317

$5.25

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Bellamy

0451527631

$2.25

Ways of Seeing

Berger

0131825550

$5.50

Philosophical Dictionary

Besterman

0130281301

$5.50

Chronicles

Brereton

0140442006

$5.50

Jane Eyre

Bronte

013183763X

$1.75

Wuthering Heights

Bronte

0131836854

$2.00

Wuthering Heights

Bronte

0131836854

$2.00

World Religions Literature--Buddha

Buddha

0451627113

$3.00

Song of Roland

Burgess

0130417858

$3.75

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Burke

0131848313

$4.00

Compassionate Buddha, trans. Burtt

Burtt

0451200772

$4.00

Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

Carretta

n/a

$4.50

Book of the Courtier

Castiglione

0140441921

$5.50

So Far From God

Castillo

013184637X

$5.75

My Antonia

Cather

0131773526

$1.75

O Pioneers!

Cather

0140187758

$3.25

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Cellini

n/a

$4.50

The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer

0131113062

$3.50

The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer

0131113062

$4.00

The Awakening

Chopin

0130933341

$3.25

Waiting for the Barbarians

Coetzee

014006110X

$4.25

The Four Voyages

Colombus

0140442170

$5.00

Heart of Darkness

Conrad

0131836889

$3.25

Heart of Darkness

Conrad

0131836889

$3.50

Buddhist Scriptures

Conze

0131848186

$5.75

Buddhist scriptures, trans. Conze

Conze

0140440887

$5.50

Maggie, Girl of the Streets

Crane

0130943460

$2.00

The Red Badge of Courage

Crane

0140390812

$3.75

The Portable Roman Reader

Davenport

0140150560

$3.25

The Koran

Dawood

0140445587

$4.00

The Koran

Dawood

0131931059

$4.50

The Koran, ed. Dawood

Dawood

0140445587

$4.00

Chronicles of the Crusades

de Joinville

0140441247

$6.00

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

de las Casas

n/a

$5.00

Moll Flanders

DeFoe

013183794x

$3.50

White Noise

DeLillo

013177591X

$6.00

Democracy in America

DeTocqueville

0131841823

$3.25

Hard Times

Dickens

0131837923

$3.25

Ragtime

Doctorow

0452279070

$5.75

Narrative of Frederick Douglas

Douglas

0131773542

$1.75

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Douglass

013094484X

$3.75

Souls of Black Folk

DuBois

0131779001

$4.00

Beowulf: A Prose Translation

Ed: Wright

0140440704

$3.75

Two Lives of Charlemagne

Einhard

0140442138

$5.75

The Conditions of the Working Class in England

Engels

0140444866

$5.75

Bacchae and Other Plays

Euripedes

0140440445

$4.50

Bacchae & Other Plays

Euripides

0140440445

$4.00

Medea & Other Plays

Euripides

0140441298

$3.75

Better Days are Coming

Fairclough

0131832409

$6.50

Ruth Hall

Fern

0130943479

$4.50

Bridget Jones’ Diary

Fielding

014028009X

$2.25

Jazz Age Stories

Fitzgerald

014118048X

$3.50

Autobiography and Other Writings

Franklin

0451528107

$2.00

The Classic Slave Narratives

Gates

0451627261

$3.00

The Classic Slave Narratives

Gates

0131847244

$3.00

Identity Lessons

Gillan

0131115715

$6.00

Unsettling America

Gillan

0131115723

$5.75

Herland (And Selected Stories)

Gilman

0451525620

$3.00

Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

0452267765

$5.00

Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry

0452267765

$5.25

Chocolat

Harris

0131848240

$5.25

The Song of Roland

Harrison

n/a

$6.99

1066: The Year of the Conquest

Haworth

0140058508

$5.25

Selected Tales and Sketches

Hawthorne

0131837672

$4.00

The Blithedale Romance

Hawthorne

0140390286

$3.25

The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne

0451526082

$1.50

The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne

0131836870

$1.75

A Documentary History of the United States

Heffner

0451628829

$3.25

The Histories

Herodotus

0131846868

$5.00

Hesiod & Theognis

Hesiod

0140442839

$4.50

Siddhartha

Hesse

0141181230

$2.50

Penguin Dictionary of Religions

Hinnells

0140512616

$7.00

Penguin Dictionary of Religions, ed. Hinnells

Hinnells

0140512616

$7.00

Homer, Iliad

Homer

0451527372

$2.00

Homer, Odyssey

Homer

0451527364

$2.00

Iliad

Homer

0451527372

$2.50

Iliad

Homer

0451527372

$2.50

Odyssey

Homer

0131830759

$2.50

Iliad

Homer(Fagles)

0130484482

$4.00

The Rise of Silas Lapham

Howells

0140390308

$4.00

Immigrant Voices

Hutner

n/a

$3.00

Hedda Gabler

Ibsen

0130482072

$3.75

A Doll’s House and Other Plays

Ibsen/Watts

0131848232

$4.00

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

Joyce

0130946132

$2.00

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

Joyce/Deane

0130946133

$3.75

Liars Club

Karr

0130969613

$5.50

The Dharma Burns

Kerouac

n/a

 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Kesey

014028334X

$5.25

The AntiFederalist Papers

Ketcham

0451625250

$3.25

Why We Can’t Wait

King

0130486175

$3.00

The Year of Living Dangerously

Koch

0131832131

$5.00

The Way of Life (Tao Te Ching), Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu

0451626745

$2.00

Passing

Larsen

0141180250

$4.00

The Analects of Confucius

Lau

0131834312

$4.50

Benjamin Franklin

Lemisch

n/a

$2.00

It’s Now, Not When

Levi

0131837931

$5.75

Babbitt

Lewis

0451527089

$3.00

Babbitt

Lewis

0140189025

$3.50

The Early History of Rome

Livy

0140441042

$5.75

The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

Llosa

0140283595

$4.75

Machiavelli, Discourses

Machiavelli

0140444289

$4.50

Machiavelli, The Prince

Machiavelli

0140447520

$2.00

The Prince

Machiavelli

0131845195

$2.50

The Armies of the Night

Mailer

n/a

$5.75

Travels of John Mandeville

Mandeville

0140444351

$5.00

Death in Venice

Mann

0141181737

$3.50

From our House

Martin

0131837621

$4.75

Quakertown

Martin

0131837613

$5.00

Marx, Early Writings

Marx

0140445749

$7.00

The Communist Manifesto

Marx

0131444085

$3.00

Bhagavad Gita

Mascaro

n/a

$3.75

Upanishads

Mascaro

n/a

$3.75

Tacitus, the Agricola and the Germania

Mattingly

0140442413

$5.75

Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Mautner

Mautner

0140512500

$7.00

Rosewood Casket

McCrumb

0451184718

$3.25

Mill & Bentham, Utilitarianism

Mill

0140432728

$5.00

On Liberty

Mill

0131838369

$4.00

Death of a Salesman

Miller

0131842900

$4.00

Persian Letters

Montesquieu

0131838385

$5.00

More, Utopia

More

0140441654

$3.50

Utopia

More

0131830767

$3.00

Utopia

More

0131830767

$3.25

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece

Morkot

0140513353

$7.00

Beloved

Morrison

0452264464

$5.25

Beloved

Morrison

013183584x

$5.50

Bluest Eye

Morrison

0452273056

$5.25

Song of Solomon

Morrison

013183553X

$5.25

Song of Solomon

Morrison

013183553x

$5.75

Tar Baby

Morrison

0131773496

$4.75

Tarbaby

Morrison

0452264790

$5.50

The Bluest Eye

Morrison

0452273056

$5.50

The Women of Brewster Place

Naylor

0131838091

$5.00

Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche

0131837664

$4.25

1984

Orwell

0131842706

$3.00

Animal Farm

Orwell

0131838377

$3.00

Metamorphoses

Ovid

0140440585

$4.50

The Metamorphoses

Ovid

0140440585

$4.50

My Year of Meat

Ozeki

0131847201

$5.75

Common Sense

Paine

0130499269

$3.00

The Rights of Man

Paine

013184833x

$4.00

Deep Blues

Palmer

0140062238

$5.75

The Portable Enlightenment Reader

Penguin

0140245669

$7.00

The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius

Petronius

0-14-044489-0

$5.00

Plato, Last Days of Socrates

Plato

014044582X

$5.00

The Republic

Plato

0131113070

$3.25

The Republic

Plato

n/a

$3.50

Fall of the Roman Republic

Plutarch

0140440844

$5.75

The Travels

Polo

n/a

$5.75

Rise of the Roman Empire

Polybius

0140443622

$6.00

Bhagavad Gita

Prabhavanada

0451627571

$3.50

Upanishads

Prabhavanada

0131847252

$3.00

Bhagavad-Gita, trans. Prabhavananda

Prabhavananda

0451627571

$2.00

Upanishads, trans. Prabhavananda

Prabhavananda

0451626079

$2.00

The Godfather

Puzo

0451167716

$4.00

Letters of Abelard & Heloise

Radice

0131833030

$5.25

Signet Classic book of American Short Stories

Raffel

013182807X

$2.50

Anthem

Rand

0451191137

$3.25

Lives on The Boundary

Rose

0131835858

$5.00

The Social Contract

Rosseau

0131838393

$5.75

The Federalist Papers

Rossiter

0451628810

$3.25

Rousseau, Confessions

Rousseau

014044033X

$5.50

Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

Rousseau

0140444394

$4.00

Rousseau, Social Contract

Rousseau

0140442014

$3.50

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Sandars

n/a

$3.75

The Historical Figure of Jesus

Sanders

0140144994

$6.00

Early Socratic Dialogues, ed. Saunders

Saunders

0140044475

$5.50

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome

Scarre

0140513299

$7.00

Hamlet

Shakespeare

0130975117

$1.50

Hamlet

Shakespeare

0130975117

$1.75

Henry V

Shakespeare

0131115316

$1.75

Henry V

Shakespeare

0140714588

$2.00

King Lear

Shakespeare

0131830775

$1.75

King Lear

Shakespeare

0131830775

$2.25

Macbeth

Shakespeare

0131836862

$1.50

Macbeth

Shakespeare

0131836862

$1.75

Othello

Shakespeare

0131830821

$1.50

Othello

Shakespeare

0131830821

$1.75

Major Barbara

Shaw

0131775944

$3.00

Frankenstein

Shelly

0131109529

$3.50

Ceremony

Silko

0131113054

$5.25

Ceremony

Silko

0131113054

$5.75

The Jungle

Sinclair

0140390316

$4.00

Other Voices, Other Vistas

Solomon

0131837648

$3.00

Electra & Other Plays

Sophocles

0140440283

$3.75

The Theban Plays

Sophocles

013041784X

$4.50

The Three Theban Plays

Sophocles

0131846388

$4.00

Mao Zedong

Spence

n/a

$8.00

Early Christian Writings

Staniforth

n/a

$5.75

Early Christian Writings, ed. Staniforth

Staniforth

0140444750

$5.50

Grapes of Wrath (Critical edition)

Steinbeck

013110876X

$7.00

Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck

0140186425

$4.00

Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck

0140186425

$4.50

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stevenson

0130996262

$2.00

The Colonizers

Stiles

n/a

$6.50

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Stown

0130481696

$2.25

Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

0130486450

$5.75

The Histories

Tacitus

n/a

$5.25

Walden

Thoreau

0451523776

$2.00

Einhard and Notker, Two Lives of Charlemagne

Thorpe

n/a

$5.50

Thucydides,  Pelopponesian War

Thucydides

0140440399

$5.50

What is Art

Tolstoy

0131848321

$5.25

Read Aloud Handbook

Trelease

0131846817

$6.00

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain

0130417823

$2.50

Tao Te Ching

Tzu

0140190600

$5.50

The Aeneid

Virgil

0140440518

$4.00

Candide, or Optimism

Voltaire

0140440046

$3.00

Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

014044257x

$5.50

Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

Voltairs

014044257X

$6.00

Letters on England

Voltaite

014044386X

$4.00

Black ,White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self

Walker

0131848089

$5.75

Four Histories

Wells

0131106880

$4.75

Ethan Frome

Wharton

0131773518

$1.75

The House of Mirth

Wharton

0131837699

$1.75

Voices of 1776

Wheeler

0452010780

$6.50

Early Christian Lives, ed. White

White

0140435263

$5.50

The Importance of Being Earnest

Wilde

013177350X

$3.50

A Streetcar Named Desire

Williams

0451167783

$2.00

A Streetcar Named Desire

Williams

0451167783

$2.25

St. Augustine

Wills

n/a

$8.00

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Wilson

0452260094

$4.00

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Wilson

0452261139

$4.00

Beowolf

Wright

0140440704

$3.75

The Koran

Wyatt

0131931059

$4.50

Garlic Ballads

Yan

0140233911

$5.75

We

Zamiatin

0140185852

$5.50