| Week \ Topics |
Lecture Discussion
Topics |
Reading Assignments |
Assignments |
| 1 |
Course Overview; Introduction to Literature; The Epic |
Gilgamesh: Intro, Prologue,
Part 1 (16-23) |
T =
Due Tuesday R = Due Thursday |
| 2 |
Gilgamesh;
Genesis |
Gilgamesh:
Parts 2-7 (23-47); Genesis |
R: Symptomatic
Reading of Gilgamesh. |
| 3 |
Genesis; Job |
Job |
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| 4 |
Job; Psalms;
Song of Solomon |
SoS:
all; Psalms: |
R: Symptomatic
Reading |
| Week 2 |
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| 5 |
Homer's The
Odyssey |
Intro & Books
I-IX (98-104, 209-316) |
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| 6 |
Homer's The
Odyssey |
Books X-XV
(316-400) |
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| 7 |
Homer's The
Odyssey |
Books XVI-XXIV
(400-514) |
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| 8 |
The Odyssey (cont). |
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R: Symptomatic
Reading of The Odyssey |
| Week 3 |
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| 9 |
Dante's Inferno |
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| 10 |
Dante's Inferno |
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| 11 |
Dante's Inferno |
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| 12 |
Dante's Inferno |
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R: Symptomatic
Reading |
| Week 4 |
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| 11 |
No class: Independence
Day |
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| 12 |
Cervantes, Don
Quixote |
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T: Symptomatic
Reading |
| 13 |
Cervantes, Don
Quixote |
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| 14 |
The One
Thousand & One Nights |
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R: Symptomatic
Reading |
| Week 5 |
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| 13 |
Sappho; Petrarch's
Sonnets |
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| 14 |
Aristotle's Poetics;
Sophocle's Oedipus the King |
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T: Symptomatic
Reading |
| 15 |
Shakespeare's Othello |
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| 16 |
Final Examination |
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