| Course Schedule - Fall 2009 |
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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 1-16 |
| Week 2 |
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Day 1: The Earliest Civilizations: Egypt.
Read: Matthews & Platt 17-29 |
| Day 2: Aegean Civilizations and Early Greece. Read: Matthews & Platt
34-42 |
Week 3 |
| Day 1: Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry. Matthews & Platt
46-52
. 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
54-61; 81-91 |
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Week 5 |
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Day 1: Greece: Sophocles. Read: Matthews & Platt
71-75
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
46--54, 62-71, 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
92-117 |
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Day
2:
Introduction to Rome and Roman Thought: Matthews & Platt
118-136 |
| 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 19-23 |
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| Week 9 |
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Day 1:
Roman Art and Architecture, Matthews & Platt
136-150 |
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Day 2: Judaism and Christianity; Matthews & Platt
154-181; 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
208-219; 246-269 |
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Day 2:
The Age of Synthesis and the Medieval Cathedral; Matthews & Platt
266-283, 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
280-281, 315-317 |
| 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
298 |
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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 2010 |
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| UNIT 1: THE RENAISSANCE |
| Week 1 (Jan. 11) |
Day 1:
Early Renaissance history and spirit, MP 321-329
Day 2: Architecture, Sculpture & Painting, MP 329-349
Week 2 (Jan. 18)
Day 1: High Renaissance, MP 351-380
Day 2: Renaissance Music, MP 381-383; Renaissance Literature (selections to be assigned by instructor)
Week 3 (Jan. 25) Introduce research project this week
Day 1: The Reformation and Northern Renaissance Art, MP 385-417
Day 2 : Introduction to Shakespeare and Othello
Week 4 (Feb. 1)
Day 1: Othello
Day 2: Othello
Week 5 (Feb. 8) Analytical Paper Due this week
Day 1: Exam #1 |
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| UNIT 2: THE BAROQUE AND NEOCLASSICAL PERIODS |
Day 2: Baroque Style in architecture & painting, MP 419-449
Week 6 (Feb. 15)
Day 1: Moliere, Tartuffe
Day 2: Conclude Tartuffe
Week 7 (Feb. 22)
Day 1: The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment, MP 455-476
Day 2 : Voltaire, Candide
Week 8 (Mar. 1)
Day 1: Conclude Candide
Day 2: Baroque Music, MP 449-452 |
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Midterm Break March 8-12 |
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Week 9 (Mar. 15)
Day 1: Neoclassical Music, Mozart and scenes from Amadeus;
Day 2: Neoclassical art/architecture, MP 494-500, French, American and Industrial Revolutions, MP 511-520
Week 10 (Mar. 22)
Day 1: Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (handout)
Day 2: Exam #2 |
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| UNIT 3: ROMANTICISM, IMPRESSIONISM, AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM |
Week 11 (Mar. 29)
Day 1: Romantic Art, MP 520-539
Draft research paper due
Day 2 : GOOD FRIDAY April 2 Shelley, Frankenstein
Week 12 (Apr. 5)
Day 1: (Apr. 5- No CLASS ON MONDAY)
Day 2: Conclude Frankenstein
Week 13 (Apr. 12)
Day 1: Romantic music, MP 539-541; 573-575
Day 2: Life and Times of Frederick Douglas and Selected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (handout)
Week 14 (Apr. 19)
Day 1: Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Final Draft of Research Paper Due
Day 2: Conclude A Doll's House
Week 15 (Apr. 26)
Day 1: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in art, MP 596-611
Day 2: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in music, MP 611-614
Week 16 (May 3)
Exam #3 according to the final exam schedule |
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