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Please buy only one set of these
books:
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Set A of Textbooks to Buy
(1) Lamm, The Humanities, Vol. I
(thick book);
AND ALSO BUY
(2)
Fiero, The Humanistic
Tradition, latest ed.,
Book 3*
(slender book)
(1) This is the set of books that most of you probably will want to buy.
The Lamm book is the main one for the first ten to twelve weeks; it is
an easy-to-read, enjoyable textbook that most students like. (A
copy of Lamm will be in the library on 2-4 hr. reserve under my name at
the front desk for those who want to read it occasionally.) (You
may buy an older, used edition of Lamm: generally there's very little
difference in chapters between old and new editions of Lamm, but get one
published sometime in the last seven or eight years.)
(2) The second book, the Fiero, is only a final supplement for just the
last few weeks. (Please note that the Fiero book in this column is
thin and is called "Book 3"!) I will have copies
of both books on reserve in the library.
(You may buy the new 6th ed. of Fiero or, if you prefer a used copy, the
older 4th or 5th editions of Fiero.)
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Set B of Textbooks to Buy
Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, latest
ed., Vol. I*
(thick book--Just buy this one book, not two books.)
This is an alternative to the Lamm book. It is a different book than
the Fiero book described on the left. This Fiero book, here, is much
thicker and is called "Volume I." You can see it in
the library or ask the bookstore to bring it out from the back and show it
to you. It is slightly more difficult than the Lamm to read, more
intellectual, and slanted slightly differently than the Lamm, but some
students prefer it.
I generally just order five copies of this one in the bookstore. (If
you buy/order this book, you will not need the shorter Fiero, "Book
3.") (A copy of Fiero will be in the library on 2-4 hr. reserve
under my name at the front desk for those who want to read it
occasionally.)
(You may buy the new 6th ed. of Fiero or, if you prefer a
used copy, the older 4th or 5th editions of Fiero.)
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*Please
note: the new Fiero book in the IHCC Bookstore is the 6th edition.
If you happen to buy or receive the 5th or 4th edition as a used book, there
are some differences in the chapter numbers. However, the weekly
assignments in the "Schedule" show the correct chapters for both editions.
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(4) Optional:
a grammar handbook, if you don't have one. Either buy one at the Inver
Hills bookstore, or access and use the online grammar handbook that I have
developed: just click on "Grammar Handbook" in the buttons above.
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(5) Optional:
Jewell, Writing for School and
Work, an online composition textbook: just click on its name here.
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(6)
Optional: I will try to make sure that the Lamm and Fiero textbooks also
are on reserve in the library. If you look for them and they are
not available on reserve checkout, please remind me to place them there.
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ONLINE LINKS/RESOURCES:
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Required--Email:
(1) Please activate your IHCC student account and check for email from the
school weekly. (2) For our own class email, you may give me a personal
email-account address, instead (e.g.,
xxx@yahoo.com). It's up to you. If you do, be sure to check
it and your IHCC student account at least once a week. (3)
Whichever email address you decide to give me, be sure to tell me about it
(on the class email list or by a separate email from you to me).
Again, check your one or two email accounts weekly.
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Required--Experiencing
the Humanities: This is one of our main textbooks. It is
required. It also is fully online (and only online--you cannot
buy it or find it in the bookstore or library). It is arranged
by humanities subjects (e.g., "History," "Philosophy," "Art," etc.).
You'll be reading one or two chapters per week. ( One of the reasons I
have placed it on the Web is so that you can save money. Similar
textbooks can cost $20-40, but this textbook is free.)
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Required--http://CollegeWriting.info:
This is a fully-online, complete composition textbook you'll need for
completing the final term paper. It is a textbook I have written and
placed on the Web. (One of the reasons I have placed it on the Web is
so that you can save money. Similar textbooks can cost $30-80, but
this textbook is free.)
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Required--Online
Bulletin Boards: Click here or access them on the home page by
clicking on the "Bull. Boards" box.
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Very Helpful--Please activate your free
school email address by completing the four steps at
http://www.inverhills.edu/accounts/. Then
check the address (___@metnet.edu) at least once per week for messages
from school.
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Very Helpful--"Links
to the Humanities": a collection of hundreds of links leading to
thousands more, all on humanities subjects. These links may help you find
materials for your assigned "Practice Activities" and resources for your
final project.
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Very Helpful for Final Project:
NoodleTools
Online Bibliography Maker, an
automated Web bibliography-entry maker.
I have a subscription to use it in my classes.
It is free for you to use. You simply type in the author's names,
titles, publisher, etc., and it will create a perfect bibliography entry (in
MLA or APA) for you. Correct bibliography entries will be required in
your final papers. Just click here on
NoodleTools to start.
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Helpful--Online
Grammar Handbook, an alternative grammar handbook that lists grammar
links. This may be useful to you as you write your final term
paper. You also can find a link to this grammar handbook in
CollegeWriting.info. (Other online grammar books with actual
lessons in them that you may want to try include
Elements of Style by Strunk,
Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization
by Mary McCaskill (NASA), and the
Purdue University Writing Center grammar guides.)
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Helpful--"Find
in a Library": You can go to
Google or Yahoo to find your choice of books in a library. Follow
these simple steps:
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Go to
www.Google.com or www.Yahoo.com.
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Use its search engine as normal, except
start with "find in a library." For example, if you were trying to
find Shakepeare's Hamlet this way, you would type into the search
engine box
find in a library hamlet shakespeare
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Then when the book name comes up, click on
"Find a Library."
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And then, in the new window, add your zip
code. You'll get a list of libraries having your book (including the
Inver Hills Community College Library). More details are available
at
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/about.htm.
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OTHER RESOURCES FOR EXTRA
CREDIT & FOR PRACTICE
PAPERS:
BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY:
The Library has some great books on Humanities subjects, both for checking out
and in the references section near the front, with other references such as
dictionaries and encyclopedias. Here is a beginning list:
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A Day in a Medieval City by Chiara
Frugoni, 177 pp. with additional notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Richly illustrated with many color pictures and art reproductions.
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Atlas of the Medieval World by Rosamond McKitterick, 287 pp. plus a
glossary, bibliography, and index. A large, coffee-table book with
many beautiful color illustrations and an easy-to-use table of contents
showing clear subject titles for over 70 different subjects, each described
in just a few pages.
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Early Medieval Designs from Britain for
Artists and Craftspeople by Eva Wilson. 407 illustrations.
This is an arts/crafts book filled with different designs you can copy and
use for a Practice Activity that is an art or craft project.
I also have placed a good handful of my own books on 2-4 hr. reserve at the
front desk: just go to the front desk and ask to see the books on reserve for
"Jewell, Humanities 1110." Here is a list of what I have placed there:
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The two main textbooks--Lamm and Fiero (the
larger one) if you want to change to a different textbook in some weeks.
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Egyptian Book of the Dead,
a well and colorfully illustrated coffee-table book (hardbound, larger
size).
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Encyclopedia of Mythology,
a large, thick coffee-table book with many beautiful color illustrations.
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Gilgamesh,
a new, easy-to-understand, flowing translation of the world's oldest written
epic.
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Love in the Ancient World,
a well and colorfully illustrated coffee-table book (hardbound, larger
size).
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology,
a more compact large paperbound book.
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Women's Life in Greece and Rome,
with lots of explanations and excerpts from ancient manuscripts (no ill.)
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GAMES:
(1) Board Game--Make Up Your Own: You may
purchase the board game called "Make a Game" by game publisher Winning Moves
Games. Then, following the generic directions, make up a board game
directly related to the time periods and subject matter of this course having to
do with Western (not Eastern) civilization. You can look at a copy of the
pieces of the game and then purchase new or used copies of it for as little as
$12 from www.Amazon.com. Type in the
name "Make a Game" and "Winning Moves." If you have any questions about
this game, ask me, as I have a copy.
(2) Video Game: You may purchase and play
the video game "Civilization IV" using, as much as possible, the time periods
and geographic areas (Western Civilization, not Eastern) of this course. A
Dec. 17, 2005 review on p. E8 of the Star Tribune calls the game "the
best...to be released on the PC this year. Period." It is available
for as low as $30.00 used at www.Amazon.com.
Type in the name "Civilization IV" and "2K Games." I don't have a copy of
this and have not played it, but I have seen a much older board-game version of
it. Here are more details about this game.
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STATS:
**** out of 4 stars. Publisher: 2K Games
System: PC. Price: $49.99. Rating: Everyone 10+; violence
REVIEW:
"You choose a political leader of any country
and begin a takeover of the world that spans Earth's history.... The
enjoyment comes from picking non-military leaders such as Gandhi and trying to
create utopia through culture rather than raw military might. What makes
"Civilization IV" so remarkable is how intuitive its game play is. All
of the aspects feel natural, politically and culturally. The system of
declaring war on other countries vs. the system of brokering peace treaties
and trade policies is superb, giving gamers loads of options on how to build a
country's might. Improved 3-D graphics and a well balanced historical
narrative compel you to play for hours. If there is a drawback, it's
that beginners will probably feel overwhelmed by the game and might be scared
away when success isn't achieved right away. But there's so much depth
to the game that you'll just have to trust that it's worth your time.
Don't hesitate, PC owners; make the move and become engrossed in this game.
It will have you playing until the sun rises." --Chris Campbell
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MOVIES, TV BIOS, HISTORICAL DVDs/TV FILMS, ET AL.:
Shakespeare: Any play by Shakespeare turned
into a movie. Google "shakespeare movies" or "shakespeare dvd." If
you're relatively inexperienced with Shakespeare, some very popular and well
done basic Shakespeare movies are Franco Zeferelli's Romeo and Juliet
(tragedy, love story) with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, and Hamlet
(tragedy) with Mel Gibson. Others include Much Ado about Nothing
with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (comedy),
Greek plays: Any play by Greek playwrights
Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes or other Greek playwrights is good.
Two not-bad movies with which to start are the Italian 1960s version of
Sophocles' Oedipus the King directed by Pasolini, and perhaps
almost any version of Aristophanes' sex-vs.-war comedy Lysistrata.
Historical documentaries: Channels
such as the History Channel on TV have a number of historical documentaries that
are worth watching and sometimes quite interesting. Some of these also
appear in the "documentaries" section of video stores.
Historical Dramas, Movies, DVDs: Any
fictionalized account that with reasonable accuracy reflects the times is
acceptable, as long as the time period and place it reflects is from ancient
through renaissance times in Europe, the Near East, and North Coastal Africa
(the areas of the "Western" humanities). For example,
Agony and Ecstasy, **-***. Charleton Heston, 1965.
Fictionalized biography of great Italian renaissance artist and designer
Michelangelo.
Alexander, **-***. Fictionalized biography of Alexander the
Great, pupil of Aristotle and one of the greatest generals and conquerers ever,
who spread Greek culture and civilization from Egypt and Rome to the borders of
India.
Two fictionalized biographies exist, both good but not great. One stars
Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie (3:30 in length); the other is a shorter History Channel movie.
Ben Hur. Charleton Heston. ***-****. Older movie
similar in some ways to Gladiator and Spartacus.
Braveheart. Fictionalized biography, ***. Mel Gibson.
About the famous 13th-cent. Scottish rebel who fought England almost to a
standstill.
Gladiator. Fiction, ***-****. Russell Crow, Joaquin
Phoenix. Good yarn about a general sold into slavery who becomes a gladiator
and beats the vile emperor. (See also Spartacus.)
The Robe.
Fiction, ***-****. Richard Burton, 1953. An historical drama that follows Jesus'
red robe through a Roman, a Christian, and a Greek slave.
Shakespeare in Love.
Fiction, ***. Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow. Atmospheric and
charming fantasy about the making of
Romeo and Juliet.
Spartacus, Fiction, 1960, 210 min.,
****. Kirk Douglas & Sir Lawrence Olivier. About a slave/gladiator
who leads a rebellion in Rome--sort of an early version and slightly different
story as Gladiator.
FROM ANOTHER, RELATED COURSE:
Here are some
books and movies from another class I teach, mythic literature (Eng 2235), that
may be helpful to you for your final term paper, possibly, or perhaps for
make-up or extra credit:
click here.
If you choose to use these, please remember that you must pick
only those resources that stay within our time period--ancient
civilization through the renaissance (i.e., not after 1500 A.D.)--and our
geographical area--Western civilization, which means the Middle East,
northern Africa, and Europe (no East or Southeast Asia or the Americas).
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