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               French:  French I, II, III, IV; French Culture and History; French Literature I & II; French Cinema; French-English Translation; French Literature in Translation; French Conversation; Topics in French Literature; Special Problems in French Literature

               English:  Rhetoric and Composition I & II; Survey of British Literature I & II; Survey of World Literature I & II; Contemporary Literature; Poetry; Modern Poetry; Short Story; Literature and Film; Selected Studies in Comparative Literature (Gendered Literature; Writings of Eudora Welty, Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter); Studies in Fiction

               Humanities: Humanities I, II, III, IV; Humanities Telecourse; Problems in Humanities; Honors Humanities I, II, III, IV

HUMANITIES 2043/4043-201: Mid-Nineteenth through Twentieth Centuries

11-12:15 TR, Spring 2013

Professor: Lynn Hoggard                                                                               Office: Bea Wood 201    

Office Hours: 1:15-3:45 TR                                                                           Telephone: 397-4145

E-mail: lynn.hoggard@mwsu.edu                                                                  Eng. Dept: 397-4300

Overall Course Goals and Objectives: This course offers you the chance to learn about major achievements in literature, music, art, film, architecture, theater, dance, and philosophy as they occurred from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth-centuries in European and American cultures; it also provides chronologically broader overviews of cultural developments in China, Japan, Russia, Africa, and Latin America. The goal of the course is to develop your ability to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and think creatively about complex cultural information and human values, while also improving your writing, critical thinking, speaking, and reading skills. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to help you become a more fully formed and active citizen in an increasingly complex world. To comprehend the past helps you create the future.

Required textbook: Benton, et al., Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Vol. II., Third Ed.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

1. T, 15 Jan: Introduction to Course

Chapter Eighteen: The Belle Époque

2. R, 17 Jan: Timeline, Map, Impressionism, Painting, Literature, Connections, Music: Pages 260-269                                   

3. T, 22 Jan: Readings: Charles Baudelaire (“Correspondences”), Stéphane Mallarmé (“The Afternoon of a

            Faun--Ecologue”), Kate Chopin (“The Storm”), Henrik Ibsen (excerpt from A Doll’s House);

            Friedrich Nietzsche (excerpts from The Birth of Tragedy and Beyond Good and Evil): pp.

            282-291                                              

4. R, 24 Jan: Post-Impressionism (American Expansion, The Boer War, New Science and New Technologies, Philosophy at the Turn of the Century) Post-Impressionist Painting, Then & Now, Cross Currents, Critical Thinking: pp. 269-276

5. T, 29 Jan: New Directions in Sculpture and Architecture, Cultural Impact, Key Terms: pp. 276-281

            Reading: Sigmund Freud (from Civilization and Its Discontents): pp. 291-295

Chapter Nineteen: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century

6. R, 31 Jan: Timeline, Map, Later Chinese Culture, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Literati Painting, Calligraphy, Architecture: City Planning, Then & Now, Critical Thinking, Literature, Music, Connections, Cross Currents, Cultural Impact, Key Terms: pp. 296-311

7. T, 5 Feb: Readings: Yuan Hong-Dao (“The ‘Slowly, Slowly’ Poem”), Yuan Zhong-Dao (“Keeping a Pet Rooster”), Cao Xuequin (The Dream of the Red Chamber), Lu Xun (“A Small Incident”), Bei Dao (“Declaration”): pp. 312-315

Chapter Twenty: Japanese Culture after the Fifteenth Century

8. R, 7 Feb: Timeline, Map, Later Japanese Culture, The Shinto Revival, Landscape Painting, Woodblock Prints, Architecture, The Japanese Garden, Cross Currents: pp. 316-324

9. T, 12 Feb: Literature, Then & Now, Connections, Theater, Cross Currents, Critical Thinking, Contemporary Music, Cultural Impact, Key Terms: pp. 324-331; Readings: Hakuin Ekaku (“Song of Meditation”), Saikaku Ihara (excerpt from Five Women Who Loved Love), Ryunosuke Akutagawa, (“Rashomon”), Yosano Akiko (Three Poems): pp. 332-335

10. R, 14 Feb: Test #1: Chapters Eighteen (The Belle Époque) Nineteen, and Twenty (Later Chinese           and Japanese Civilizations)

Chapter Twenty-One: Early Twentieth Century

11. T, 19 Feb: Timeline, Map, New Directions in the Arts (Picasso and Cubism Impact the Arts, Fauvism,

            Cubism, Futurism, German Expressionism, Music): pp. 336-345

12. R, 21 Feb: The Great War and After (World War I, The Russian Revolution and After, Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl, Abstraction in Sculpture, Architecture, American Modernism, Cross Currents), Modernist Literature, Connections, Russian Film, Then & Now: pp. 346-359

13. T, 26 Feb: Readings: Franz Kafka (“Before the Law”), Anna Akhmatova (Six Poetic Segments), Osip Mandelstam, (“The Stalin Epigram”), T.S. Eliot (“The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”), Langston Hughes (“I, Too, Sing America”),Virginia Woolf (from To the Lighthouse), Ernest Hemingway (“Hills Like White Elephants”), James Joyce (“Araby”), William Butler Yeats (“The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium”): pp. 374-383

14. R, 28 Feb: Modern Music, Repression and Depression (Fascism in Europe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt  and the New Deal, Photography and the FSA, Critical Thinking): pp. 359-366

15. T, 5 Mar: Regionalism in American Painting, Southern Regionalist Writing, The American Sound,        Connections, The Jazz Age, Cross currents, Cultural Impact, Key Terms: pp. 366-373

16. R, 7 Mar: Exam #2: Chapter Twenty-One: Early Twentieth Century

                                     Spring Break: March 9-18

Chapter Twenty-Two: Modern Africa and Latin America

17. T, 19 Mar: Timeline, Map, Modern Africa (The Scramble for Africa and Colonial Rule, Varieties of Colonial Rule, Colonialism and Culture, Independent Africa, Sculpture, Connections, Then & Now: Timbuktu, Then & Now), Literature: pp. 384-394; Readings: Chinua Achebe (from Things Fall Apart), pp. 404-405; J.M. Coetzee (excerpt from Disgrace), pp. 415-417

18. R, 21 Mar:  Modern Latin America (Painting, Music, Cross Currents, Literature, Critical Thinking,

            Cultural Impact, Key Terms): pp. 394-403; Readings: Jorge Luis Borges (“The Garden of Forking      Paths”), Pablo Neruda (“Ode to the Americas”), Julio Cortazar (“Continuity of Parks”), Gabriel        Garcia Marquez (excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude), pp. 405-415

Chapter Twenty-Three: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later

19. T, 26 Mar: Timeline, Map, Mid-Twentieth Century and After (Critical Thinking, Cold War and          Economic Recovery, The Vietnam Wars, The Philosophy of Existentialism): pp. 418-424; Reading:            Jean-Paul Sartre (excerpt from Existentialism and Humanism), pp. 444-446

Easter Break

20. T, 2 Apr: Abstraction in American Art, Modern Drama, Cross Currents, Sculpture: pp. 424-430;

            Readings: Eugene Ionesco (“The Gap”), pp. 448-451; Wislawa Symborska (“The End and the Beginning,” “Nothing Twice”), p. 451                         

21. T, 4 Apr: Pop Culture, Then & Now, Artists of the Everyday, Minimal and Conceptual Art, Connections, Architecture: pp. 430-439

22. T, 9 Apr: Literature: The Beats, Then & Now: pp. 439-441; Reading: Allen Ginsberg (“Howl”), pp. 446-448

23. R, 11 Apr: The Popularization of Classical Music, Critical Thinking, Late Modern Music, Rock and Roll, Cultural Impact, Key Terms: pp. 441-443

24. T, 16 Apr: Conclusion and Review

25. R, 18 Apr: Test #3: Chapters Twenty-Two and Twenty-Three:  Modern Africa and Latin America and The Mid-Twentieth Century and Later

Chapter Twenty-Four: Diversity in Contemporary Life

26. T, 23 Apr: Timeline, Map, Diversity in the United States (Postmodernism, Painting and Sculpture: Judy Chicago, Guerrilla Girls, Eleanor Antin, Susan Rothenberg, Betye Saar, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Judith F. Baca, Lisa Fifield, Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, Mariko Mori), Structuralism and Deconstruction: pp. 453-462

27. R, 25 Apr: The Diversity of American Voices, Cross Currents, Connections: pp. 462-464; Reading:  Adrienne Rich (“XIII”), p. 470; Maxine Hong Kingston (excerpt from The Woman Warrior), pp. 470-474; N. Scott Momaday (excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain), pp. 474-476; Leslie Marmon Silko (“Yellow Woman”), pp. 476-479; Sandra Cisneros (“Barbie-Q”), pp. 479-480; Michael Hogan (“On Translating a Mexican Poet,” “The Patio at Dusk,” “Spring”), pp. 470-481

28. T, 30 Apr: The Global Village, Globalization, Then & Now, Magicians of the Earth, Critical Thinking, The Example of Australian Aboriginal Painting, Cultural Impact, Key Terms: pp. 464-469; Discussion of Final Assessments

29. R, 2 May: Evaluation and Review, Conclusion of Course

            Final Exam for Humanities 2043/4043: Tuesday 7 May 2013, 1-3 p.m., Bea Wood 201

HUMN 2043/4043 Course Requirements:

A. Tests. As the course outline indicates, there will be three exams during the semester, plus a final assessment. Each exam will cover material in the units indicated, using objective questions to measure your  knowledge of cultural material and an essay topic to show your degree of mastery of content and your ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information in written form. For 2033 students, each exam counts 18 % of the semester grade; for 4033 students, 15 %

B. Daily Reading and other Assignments: For almost every class there will be pages to read, and for almost every reading there will be a brief activity to complete—usually a reading-comprehension quiz or a written paragraph. (You will receive an assignment sheet outlining class activities for each testing unit throughout the semester.) Some readings will include short reading quizzes and others will require a brief, typewritten paragraph that will be stamped as completed on the day it is due; paragraphs will be gathered into a portfolio to be turned in twice during the semester for evaluation. Reading quizzes cannot be taken early or made up, but other assignments may be turned in early for full credit or late for partial credit. In HUMN 2043, these daily assignments will count for 20% of your semester grade; for HUMN 4043, they will count 17%.

C. Attendance and Participation. A large part of the value of this class comes from regular attendance and participation in class activities. Since this class is values-based as well as information-based, you should aim for more than simply mastering information. Much of the class activity will be geared toward alerting you to the nature and extent of human values that accompany cultural achievement. Therefore, regular attendance and participation are important and expected. A record of attendance at each class meeting will be kept. Although no specific penalty will be assigned for absences, excessive absences (more than three, excused or not) will definitely have a negative impact on the semester grade and may be grounds for a student being dropped from the class. If you arrive late, you should apologize discreetly to the class as you enter. You should turn off electronic devices when in class, and you should never get up and leave the room before class is dismissed except in an emergency or by prior arrangement with the professor. Six percent of your semester grade (5% for 4033 students) will be based on your oral participation in class. You should plan to contribute to class discussion in an intelligent way at least three times during the semester in order to receive full 6 % (5% for 4033) class participation credit.

D. 4043 Requirements: Students in HUMN 4043 will prepare and submit a 10-page research paper on a topic within the course’s 19th-20th-century time frame and approved of by the professor (topic choices must be submitted in writing no later than Thursday, 7 February). The paper must show independent research and give evidence of an ability to synthesize information. Modern Language Association (MLA) style should be used for documentation. At least three references must appear on the Works Cited page, at least one of which must be in non-electronic form. HUMN 4043 research papers are due Thursday, 25 April 2013.

             Students in HUMN 4043 will also present to the class a ten-minute oral report on an agreed-upon topic following consultation with the professor. Topic choices should be submitted in writing to the professor no later than Thursday 31 January (the professor will then assign a presentation date in consultation with the student). A typed outline of the report and a bibliography of at least three sources (one of which is not electronic) should be turned in to the professor on the day of the report.

E. Semester Grade: 2043: 3 exams @ 18% (54%); participation @ 6 %; daily assignments @ 20%; final @

                                20%.

      4043: 3 exams@ 15% each (45%); participation @ 5%; daily assignments @ 17%; oral

                 presentation @ 8%; research paper @ 10%; final@ 15%.

In accordance with the law, MSU provides academic

accommodations for students with documented disabilities.

If you are a student with a disability, please contact the professor.

HUMANITIES 2023/4023: Medieval Cultures

            Fall 2012

Professor: Lynn Hoggard                                                                                           Office: Bea Wood 201    

Office Hours: 2-4:30 T;1:15-3:45 R                                                                           Telephone: 397-4145

E-mail: lynn.hoggard@mwsu.edu                                                                               Class: 11-12:15 TR

Overall Course Goals and Objectives: This course gives you the chance to learn about major achievements in literature, music, art, architecture, theater, dance, and philosophy as they occur in Byzantine, Islamic, European, Indian, Asian, and North and South American medieval cultures. The goal of the course is to develop your ability to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and think creatively about complex cultural information while improving your thinking and writing skills. Ultimately, the course will help you develop into a more fully formed human being and a more informed citizen of the world.

      Required textbook: Benton, et al., Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Vol. 1, 3^rd Ed.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Week One

             28 Aug.: Introduction to Course

Chapter Six: Islamic Civilization

             30 Aug.: Islamic Civilization (Religion; Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and Europe; Cross Currents):           pp. 234-240; Reading: The Quran: pp. 252-253

Week Two

              4 Sept.: Philosophy; Math, Science, and Scholarship; CriticalThinking; Islamic Art and    Architecture; Then and Now: pp. 240-246

              6 Sept.: Cross Currents; Literature, Music; Connections; Cultural Impact: pp. 247-250; Readings:           pp. 253-257

Week Three

Chapter Seven: Indian Civilization

   11 Sept.: The Vedic Period (Hinduism, Literature: The Hindu Classics; Connections): pp. 258-264;

                        Readings: from “The Bhagavad Gita,” pp. 278-281; from The Ramayana, pp. 283-285

         13 Sept.: The Maurya Period (Buddhism; Maurya Art), Mauryan to Bactrian to Kushan: pp. 265-269;             Readings: Buddhist Sermons, pp. 281-283

Week Four

          18 Sept.: The Gupta Era (Gupta Art; The Jataka and The Pancatantra); The Hindu Dynasties (The             Hindu Temple; Sculpture): pp. 285-293

          20 Sept.: Exam #1: Islamic and Indian Civilizations

Week Five

Chapter Eight: Early Chinese Civilization

            25 Sept.: The Early Dynasties (The Shang and Zhou Dynasties); Chinese Philosophy (Confucianism,             Taoism): pp. 294-300; Readings: “The Book of Songs”; Confucius; The Tao Te Ching: pp.             310-313

(Choice for 4023 Oral Presentation topic due; please submit in a short statement)

27 Sept.: Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties; The Six Dynasties, Then & Now; The Tang Dynasty:        pp. 300-302; Readings: Tao Qian; Wang-Wei; Li Bai; Du Fu: pp. 313-316

(Choice for 4023 Research Topic due; please submit topic choice in short statement)

Week Six

            2 Oct.: The Song Dynasty (Connections, Critical Thinking, Cross Currents, Cultural Impact): pp. 302-309; Reading: Li Ch’ing-Chao: pp. 316-317

Chapter Nine: Early Japanese Civilization

            4 Oct.: Japan Before the Twelfth Century (Prehistoric Japan, Religion, Courtly Japan: Asuka and             Nara Periods; The Heian Period; Connections: pp. 318-326

Week Seven

            9  Oct.: Readings:  Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Ono No Komachi; Sei Shonagan, excerpt from The             Pillow Book; Murasaki Shikibu, excerpt from The Tale of Genji: pp. 330-337

          11 Oct.: Warrior Japan: The Kamakura Period, Later Warrior Japan: The Ashikaga Period, Cross     Curents, Then & Now, Cultural Impact, Critical Thinking, Key Terms: pp. 326-329

Week Eight

Chapter Ten: Early Civilizations of the Americas and Africa

16 Oct.: Mesoamerica (The Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Critical Thinking, Then & Now, Connections,

                        Mayan Culture, The Toltecs and Aztecs): pp. 338-349; Readings: Selected Mesoamerican             Poems and Songs: pp. 364

            18 Oct: The Cultures of Peru (The Moche, The Inca, Connections): pp. 349-353; Readings: Pablo

Neruda, from “The Heights of Machu Picchu”; Popol Vuh: pp. 365-368; North America (The Northwest Coast, The Southwest, Cross Currents, The Moundbuilders, The Buffalo Hunters): pp. 353-355

Week Nine

23 Oct.: Africa (The Physical Environment, Early African Cultures and Innovations, Early African

            Political and Religious Culture, Regional Developments in Africa Before 1800, Africa and                       The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Cultural Impact, Key Terms): pp. 355-363; Reading: excerpt                      from The Epic of Son-Jara; excerpt from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali: pp. 368-371       

25 Oct.: Exam Exam #2: Early Civilizations in China, Japan, Africa, and the Americas

Week Ten

Chapter Eleven: The Early Middle Ages and the Romanesque

            30 Oct.: Early Medieval Culture (The Merging of Christian and Celto-Germanic Traditions,

            Charlemagne and the Carolingian Era, Monasticism, Cross Currents, Connections): pp. 372-                      381; Readings: excerpt from Beowulf, excerpt from The Song of Roland: pp. 394-399

            1 Nov.: Romanesque Culture (The Feudal Monarchs, Romanesque Architecture, Cross Currents,

                        Sculpture): pp. 381-387

Week Eleven

            6 Nov.: Romanesque Culture (Decorative Arts, The Chivalric Tradition in Literature, Critical

Thinking, Then & Now, Music, Cultural Impact, Key Terms): pp. 387-393; Readings: Medieval Lyrics by William of Aquitaine, Beatrice of Dia, Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born: pp. 400-403

Chapter Twelve: The Gothic and Later Middle Ages

            8 Nov.: The Gothic Era (Paris in the Later Middle Ages, Then & Now, Gothic Architecture,             Connections), Gothic Architecture Outside France: pp. 404-418

Week Twelve

13 Nov.: Sculpture, Painting and Decorative Arts, Cross Currents, Scholasticism, Connections,    

                Literature, Critical Thinking, Music: pp. 418-430

            15 Nov.: Readings: St. Francis of Assisi, “The Canticle of the Creatures”; St. Thomas Aquinas,       

                           excerpt from the Summa Theologica; from Dante’s Divine Comedy: pp. 440-447

Week Thirteen;           

            20 Nov.: Exam #3: The Early Middle Ages, the Romanesque, and the Gothic

(Thanksgiving Break Begins Wednesday, 21 November)

Week Fourteen

            27 Nov.: Medieval Calamities (The Black Death, The Hundred Years’ War); Toward the Renaissance

                        Naturalism in Art, Realism in Literature, Secular Song, Cultural Impact, Key Terms): pp. 430-      439 (4023 Research Papers due)

            29 Nov.: Readings: Boccaccio, excerpt from The Decameron: pp. 447-449; Christine de Pizan,     excerpt from The Book of the City of Ladies:  pp. 459-461

Week Fifteen

            4 Dec:  Reading: Chaucer, excerpt from The Canterbury Tales: pp. 449-454

            6 Dec: Reading: Chaucer, excerpt from The Canterbury Tales: pp. 454-459           

  Conclusion of Course

FINAL ASSESSMENT: Tuesday, 11 December 2012: A carefully reasoned self-assessment paper (explained fully in a separate handout during the final week of the semester) is prepared ahead of time, outside of class, typed, and turned in Dec. 11 between 1 and 3 p.m. to Bea Wood 201.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

            A.Tests. As the course outline indicates, there will be three exams during the semester. Each will cover material in the units indicated, using objective questions to measure the student’s knowledge of cultural material (50%) and a major essay topic to allow the student to show mastery of content and the ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information (50 %). The final exam for the course will be an individual self-assessment by the student evaluating progress and development throughout the semester.

B. Daily Reading and other Assignments: For almost every class there will be pages to read, and for each of these readings there will be a brief activity to complete that will further prepare the student for class activities. (Assignment sheets will be handed out for each of the testing units throughout the semester.) Some readings will be accompanied by short reading quizzes, some by a brief, typewritten paragraph, and some by other activities. Reading quizzes cannot be taken early or made up, but other assignments may be turned in early for full credit or late for partial credit. Reading quiz grades count for 10% of the grade for 2023 students and 7% for 4023 students.

      For the paragraph assignments, a thoughtful answer of about 100-200 words based on the reading is required. These are due on the date noted on the assignment sheet and will be stamped on that date in class. A portfolio of these assignments will be turned in periodically for evaluation. If assignments are not ready during the class for which they are assigned, they may be completed late (without being stamped) for partial credit. Late paragraphs may be added to the portfolio when submitted for evaluation. Portfolio grades count for 10% of the semester grade for 2023 students and 7% for 4023 students. Plagiarism on a written assignment equals an “F” for that assignment.

C. Attendance. A large part of the value of this class comes from regular attendance and participation in class activities (6% of grade is based on discussion participation). Since this class is values-based as well as information-based, the student should aim for more than simply mastering information. Much of the class activity will be geared toward alerting the student to the nature and extent of human values that accompany cultural achievement. Therefore, regular attendance is important and expected. A record of attendance at each class meeting will be kept. Although no specific penalty will be assigned for absences, excessive absences (more than three, excused or not) will definitely have a negative impact on the final semester grade and may be grounds for a student being dropped from the class. Students who arrive consistently late will receive a grade deduction caused by their consistent interruption of the class.

D. 4023 Requirements: Students in HUMN 4023 will prepare and submit a 10-page, typed research paper on a topic within the course’s medieval time frame and approved of by the professor (topic choices must be submitted in writing no later than Sept. 27). The paper must show independent research and give evidence of an ability to synthesize information. Modern Language Association (MLA) style should be used for documentation. These papers should be turned in by Nov. 27.

             Students in HUMN 4023 will also present to the class an eight-to-ten-minute oral report on an agreed-upon topic following consultation with the professor. Topic choices should be submitted in writing to the professor no later than Sept. 25 (the professor will then assign a presentation date in consultation with the student). A written outline of the report and a bibliography of at least three sources, using MLA (Modern Language Association) style must be turned in to the professor on the day of the report.

E. Semester Grade:

            2023: 3 tests@ 18% each (54%); portfolio (10%); quizzes (10%) final assessment (20%); participation in class and group discussion @ 6%

             4023: 3 tests@ 15% each (45%); portfolio (7); quizzes (7%); oral presentation (8%); research paper (10%); participation in class and group discussion @ 6%; final assessment (17%)

            Remember that a grade of “A” means a student’s work is excellent, a “B” means it’s good, a “C” means it’s satisfactory, a “D” means it’s poor, and an “F” means it’s unsatisfactory.

F. Office Hours/Meeting: (Office/contact information is to be found at the top of page one.) My office hours are 2-4:30 T and 1:15-3:45 on R, and I am not usually in the office MWF. If you cannot come to the office at any of the scheduled times, let’s try to make an appointment that fits your needs. E-mailing me is more reliable than telephone voice mail, but if you do leave a voice mail, be sure to give your name and a number where you can be reached.

MAY YOUR WORK THIS SEMESTER BE YOUR VERY BEST!

HUMANITIES 2013/4013-101

Fall 2012

            Dr. Hoggard                                                                                        Classroom: PY 201

            Phone: 397-4145                                                                                 Meeting times: 9:30-11 TR

            Office: BW 201: 2-4 :30 T; 1:15-3 :45 R                                            e-mail: lynn.hoggard@mwsu.edu

Course goals and objectives: This course gives you the opportunity to understand how literature, music, art, architecture, religion, and philosophy interconnect in a broadly historical context, with emphasis this semester on the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian roots of Western Civilization. The goal of the course is to develop your thinking and writing skills (evaluative, comparative, creative, and analytical) along with your knowledge and understanding of culture so that you may become an innovative and informed world citizen.

Required textbook: Benton and Di Yanni, Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Vol. 1, 3^rd Ed.

Tentative Course Schedule:

 Week One

Aug. 28: Introduction to course

Aug. 30: Preface: p. xiv-xvii and Starter Kit, pp. xxi-xxx; Chapter 1 (The Earliest Cultures), pp. 1-8

Chapter One: Prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian Civilizations

Week Two

Sept.   4: Lascaux video, activities

Sept.   6: Mesopotamia: The Cradle of Civilization, Sumer, pp. 8-11; excerpt from The Epic of      Gilgamesh, pp. 40-43; “Enheduanna,” pp. 44-45: Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, pp. 12-14

Week Three

Sept. 11: Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, Persia, pp. 14-18; The Civilization of the Nile, pp. 18-22

Sept. 13: Video: "The Ancient Egyptians"; The Old Kingdom, pp. 22-26; “Egyptian Book of the Dead,”      

p. 45; The Middle Kingdom and The New Kingdom, pp. 27-31

Week Four

Sept. 18: Akhenaten and Tutankahmen; Egyptian Dance, Music, and Poetry, 31-38; poems, pp. 45-49

(4013 Oral Report Topics Due)

Sept.  20: Exam One: Prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian Civilizations

Week Five

Chapter Two: Aegean Culture and Early Greece

Sept. 25: Aegean Cultures: Cycladic and Minoan, pp. 50-58

Sept. 27: Mycenaean Culture, The Rise of Ancient Greece, The Pantheon of Greek Gods, The                                          Geometric Period, pp. 58-66;  : Readings: Hesiod, pp. 74-75; Homer, excerpts from The Iliad and

The Odyssey, pp. 75-84.

(4013 Research Paper Topics Due; submit brief written description of choice)

Week Six

 Oct.  2: The Orientalizing Period; The Archaic Period, pp. 66-72;    Readings: Sappho and Archaic                                   Lyric Poetry,   pp.84-85

Chapter Three: Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Oct.  4: Video: "Traditions of Greek Culture: Greek Art"

Week Seven

Oct.   9: Classical Greece; From Archaic to Classical, pp. 86-91; Reading: Herodotus, pp.116-118;           

             The Golden Age of Athens, Architecture & Architectural Sculpture of Acropolis, pp. 90-95

             Reading: Thucydides, pp. 118-120

Oct. 11: Sculpture, Vase Painting, pp. 95-99

Week Eight

Oct. 16: The Emergence of Drama, pp. 99-102; Aristotle, The Poetics, pp. 136-137

Oct. 18: Reading: Sophocles, excerpt from Oedipus Rex, pp. 120-123; video excerpts;

  Reading: Aeschylus, excerpt from Agamemnon, pp. 123-126   

Week Nine

Oct.  23: Reading: Euripides, excerpt from Medea, pp. 126-129

            Oct.  25: Philosophy, pp. 102-105; Reading: Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, pp. 134-136

                           Readings: Plato, from The Apology and The Republic, pp. 130-134

Week Ten

            Oct. 30:  Music & Greek Society, pp. 106-107; Hellenistic Greece, Architecture, Sculpture, pp.107-111;

                           Hellenistic Philosophy, pp. 111-114

Nov.  1: Exam Two: Early, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Civilization

Week Eleven

Chapter Four: Roman Civilization

            Nov.  6: The Greek Legacy and the Roman Ideal, Etruscan Civilization, pp. 138-144

                          Video: "The Rise of Rome"

            Nov.  8: The Roman Republic, The Empire, Music, Architecture, pp.144-153

Week Twelve

            Nov. 13: Sculpture, Painting, Philosophy, Historians, Literature, pp. 153- 165

            Nov. 15: Reading: Virgil, pp. 166-176

(Research Papers Due for 4013)

Week Thirteen

Chapter Five: Judaism, Early Christianity, and Byzantine Civilization

            Nov. 20: Judaism and Early Christianity, pp. 186-205

Thanksgiving Break

Week Fourteen

Nov. 27: Readings: Genesis, Job, Matthew, Luke, Thomas, Augustine, pp. 218-232                      

            Nov. 29: Exam Three: Roman Civilization, Judaism, and Early Christianity

Week Fifteen

            Dec.  4: Byzantine Civilization, pp. 205-208; discussion of final assessments

            Dec.  6: The Golden Age of Constantinople, pp. 208-216; review, evaluate, conclude semester

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, Dec 11, 8-10:00 a.m. A carefully-reasoned self-assessment paper (explained fully in a separate handout during the final week of the semester) is prepared ahead of time, outside of class, and turned in Dec. 11in Bea Wood 201.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

A. Regular Class Assignments: For almost every class there will be either a brief writing assignment to be kept in a portfolio for periodic evaluation, or there will be a brief reading quiz based on the day’s reading. For the writing assignments, what is expected is a thoughtful, well-written, and typed response that demonstrates the evaluative, comparative, analytical, and creative skills specified in the stated goals for the course. One good paragraph—100 to 200 words—is the appropriate length. About 20 minutes should be devoted to this task for each class. Paragraphs are due on the date noted on the assignment sheet (to be passed out separately) and will be stamped on that date during class meeting. Plagiarism on any written assignment equals an “F” for that work.

            Students whose responses are not prepared for a class session may complete their paragraph responses later and receive partial credit for them when portfolios are assessed. Even though a student may miss a class or may not have a response prepared on the assigned day, he/she should strive to write the responses later to make the portfolio complete. No specific grade will be assigned to the individual responses, but the portfolio will be periodically assessed for strengths and weaknesses and will be assigned a grade that will count for 10% (2013 students) or 7% (4013 students) of the final semester grade.

            The brief reading quizzes will usually consist of five multiple-choice questions based on the assigned reading for a particular day. The questions—usually requiring short answer, description, or definition—will be the kind of question that occurs on the objective portion of the exams. Students may drop the lowest grade for reading quizzes, but quizzes may not be taken early or made up later. Quiz grades count 10% for 2013 and 7% for 4013.

B. Tests and Short Quizzes: There will be three exams using both short answer (50%) and essay (50%).  Each exam counts 20% for 2013 or 17% for 4013. The final assessment also counts 20% (2013) or 17% (4013).

C. Attendance: A large part of the value of a class such as this comes from daily participation in give-and-take discussions (6% of grade) and from being able to see and hear slides and video presentations. Therefore, regular attendance is important and expected. A record of attendance at each class meeting will be kept, but no specific penalty will be assigned for absences. Excessive absences (more than three) will, however, have a negative impact on a student’s grade and may be grounds for dropping a student from the class. Students who arrive habitually late will have a grade deduction for the disruption cause by their behavior.

D. Additional Requirements for 4013 Students: 1) Research Paper: A ten-page paper on a topic selected in conference with the instructor will be due November 15. Topics must be selected no later than September 27 (please submit a short, written topic choice). The paper must involve independent research and give evidence of the ability to synthesize the expressions of different forms of art within the cultural period (the ancient world). Papers should be written in Modern Language Association (MLA) format.

            2) Oral Reports: 4013 students will prepare an eight-to-ten minute oral report to present to the class on an agreed-upon subject and date. Topic choices for presentations need to be turned in quickly—by September 18 (presentation dates will be assigned shortly after). A typed outline of the report and a typed bibliography in MLA format of at least three sources must be turned in to the instructor on the day of the report.

E. Semester Grade:

            2013:  Each of the three exams counts 18% of the final grade (54% total); the portfolio of work counts 10%, quizzes 10%, participation 6%, and the final self-assessment provides the other 20% of the grade.

            4013: Each of the three exams counts 15% of the final grade (45% together); the portfolio of work counts 7%, quizzes 7%, oral report 8%, research paper 10%, participation 6%, and final self-assessment 17%.

F. Office Hours/Meeting: (Office/contact information is to be found at the top of page one.) My office hours are 2-4:30 TR. If you cannot come to the office at any of the above listed times, let’s try to make an appointment that fits your needs. E-mailing me is more reliable than telephone voice mail (I’m not in the office MWF, but do check e-mail daily), but if you do leave a voice mail, be sure to give your name and a number where you can be reached.

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