Course
Requirements:
1.
Reading assignments: This class
is what you make it. Please come prepared to discuss the readings.
2.
Attendance is required. This course will be primarily a discussion course,
we will discuss the various books and their themes and contrasts. In order
for each of us to get the most from this experience, each person must come
to class prepared.
3.
Writing assignments: You are required to write 1 paper 6-8 pages in length
on a class topic of your choice. The font should not exceed 12 points and
the margins should be 1” top and bottom, left and right. If you use an internet
source that is not from the course homepage you must put the URL in the
footnote. This is very important. I have prepared an internet resource
page specifically for the topics in this class. Please utilize that resource.
4.
Book review presentation. This presentation will introduce the other students
to a book on the topic and area of your research paper.
5.
Field trip to San Juan Capistrano Mission.
6.
Viewing and discussion of films for the course.
7.
Occasional quizzes on assigned reading material.
Special
Accommodations:
To receive special accommodations,
a student must complete the following process, which has been approved by
the College. Any student who, because of a disabling condition, may require
some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact
the instructor as soon as possible to make the necessary accommodations.
The student also should present appropriate verification from the Learning
Support Services Office.
Required
Texts:
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
How Natives Think: About Captain
Cook, for Example by Marshall D. Sahlins
Colonialism – Postcolonialism
by Ania Loomba
Bernardino de Sahagún
, First Anthropologist by Miguel León-Portilla, Mauricio J. Mixco
(Translator)
Franz Fanon On National Culture
and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o The Language of African
Literature available on website: trickster.org/basilica/
Assessment
Grading will be done on a point
system.
Paper
30 points
Participation 50 points
Book review 30 points
Field
trip reviews 10 points
Field trip
10 points (Mission San Juan Capistrano)
Class presentation
30 points for presentation
20 points for attendance (50 points total)
3
missed classes without contacting me will cost you 1 letter grade.
There will be possibilities for
extra-credit.
This course is only offered
for a grade.
There will be no incompletes
issued.
Week 1 Introduction
Thursday 9/9 Syllabus review, introductions,
Week 2 Colonialism and Imperialism
What is colonialism? What does
it mean to be “post” colonial? How are subjects “created?”
Tuesday 9/14, Loomba, pp. 2-43
Thursday 9/16 Loomba, pp. 43-57
Week 3 Cultural Production
Literature, Education and the Colonial
Worldview
Tuesday 9/21 Loomba 57-75
Thursday 9/23 Loomba 75-103
Film at 7 in Hoover
100 — Othello
Week 4 Results of Colonial
Contact
Interpretation and Knowledge —
What is a fact? What is history? What is the relationship
between history and identity?
Tuesday 9/28 Obeyesekere, pp. 3-22
Thursday 9/30 Obeyesekere, pp.
23-48
Week 5 Colonialism and the Politics
of Academic Debate
Tuesday 10/5 Obeyesekere, pp. 49-73
Thursday 10/7 Sahlins, preface
and pp. 17-33
Week 6
Book Review Presentations begin
— Book reviews are due on the date of your presentation
Tuesday 10/12 Presentations
5 presentations
Thursday 10/14 Sahlins, pp. 33-84
Film in Hoover
100 Hawaii’s Last Queen
Week 7
Book Review Presentations —
Book reviews are due on the date of your presentation
Tuesday 10/19
5 presentations
Thursday 10/21 Obeyesekere, pp.
74-101
Week 8
Book Review Presentations —
Book reviews are due on the date of your presentation
Tuesday 10/26
5 presentations
Thursday 10/28 Obeyesekere, pp.
102-120
Week 9
Book Review Presentations —
Book reviews are due on the date of your presentation
Tuesday 11/2
5 presentations
Thursday 11/4 Obeyeskere, pp. 154-176
Week 10
Book Review Presentations —
Book reviews are due on the date of your presentation
Tuesday 11/9
5 presentations
Thursday 11/11 León-Portilla, pp.
1-25
Film in Hoover
100 The Mission
Week 11
Resistance, Identity, “Going
Native”
Tuesday 11/16 Loomba pp. 104-133
Thursday 11/18
No class
Week 12 No Class — read!
Tuesday 11/23 No class
Thursday 11/15 no class Thanksgiving
Week 13 — Religion and Resistance
Tuesday 11/30 León-Portilla, pp.
71-131
Thurs 12/2 León-Portilla, pp. 225-274
Film in Hoover
100 Romero
Week 14 — General Conclusions
Tuesday 12/7 Loomba, pp. 173-183;
244-258
Thursday 12/9 General course reflections
end of semester business
Final paper due by 5pm Wednesday
December 15, 2004