HONR 481 L02

AT THE HEART OF TIME

SPRING 2023

TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE

2-2 Practical Matters/Overview (OI & SL)--Being in Time. Time and Language. What time is real and what time is lived? 

 2-9 Philosophical Theories of Time (SL) (Bardon--pgs. 1-27) 

 2-16 Time, Music, and Human Experience (OI) (Nietzsche Gay Science, Aphorism 341 handout, experiential assignment) Beginnings, present time. Structures of time in performance art. Time in Polychrome. 

 2-23 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 1--P1 (Bardon--pgs. 28-49) ( M.Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being chapter 1 handout, music listening and observation assignment) -Time and Transcendence. Introducing Zeitgeist. Time and cultural difference 

 3-2 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 2--P2 (Bardon--pgs. 50-78) (Kundera, The Joke, chapter 8 excerpt handout, music assignment) --Punctures and continuity. Passage of time. The Beat in the Heart of Time. "Living in a Pause" REFLECTION #1 

 3-9 GUEST SPEAKER 

 3-16 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 3--P4 (Bardon--pgs. 112-137) (R. Tallis essay On Waiting, observation/listening assignment) --Wondering in time. Killing time and Finding time. Deficit and excess. 

 3-23 SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS! 

3-30 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 4--P5 (Bardon--pgs. 138-152) Time and Meaning ( V. Frankl's The Case for Tragic Optimism, listening/film assignment). Time organized and time improvised. "On Quality Time" REFLECTION #2 

 4-6 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 5--P6 (Bardon--pgs. 153-172, OI led workshop in preparation for Zeitgeist presentations--The fabric of modern time. 

 4-13 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 6- Time, Change and Modernity (discussion around D.F. Wallace's This is Water) 

 4-20 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 7-Time in-person and Time on-line 

 4-27 Final Presentations (5 x 20 minutes each). 

 5-4 Final Presentations (5 x 20 minutes each) 

 5-11 LAST CLASS DAY!! Final Presentations (6 x 20 minutes each)