HUMANITIES 5 SYLLABUS - Revelle College

University of California, San DiegoHumanities 2:Rome, Christianity, and the Middle AgesAntony LyonOffice Hours: Monday, 9-11@Galbraith 184Spring 2013Lecture: MWF 1-1:50@ Center Hall 101E-mail: alyon@ucsd.eduTeaching Assistants Morgan Aitken-Young Alessandra Brivio Foster Chamberlin Matt EvpakRequired TextsJeremy GomerTitus JewellDoug PintoDaniel Weltman(*) The Course Reader and additional materials, including lecture slides and paperprompts, will be available on the course website:o http://ajplyon.wordpress.com/teaching/humanities/hum-2/The following texts can be purchased at the Student Bookstore: Virgil, Aeneid; trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics) Lucretius, On the Nature of Things; trans. Ronald Melville (Oxford) The New Oxford Annotated Bible Augustine, The Confessions; trans. Maria Boulding (Vintage) Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Ed.); trans. Seamus Heaney (Norton) Dante, The Portable Dante (Penguin)Course Requirements Section 15% Writing Assignment 1 10% Writing Assignment 2 20% Writing Assignment 3 25% Final Exam 30%Students must fulfill all course requirements in order to pass the course.Class ScheduleWeek 1Introduction: How the West Was Won (and Where It Got Us)4/1 [No reading]Rome’s Epic: The Empire of the City of Man4/3-5 Virgil, Aeneid, Books I-VII, VIII:411ff., X, XII

Week 24/8-10 Virgil, Aeneid, continued4/12 [No Class]Week 3Mortal Universe, Mortal Soul4/15-19 Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, (selections forthcoming)Week 4Jesus: A Good Teacher and Doer of Wondrous Signs4/22 DUE: Writing Assignment 14/22-26 The Gospel of MarkWeek 5A Theological Life of Jesus4/29-5/1 The Gospel of JohnThe Early Christian Community5/3 ActsWeek 6Pauline Christianity5/6-8 Galatians and I CorinthiansUnderstanding Crisis Through Christ5/10 Augustine, Confessions, (selections forthcoming)Week 75/13 DUE: Writing Assignment 25/13-15 Augustine, Confessions, continuedBeowulf, the Last Hero: An Anglo-Saxon Epic5/17 BeowulfWeek 85/20 Beowulf, continuedThe love that moves the sun and the other stars5/22-24 Dante, The Divine Comedy, (selections forthcoming)Week 95/27 [No Class]5/29-31 Dante, The Divine Comedy, continuedWeek 106/3 DUE: Writing Assignment 3Dante, The Divine Comedy, continuedThe Day Before the Renaissance6/5-7 *Boccaccio, Selections from DecameronFinal Exam6/13 Thursday, 11:30-2:302

Additional InformationThe UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship must be observed for this course. For the full honor codesee the following link: http://students.ucsd.edu/academics/academic-integrity/policy.htmlAlso, students agree that by taking this course all required essays will be subject to submission fortextual similarity review on www.turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted essays willbe included as source documents in the turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose ofdetecting plagiarism of essays. Use of turnitin.com is subject to the terms of use agreement posted onits website.If you need accommodation for disability or religious reasons, please see me as soon as possible sothat the appropriate arrangements can be made.For information about Revelle College’s Humanities Program, including help with writing,administrative information, and schedules, please visit the program’s website:http://humanities.ucsd.edu3