Meetings 1-2 (09/09 and 16): Introduction. 

Meetings 3-9 (09/23, 30, 10/28, 11/04, 11, 18, and 25; No classes on 10/14 and 10/21):Selections of the “Four Books” (The Analects, TheMencius, Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean).

Meetings 10-12 (12/02, 09, and 16):The Han Fei Tzu (read Sections 5-8, 49, and 50 in H). 

Notes on essays: tentatively, the due dates of the four essays are set as follows: Meeting 5 (10/28), Meeting 8 (11/18), Meeting 10 (12/02), and 12/24/2014.  They may be adjusted according to the progress of this class.  Please email me or Mr. Pino your last essay (Word document) to the email addressed offered, and please contact us again if you don’t receive an acknowledgement of reception in 2 days.  Please keep all of the first three of your essays, and staple them together and give them back to me in the last meeting of this class (12/16).