Fall 2007 Course Calendar
Class meets MW from 4-5:15 in Grainger 116.
Unless otherwise indicated, the numerals following the titles of the works listed below refer to the major divisions of the work in question--for Homer and Vergil, "books"; for Dante, "cantos"; and for Petrarch, individual poems.
The instructor will provide the password for hyperlinked texts below. Check the online version of this syllabus regularly for updates.
Fall 2007 Calendar
Unless otherwise indicated, the numerals following the titles of the works listed below refer to the major divisions of the work in question--for Homer and Vergil, "books"; for Dante, "cantos"; and for Petrarch, individual poems.
| 27 August | Course introduction. |
| 29 August | Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. |
| 5 September | Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. |
| 10 September | Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9, 16. |
| 12 September | Homer, Iliad 18, 19 (lines 333-356 only), 22, 24.. |
| 17 September | Vergil, Aeneid 1-2. |
| 19 September | Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6. |
| 24 September | Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 793-992), 10 (lines 606-1276), 12 (lines 963-1298). |
| 26 September | The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11. |
| 1 October | EXAM #1. Please bring a blue book to class. |
| 3 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. |
| 8 October | Class Canceled. |
| 10 October | Dante, Inferno 1-5. |
| 17 October | Dante, Inferno 6, 10, 13-15. |
| 22 October | Dante, Inferno 26-27, 32-34. |
| 24 October | Selections from Li Po. Read as many of Li Po's poems as you can and select one that you'd like to talk about in class. |
| 29 October | EXAM #2. Please bring a blue book to class. |
| 31 October | Introduction to the Renaissance. Come to class prepared to discuss what you already know about the Renaissance. |
| 5 November | ---- |
| 7 November | Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere. |
| 12 November | Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 1-28. |
| 14 November | Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 29-60. |
| 19 November | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17. |
| 26 November | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30. |
| 28 November | Kafka, The Metamorphosis. |
| 3 December | Viewing and discussion of Chunhyang. (In-class worksheet.) |
| 5 December | Viewing and discussion of Chunhyang. (In-class worksheet.) |
| Final Exam. Please bring a blue book to class. |