Course Materials

• Course Syllabus PDF version
  
• Schedule of Readings, Exams, and Papers
• Course Reader
• Exam Topics A - in class Jan 28
  
• Exam Topics B - in class Feb 25
  
• Paper Topics I - due Jan 21 in class
  
• Paper Topics II - due Feb 18 in class
  
• Final Paper Topics - due March 11 in class
  
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• Summary Instructions
• Presentation Guidelines

Reading Notes and Key Terms

The Storied Self-Georgetown

• Reading Notes - Zhuangzi and Shinran
• Key Terms - Shinran's Pure Land Buddhism
• Viewing Notes - Jacob's Ladder
• Article & Chapter Summaries from 2007
• Article & Chapter Summaries from REL 253
  

From the Learning Page

• Extroverted Learners
• Introverted Learners

From the Writing Page

• Four Keys to Writing in the Humanities - required reading
• Four Stages of Writing - required reading
• Paper Writing Guidelines - mostly for final paper but also very useful for short papers
• Bridging Consciousness and Unconsciousness
• Clauses and Commas - required reading
  
• For endnote/footnote formats, see Writing Sample
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External Links

• Michel Foucalt
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Foucault overview
  • Works and Excepts from Foucault at Foucualt.info
• Sigmund Freud - Oedipus Complex and the Primal Horde from Totem and Taboo
• Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder in the larger scope of psychopathology
• Zhuangzi
  • The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) by Burton Watson
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Zhuangzi - excellent overview
  • Prof. Chad Hansen's Zhuangzi site - outlines key issues
• Ten Oxherding Pictures -
  • Kuoan, China, Twelfth Century
  • Another rendering of the Kuoan Oxherding Pictures
• Etty Hillesum blog
• For the Biblical references as well as for the film of Jacob's Ladder, see Wikipedia.

-Zhuangzi

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