Week 1
Monday, 2/1: Introduction
Wednesday, 2/3: The Hebrew Bible | The Garden of Eden

Week 2
Monday, 2/8: The Hebrew Bible | The Flood and The Tower of Babel || The Epic of Gilgamesh | Tablets 1–3
Wednesday, 2/10: The Epic of Gilgamesh | Tablets 4–11

Week 3
Monday, 2/15: No class
Wednesday, 2/17: The Odyssey | Introduction + first page

Week 4
Monday, 2/22: The Odyssey | Books 5 + 9
Wednesday, 2/24: The Odyssey | Books 10 + 12

Week 5
Monday, 3/1: The Republic | The Allegory of the Cave
Wednesday, 3/3: The Republic | The City and the Philosopher King

Week 6
Monday, 3/8: The Daodejing
Wednesday, 3/10: Tang poetry

Week 7
Monday, 3/15: 1001 Nights | Prologue through the Ninth Night
Wednesday, 3/17: 1001 Nights | The Tenth through the Twenty-Second Nights

Week 8
Monday, 3/22: The Book of the City of Ladies
Wednesday, 3/24: Midterm exam

Week 9
Monday, 3/29: No class
Wednesday, 3/31: No class

Week 10
Monday, 4/5: Inferno | Canto I, III, V, VI, VII, X, XII, XIII, XIV, XVI
Wednesday, 4/7: Inferno | Canto XVII, XXVI, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV

Week 11
Monday, 4/12: Utopia | Book I to Book II: “Social Relations” (pgs. 207–238)
Wednesday, 4/14: Utopia | Book II: “The Travels [and Trade] of the Utopians” to the end (pgs. 238–269)

Week 12
Monday, 4/19: The Diversity of the World ||  “Letter Concerning the First Voyage”
Wednesday, 4/21: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Week 13
Monday, 4/26: The Canterbury Tales | The General Prologue (lines 1–18) and The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
Wednesday, 4/28: The Canterbury Tales | The Miller’s Prologue and Tale

Week 14
Monday, 5/3: Macbeth | Act I (Scenes 1–7)
Wednesday, 5/5: Macbeth | Act II (Scenes 1–4), Act III (Scene 1)

Week 15
Monday, 5/10: Macbeth | Act III (Scenes 2–6), Act IV (Scenes 1–3)
Wednesday, 5/12: Macbeth | Act V (Scenes 1–8)

Week 16
Monday, 5/17: Maps