Section #3877 Thursday 5:45 p.m. - 8:25 p.m. CA 219
Required Texts: Course Profile
Hause and Maltby, Western Civilization, Vol. I: to 1715 (Advantage
Series)
The Epic of Gilgamesh, ed. Sandars (Penguin)
Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania, ed. Mattingly (Penguin)
Einhard & Notker, Two Lives of Charlemagne, ed. Thorpe (Penguin)
| Lecture on |
Lecture Topic | Reading |
| Aug. 25 |
Introduction & the origins of "the West" in the East | Ch. 1 (Hause) |
| Sept. 01 |
Indo-European migrations and Ancient Greece | Ch. 2 - read Gilgamesh |
| Sept. 08 |
Classical Greece | Ch. 3- discussion |
| Sept. 15 |
The Hellenistic World Greek Review | Ch. 4 - paper due |
| Sept. 22 |
The Roman Republic | Ch. 5 |
| Sept. 29 |
Caesar, Augustus, and the Roman Empire | Ch. 6 - read Tacitus |
| Oct. 06 |
Empire to 500 A.D. - Barbarian Invasion
Roman
Review
|
discuss Tacitus |
| Oct. 13 |
Midterm Exam
Essay questions
|
Ch. 7 - paper due |
| Oct. 20 |
The Feudal Age and the Frankish 'Renaissance' |
Ch. 8 - Charlemagne |
| Oct. 27 |
The High Middle Ages |
Ch. 9, 10 - discuss |
| Nov. 03 |
The Late Middle Ages and the Great Schism | Ch. 12 - paper due |
| Nov. 10 |
The Renaissance and Christian Humanism |
Ch. 13 |
| Nov. 17 |
The
Reformation
|
Ch. 14 |
| Nov. 24 |
Thanksgiving Break - no class meeting | Ch. 15 |
| Dec. 01 |
Wars of Religion to the Thirty Years
War |
Ch. 16 |
| Dec. 08 | Early "Modern" Europe | |
| Dec. 15 |
Final Exam 6:00-8:00 p.m.
- Thursday, Dec. 15 |