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Schedule of Readings and Assignments
Honors Core Seminar
HUM  120 / PHL  230

 

 

HUM 120

Syllabus for HUM 120

PHL 230

Syllabus for PHL 230

Week 1

 

 

Monday

8/23 

 

What is Western civilization?

View the Lascaux Cave in France
 

Introduction to Mesopotamia

Suggested Reading: National Geographic article on Iraq and Lost Treasures from Iraq.

Introductions and Syllabi

 

Wednesday

8/25

 

Student presentations on The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Code of Hammurabi  

Complete Code of Hammurabi
   

"Babylonian Mathematics"

Text, pp. 1-12, 
Reader, pp. 1-13
Chapter 1 Web Resources

Early Greek Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics

Read Ancient Philosophy 1-28

Link to Parmenides

Link to Zeno

Week 2

 

 

Monday

8/30 

 

Egypt

Text: pp. 12-27
Reader, pp. 14-24

Learn about King Tut

Socrates and the Socrates.jpg (8143 bytes)
Sophists

Read: Euthyphro and 

Student presentations on the Euthyphro

Wednesday

9/1

 

Film on Egypt and imperialism

Great Pyramid

Socrates and the Sophists

Read: Apology

 

Student presentations on the Apology

Week 3

 

 

Monday

9/6 

No Class

Wednesday

 9/8

 

Archaic Greece

View Mycenae

Text, pp. 31-53
Chapter 2 Web Resources

Plato: Metaphysics

Read: Phaedo

Study Guide for the First Philosophy Quiz

Quiz 1

Week 4

 

 

Monday

9/13

 

JOURNAL COLLECTION

Student presentations on the Iliad, the Odyssey, and on Sappho’s Poems

Complete text of The Iliad

Reader, pp. 35-55   

Plato: Metaphysics

Read: Republic (470a-480a; 502d-521b) & Symposium (199d-215e)

Student presentations on Republic and Symposium

Wednesday
 9/15

 

Study Guide for the First Quiz

Quiz 1

Introduction to the Hellenic Period

Plato: Metaphysics

Read: Parmenides (all)

 

Student presentations on Parmenides

Week 5

 

 

Monday

9/20

 

Hellenic Period – History – Film

Map of Greece

Text, pp. 55-71
Reader, pp. 75-80

Chapter 3 Web Resources

Plato: Metaphysics

Read: Republic (470a-480a; 502d-521b) & Symposium (199d-215e) 

Student presentations on  Republic and Symposium 

Student presentations on Parmenides

 

Wednesday

 9/22

 

Student presentations on Greek plays: Oedipus the King and The Trojan Women

Historical Background for The Trojan Women

Bullfinch's Mythology (Section on Greece and Rome)

Plato: Metaphysics

Read: Parmenides (all)

 

Study Guide for the Second Quiz

Sunday

9/26

By the People, 1:00-4:30 PM

Participation Credit (3 points possible)

Week 6,

 

 

Monday

9/27

Hellenic Art and Architecture

Many links to Greek culture 

Parthenon (UCCS)

Ancient City of Athens

Greek Art and Architecture

Elgin Marbles

Text, pp. 71-83

Plato: Ethics and Politics

Read: Republic Book I (all) and Book II (357b-376e) Republic Book X (all)

 

 

Student presentations on Republic

Wednesday

9/29

 

Introduction to the Hellenistic Period….History

 

Text, pp. 87-100

Study Guide for the 2nd Quiz

Plato: Ethics and Politics

Read: Republic Book I (all) and Book II (357b-376e) Republic Book X (all)

   

Quiz 2

Week 7

 

 

Monday

10/4

Hellenistic Art and Architecture

 

Text, pp. 101-107
Read Chapter 4

Aristotle: Return to the Phenomena

Physics II

(Chapters 1-3)
arist.jpg (7832 bytes)

   

Student presentations on Physics

 

Wednesday,

10/6

 

Quiz 2

Introduction to  Rome

Maps of the Roman Empire   

Aristotle: Return to the Phenomena

Physics II

(Chapters 1-3)

Week 8

 

 

Monday,

10/11

 

JOURNAL COLLECTION

Roman History

 

Read Chapter 5

Text, pp. 109-123

Aristotle: Psyche and Truth

On the Soul

 

Student presentations on On the Soul

Wednesday

10/13

 

Student presentations on the Aeneid and Metamorphoses

 

Reader, pp. 109-118, 120-132

Aristotle: Ethics and Politics

Read: Nicomachean Ethics Book I and II 

Student presentations on NE

Study Guide for the 3rd Quiz

 

Week 9

 

 

Monday,

10/18

 

Roman Art and Architecture

Looking at Roman Architecture

Text, pp. 123-141

Aristotle: Ethics and Politics

Read: Nicomachean Ethics Book III (chapters 1-5) and Book X (all)

Wednesday
10/20

Judaism and student presentations on Genesis and Job

   

Text, pp. 145-157

Reader, 141-155

The Peripatetic School and Hellenistic Philosophy

 

 

Quiz 3

Week 10

 

 

Monday,

10/25

 

Christianity

 

 

Text, pp. 157-167

 

Wednesday 10/27


Student presentations on the New Testament  

Reader, pp. 155-163

Art Review


Study Guide for the 3rd Quiz

 

Friday

10/29

Women's Day

Participation points for each session attended

Week 11

 

 

Monday

11/1


Quiz 3 

Neo-Platonism and Early Christian Philosophy

Tertullian, Augustine, Origen

 

Augustine:

City of God Book 12 ff.

 

Student presentations

Wednesday

11/3

 

 

Augustine:

On the Free Choice of the Will

 

Early Christian Philosophers (includes possible journal questions) 

Study Guide for the 4th Quiz

Week 12

 

 

Monday

11/8

 

JOURNAL COLLECTION

Decline of Rome and Triumph of Christianity....The Byzantine Empire  and the Early Medieval West.....Text, 169-186

View Hagia Sofia

Student presentations on The Alexiad and on Beowulf

Text, pp. 189-199
Reader, pp. 175-178, 185-188

 

Wednesday

11/10

 

Quiz 4 in Philosophy


Boethius.....
Consolations of Philosophy

Introduction to Islam.....Humanities Text, Text, pp. 203-212

 

   

Week 13

 

 

Monday

11/15

 

 

Introduction to Islam continued


Film…Islam: Empire of Faith…Part 2

Islamic Science, Art and Architecture  Text, pp. 212-224

Dome of the Rock

View the Alhambra

More Alhambra

Ibn Tulun Mosque.
 

Wednesday

11/17


Islamic Philosophy (This includes links to the readings not aren't in the text.)

Islamic Philosophy Online

Al Ghazali, The Incoherence of Philosophy 

Al Ghazali, "The Deliverance from Error"

Ibn Rushd, The Incoherence of the Incoherence

Ibn Rushd, The Decisive Treatise (in text)

Ibn Rushd, The Harmony of Philosophy and Religion

Student presentations

Week 14

 

 

Monday

11/22

 

Student Presentations on the Koran, Rumi, etc.

Reader, pp. 192-217


Study Guide for the 4th Humanities Quiz

Anselm: Faith and Reason

Read: Proslogion and Debate with Guanilo

Student Presentations

Wednesday
11/24

Introduction to the High Middle Age

Text,  pp. 227-241

View Notre Dame

Study Guide for the 5th Philosophy Quiz

Week 15

 

 

Monday

11/29

 

Quiz 4 in Humanities

Student presentations on Dante. Chretien de Troyes, and Hildegard of Bingen

Reader, pp. 221-225, 235-251

Art and Architecture
Text, pp. 241-258

Wednesday

 12/2

Quiz 5 in Philosophy

Aquinas: Aristotelian Christianity. Proving God’s Existence, the Proper Relation between Faith and Reason, and the Happy Life.

Reading Questions on Anselm and Aquinas

Read: Anselm, Proslogion.

Read: Summa Theologica First Part Q1-2.

Read: Summa Theologica First Part of Second Part Q2-3, Q5, Q10, and Q13

Week 16

 

 

Monday 12/6

 

 

LAST JOURNALS ACCEPTED

Student Presentations on Chaucer

Reader, pp. 263-274

Study Guide for the Last Humanities Quiz

Aquinas

Read: Summa Theologica Treatise on Natural Law Q94-96 and Second Part of Second Part: Q40 –on war.

  Student presentations

 

Wednesday
12/8

 

 

Reflections on Western Culture

 

Quiz 5  in Humanities

Week 17

 

 

Monday
12/13

 

FINAL EXAM

Wednesday
12/15

 

LAST DAY JUBILEE

 

Author: Hollace Graff
Oakton Comunity College
Updated: December 1, 2004