ENGL 201:  World Literature (Online)

Course Calendar

Spring 2005

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 6.

Discussion Guidelines
18 January 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.  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.

20 January

Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3.
25 January Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. 
27 January Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654), 9.
1 February Homer, Iliad 16, 18, 19.
3 February Homer, Iliad 20 (lines 185-365), 22, 24.
8 February 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.
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.
22/24 February

EXAM #1:  Objective part of exam available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on Sunday, 20 February.  Quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due in the Digital Drop Box by noon on Saturday, 26 February.  No activity in the Discussion Area this week.  Please read the information on exams before taking the exam.

1 March 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.
3 March Dante, Inferno 1-4.  Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on Dante and the Middle Ages before answering the questions in the Discussion Area.
8 March Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13.
10 March Dante, Inferno 14-15, 21-22.
15/17 March Spring Break.
22 March

Dante, Inferno 26-27, 30-34.
24 March Selections from Li Po (also on Blackboard).
29/31 March EXAM #2. Objective part of exam available in the Exams area in Blackboard by noon on 29 March.  Quotation analysis and essay due in the Digital Drop Box by 6:00 p.m. on Thursday of this week.  No activity in the Discussion Area this week.  Information on exams.
5 April Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on the Renaissance before answering the questions in the Discussion Area.
7 April Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere (available on Blackboard).  
12 April Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 1-28.
14 April Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 29-60.
19 April Leibniz, "Metaphysics Summarized" (pp. 84-86 in our edition of Candide); Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17.  Go to the Lectures area of Blackboard and read the lecture on the Enlightenment before answering the questions in the Discussion Area.
21 April Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30.
26 April Dostoyevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov), pp. 1-37. Read this plot summary of The Brothers Karamazov before you begin.
28 April Dostoyevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor," pp. 39-80.
FINAL EXAM.  (Information TBA)