Humanities 5: Modern Culture
Spring 2024
Required Texts
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Harper)
Albert Camus, The Plague, trans Marris (Vintage)
Victoria Chang, TBD
James Baldwin, A Fire Next Time (Vintage)
Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind (Milkweed)
3/29 Intro (Ada Limón, “The Endlessness”)
3/31 Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
4/5 Huxley
4/7 Huxley
4/12 Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa”
4/14 Albert Camus, The Plague
4/19 Camus
4/21 Camus
4/25 Camus
4/27 Paul Farmer, Bending the Arc (film) & “Health, Healing, & Social Justice”
5/3 Victoria Chang, TBD
5/5 Chang
5/10 James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
5/12 Baldwin
5/17 Baldwin
5/19 TBD
5/24 Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind
5/26 Limón
5/31 Limón
6/2 Conclusion (Limón, “The Endlessness”)