EL1202 – 國立中央大學英美語文學系 Department of English at NCU

開課單位	英美語文學系		課　號	EL1202
授課教師	英文系教師		學分數	3
課程名稱(中文)	文學、歷史與哲思
課程名稱(英文)	Literature, History and Philosophy
上課時間
課程基本資料	□必修　　■選修	□全學年　　■半學年
特殊條件	英語授課 ■是(□全英語■部份英語) □否	接受社會人士修課 □是 ■否		接受校際學生修課 □是 ■否
分發條件 (授課對象限制條件說明、先修及擋修課程、人數限制…等)	英文系一年級優先，其他年級次之。人數限制50人。
密碼卡	□不使用 ■部份使用(條件外加選用) □全部使用(加、退選皆須使用)
辦公時間
課程目標：Course objectives: Literature, History and Philosophy seeks to provide students with conceptual tools and critical thinking skills for examining questions, methodological puzzles, and views around the transformative experience generated by three modes of inquiry: (i) Fiction; (ii) History, and (iii) Philosophy. To do so, Anglophone projects examining the nature of fictional, historical, and philosophical texts; how these texts are interconnected narratives of social relations; as well as what it is like to experience them will be analyzed and exemplified.
授課內容：Course structure: The following provides division of sessions. INTRODUCTION: What is the problem around the nature of the humanities and their experiential character? Week 1—Syllabus reading / Motivation of course questions and course main themes. Week 2—Reflecting on the value of the humanities and their transformative experiences. Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. Chapter II “Education for Profit, Education for Democracy”; Chapter IV “Socratic Pedogagy: The Importance of Argument”; Chapter VI “Cultiviating Imagination: Literature and the Arts.” SECTION 1: What makes a literary text? Week 3—Literature and the transformation, intensification and deformation of language and speech. Lewis Carroll, excerpts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Week 4—Literature and comprehending our cognitive life. Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Chapter 2 “What Is Literature and Does it Matter?”; Chapter 6 “Narrative” Week 5—Cheah, excerpts from What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature Week 6— Kentridge, “Refusal of Time” (South African art installation) and Roy, excerpts from The God of Small Things SECTION 2: What does history consist of? What does it mean to know, represent, and explain the “past”? Week 7—How can we access the “past”? The role of concepts in our experience of the world. Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History. Chapter 7 “Concepts of Historical Time and Social History” Week 8—Ways of conceptualizing history: Puzzles around knowing, representing, and explaining the “past.” Butler, excerpts from Kindred Week 9—Preparation for Mid-term Presentations & Review (=Reassessing main course questions). Week 10—Midterm Presentations: Active listening (=students are asked to prepare clarificatory questions to all presentations) & Open discussions (=students reassess presentations’ main reasoning). Week 11—Midterm Presentations: Active listening & Open discussions. SECTION 3: What is the feasibility of philosophy? Week 12—The interdisciplinary role of philosophy Haslanger, “Methods of Social Critique” Week 13—The role of philosophy and the public(s). Long, “Practicing Public Scholarship” Week 14—Comments on Final Exam and Final Grades Week 15—Final Exam Week 16—Comments on Final Exam and Final Grades Week 17—Arranged Individual Meetings Week 18—Arranged Individual Meetings
教科書/參考書：Reference book: INTRODUCTION: What is the problem around the nature of the humanities and their experiential character? Feyerabend, Paul, 2010 [1975], *Against Method, Verso. Kant, Immanuel, 2007 [1764-1803], Anthropology, History, and Education, Robert B. Louden (Ed. & Trans), Cambridge University Press. Leezenberg, Michiel & Gerard de Vries, 2019, History and Philosophy of the Humanities. An Introduction, Amsterdam University Press. Nussbaum, Martha C., 2016, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Princeton University. Olafson, Frederick A., 1968, “Philosophy and the Humanities”, The Monist* 52(1). Paul, L.A., 2016, *Transformative Experience, Oxford University Press. Small, Helen, 2016, The Value of the Humanities, Oxford University Press. Warren, Kathryn Hamilton, 2018, “Self-Culture and the Private Value of the Humanities,”* College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 45(4). SECTION 1: What makes a literary text? Carroll, Lewis, 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan. Cheah, Pheng, 2016, What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature, Durham: Duke University Press. Culler, Jonathan, 2011 [1997], Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Kroon, Fred, 2013, “The Social Character of Fictional Entities,” In C. Barbero, M. Ferraris, A. Voltolini (eds.) From Fictionalism to Realism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Kroon, Fred & Alberto Voltolini, 2019, “Fiction,” In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. John, Eileen & Dominic McIver Lopes, 2004, The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. An Anthology, Wiley-Blackwell. Nussbaum, Martha C., 1992, Love’s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature, Oxford University Press. Roy, Arundhati, 2008, The God of Small Things, New York: Random House Trade. Thomasson, Amie L., 1999, Fiction and Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press. Walton, Kendall, 2008, Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts, Oxford University Press. SECTION 2: What does history consist of? What does it mean to know, represent, and explain the “past”? Butler, Octavia, 2003 [1979], Kindred, Boston: Beacon Press. Hacking, Ian, 2002, Historical Ontology, Harvard University Press. Koselleck, Reinhart, 2002, The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Stanford University Press. Little, Daniel, 2010, New Contributions to the Philosophy of History, Springer Science. Tucker, Aviezer (ed.), 2009, A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley-Blackwell. Whatmore, Richard & Brian Young (eds.), 2016, A Companion to Intellectual History, Wiley-Blackwell. White, Hayden V., 1973, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Johns Hopkins University Press. SECTION 3: What is the feasibility of philosophy? D’Oro, Giuseppina & Søren Overgaard, 2017, The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, Cambridge University Press. Haslanger, Sally, 2021, “Methods of Social Critique,” In Anne Siegetsleitner, Andreas Oberprantacher, Marie-Luisa Frick and Ulrick Metschl (eds.) Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events: Proceedings of the 42^nd International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter, 139-156. Knobe, Joshua & Shaun Nichols, 2017, “Experimental Philosophy” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Long, Christopher, 2018,“Practicing Public Scholarship,” Public Philosophy Journal 1, no.1, https://pubhub.lib.msu.edu/projects/project-collection/public_philosophy_journal Plato, 4th BCE/2002, Five Dialogues, Trans. G.M.A. Grube, Revision J.M. Cooper, Hackett. Williamson, Timothy, 2007, The Philosophy of Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing. Sytsma, Justin & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), 2016, A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley Blackwell. *Required/optional material could be modified in order to comply with course discussions.
授課方式：　■講授　■研討（分組討論）　□實習/實驗　□個別指導　□其他
評量配分比重： Work for the course: 1. Course attendance & weekly discussions: 35% Students are expected (i) to attend weekly—the student will automatically fail the course with more than two absences. And, (ii) to engage and participate actively in each weekly discussion which will involve a close reading of a text and/or an analysis of audiovisual material. Please examine references with a curious and patient attitude based on assigned weekly questions/directions. 2. Collective midterm presentation: 30% Students are expected to prepare and give a midterm collective presentation. Midterm presentations will involve an exemplification of weekly references corresponding to the first half of the semester. The instructor will provide a list of specific topics and features of presentations two weeks before the deadline. 3. Final exam: 35% Students are expected to solve a written exam based on themes and questions addressed in the second half of the semester. The instructor will provide a list of open questions and relevant points two weeks before the deadline from which the student can select to solve the exam. Weekly attendance, active participation and careful analysis of references are all necessary to get ready for the mid-term presentation and final exam.
課程所屬學制：　■學士班　　□碩士班　　□博士班　　□碩博同修
課程領域：□語言訓練 □語言學與英語教學 ■文學 ■文化研究
跨系課程領域：(不需填寫)

本課程培養學生具備核心能力之強度指數：

強度指數系所核心能力	1 非常低	2 低	3 普通	4 高	5 非常高	評量方式
英文閱讀解析與寫作論述 English critical reading and analytical writing					V	■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ■作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
英語溝通與文化跨越 English oral communication and cultural crossing					V	■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ■作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
審美欣賞與多元創意 aesthetic appreciation and creative diversity				V		■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ■作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
人文思維與社會關懷 humanities visions and social intervention					V	■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ■作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
組織能力與人際合作 organizational ability and team work					V	□紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ■作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)