HONR 481 L02
AT THE HEART OF TIME
SPRING 2023
DISCUSSION LEADING
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
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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
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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.
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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
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4-6 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 5--P6 (Bardon--pgs. 153-172, OI led workshop in preparation for Zeitgeist presentations--The fabric of modern time.
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4-13 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 6-- Time, Change and Modernity (discussion around D.F.
Wallace's This is Water)
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4-20 STUDENT-LED TOPIC 7-Time in-person and Time on-line
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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)