Samuel Bak's The Family (1974); oil on canvas.
HONORS 210
EVIL: An Interdisciplinary Approach
COURSE HOMEPAGE
Dr. Hannah Schell Monmouth College Spring 2010
Course meets Tues & Thurs 12:30-1:45 pm Weeks House Seminar Room
"In face of all this struggle and disintegration, confronted with a world that seems to have rejected the knowledge of its past errors, on an earth whose burning horizon illuminates an endless stream of refugees, these afflicted people gather in their huge Family portrait and look at us inquiringly, asking to be remembered."
- Samuel Bak , from Between Worlds: The Paintings of Samuel Bak from 1946-2000.
For more information on this artist see http://www.puckergallery.com/samuel_bak.html
- Course Syllabus
- Course Overview
- Schedule for Parts 1-3 (Weeks 1-8)
- Assignment for paper 1 on The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Assignment for paper 2 on the concept of sin
- Assignment for paper 3 on Larrimore selections
- Schedule for Seven Deadly Sins project (Week 5)
- Prompts for Short Reflection Papers
- Schedule for Cooper reading
- Update on Schedule for Cooper Reading (3/29)
- Final Project Details
- Assignment for paper 4 on Cooper text
Books for Spring 2010 course (in order of use):
1) Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
2) Mark Larrimore, ed. The Problem of Evil: A Reader. Blackwells, 2001.
3) Josef Pieper. The concept of sin. St. Augustine's Press, 2001.
4) Terry D. Cooper, Dimensions of Evil. Augsburg, 2007.
Course-related websites
PBS documentary on Apocalypses (website):
On the Seven Deadly Sins:
Modern treatments, including self-assessment quizzes!:
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/110/story_11007_1.html
A quiz to see where your foibles lay:
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/seven_deadly_sins.html