June 6 2025
Next to last core requirement done! We took the mid-term last Thursday and the final exam today! And the class is finished! A 14 day whirl wind of The Modern World. Wild times! I really loved learning about, and brushing up on, this time period. It’s absolutely mind blowing. Here’s the material we covered after the mid-term:
Industrial Revolution
Sarah Stickney Ellis from
The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
(1839)
Friedrich Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England
(1844)
Charles Darwin
Excerpt from On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
(1859)
Manifesto of the Communist Party
by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
February 1848
World War I and Interwar Period
Dulce et Decorum Est
BY Wilfred Owen
1921
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
(1919)
Milk Raj Anand
Across the Black Waters
1937
Mohandas K Gandhi
from Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
(1938)
Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
1933
World War II and Decolonization
Elie Wiesel
Night
1958
Aime Cesaire
Discourse on Colonialism
1955
Edward Said
Orientalism
Postwar Period: Cold War, Postmodernism, Neoliberalism
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jean-Francois Lyotard
T
he Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
1979
Jean Baudrillard
from The Precession of Simulacra
1981
Wendy Brown
Undoing the Demos:
Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution
2015
We also had to write a 5-7 page essay:
In this essay assignment, you will identify a key theme that strikes your interest from among those we studied over the term and argue its importance to the modern world by pointing out the thinking that makes such a theme possible.
My goal is to graduate Spring 2026 so I had to take a few summer classes. Fascinating to connect the dots to what is currently happening with this fucked up administration. Half the population needs to take this class.
