You are asked to read Chapter One: Goethe's Faust: The Tragedy of Development, at least as much of it as you can manage, or enough to get to grips with the story. Of course we are not reading Faust in the original, which is a long poem, but through Berman's eyes, and now yours. It will be interesting to see what you bring to the interpretation of this classic tale, with all likelihood that you have not encountered it before.
The story starts in a Gothic world, and ends in industrial one, the moral may be that in order to make an omelet you have have to break eggs, but it is more sophisticated than that (and note that in the end Faust is blind to 'care'). A particularly good example of the tragedy of development in architectural terms would be Baron Haussmann's Paris, which I'm sure we shall discuss.
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