SYLLABI
I am already a little behind on this, because of some surprise challenges at home, but I should be caught up later today.
INTRODUCTION TO
PHILOSOPHY
Mondays
FALL 2020
Week Date Description
1 8/31/2020 The Nature and Value of Philosophy
9/7/2020 Labor Day
2 9/14/2020 Human Nature – The Mind Body Problem
3 9/21/2020 Metaphysics – Reality & Being
4 9/28/2020 Metaphysics – Reality & Being, part 2
5 10/5/2020 Metaphysics – God
6 10/12/2020 Metaphysics – God, part 2
7 10/19/2020 Epistemology – Sources of Knowledge
8 10/26/2020 Epistemology – Sources of Knowledge, part 2
9 11/2/2020 Epistemology – Truth
10 11/9/2020 Ethics
11 11/16/2020 Ethics, part 2
12 11/23/2020 Political Philosophy
13 11/30/2020 Political Philosophy, part 2
14 12/7/2020 Aesthetics
15 12/14/2020 Review
REVIEWING THE
CRAFT OF WRITING
Wednesdays
Fall 2020
Week Date Description
1 9/2/2020 Reading Like a Writer
2 9/9/2020 Reading Like a Writer, part 2
3 9/16/2020 Reading Like a Writer, part 3
4 9/23/2020 Bird by Bird
5 9/30/2020 Immediate Fiction
6 10/7/2020 Immediate Fiction, part 2
7 10/14/2020 The Writer’s Chapbook
8 10/21/2020 Plot & Structure
9 10/28/2020 Plot & Structure, part 2
10 11/4/2020 On Writing by Stephen King
11 11/11/2020 On Writing, part 2
12 11/18/2020 The War of Art
11/25/2020 Thanksgiving
13 12/2/2020 Working by Robert Caro
SHAKESPEARE’S
MINOR PLAYS
Thursdays
FALL 2020
Week Date Description
1 9/10/2020 The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2 9/17/2020 Coriolanus
3. 9/24/2020 Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3
4 10/1/2020 Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3
5 10/8/2020 Love’s Labor’s Lost
6 10/15/2020 King John
7 10/22/2020 Timon of Athens
8 10/29/2020 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
9 11/5/2020 The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VIII
10 11/12/2020 Cymbeline
11 11/19/2020 Troilus and Cressida
11’26/2020 Thanksgiving
12 12/3/2020 The Two Noble Kinsmen
13 12/10/2020 Edward III
14 12/17/2020 All’s Well That Ends Well
