M. Gregory Oakes, Ph.D.

HMXP102: The Human Experience

Fall, 2011

Syllabus

Syllabus	Schedule Revision

Assignments and Exercises

Reading Exercises
Essay One
Oral Presentation on Arts	Example (Gospel at Colonus)
Essay Two
Conrad Section
Essay Three	Due Monday, Dec. 5

Other Notes

Doonesbury v. Blake, on the Moon

That's Amore (lyric)

Selected Dialogue from Apocalypse Now (external link)

Grammar

Run-On Sentences Exercise 2

Comma Splices Exercise 2 Oxford Comma

Fragments Exercise 2

Pronoun Agreement Exercise 2

Faulty Predication

MLA Citation Guide

Link to In-Text Citation (Purdue Univ.)

Study Guides

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

 

Section I
Plato: The Allegory of the Cave	Cave Images
Bohm: On Communication
Mill: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
Plato: Apology (Socrates)

 

Section II
Jefferson: Declaration of Independence
Friedman: The Relation between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom
Menkiti: Person and Community in African Traditional Thought
Swimme: How Do Our Kids Get So Caught Up in Consumerism?
Marx II: The Alienation of Labor
Myers: Ingroup and Outgroup
Cisneros: My Name
Gilligan: In a Different Voice
DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk	Toure Story and Video Little Black Sambo
Loury: Free at Last? A Personal Perspective on Race and Identity in America

 

Section III
Ridley I: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters	Neoteny: Banks Campbell Twiggy Twiggy2
Orr: Love It or Lose It: The Coming Biophilia Revolution
Wilson: The Planetary Killer
Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Moore: The Sacred Arts of Life
Tillich: What Faith Is
Conrad: Heart of Darkness

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