ENGL 201:  World Literature

Course Calendar

Fall 2005

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:15 in Grainger G16

Texts
Course Requirements
Course Description

30 August Course introduction.  What is literature, and why is it important? Introduction to Homer, and a close reading of the opening lines of the Iliad.
1 September

Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. No reading responses this week.
6 September Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. Begin reading responses this week.
8 September Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9.
13 September Homer, Iliad 16, 18, 19.
15 September Homer, Iliad 20 (lines 185-365 only), 22, 24.
20 September Vergil, Aeneid 1-2.
22 September

Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6.
27 September Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 793-992), 10 (lines 606-1276), 12 (lines 963-1298).
29 September The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11.
4 October

EXAM #1. Please bring a blue book to class. No reading responses this week. 

6 October

Class cancelled.
11 October The New Testament, Sermon on the Mount (King James Version) (Matthew 5-7); selections from Augustine's Confessions; selections from Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. (Contact instructor for password.)
13 October Dante, Inferno 1-4.
20 October Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13.
25 October Dante, Inferno 14-15, 21-22.
27 October Dante, Inferno 26-27, 30-34.
1 November

Dante, selections from Purgatorio and Paradiso.

3 November Selections from Li Po. (Contact instructor for password.)
8 November EXAM #2. Please bring a blue book to class. No reading responses this week.
10 November Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere. (Contact instructor for password.)
15 November Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 1-28.
17 November Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 29-60.
29 November Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17.  
1 December Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30.
6 December Viewing and discussion of The Bicycle Thief (dir. Vittorio de Sica).
8 December Viewing and discussion of The Bicycle Thief (dir. Vittorio de Sica).
12 December (Monday) FINAL EXAM (11:30-2:00). Please bring a blue book to class. Go here for essay questions.