HUM 120 Reading Schedule

Reading Schedule and Calendar

HUM 120-004.....Spring 2009

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ziggurat of Ur		January 21 Introduction to Class What is the West? Introduction, Western Humanities, Matthews/Platt	January 22	January 23
January 26 Chapter 1 View the Lascaux Cave in France Focus on Mesopotamia	January 30	January 28 Focus on The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Code of Hammurabi Babylonian mathematics Read: National Geographic article on Iraq Phoenician Alphabet		January 30
February 2 Learn about King Tut Film on Egypt Read Chapter 2		February 4 Read the selections from The Iliad and the poems of Sappho Map of Greece View Mycenae	February 5	February 6 Complete text of The Iliad
February 9 Study Guide for the First Exam Art Practice for the first exam	February 10	February 11 Review for Exam Website on the Parthenon Marbles (needed for journal entry)	February 12 and 13
February 16 No class	February 17 Special exam study sessions in my office (3614) at 10 and 2.	February 18 Exam # 1 Read Chapter 3	February 19	February 20
February 23 Read Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound in Three Greek Plays Hand in journals for review.	February 24	February 25 Read the selections from Plato and Thucydides in the Reader plus "The Melian Debate" also by Thucydies The Acropolis of Athens	February 26	February 27
March 2 *Read Euripedes' The Trojan Women* in Three Greek Plays**	March 3	March 4 Read Chapter 4 Greek Sculpture		March 6 Women and Gender Studies Conference.....4 participation points for a full day of attendance
March 9 Read Epicurus' "Letter to Menoeceus" in RWH	March 10	March 11 Exam # 2	March 12 and March 13
March 16-20 Spring Break! Consider going to the Art Institute, the Field Museum, or the Oriental Institute for participation credit.
March 23 Chapter 5 on the Roman Empire Maps of the Roman Empire	March 24	March 25 Discussion of Aeneid Focus on Roman Art and Architecture	March 26
March 30 Read Chapter 6 on Judaism and the Rise of Christianity *(pp. 155-169) and read the selections from the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible)* in RWH (pp. 146-162)emphasizing the selections from Genesis and Job. Cultures Week begins today.**	March 31	April 1 Read the the rest of Chapter 6 (pp. 169-181) and the selections from the New Testament in RWH (pp. 163-167) Special Event on Jewish Art...Go to 1604 for class. Study Guide for the 3rd Exam	April 2 and 3
April 6 Discussion of the the beginning of Christianity	April 7	April 8 Discussion of the Sermon on the Mount Art and Architecture Review	April 9	April 10
April 13 Quiz # 3	April 1	April 15 Read Chapter 7 (pp. 183-208) View Hagia Sofia	April 16 and 17
April 20 Read Chapter 8 View film: Islam: Empire of Faith	April 21	April 22 *Read the selections from the Qur'an.*
April 27 Dome of the Rock View the Alhambra Ibn Tulun Mosque.		April 29		May 1
May 4 Read Chapter 9 (pp.255-282) View Notre Dame Study Guide for the Last Exam Distributed	May 5	May 6 Read the selections from Dante. in the Reader.	May 7	May 8
May 11 View images in Chapter 10 and read the selections from *Boccaccio's Decameron* and Christine de Pizan's City of the Ladies**		May 13 Journals due Review for final Review Architecture 120 Art Review	May 14 10-12 am....Special Review for Exam	May 15
May 18 Final Exam