Matters of Life and Death weekly schedule (week 7)

Matters of Life and Death
weekly schedule.

Week 7 (Oct. 4-8)

Playing chess with Death: The quest for meaning in The Seventh Seal.
To be discussed: How do humans respond to the chaos of life? How do humans respond to the advances of Death? Does religious faith end the quest for meaning?

Viewing Assignment: The Seventh Seal (due Oct. 4)

Reading Assignment: Kübler-Ross, “On the Fear of Death”, pp. 15-23 (CR).
“Attitudes Toward Death and Dying”, pp. 25-49 (CR) (due by class time Wed. Oct. 6)

Assignment:

Analytic essay on Schopenhauer (due Mon., Oct. 4 by 11:59 PM)

Response essay on Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe (due Mon., Oct. 4 by 11:59 PM)

Activity: Find out about the Peer Mentor Center. (Oct. 6; class will meet in the usual place.)

Skills & Information:

How to get help from Peer Mentors.
How to “read” a film.

Assignments for week 8:

Formulate a question (or set of questions) you hope to answer in your research; develop a list of keywords for your literature search.

Complete the online SJSU Plagiarism Tutorial (http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/plagiarism/index.htm)

Analytic essay on Kübler-Ross (due Mon., Oct. 11 by 11:59 PM)

Analytic essay on The Seventh Seal (due Mon., Oct. 11 by 11:59 PM)

Response essay on Schopenhauer (due Mon., Oct. 11 by 11:59 PM)