Course Schedule

 

(All page numbers indicate the Norton Anthology Vols. A, B, or C. Supplementary pdfs are indicated where appropriate.)

 

29 January      Introductions / June Jordan, “These Poems”

31 January      The Epic of Gilgamesh (tablets I-VI Vol. A pp. 95-128 & pdf)

 

5 February      Gilgamesh (tablets VII-XI Vol. A pp. 128-51 & pdf)

7 February      Sappho introduction and selection of poems and fragments from Anne
Carson (trans.) If Not, Winter (pdf) / Group 1 Blog Post Due

 

14 February    Sappho cont’d.

 

20 February    Plato from Phaedrus (Vol. A pp. 1143-48) / Online Annotation Assignment Due

21 February    Sophocles Antigone (Vol. A pp. 747-65) / Group 2 Blog Post Due

 

26 February    Antigone (Vol. A pp. 765-83)

28 February    Antigone / Anne Carson from Antigonick (pp. 3-16 pdf)

 

5 March          from The Bhagavad-gita (Vol. A pp. 1282-1301)

7 March          Lucretius from On the Nature of Things (Vol. A pp. 51-54 & pdf) /
Translation Essay Due

 

12 March        Ovid “Proem” and “The Creation” from Metamorphoses (Vol. A pp. 1073-79)

14 March        Ovid “Apollo and Daphne” (Vol. A pp. 1079-82) + “Narcissus and Echo”
(pdf) / Group 3 Blog Post Due

 

19 March        Midterm Exam

21 March        Marie de France from Lais (Vol. B pp. 294-314)

 

26 March        Farid ud-Din Attar from The Conference of the Birds (Vol. B pp. 371-86)
28 March        from The Kokinshu (Vol. B pp. 1104-18) / Ki No Tsurayuki from Tosa Diary (Vol. B pp. 1118-26)

 

SPRING BREAK

 

9 April                        Sei Shonagon from The Pillow Book (Vol. B pp. 1127-53) / Close reading
essay due

16 April          Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande Peoples (Vol. C pp. C 15-46) /                          Group 1 Blog Post Due

18 April          Sunjata (Vol. C pp. 47-74)

 

23 April          Montaigne “To the Reader” & “Of Cannibals” (Vol. C pp. 345, 353-62) /
John Berger “Giovanni Bellini” (pdf)

25 April          “Petrarch and the Love Lyric” (Vol. C 164-67) / Louise Labé from Love
Sonnets & Elegies (pdf) / Group 2 Blog Post Due

 

30 April          William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act I Vol. C pp. 656-

78)

2 May             Hamlet (Act II Vol. C pp. 679-96)

 

7 May             Hamlet (Act III Vol. C pp. 696-717) / Group 3 Blog Post Due

9 May             Hamlet (Act IV-V Vol. C pp. 718-51)

 

14 May           Presentations

16 May           Presentations

 

Final Projects Due 17 May by 11:59 pm (by email)