ENGL 201:  World Literature

Course Calendar

Spring 2005

18 January Course introduction.  What is literature, and why is it important? Introduction to Homer, and a close reading of the opening lines of the Iliad.
20 January

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

Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6.
15 February Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 793-992), 10 (lines 606-1276), 12 (lines 963-1298).
17 February The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11.
22 February

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

24 February The New Testament, Sermon on the Mount (King James Version) (Matthew 5-7); selections from Augustine's Confessions (available on Blackboard under Course Documents); selections from Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae in Appendix C of our edition of Dante.
1 March Dante, Inferno 1-4.
3 March Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13.
8 March Dante, Inferno 14-15, 21-22.
10 March Dante, Inferno 26-27.
15/17 March Spring Break.
22 March

Dante, Inferno 30-34.
24 March Selections from Li Po (on Blackboard).
29 March EXAM #2. Please bring a blue book to class. No reading responses this week.
31 March Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere (available on Blackboard).
5 April Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 1-28.
7 April Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 29-60.
12 April Leibniz, "Metaphysics Summarized" (pp. 84-86 in our edition of Candide); Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17.  
14 April Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30.
19 April Dostoyevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov), pp. 1-37. Read this plot summary of The Brothers Karamazov before you begin.
21 April Dostoyevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor," pp. 39-80.
26 April Viewing of Chunhyang.
28 April Chunhyang, continued.
6 May (Friday) FINAL EXAM (11:30-2:00).