Humanities
101; CRN 13488
Fall 2005
MWF 12.00-12.50 pm; 100 Willamette
M. C. Wilson
(mwilson@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Office: 815 PLC; MWF 10-10.50am
(346-4155)
Website:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mwilson/Homepage.html
GTFs
Kimberly Colburn kimberlycolburn@gmail.com
Nicholas Phillips nphilli2@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Amy Story astory@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Elizabeth Wages ebarber@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Aims of the Course
The humanities study human life through specific forms of artistic and
cultural production and practice. This study is intended to lead
its students to assess critically their own way of life and ideals,
which stand within the tradition of past ways of life as well as in
contrast to them. The course will deal with five ways of life that have
influenced the way we live now: the Jewish life depicted in the Hebrew
Scriptures, the life of the Homeric hero, the civic life of the
Classical Greek, the imperial life of the Roman, and Christian life
described in the Gospels.
Book List
The Harper Collins Study Bible
New Revised Standard Version
0-06065527-5
Homer, Iliad, trans. Lattimore
0-226-46940-9
Sophocles, Antigone, trans. Grene
0-226-30792-1
Portable Greek Historians
014015065X
Great Dialogues of Plato
0451628276
Roman Poetry; trans. D. Wender
0-8093-1694-3
Vergil, Aeneid
0553210416
Rule of St. Benedict
0814612725
Other material available on line
Course Arrangements and Evaluation
Regular attendance in lecture and sections is expected. Though I
will not take attendance in lecture, attendance in section will be
taken and participation will count for the final grade. The means of
evaluation are the following:
1. Write two 4-5 page papers: (15% each)
2. Nine
quizzes in lecture period (20%)
3. Participation in section (10%)
4. Attendance in section (5%, entirely forfeit upon more than three
absences)
5. Final exam (35%)
Late assignments will be graded down a third of a grade per day, e.g.
an A- paper, if one day late, will receive a grade of B+. If you
cannot make a deadline, be sure to discuss the matter with your GTF
well in advance.
According to University
of Oregon policy, Academic dishonesty is a serious offence, which
can result in failure of the course or expulsion from the
university. Be careful not to copy papers from the internet, use
other students' work or cheat in examinations. Be careful, too,
not aid in others' cheating. All offences will be pursued to the
full extent of punishment.
This is a big class, and for this reason especially I would be
delighted to make your acquaintance personally and talk about your
classical or wider intellectual interests. I am available during
office hours, or, if these should not be convenient, we can make
arrangements to meet at a special time.
Week 1 (Sept 26-30): Introduction
M Aims
of course (Power Point file)
W Introduction
to Genesis 1.1-5
Summary
of the Contents of Genesis
http://www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm
OR
http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible
F Genesis
1-11
Week 2 (Oct 3-Oct 7): The Way of the
Covenant
M Genesis
12-25
Quiz
Oct 3
W Genesis
26-50
F Exodus
1-20 (Summary
of Contents)
Week 3 (Oct 10-Oct 14) Heroic Way of
Life
M Introduction
to Iliad (Summary
of Contents)
Quiz
Oct 10
W Iliad
1
F Iliad
6, 9,16
Week 4 (Oct 17-Oct 21) Heroic
Way of Life
M Iliad
16, 18
Quiz Oct 17
W
Iliad 22-23
F Iliad
24 First
Paper due Oct 21
Week 5 (Oct 24-Oct 28) The
Political Animal
M Herodotos:
Thermopylae (Portable Greek
Historians pp.
140-157)
Quiz
Oct 24
W Thucydides,
Funeral Oration of Pericles
(Portable Greek Historians
pp. 265ff)
F Sophocles
Antigone
Week 6 (Oct 31-Nov 4) The
Political Animal
M
Plato, Apology; Republic VI.504b-VII.519
(pp.302-319)
Quiz
Oct 31
W Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics, On
Highmindedness (text)
F Parthenon-Acropolis
(NO READING)
Week 7 (Nov 7-Nov 11) Imperium……
M Polybius,
Roman Constitution (Portable Greek
Historians pp. 473ff
§§2-4; 11-18; 53-57; so, you go to page 473 of the Portable
Greek Historians; there you'll find a section called 'The Roman
Constitution; along the left margin you'll see numbers starting with 2;
those are the section numbers. I want you to read sections 2-4,
11-18 and 53-57)
Quiz
Nov 7
W Vergil
Aeneid 2
F Vergil
Aeneid 4
Week 8 (Nov 14-Nov 18) …… and
its Discontents
M Vergil
Aeneid 6
Quiz
Nov 14
W Catullus
Wender’s selection
F Propertius Elegies Wender’s selections
Ovid, Amores
Wender’s selections
Roman
Town Planning
Week 9: (Nov 21-Nov 25) Christianity
M Gospel
according to Matthew
Quiz
Nov 21
W Gospel
according to Matthew
Paper
#2 due Nov 23
F Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 10: (Nov 28-Dec 2)
Christianity
M Paul's
Letter to the Galatians
Quiz
Nov 28
W Rule
of Benedict
F Conclusion
Final Exam Dec 8 Thursday 10.15am