| Course Schedule - Fall 2007 |
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UNIT 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD AND CLASSICAL GREECE |
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1 |
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Day
1: Introduction to the study of culture and the humanities.
Read: Matthews & Platt xvii-xxxi |
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Day 2:The Earliest Civilizations: Mesopotamia. Read: Matthews & Platt 1-12 |
| Week 2 |
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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 |
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Day 2 : The Odyssey. Read: Books 12-19 |
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Week 4 |
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Day 1: The Odyssey. Read: Books 20-24 |
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Day 2: Greece: Classical Art and Architecture. Read: Matthews & Platt 47-53; 71-85 |
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Week 5 |
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Day 1: Greece: Sophocles. Read: Matthews & Platt 60-67 and Antigone |
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Day 2:
Greek drama (cont.) Antigone |
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Week 6 |
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Day 1:
Examination #1 |
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| UNIT 2: CLASSICAL ROME |
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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 |
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Day 1: Greece: Hellenistic Period and Influence on Rome. Read: Matthews & Platt 86-107 |
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Day
2:
Introduction to Rome and Roman Thought: Matthews & Platt 108-123 |
| Week 8 |
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Day 1:
Virgil, Aeneid; Books I, II, IV |
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Day 2:
Conclude Aeneid Books VI, VIII, XII |
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Midterm
Break
October 15-19 |
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| Week 9 |
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Day 1:
Roman Art and Architecture, Matthews & Platt 123-143 |
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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 |
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Day 1: Byzantium and Islam; Matthews and Platt selections from Chaps. 7-8 assigned by instructor |
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Day
2: Examination #2 |
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UNIT 3: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD |
| Week 11 |
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Day 1:
Introduction to the Middle Ages; Selections in Matthews & Platt 226-244 |
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Day 2:
The Age of Synthesis and the Medieval Cathedral; Matthews & Platt 244-261, 275-281 |
| Week 12 |
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Day 1:
Medieval Literature--Marie de France "Lanval" and "Laüstic." |
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Day 2: Medieval Music; Matthews & Platt 256-259, 291 |
| Week 13 |
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Day
1: Dante's Divine Comedy Introduction and Inferno (specific cantos assigned by instructor) |
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Day
2: No class, Thanksgiving break |
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Week 14 |
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Day 1:
Dante, Inferno and Paradiso |
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Day 2: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (specific tales assigned by instructor), Matthews & Platt 272-275 |
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Week 15 |
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Day 1: Chaucer (cont.) |
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Day 2: Chaucer and Christine de Pizan |
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Week 16
FINAL DAY: (as announced by Registrar) Examination # 3 |
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Course Schedule - Spring 2008 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Midterm Break March 3-7 |
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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 |
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| 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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