Schedule for Discussion Leaders:
I was not able to accommodate everyone’s requested dates unfortunately (and if you missed
class on Monday Feb 3 then you’ve been assigned a date). Please note, these dates cannot be
changed! There are some dates on which two students are presenting—in some of those
cases I’ve divided the reading between the two students and in some cases, where the
reading is not as clearly divisible, I haven’t done so. In both cases it is up to you how to
proceed. If you would like to ‘team teach’ the material for a half hour you are welcome to do
so. In this case you would need to meet beforehand and plan, and make sure each of you
have a relatively equal voice in the discussion. The other option is to lead the discussion
separately and each for 15 minutes—this is possible even if you’re both assigned the same
reading. There is a lot to say about all of these works, and don’t worry if overlap occurs.
Mon Feb 10: The Book of Job: Clinton
excerpt from The Babylonian Theodicy; excerpt from The Book of the Dead : Vincent
Wed Feb 12: Lincoln’s Birthday, College is closed
Mon Feb 17: President’s Day, college is closed
Wed Feb 19: Sophocles’ Oedipus (included in The Three Theban Plays): Mohammad
Mansoor, Arsi Agolli
Thurs Feb 20: *Close Reading Draft Due for mandatory peer review session; Classes
follow a Monday schedule!
Mon Feb 24: Sophocles’ Antigone (included in The Three Theban Plays): Samar Nadi, Juan
Ayllon
Wed Feb 26: Aeschylus’s Agamemnon (included in The Oresteia): Manna Samuel
Mon March 3: No discussion leader because Close Reading 1 Due
Wed March 5: Aeschylus’s The Libation Bearers (included in The Oresteia): Haoning Zeng
Mon March 10: Aeschylus’s The Eumenides (included in The Oresteia): Kyle Wechsler,
Joshua Sturm
Wed March 12: The Bhagavad Gita, First Discourse to Fifth Discourse, pages 3-69: Melanie
Di Palma, Bryan Motiram
Mon March 17: The Bhagavad Gita, Fifth Discourse to end of book: Sundeep Samra
Wed March 19: Confucius from The Analects: Dennis Hong
article on modern-day role of Confucius (posted to blog; please print, read and bring to
class): Xianhui Xu
Mon March 24: Midterm, no discussion leader scheduled
Wed March 26: Introduction to Medieval China and excerpt from Ban Zhao’s Lessons for
Women: Sandy Wu
Yuan Cai’s Precepts for Social Life (all materials posted to blog; please read, print and bring to
class): Kimberley Squillante
Mon March 31: Augustine’s The Confessions, Books I-III: Maxwell Kuritzky
Wed April 2: The Confessions Books IV: Ryan Faro
Book VIII: Phillip Kang
Mon April 7: The Confessions Book X: Donald Wong (first half of Book X)
Moses Bae: Second half of Book X
Wed April 9: no discussion leader scheduled *Close Reading 2 Due in class
Mon April 14: Spring Break, no classes scheduled
Wed April 16: Spring Break
Mon April 21: Spring Break
Wed April 23: Shakespeare’s Othello, Acts I & 2: Hina Babar
Act III: Dongmin Kim
Mon April 28: In-class Othello reading/writing exercise *Final Paper Draft Due in Class
Wed April 30: Shakespeare’s Othello, Acts 4 : Alvin Daniel
Othello Act 5: Robert Rodriguez
Mon May 5: Individual Paper Workshops
Wed May 7: Individual Paper Workshops
Mon May 12: no discussion leader scheduled, final paper due in class
Wed May 14: Othello: Alicia Ng