readings, discussions, lectures

Very important note: all assigned readings are required! Do not just do one or two items when several are listed; your discussions should demonstrate you've done all of the reading. If not, you will not earn full points.

Readings are to be done ASAP during the weeks in which they are listed below.
Click on the discussion, and lecture links each week to go to that week's discussions and lecture.

Some lectures are more than one page long; if there is a link at the bottom of a lecture page that says "click here," click on that link to get to part II or part III of a lecture; don't forget to read those additional pages.

Look at information on paper topics well in advance of paper due dates.

WEEK 1 (2/6-2/10) Reading:

IMPORTANT!before the first day of the semester e-mail me at: jrcorbally@gmail.com.

  • Genesis (Creation)
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses (The Creation)
ALSO the following readings in the Online World Literature I Anthology
  • "Phan Ku the Creator"
  • "Mawu-Lisa the Creators"
  • "Divine Woman the Creator"
  • "The Big Bang Theory"
WEEK 2 (2/13-2/17) Reading:

  • Genesis (The First Murder, The Flood, The Origin of Language)

  • Ovid's Metamorphoses (the rest of Book I: The Four Ages, Jove's Intervention, The Story of Lycaon, The Flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha, Apollo and Daphne, Jove and Io)
ALSO the following readings in the Online World Literature I Anthology
  • "Ulgen the Creator"
WEEK 3 (2/20-2/24) Paper 1 (due 2/24, Friday) Reading: NOTE: excerpts from Hero with a Thousand Faces are in the Online World Literature I Anthology
WEEK 4 (2.27-3/2) Reading:
  • from The Iliad (Books XVIII, XIX, XXII, XXIV)
NOTE: You may also wish to read the brief summary of the rest of The Iliad in the Online World Literature I Anthology
WEEK 5 (3/5-3/9) Reading:
  • from The Odyssey (Books IX, X, XI)
  • Tennyson's "Ulysses"
NOTE: Tennyson's "Ulysses" and a brief summary of the rest of The Odyssey are available in the Online World Literature I Anthology
WEEK 6 (3/12-3/16) Reading:
  • Oedipus Rex
WEEK 7 (3/19-3/23) Reading:
  • Lysistrata
WEEK 8 (3/26-3/30)
paper Paper 2 (due 3/29)
this is a Thursday; Friday is a holiday 		Reading:
  • from The Aeneid (Books IV, VI, VIII)
NOTE: You may also wish to read the brief summary of the rest of The Aeneid in the Online World Literature I Anthology
WEEK 9 (4/2-4/6)
  • SPRING BREAK
NO CLASSES (we come back 4/10)
WEEK 10 (4/9-4/13) Reading:
  • Satyricon ("Dinner with Trimalchio")
WEEK 11 (4/16-4/20)
  • Lecture 10
  • Discussion 8 (due 4/19)
    NOTE: read and follow
    Special Instructions listed on the Discussion 8 page!
 Reading:
  • Inferno from Dante's Divine Comedy
WEEK 12 (4/23-4/27) Reading:
  • Inferno from Dante's Divine Comedy (continued)
WEEK 13 (4/30-5/4) paper Paper 3 due (5/4, Friday)
 Reading:
  • The Sonnets of Petrarch
    read the entire selection (it's short)
WEEK 14 (5/7-5/11)
 Reading:
  • from Don Quixote (Book I, Chapters 1-10, 18, 22, 52; Book II, Chapters 3, 17, 64, 65, 73, 74)
WEEK 15 (5/14-5/18) Reading:
  • Don Quixote (continued)
WEEK 16 (5/21-5/25)
  • no lecture
  • no discussion
paper Paper 4 (due 5/25, Friday) 		Reading:
  • Use this time to finish Essay 4
WEEK 16 (5/28-5/29) Reading:
  • Final Week
No late essays or revisions accepted after Tuesday 5/29