SYLLABUS
Monday 1/1/18: Greetings! O 2018 spring-semester Honors Students of mine! The required paperbacks for our course, available in the Bookstore AND ALL 5 for a total cost of under $50!!! (tho' some copies are in VERY USED condition), are as follows: I do require THESE SPECIFIC pbk-editions/translations: 1. THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH (Penguin Classics) - translated by N.K. Sandars, 2. THE AENEID, Vergil (Vintage Classics) - tr. by Robert Fitzgerald, 3. BEOWULF (Penguin) - tr. by David Wright, 4. AS I CROSSED A BRIDGE OF DREAMS (Penguin) - tr. by Ivan Morris, 5. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (Penguin) - tr. by Brian Stone. And there will be a small COPYPAK related to THE AENEID.
The 2018 SYLLABUS will be typed as a file elsewhere; I'll send it to you all as an Attachment to an email, and I'll have paper-copies for everybody at our first class-meeting.
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SYLLABUS-SCHEDULE of Readings, of Typed-Essay-Questions (TEQs), and of the Midterm & Final EXAMS
WEEK II: T 1/19: The Epic of Gilgamesh II: pages 61-84: Prologue & Chs. 1-2
Th 1/21: E of G III: 85-107: Chs. 3-4 *** Topic for TEQ #1 (= 2 typed pages)
WEEK III: T 1/26: E of G IV: 108-119: Chs. 5-6-7 *** TEQ due for in-class discussion
Th 1/28: Vergil, The AEneid I: 403-417: Postscript by trans. & poet Robert Fitzgerald + 419-42: just glance at Glossary + 3-30: Book I
WEEK IV: T 2/2: AEneid II: 33-61: Book II + from BOOK III: 65 (lines 1-18) + mid75-mid83 (374-670) + 86-91 (758-952)
Th 2/4: AEneid III: 95-121: Book IV + from Book V: 125-29 (1-140) + 151-56 (934-1141) *** Topic for TEQ #2
WEEK V: T 2/9: AEneid IV: 159-192 *** TEQ #2 due
Th 2/11: AEneid V: from Book VII: 195-200 (1-197) + Book VIII: 229-56
WEEK VI: T 2/16: guest-speaker/teacher arranged by HONORS Program - Prof. Charles Falco, scientist with interdisciplinary interests
Th 2/18: AENEID VI: from Book X: 293-97 (1-164) + 322-27 (1064-1276) + from Book XII: 367-71 (1-157) + 379-402 (427-1298)
WEEK VII: T 2/23: Beowulf I: 9-25: Introduction & Note + 109-22: Appendices & Glossary of Names + 27-mid31: Prologue & sections #1-2
Th 2/25: Beowulf II: mid31-56: #3-18 *** Topic for TEQ #3
WEEK VIII: T 3/2: Beowulf III: 57-mid79: #19-31 *** TEQ #3 due
Th 3/4: Beowulf IV: mid79-101: #32-43 *** Hand-out of ReviewPages for the MIDTERM - also on web-page
WEEK IX: T 3/9: RETROSPECTIVE using the RevPp + comments on MEX exam-format
Th 3/11: MIDTERM Exam including in-class written PARTS + a 2-page typed Essay-Question PART due after Spring Break on Tuesday 3/23: topic related to "The Seafarer" & "The Wayfarer" in COPYPAK
WEEK X: SPRING BREAK 3/15-19. Please READ in advance Lady Sarashina, Bridge of Dreams: 1-29: Introduction by tr. Ivan Morris
WEEK XI: T 3/23: Class-discussion of MEX Essay-Topic on the 2 Anglo-Saxon poems + Lady Sarashina, B of Ds I: 31-top57: sections #1-7
Th 3/25: B of Ds II: mid57-82: sections #8-17 *** Topic for TEQ #4
WEEK XII: T 3/30: B of Ds III: 83-110: sections #18-34 *** TEQ #4 due
Th 4/1: COPYPAK: Marie de France, "Lanval" + Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I: ix-xviii: Introduction + 3-17: section I
WEEK XIII: T 4/6: Sir G II: 18-36: section II
Th 4/8: Sir G III: 37-62: section III *** Topic for TEQ #5
WEEK XIV: T 4/13: Sir G IV: 63-78: section IV *** TEQ #5 due
Th 4/15: COPYPAK: Dante I: Inferno - Cantos I & II
WEEK XV: T 4/20: Student Academic Conference - no class-session
Th 4/22: COPYPAK: Homer, Odyssey: Books X (in part) & XI: Descent into Hades + Dante II: Inferno: Canto XXVI *** Topic for TEQ #6
WEEK XVI: T 4/27: COPYPAK: from G. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: "The Sgt-at-Law's Tale" *** TEQ #6 due
Th 4/29: COPYPAK: from Marco Polo's Travels: Prologue & Epilogue *** Hand-out of ReviewPages for the FINAL - also on web-page
WEEK XVII: T 5/4: RETROSPECTIVE with RevPp + comments on FEX-format
WEEK XVIII: Tuesday 5/11: exam @ 12:00-2:00 p.m.
*** Regarding your typed, 8-10 page Writing-Piece, I'll have Guidelines for you down the road, presented in class - hand-out & on web-page. AND I'd like to encourage everyone to initiate class-discussion by "assigning" in alphabetical order each student to be a discussion-leader from time-to-time - possibly two at a given time. We'll see; more on this down the road, too.