Reading Assignments
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| April 30 |
Read Chapters 11-12 of Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, i.e., all the way to the end of the book. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| April 23 |
Read Chapters 8-10 of Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, i.e., up through p. 172. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| April 16 |
Read Chapters 4-7 of Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, i.e., up through p. 135. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| April 9 |
Read the front matter and Chapters 1-3 of Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, i.e., up through p. 75. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| April 2 |
Still no new reading assignment. We’ll be starting Huizinga next week. We’ll be continuing to discuss Schiller this week while you’re putting together your second essay. The assignment for that essay is now available, along with a formulation of the grading criterial I’ll be using when I grade it, in the Essays folder on Blackboard. |
| March 26 |
No new reading assignment. We’re still working on Schiller. Your essay on Schiller will be due on April 6. Details of the assignment should be available by Wednesday. |
| March 12 |
No new reading assignment. Continue reviewing the Schiller. |
| March 5 |
Have the whole of Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man read by today. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 26 |
No new reading assignment for today, but see the assignment for next Monday. You’ll want to get started on the Letters as soon as you can. It’s not a very long book, but parts of it are rather dense. |
| February 19 |
No new reading assignment. The deadline for your first essay has been pushed back to February 23, and for right now, you should be working on that essay. Here’s a .pdf file containing an edited version of David Sirlin’s “Playing to Win” that should be easier for you to cite than the online version if you refer in your essay to anything contained in that series of articles. We’ll start reading Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man pretty soon. |
| February 14 |
Read Chapter 4 of QED. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 12 |
Read Chapter 3 of QED. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 9 |
Read the five articles by David Sirlin on “Playing to Win.” There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 5 |
Read Chapter 2 of QED. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| January 29 |
Read the front matter—except for the Introduction to the 2006 edition by A. Zee (which you should not read)—and Chapter 1 of QED. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| January 26 |
Review Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! There’ll be an online quiz on Part 5. |
| January 24 |
Review Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! There’ll be an online quiz on Part 4. |
| January 22 |
Read Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! There’ll be an online quiz on Parts 1-3. |
| January 19 |
Read the transcript of Christopher Sykes’s documentary interview with Richard Feynman, “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” (available in the Texts folder on Blackboard). If you’d like to see the interview in addition to reading the transcript and you have a high-speed Internet connection, then here it is on Google Video. There’ll be an online quiz that you can take any time between noon on the 18th and 10:00 a.m. on the 19th. |
