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Humanities
 
Course Schedule - Fall 2007
 

UNIT 1:  THE ANCIENT WORLD AND CLASSICAL GREECE

Week 1
Day 1: Introduction to the study of culture and the humanities. Read: Matthews & Platt xvii-xxxi
Day 2:The Earliest Civilizations: Mesopotamia.   Read: Matthews & Platt 1-12
Week 2
Day 1: The Earliest Civilizations: Egypt.  Read: Matthews & Platt 12-29
Day 2: Aegean Civilizations and Early Greece. Read:  Matthews & Platt 30-41

Week 3

Day 1: Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry. Matthews & Platt 41-45 . The Odyssey.  Read: Books 1-11
Day 2 : The Odyssey.  Read: Books 12-19
Week 4
Day 1:   The Odyssey.  Read: Books 20-24
Day 2: Greece: Classical Art and Architecture. Read:  Matthews & Platt 47-53; 71-85
Week 5
Day 1: Greece: Sophocles.  Read: Matthews & Platt 60-67 and Antigone
Day 2: Greek drama (cont.) Antigone
Week 6
Day 1: Examination #1
 
UNIT 2:  CLASSICAL ROME
Day 2: Greece: the Good Life and The Age of Pericles; Greek Philosophy. Read: Matthews & Platt 54-60, 67-71, Plato's Apology or "Allegory of the Cave."
Week 7
Day 1:  Greece: Hellenistic Period and Influence on Rome. Read: Matthews & Platt 86-107
Day 2: Introduction to Rome and Roman Thought: Matthews & Platt 108-123
Week 8
Day 1: Virgil, Aeneid; Books I, II, IV
Day 2: Conclude Aeneid Books VI, VIII, XII
 
Midterm Break October 15-19
 
Week 9
Day 1: Roman Art and Architecture, Matthews & Platt 123-143
Day 2:   Judaism and Christianity; Matthews & Platt 144-167, 177-183; Selections from the Old and New Testaments, Confessions of St. Augustine (specific readings assigned by instructor).
Week 10
Day 1: Byzantium and Islam; Matthews and Platt selections from Chaps. 7-8 assigned by instructor
Day 2:  Examination #2
 

UNIT 3:  THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Week 11
Day 1: Introduction to the Middle Ages; Selections in Matthews & Platt 226-244
Day 2: The Age of Synthesis and the Medieval Cathedral;  Matthews & Platt 244-261, 275-281
Week 12
Day 1: Medieval Literature--Marie de France "Lanval" and "Laüstic."
Day 2: Medieval Music; Matthews & Platt 256-259, 291
Week 13
Day 1: Dante's Divine Comedy Introduction and Inferno (specific cantos assigned by instructor)
Day 2:  No class, Thanksgiving break
Week 14
Day 1: Dante, Inferno and Paradiso
Day 2: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (specific tales assigned by instructor), Matthews & Platt 272-275
Week 15
Day 1:   Chaucer (cont.)
Day 2: Chaucer and Christine de Pizan

Week 16
FINAL DAY: (as announced by Registrar) Examination # 3

 

Course Schedule - Spring 2008

 
UNIT 1:  THE RENAISSANCE
Week 1

Day 2               01/11   Architecture, Sculpture & Painting, MP 306-320

Week 2                     

Day 1             01/15   High Renaissance, MP 323-348

Day 2              01/18   Renaissance Music, MP 349-350; Renaissance Literature (selections to    be assigned by instructor)

Week 3                       Introduce research project this week

Day 1                01/22   The Reformation and Northern Renaissance Art, MP 353-376

Day 2                01/25   Introduction to Shakespeare and Othello

Week 4

Day 1                01/29   Othello

Day 2                02/01   Othello

Week 5                       Analytical Paper Due this week

Day 1                02/05   Exam #1

 
UNIT 2:  THE BAROQUE AND NEOCLASSICAL PERIODS

Day 2                 02/08   Baroque Style in architecture & painting, MP 383-405

Week 6

Day 1                02/12   Moliere, Tartuffe

Day 2                    02/15   Conclude Tartuffe

Week 7                      

Day 1                02/19   The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment, MP 413-431       

Day 2                02/22   Voltaire, Candide

Week 8

Day 1                02/26   Conclude Candide

Day 2                02/29   Baroque Music, MP 405-408

 

Midterm Break March 3-7

 

Week 9

Day 1               03/11   Neoclassical Music, Mozart and scenes from Amadeus;

Day 2               03/14   Neoclassical art/architecture, MP 450-453, French, American and

                                    Industrial Revolutions, MP 465-473

Week 10                    

Day 1                03/18   Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (handout)

Day 2                 03/21   GOOD FRIDAY NO CLASS

 
UNIT 3:  ROMANTICISM, IMPRESSIONISM, AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Week 11        

Day 1                03/25   Exam #2                        

Day 2                 03/28   Romantic Art, MP 473-488    

                                    Draft of Research paper due

Week 12

Day 1                04/01 Shelley, Frankenstein

Day 2                 04/04   Conclude Frankenstein

Week 13        

Day 1                04/08   Romantic music, MP 488-490; 519-521

Day 2                 04/11   Life and Times of Frederick Douglas and Selected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (handout)

Week 14        

Day 1                04/15   Ibsen, A Doll’s House

                                    Final Draft of Research Paper Due

Day 2                 04/18   Conclude A Doll's House

Week 15

Day 1                04/22   Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in art, MP 542-554

Day 2                04/25   Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in music, MP 554-557

Week 16        

Exam #3 according to the final exam schedule

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