Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2017 - HS 303 D100

Selected Topics in Hellenic Studies (4)

Identity

Class Number: 8868

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 4 – Apr 7, 2017: Mon, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The study of issues related to Hellenic Studies not offered in regular courses.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach so as to reflect on collective and individual identity from a 20th / 21st c. perspective. Focusing on European thought and culture, it addresses themes and issues that emerge from that examination; loss, freedom, conflict, isolation, love, politics, sense of self, relation to other(s), culture, authority, memory. By reflecting on collective and individual identity in the selected texts, the course examines their relevance and importance to current debates, film and art.

Grading

  • Participation 15%
  • Presentation 15%
  • Midterm 30%
  • Term Paper 40%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Camus, Albert. 1988. The Stranger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (available online)

Orwell, George. 2008. Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Penguin Books. (available online)

Arendt, Hannah. 1998. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kundera, Milan. 1999. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Harper Collins. (available online)

Golding, William. 2012. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber. (available online)

Russell, Bertrand. 2005. Authority and the Individual. London: Taylor and Francis. (available online)

RECOMMENDED READING:

Lawler, Steph. 2008. Identity: Sociological Perspectives. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Nicholson, Linda. Siedman, Steven. (eds.) 1999. Social Postmodernism; beyond Identity Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Halliwell, Andrew. Mousley, Andy. (eds.) 2003. Critical Humanisms: Humanist/Anti-Humanist Dialogues. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Gilbert, Alain. 1990. Democratic Individuality. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Dooley, Mark. Kearney, Richard. 1999. Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy. London: Routledge.

Glover, Jonathan. 2012. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Yale University Press.

Registrar Notes:

SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS