Fall 2009 Course Calendar
Updated 22 October
Section 02 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00-12:15 in Grainger 101.
Section 03 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 in Grainger G16.
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.
| 25 August | Course introduction. |
| 27 August | Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. |
| 1 September | Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. |
| 3 September | Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9, 16. |
| 8 September | Homer, Iliad 18, 19 (lines 333-356 only), 22, 24.. |
| 10 September | Vergil, Aeneid 1-2. |
| 15 September | Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6. |
| 17 September | Class canceled. |
| 22 September | Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 585-731), 10 (lines 445-908), 12 (lines 697-952); The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11. |
| 24 September | Exam 1. Please bring a blue book to class. |
| 29 September | 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. Make sure you print these out and bring them to class. |
| 1 October | Dante, Inferno 1-4. |
| 6 October | Dante, Inferno 5-6, 10, 13. |
| 8 October | Dante, Inferno 14-15, 26-27. |
| 15 October | Dante, Inferno 32-34. |
| 20 October | Basho, Narrow Road to the Interior. |
| 22 October | Class canceled |
| 27 October | Basho, continued. |
| 29 October | Exam 2. Please bring a blue book to class. |
| 3 November | Introduction to the Renaissance. Petrarch,"Letter to Posterity"; Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux," selections from the Canzoniere. |
| 5 November | Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 1-28. |
| 10 November | Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 29-60. |
| 12 November | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17. |
| 17 November | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30. |
| 19 November | Kafka, The Metamorphosis. |
| 24 November | Kafka, continued. |
| 1 December | Viewing of Vittorio de Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves). |
| 3 December | Viewing and discussion of Vittorio de Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves). |
Final Exam. Please bring a blue book to class. |