Aug. 18, 20
Introduction
Aug. 23
“Introduction to Humanities,” SR: iii; “Chronology of Significant Events,” SR: 1-16 (skim and use as reference)
Aug. 25
WH, chapters 5 & 6 (skim for general background about early Christianity)
Aug. 27, Fri
St. Augustine, selections from “Confessions,” Penguin: 1-9.  Answer study questions in SR on your reading.  (As you read these selections, look up the author in the index to WH to get some background on that individual and the literary work assigned.)
“The Nicene Creed,” SR: 71
WH, chapter 7 (skim art sections; read the rest)
Bulletin Board Test assignment due
Aug. 30
The Koran selections, Penguin: 10-24.  Answer study questions.  (For subsequent assignments, continue to note study questions in SR as they occur.)
WH, chapter 8 (skim art sections; read the rest)
Sept. 1
The Song of Roland, introduction and stanzas 1-7 (separate textbook)
Sept. 3, Fri
Video 1:  “The Skin of Our Teeth”
Bulletin Board #1 due
Sept. 6
Holiday, no class
Sept. 8
Song of Roland, stanzas 8-71
Sept. 10, Fri
Song of Roland, stanzas 76-176 (If you like, omit 96-103 and 116-124; they are repetitions of battle descriptions.)
Sept. 13
Song of Roland, stanzas 177-186, 269-291
Sept. 15
Finish Song of Roland
WH, chapter 9 (skim art sections; read the rest)
Sept. 17, Fri
Marie de France, “Eliduc,” Penguin: 50-64; Courtly Love and Its Rules, SR: 130-131
Bulletin Board #3 due
Sept. 20

 

Early Christian and Byzantine Slides:
Slides, SR: 107-109
WH, chapter 6 (read Early Christian art & architecture sections)
WH, chapter 7 (read Early Christian art & architecture sections)
WH, chapter 8 (read art & architecture sections scattered throughout chapter)
Early Christian and Byzantine art, SR: 41-49
Sept. 22
TEST 1  (art & architecture will not be on the test)
Sept. 24, Fri
Video 2:“The Great Thaw”
Sept. 27
Finish slides
Sept. 29
Peter Damien, Penguin: 25-29
St. Francis of Assisi, Penguin: 65-66
Boniface VIII, Penguin: 70-72
Oct. 1, Fri
Scholasticism:
Peter Abelard, SR, 72-76; Penguin, 30-40; 41-49
St. Thomas Aquinas, SR, 77-79; Penguin, 67-69
Bulletin Board #4 due
Oct. 4
 
Begin Dante, The Divine Comedy, “Inferno” (read introduction and Cantos 1-6; separate textbook)
Oct. 6
Inferno, Cantos 7-17
Oct. 8, Fri
Video #3:  “Romance and Reality”
Oct. 11
No class; Fall Break
Oct. 13
Inferno, Cantos 18-30
Oct. 15, Fri
Inferno, Cantos 18-30 continued
Bulletin Board #5 due
Oct. 18
Inferno, Cantos 31-33
Oct. 20
Romanesque slides:  SR, 51-52 (Romanesque art)
WH, chapter 9 (read Romanesque art & architecture sections)
Slides, SR: 111-113
Oct. 22, Fri
Video 3:  “Romance and Reality”
Bulletin Board #6 due
Oct. 25
Finish slides
Oct. 27

 

Boccaccio, The Decameron, Introduction:  Black Death, Penguin: 91-99
“This Is the End of the World,” SR: 21-37
WH, chapter 10 (skim art & architecture sections; read the rest)
Oct. 29, Fri
Decameron, two stories, Penguin: 100-119
Nov. 1
Christine de Pizan, selections from Book of the City of Ladies, SR: 102; Penguin: 73-85
Nov. 3
TEST 2
Nov. 5, Fri
Bulletin Board #7 due
Nov. 8
Gothic Slides:  SR: 115-117
WH, chapter 9 (read Gothic art & architecture sections)
WH, chapter 10 (read Late Gothic art & architecture sections)
Gothic art & architecture, SR: 53-57
Nov. 10
WH, chapter 11: 289-298
Renaissance chronology of events, SR: 16-20
Petrarch, Penguin: 86-90 
Pico della Mirandola, Penguin: 120-124
WH, chapter 12 (skim art & architecture sections; read the rest)
Nov. 12, Fri
Erasmus, Penguin: 125-129
Luther, Penguin: 173-180
Nov. 15
Montaigne, “On the Education of Children,” SR: 80-83; “On Cannibals,” Penguin: 255-230
Nov. 17
Machiavelli, selections from The Prince, Penguin: 141-154
Castiglione, selections from Book of the Courtier, Penguin: 155-172
Nov. 19, Fri
Renaissance slides:  SR: 119-121
WH, chapter 11 (read Early Renaissance art sections)
Renaissance art & artists, SR: 58-667
WH, chapter 12 (read Late Renaissance art sections)
Bulletin Board #8 due
Nov. 22
Video:  “Man:  The Measure of All Things”
Nov. 24, 26
Thanksgiving holiday
Nov. 29
Finish Renaissance slides
Read 4 selections on important Renaissance artists: Penguin:  130-132, 133-140, 198-213, 214-224 (Giotto, DaVinci, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo)
Dec. 1
Rabelais, selections from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Penguin: 181-197
Dec. 3, Fri
Cervantes, selections from Don Quixote, Penguin: 231-255
Bulletin Board # 9 due
Dec. 6
Practice slide test
Dec. 8
Video 5:  “The Hero as Artist”
Dec. 10, Fri
Bulletin Board # 10 due
Dec. 14, Tues
FINAL EXAM, 11:50-1:40 in the classroom