Tentative Schedule
NB: This schedule may be changed by the instructors to meet the needs of the class. The texts will be discussed on
the day indicated, please read them carefully before this day. Check the course web site for any new changes to
the schedule.
Tuesday, 1 of September
Introduction to the course; Europe After Rome
READ: Hunt, pp. 275-293
Origins of European Identity: The Roman Empire and its Cultural Legacy
Thursday, 3 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
Medieval Spain
READ: Hunt, 303-309; Peasant Fires, Author’s Note, Ch. I and II
PREPARE: Write a letter to yourself that answers the following questions:
1.
What are your goals for your first year of college?
2.
What do you expect to learn in your year of Honors Western Civilization?
3.
How do you expect to change over this year?
4.
When you read this letter next April, what do you want to remember about
yourself as you are right now?
Dr. Wright:
The Muslim Empire and Coexistence
Contributions: Hispano-Arabic, Jewish and Early Lyric Poetry
READ and PREPARE: "The Courtly Culture of Europe" (Hunt, 367-369) and Poetry Selections and
questions (please print out a copy)
Tuesday 8 of September
Labor Day Break
Thursday, 10 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
The Medieval World
READ: Peasant Fires, ch. II-VI ; Hunt, Chapter 10
Dr. Wright:
Medieval Concepts of Love
READ: Ibn Hazam, The Ring of the Dove (please print out a copy) and Andreas Capellanus De Amore
(please print out a copy)
PREPARE: Questions for The Ring of the Dove and Andreas Capellanus (please print out a copy)
Tuesday, 15 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
The Medieval World
READ: Peasant Fires, ch. VII and VIII
Dr. Wright:
The Cultural Enterprise of Alfonso X the Wise and The Rise of Narrative: Don Juan Manuel
Read: Count Lucanor (Course pack 5-36)
Thursday, 17 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
The Black Death
READ: Black Death Documents and Hunt, pp. 426-447
Dr. Wright:
The Black Death and Artistic Responses: The Dance of Death; Boccacio, The Decameron
READ: Boccacio, The Decameron Prologue- Day 1 Novel I (Course pack 37-53) Questions to consider
as you read (please print out a copy)
Tuesday, 22 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
The Renaissance
READ: Machiavelli, Chapters 1-11; Hunt pp. 448-463
Dr. Wright:
READ: Boccacio, The Decameron Day 1 Novels II, III to end (Course pack 53-86) Questions to consider
as you read (please print out a copy)
PREPARE: "Romanesque" and "The Order of High Gothic" (Hunt, 374-375; 415-421). Find visual
examples of Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture and bring them to class to hand in. Be
prepared to explain the differences between the two styles
Thursday, 24 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
Renaissance Politics
READ: Machiavelli, Chapters 12-26
Dr. Wright:
Renaissance Literature: Dante
READ: Selections from Dante's Inferno and Paradiso
PREPARE: Divine Comedy Discussion Questions (please print out a copy)
Tuesday 29 of September
Dr. Coolidge:
Pre-Reformation Catholic Church
***Peer-editing workshop: Bring rough draft of your paper: Paper topic and Guidelines
Dr. Wright:
The Age of Pilgrimage: Canterbury and the Camino de Santiago
READ: Chaucer, “General Prologue”; “The Prioress "Prologue and "Tale”; “The Pardoner's "Prologue"
and "Tale”
PREPARE:Classdiscussion questions (Please print out for class)
READ: The Legends of Saints and the Cult of Relics
Thursday, 1 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
The Protestant Reformation
READ: Hunt, pp. 474-486; Martin Luther, 95 Theses (online)
****Paper #1 Due (Dr. Coolidge)****
Dr. Wright:
READ: Chaucer, ; "The Wife of Bath Prologue" and "Tale" and "Chaucer's Retraction"
PREPARE:Classdiscussion questions (Please print out for class)
Tuesday, 6 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
The Catholic Counter Reformation
READ: Cowans, Documents #11: Charles V, Statement on Luther; #17 Saint Ignatious Loyola,
Autobiography; #21: The Struggle Against Protestantism
Dr. Wright:
Female Piety
READ: The Book of Margery Kemp (Course pack, 155-191) and Leonor López de Cordoba (Handout)
PREPARE: Study Questions
Catholic Reform: Mysticism: Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
READ: St. Teresa of Avila, "Autobiography" (in Cowans, 93-99); Selections from Interior Castle and
"Let Nothing Disturb Thee" (please print out a copy)
PREPARE: Compare and contrast in writing the works of the three women. What differences do you
note in the spiritual and/or mystical experience of each one? What similarities do you note? How would
you define mysticism based on these readings?
Thursday, 8 of October
Dr. Coolidge: Trip to Chicago
Dr. Wright: Away at conference
Tuesday, 13 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
The Spanish Inquisition
READ: Cowans, Document #2: Ferdinand and Isabella, Letter on the Inquisition; #3: Juan de Marian,
The Conquest of Granada; #4: Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada; #5: Ferdinand and Isabella,
Decree of Expulsion of the Jews; #6: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain; #12 The Inquisition; #34:
Phillip III, Decree of Expulsion of the Moriscos; #35: The Archbishop of Seville, On the expulsion of the
Moriscos
READ: Kagan and Dyer, Chapters 1-3
Rewrite of paper #1 due today
Dr. Wright:
Trip to library
Thursday, 15 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
Religious Violence
READ: Hunt, pp. 486-504; Kagan and Dyer, Chapters 4-6; Cowans, Documents #23: Margaret of Parma,
The Situation in the Low Countries
Dr. Wright:
Ferdinand and Isabella: Creation of Marginal Voices: the Context of Celestina
Read: Celestina (Acts I-IV); Answer Questions (please print out a copy) Group Presentation
Tuesday, 20 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
Witchcraft
READ: Hunt, pp. 514-520,
Witchcraftdocuments
Dr.Wright:
READ: Celestina (Acts V-XVI) Group Presentation
***Post your list of articles (include complete bibliographical information) on Blackboard (the five
articles on history should be posted on Dr. Coolidge's Blackboard site and tthe five on the literary
works read in class on Dr. Wright's Blackboard site).
Thursday, 22 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
The Early Modern World
READ: Davis, Chapters 1-4; Hunt, pp.504-509
Dr. Wright:
The Other as Fictional Hero: the Rise of the Picaro: Lazarillo de Tormes
READ: Lazarillo de Tormes (Prologue; Chapters 1-3)
READ: Francisco Pacheco, "The Art of Painting" (Cowans, 168-171); "Arts in an Age of Religious
Conflict" (Hunt, 509-511)
PREPARE: Find examples of Baroque art from both Protestant Reformation Europe and Counter
Reformation Europe and bring them to class to hand in.
Tuesday, 27 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
The Early Modern World
READ: Davis, Chapters 5-8
Dr. Wright:
READ: Lazarillo de Tormes (Chapters 4-7)
Group Presentation on entire work
Thursday, 29 of October
Dr. Coolidge:
READ: Davis, Chapters 9-12 and Epilogue
Dr. Wright:
Cervantes’ Don Quijote and the Early Modern World
READ: Cervantes Don Quijote Chapter 1 (Course pack 125-133)
***Peer-editing workshop: Bring rough draft of Paper #2 Paper Topic
Tuesday, 3 of november
Movie day!!! The Return of Martin Guerre
*****Paper #2 Due (Dr. Wright)****
Thursday, 5 of November
Dr. Coolidge:
Absolutism
READ: Hunt, pp. 523-552 and start Erauso, pp. 3-79
Dr. Wright:
Read: Cervantes, Don Quijote (Course pack 133-170)
Prepare:DiscussionQuestions (please print)
Tuesday, 10 of November
Dr. Coolidge:
The Age of Exploration
READ: Erauso, pp. 3-79; Hunt pp. 463-471; 567-578
Dr. Wright:
Two National Theaters in the Age of the Baroque: Spain and England
READ: Othello Group Presentation
Thursday, 12 of November
Slavery and Violence in the New World
Dr. Coolidge:
READ: Erauso, vii-xlviii; Cowans, # 7: Christopher Columbus, Letter on the New World; 8: The
Requirement9: Bernal Díaz del Castilla, The Conquest of Mexico; 13: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda,
Just War in the Indies; 14: Barolomé de Las Casas, Thirty Propositions;15: Letter from Five
Franciscans;16: Viceroy Luis de Velasco, Letter to King Charles; 18: Ysabel de Guevara,
Hardships in the Río de la Plata Region; 20: Philip II, What to Learn Concerning Indian Tribute;
24: Letter from Four Indian Governors
Dr. Wright:
READ: Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko Group Presentation
Tuesday, 17 of November
Dr. Coolidge:
The Scientific Revolution
READ: Hunt, 509-517; 552-565; Fredrickson, pp. 1-47; Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,
Dr. Wright:
READ: "The Individual and Society" (Hunt 615-618); Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Group Presentation
WRITE a paragraph stating whether you agree or disagree with Rousseau and why or why not.
***Rewrite of paper #2 for Dr. Wright due today
Thursday, 19 of November
Dr. Coolidge:
The Scientific Revolution
READ: Hunt, pp. 600-606
***Peer-editing workshop: Bring rough draft of Paper #3: Paper topic
Dr. Wright:
READ: Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Group Presentation
WRITE a paragraph stating whether you agree or disagree with Rousseau and why or why not.
Tuesday, 24 of November
Dr. Coolidge:
The Enlightenment
READ: Hunt, Chapter 15; Cowans, Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, On the Political Economy of Spain
(251-256)
****Paper #3 Due: Dr. Coolidge****
Dr. Wright:
READ: Rousseau, The Social Contract Group Presentation
Write a paragraph defining the term "social contract" according to Rousseau. Answer: What does
Rousseau consider that citizens gain and lose by the social contract?
Thursday, 26 of November
Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, 1 of December
Dr. Coolidge:
The Enlightenment
READ: Voltaire, selections from the Philosophical Dictionary and Cowans, Documents #50: Benito
Feijoó, Causes of Spains's Backwardness; #51: José Campillo y Cossío, A /new Economic Policy for
America ; #53: The Count of Aranda, On the Independence of the Colonies; #55: Joseph Townsend; #56:
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, In Praise of Charles III; #57 Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes
***Optional rewrite of paper #3 for Dr. Coolidge due today
Dr. Wright:
Travel, Orientalism, the critique by/of the Other
READ: Persian Letters (Montesquieu) (Course pack 171-190) and Citizen of the World (Goldsmith)
(Course pack 191-205). "The Growing
Public for Culture" (Hunt, 582-586)
When reading, think about and then answer the following questions::
What Montesquieu/ Goldsmith criticizes and why?
Why does he use the epistolary form?
Why does he use Persian/Chinese travelers in Europe?
How are the Persians/Chinese characterized?
Usbek's Journey
Paper Topic #4
Thursday, 3 of December
The Enlightenment and the Other
Dr. Coolidge:
READ: Voltaire, Candide, all
Dr. Wright:
READ: Letters From a Peruvian Woman (pp. 3-50)
Tuesday, 8 of December
Dr. Coolidge:
French Revolution
READ: Hunt, Chapter 16; Cowans, Document #58: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Letter on the French
Revolution; #59: José Marchena; #60: Charles IV, Declaration of War on France; #61: Jovellanos
Dr. Wright:
READ: Letters From a Peruvian Woman (pp. 50-174); Lady Montagu, Selected Turkish Embassy
Letters and Cadalso, Moroccan Letters (Course pack 207-233)
Thursday, 10 of December
Conclusions Sleep of Reason
***Peer-editing workshop: Bring rough draft of Paper # 4
****Annotated bibliografies due today!!
Finals week, 14 of December
Paper #4 for Dr. Wright due during the final exam period.
Exam times: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 12:00 - 1:50 PM (Dr. Wright)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 4:00 - 5:50 PM (Dr. Coolidge)