Fall 2006 Syllabus and Calendar
Unless otherwise indicated, the Arabic 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.
By midnight on this date . . . |
students should have read the assignments below, and submitted responses to questions about the readings posted in the Discussion Area of Blackboard. |
| 29 August | Course introduction. Go to the Discussion Area in Blackboard, find the "Introductions" forum, and introduce yourself. Please also submit a response to the "What is literature, and why is it important?" forum. |
| 31 August | Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on Mycenaean Greece, the Trojan War, and Homer. Post any questions you have in the "Ancient Greece and Homer" forum. Then go to Texts and Documents in Blackboard and read the handout that contains three different translations of the opening lines of the Iliad. Respond to the questions about these translations in the Discussion Area. |
| 5 September | Read, and respond to: Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. |
| 7 September | Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. |
| 12 September | Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9, 16. |
| 14 September | Homer, Iliad 18, 19 (lines 333-356 only), 22, 24.. |
| 19 September | Vergil, Aeneid 1-2. Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on ancient Rome and Vergil before answering the questions in the Discussion Area. |
| 21 September | Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6. |
| 26 September | Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 793-992), 10 (lines 606-1276), 12 (lines 963-1298). |
| 28 September | The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11. |
| 3/5 October | EXAM #1: The three parts of the exam (multiple choice, quotation, essay) will be available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Saturday, 30 September. You have until noon on Saturday, 7 October, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam cannot be retaken). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box noon on that day as well (please submit these in a single document). No activity in the Discussion Area this week. Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |
| 10 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. (Blackboard) |
| 12 October | Dante, Inferno 1-4. |
| 19 October | Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13. |
| 24 October | Dante, Inferno 14-15, 26-27. |
| 26 October | Dante, Inferno 30-34. |
| 31 October | Dante, selections from Purgatorio and Paradiso. (Blackboard) |
| 2 November | Selections from Li Po. (Blackboard) |
| 7/9 November | EXAM #2: The three parts of the exam (multiple choice, quotation, essay) will be available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Saturday, 4 November. You have until noon on Saturday, 11 November, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam cannot be retaken). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box noon on that day as well (please submit both of these in a single document). No activity in the Discussion Area this week. Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |
| 14 November | Go to the Lectures area in Blackboard and read the lecture on the Renaissance before answering the questions in the Discussion Area. |
| 16 November | Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere. (Blackboard) |
| 21 November | Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 1-28. |
| 28 November | Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 29-60. |
| 30 November | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17. |
| 5 December | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30. |
| 7 December | Samuel Beckett, First Love. (Blackboard) |
| Final Exam Week | Final Exam: The three parts of the exam (multiple choice, quotation, essay) will be available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Saturday, 9 December. You have until noon on Saturday, 16 December, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam cannot be retaken). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box at noon on that day as well (please submit both sections in a single document). No activity in the Discussion Area this week. Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |