Spring 2008 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.
By midnight (i.e., the end of the day indicated) 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. |
| 15 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?" thread in the Week 1 forum. |
| 17 January | 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" thread on the Week 1 forum. 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 as well. |
| 22 January | Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. |
| 24 January | Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. |
| 29 January | Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9, 16. |
| 31 January | Homer, Iliad 18, 19 (lines 333-356 only), 22, 24.. |
| 5 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. |
| 7 February | Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6. |
| 12 February | Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 775-955), 10 (lines 593-1248), 12 (lines 928-1271). |
| 14 February | The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11. |
| 19/21 February | 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, 16 February. You have until noon on Saturday, 23 February, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam must be completed when you open it). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due 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. |
| 26 February | 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) |
| 28 February | Dante, Inferno 1-4. |
| 4 March | Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13. |
| 6 March | Dante, Inferno 14-15, 26-27. |
| 18 March | Dante, Inferno 32-34. |
| 20 March | Selections from Li Po. Read as many of Li Po's poems as you can in the amount of time you usually spend on the readings. Feel free to skip around--they don't need to be read in order. |
| 25/27 March | 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, 22 March. You have until noon on Saturday, 29 March, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam must be completed in one sitting). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due by 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. |
| 1 April | Introduction to the Renaissance. Go to the Discussion Area in Blackboard for instructions on today's assignment. |
| 3 April | Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere. (Blackboard) |
| 8 April | Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel selections. (Blackboard) |
| 10 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part I, chs. 1-8. |
| 15 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part I, chs. 9-15. |
| 17 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part I, chs. 20, 22, 25, and 52. |
| 22 April | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17. |
| 24 April | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30. |
| 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, 26 April. You have until noon on Friday, 2 May, to complete the multiple choice section (note that this portion of the exam must be completed when you open it). The quotation analysis and essay portions of the exam are due by at noon on that day as well (please submit both sections in a single document). Please read the information on exams before taking the exam. |