Class Meeting

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11-12:15, beginning on January 29 through May 7
Meet always at the 2 Lower Lake, sometimes at the Japan's Club on Thursdays, which is located on the third floor above the Firsty Mind in the Village Commons.

Requirements/Grading

Class Attendance and class discussion based on assigned readings is worth 40% of your final grade (For this purpose, attendance sheet is passed every class for you to sign.) If it is not legible, you will be considered absent. Any comment you have about yourself or the class in general please provide on the right side of your signature.Please write a paper about what you have learned in the first half of the course, about 5 pages. Indicate what you think is important to you having read the Confusionism texts and seen movies. Due on March 14 and will be worth 25%. .The second and final paper is due on May 10th for the seniors and May 17th for the rest of the class and it will be worth 35% of your grade. The topic of the second paper is : "Taoism and my religion." Please describe briefly the teachings of Lao-Tsu and Chuan-Tzu and describe how your world view has or has not changed by their thinking.

Required Tests

Confucius, The Analects, tr. By D.C. Lau, Penguins BooksMencius,, tr.

By D.C.Lau, Penguins Books

Lau Tzu, , tr. by Wing-Tsit Chan, Macmillan Library of Liberal Arts

Chuang Tzu, tr. By Burton Watson, ColumbiaFung, Yu-Lan A History of

Chinese PhilosophyGraham, A.C. Disputers of the Tao