SYLLABUS FOR WORLD LITERATURE I

Course Number: ENG230X

Instructor: Dr. Valerie Pennanen

Office: Room # 524

Office Phone: (219) 473-4285

E-mail: vpennanenccsj@hotmail.com

Office Hours: *By appointment

Course Time: Monday 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Course Description: Great classics--ancient, medieval, and Renaissance--will be studied with attention to major literary themes and important ideas, to the interrelations of the literature of various times and lands, including native and non-Western literatures, such as Asian, African, Native American and Latin American works. Through intensive reading, writing, and discussion, members of the class will develop their appreciation for the literature of the past and for its relevance to the world of today.

Prerequisites: None

Textbooks: M. Mack et al., ed., The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Volume I

(7^th Edition, 1999)

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An official withdrawal is recorded as a "W" grade on the student's transcript. Dropping a course without written permission automatically incurs an "F" grade for the course (see Refund Schedule).

Regular attendance is crucial to your success in this class. More than two (2) absences will be sure to harm your class participation grade (and they are bound to hurt your other grades, too). If you miss more than three (3) classes, you should consider withdrawing.

You are required to do all assigned readings, participate in class discussions, take two (2) exams (midterm and final), and submit a final paper (approximately 8-12 pages).

This course is designed to acquaint students with the great literary heritage of our world from the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance periods.

You will receive a letter grade for each of the following:

Class participation

Midterm

Final Exam

Final Paper

These grades will be weighted equally to determine your final grade for the course.

Week 1 (January 10, 2000) Welcome and Introduction

Week 2 (January 17^th) The Epic of Gilamesh; selections from

Homer’s Iliad.

Week 3 (January 24^th) Homer’s Odyssey

Week 4 (January 31^st) Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Sophocles’

Oedipus the King;

Euripides’ Medea.

Week 5 (February 7^th) Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; selections

from Virgil’s Aeneid.

Week 6 (February 14^th) CATCH UP AND REVIEW FOR

Week 7 (February 21^st) MIDTERM EXAM

Week 8 (February 28^th) Selections from Genesis (Chapters 1-4

and 6-9, only) and the Book of Job;

Selections from the New Testament

Selections from the Koran.

Week 9 (March 6^th) Beowulf; selections from the

Song of Roland.

Week 10 (March 13^th) Selections from Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Week 11 (March 20^th) Selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury

Tales and Machiavelli’s The Prince.

Week 12 (March 27^th) Selections from Cervante’s Don Quixote;

FINAL PAPERS DUE

Week 13 (April 3^rd) Selections from Milton’s Paradise Lost;

REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM

Week 14 (April 10^th) FINAL EXAM