HUMN 220: HUMANITIES I

Spring 2008

TR 4:00-5:40pm

Welles 132

INSTRUCTOR:

Theodore Everett

office: Wadsworth 9B

telephone: x5198

email: everett@geneseo.edu

office hours: 2:00-4:00W (and by appt.)

TEXTS:

Perry, Western Civilization: A Brief History (Houghton Mifflin)

Sophocles, Three Theban Plays (Penguin)

Thucydides, On Justice, Power, and Human Nature (Hackett)

Plato, The Republic (Hackett)

Virgil, The Aeneid (Bantam)

The Bible, Revised Standard Version (Meridian)

Augustine, Confessions (Penguin)

Dante, Inferno (Penguin)

Machiavelli, The Prince (Penguin)

Shakespeare Hamlet (Signet)

All texts are available--in new or used editions--at Sundance Books on Main Street. When you buy the texts, check to make sure you have the right edition. This is particularly important with Plato and Thucydides, since other editions are floating around.

Always bring the assigned text to class.

REQUIREMENTS:

1.- 2 Papers: There will be two papers, each four to five pages long. They will be analytical papers, each requiring you to think carefully about some aspect of the works under consideration. The papers are to be word-processed, double-spaced, and carefully proofread for mechanical errors. Each assignment will be explained by a handout and will be discussed in detail in class. Each paper will count approximately 18% of the final grade.

2.- 3 Examinations: Three hourly examinations, primarily essay in format. Each exam will count for 18% of the final grade.

3.- Quizzes: There will be about ten quizzes on the readings, totaling 10% of the final grade.

4.- Participation: Class discussion and improvement will be factors in any borderline grades.

PLAGIARISM:

All work for this course must be your own. Any plagiarism will result in a grade of E for the course. See the college academic honesty policy for definitions and details, at

http://www.geneseo.edu/~bulletin/addpolicies.shtml#student_academic

COURSE SCHEDULE (readings in parentheses).

Note: all dates for specific topics are tentative.

1/22 Introduction; The world before history

1/24 Homer, Iliad (handout) [Perry, Ch. 1]

1/29 Sophocles, Antigone (also read Introduction) [Perry, Ch. 3]

1/31 Antigone

2/5 Thucydides, Peloponnesian War pp. 1-96 (omit pp. 59-66, 76-87)

2/7 Peloponnesian War pp. 99-160 (omit pp. 125-154)

2/12 Plato; Republic I-IV

2/14 Republic V-VIII

2/19 Virgil, Aeneid I, II, IV [Perry, Ch. 4]

2/21 Aeneid VI, XII

2/26 catch up and review

2/28 FIRST EXAM

3/4 Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus 1-25 [Perry, Ch. 2]

3/6 Old Testament: Samuel I and II

3/11 New Testament: Matthew [Perry, Ch. 5]

3/13 Matthew

3/18, 3/20 SPRING BREAK – no class

3/25 New Testament: Romans; FIRST PAPER DUE

3/27 Augustine, Confessions

4/1 Confessions

4/3 catch up and review

4/8 SECOND EXAM

4/10 Medieval interlude (handouts) [Perry, Ch. 6]

4/15 Dante, Inferno I-X [Perry, Ch. 7]

4/17 Inferno XI-XXXIV

4/22 Machiavelli, Prince [Perry, Ch. 8]

4/24 Prince

4/29 Shakespeare, Hamlet

5/1 Hamlet; SECOND PAPER DUE

5/6 catch up and review

FINAL EXAM: Friday, 5/9, 3:30-6:30pm