GBS68 Schedule
GBGS68 David Banach
Preceptorial: Camus
Tentative Schedule
Week 1:
9/2: 1. Course introduction.
2. "Love of Life" and "The Wrong Side and the Right Side" Read in class.
Week 2:
9/9 1. The First Man.
2. "Summer in Algiers" in MOS pp. 141-154. Return to Tipasa
Week 3:
9/16 1. "An Absurd Reasoning" in MOS, 1-66.
Week 4:
6/23 1. The Stranger. Part I 1-76 in Gilbert trans.
2. "Preface to .Stranger" handout, "Helen's Exile" in MOS 187-192, "Return to Tipasa", MOS 194-201.
Week 5:
9/30 1. The Stranger. Part II, 77-135 in Gilbert trans. Ch. I-IV
2. "The Absurd Man" MOS, 66-92.
Week 6:
10/7 1. The Stranger. Part II, Ch. V 135-end in Gilbert trans.
2. "Absurd Creation, MOS, 93-118. "The Myth of Sisyphus" MOS 119-123
Week 7:
10/14 1. A Happy Death.
2. "Death in the Soul" handout.
Week 8:
10/21 1. The Plague, 1-138
2. "The Minotaur" MOS, 155-183.
Week 9:
10/28 1. The Plague, 138-234
2. The Rebel, 1-22.
Week 10:
11/4 1. The Plague, 234-end.
2. The Rebel, 23-36, 55-61.
Friday 11/5 THESIS 1 DUE
Week 11:
11/11 The Rebel, to be assigned
Week 12:
11/18 The Fall, 1-71
Week 13:
11/25 THANKSGIVING
Week 14:
12/2 The Fall, 72-end
Week 15:
12/9 Exile and the Kingdom.
Tuesday, 12/14 THESIS 2 DUE
Final Exam: Thursday 12/16. 7PM.