Syllabus
| Date | Readings | Assignments |
| September | ||
| 7 W | Course Introduction | |
| 9 F | Petrarch, "Letter to Posterity" (H) | |
 ANTIQUITY |
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| 12 M | The Odyssey, Books 1-5 (156-218) | |
| 14 W | The Odyssey, Books 9-12 (218-274) | Brief #1 Due |
| 16 F | The Odyssey, Books 19-24 ( 274-326) "Home At Last" by Steely Dan (Lyrics) |
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| 19 M | Antigone (409-445) | |
| 21 W | Antigone |
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| 23 F | Old Testament: Genesis 1-22 | |
| 26 M | Old Testament: Job 1-14, 29-31. 38-42 | |
| 28 W | Old Testament: Song of Songs | Brief #2 Due |
| 30 F | Sappho (326-334) Catullus (549-554) |
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| October | ||
| 3 M | Ovid, Metamorphoses (642-674) | |
| 5 W | Rosh HaShanah: No Evolving Canon 1 Class | |
| 7 F | New Testament: Mathew 1-7, 24-28 John 103, 11, 18-21 |
Brief #3 Due |
| 10 M | New Testament: Revelation 1, 4, 6-8, 12-13, 17, 19-22 | |
| THE MIDDLE AGES |
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| 12 W | "The Wife's Lament" (1117-1118) "The Husband's Message (1118-1120) "The Dream of the Rood" (H) |
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| 13 TH | Yom Kippur: No College Classes | |
| 14 F | Latin and Medieval Religious Lyrics (H) | |
| 17 M | Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (1371-1391) | Brief #4 Due |
| 18 T | Evolving Canon Special Event: Why Read Aloud? 8 P.M. Davis Auditorium | |
| 19 W | Marie de France, "The Lay of Chevrefoil" (1263-1264) | |
| 21 F | Study Day: No College Classes | |
| 24 M | Provencal poetry: Marcabru, Benart de Ventadorn, Coutess of Dia, and Peire Vidal (1248-1261) | |
| 26 W | Mid-term Examination | |
| 28 F | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-10 (968-997) | |
| 31 M | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 11-18 (997-1024) | |
| November | ||
| 2 W | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 19-34 (1024-1048) Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" |
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| 4 F | Boccaccio, Decameron. Tenth Day, Tenth Story (H) | Paper topics distributed |
| 7 M | Petrarch, "The Story of Gridselda" (H) Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale" (H); "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (1324-1347) |
Brief #5 Due |
| THE RENAISSANCE |
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| 9 W | Pico della Mirandola, "On the Dignity of Man" (2202-2205) | |
| 11F | Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (1552-1608) | |
| 14 M | Marlowe, Dr. Faustus | |
| 16 W | Spenser, The Fairie Queene | |
| 17 TH | Evolving Canon Special Event: Medieval Biblical Drama. 8 P.M. Davis Auditorium | |
| 18 F | Spenser, The Fairie Queene | Brief #6 Due |
| 21 M | Spenser, The Fairie Queene | Working Drafts Due |
| 23-27 W-F | Thanksgiving Vacation | |
| 28 M | Shakespeare, Sonnets (2050-2052) | |
| 30 W | Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 1-2 (1826-1859) | Critique Letters for Working Drafts Exchanged |
| December | ||
| 2 F | Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 3-5 (1859-1888) | |
| 5 M | Donne (2053-2059) | |
| 7 W | Herbert (H), (2059-2060) | Paper Due |
| 9 F | Eliot, "Tradition and The Individual Talent" (H) | |
| 12 M | Course Evaluations and Review | |
| 22 TH | Final Examination (6:00-9:00 P.M., 300 PMH) | |