|
Class |
Date |
Lectures |
Era / Assignments |
Source
readings |
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1 |
8/28 |
INTRODUCTION
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2 |
8/31 |
The historicity of childhood
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ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL
|
Bible
1
and
Bible 2
|
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3 |
9/4 |
Household systems |
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Homer,
Iliad
Euripides,
Trojan Women, Medea |
|
4 |
9/7 |
Child sacrifice
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Plutarch,
The Training of Children
Quintilian,
Rudiments of Rhetoric
Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women
BB |
|
5 |
9/11 |
Childbirth |
In-class writing sample |
Augustine
Confessions, books 1 & 2 |
|
6 |
9/18 |
Wetnursing |
|
Dhuoda, Manual for William
BB |
|
7 |
9/25 |
Infant
mortality, exposure, abandonment |
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Guibert de Nogent,
Autobiography (book I, chapters 1-7) |
|
8 |
9/28 |
Infanticide, abortion, abuse
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RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM
|
Vergerio,
On Liberal Instruction
Barbaro,
On Marriage
BB
|
|
9 |
10/2 |
Legitimacy and illegitimacy
|
Essay 1
|
Erasmus, Education of Children BB
Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman
BB |
|
10 |
10/5 |
Boys and girls |
EARLY MODERN
|
Rösslin, Rosengarten
BB
|
|
11 |
10/9 |
Blended families
|
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Lazarillo de Tormes
(books 1-3) |
|
12 |
10/12 |
Language learning |
|
Montaigne,
Education of Children
BB |
|
13 |
10/16 |
Toys, dolls, and clothing
|
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Joscelin, Mother's Legacie
BB
Jonson,
On My First Son
Behn,
Epitaph |
|
14 |
10/19 |
Representations of children |
Quiz 1 |
Bradstreet,
In Reference to her Children
Wesley, On Educating my Family
BB
Wollstonecraft, Education of Daughters
BB |
| 15 |
10/23 |
Witchcraft and cannibalism |
|
Franklin,
Autobiography
(part I, pp. 1-14) |
| 16 |
10/26 |
Sainthood and conversion |
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Rousseau,
Confessions
(book 1) |
| 17 |
10/30 |
The age of reason |
|
Rousseau, Emile
(pars. 10-182)
|
| 18 |
11/2 |
Childhood innocence |
19TH CENTURY |
Wordsworth, Ode: IntImations of
Immortality |
| 19 |
11/6 |
Mourning the dead |
|
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography (chapter 1) |
| 20 |
11/9 |
Priceless children |
|
Education of
Henry Adams (chapter 1)
|
| 21 |
11/13 |
Children and work |
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Carnegie,
Autobiography
(chapters 1-2) |
| 22 |
11/16 |
Apprenticeship and servitude |
Essay 2 |
Douglass, Narrative of the Life (chapters 1-5)
Jacobs, Life of a Slave Girl (chapters 1-2) |
| 23 |
11/21 |
Children at school |
|
Dickens, Oliver Twist (chapters 1-4)
Popp, Autobiography BB |
| 24 |
11/27 |
University students |
|
Riis,
How the Other Half Lives
(chapters 15-17) |
| 25 |
11/30 |
Adolescence and youth |
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Aleramo, A Woman (chapters 21-22) BB
Mandelstam, Noise of Time (chapters 1-5) BB |
| 26 |
12/4 |
Childrearing advice |
MODERN TIMES |
Ellen Key, The Century of the Child
(chapter 1, pp. 1-5, 39-45, 50-62)
BB; complete
text from
Google books
Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
|
| 27 |
12/7 |
The outlook for children |
|
Gandhi,
Autobiography
(chapters 1-3)
Zhu, Xiao Di,
Thirty Years in a Red House
(CUNY ebook)
(chapters 1-3) |
| 28 |
12/11 |
A look back |
Quiz 2 |
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12/14 |
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FINAL EXAM |
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