Our orientation meeting will be held Thurs., Aug. 31, 7:00-8:00 p.m. in room D-130 in the library (LRC), at the Spring Creek campus.
Please consult Assignments on the author -- Beowulf, Chaucer, etc. -- sites for a up-to-date, specific reading and writing assignments.
Week 1
The Anglo-Saxon period objectives
1 What is the Anglo-Saxon attitude toward wealth, treasure, money?
2 What is the purpose of fighting?
3 What is the attitude toward women?
4 How do Anglo-Saxons see themselves in relationship to the universe? Do they seem to feel that they are favored by the gods or do they feel a malign or negative response from their gods? Do they have a comfortable vision of an afterlife?
5 What is the purpose of life?
6 What are the characteristics of a good ruler? A bad ruler
Week 2
Week 3
Medieval period objectives
Primary learning objective: To show how the medieval (Middle Ages) period affects the West in the twentieth century.
Individual learning objectives. In the mid-term exam students will answer some of these questions.
1 Understand the difference between the Ptolemaic (earth-centered) vision of the universe and the Copernican (heliocentric) and how the difference between the two affects humankind's faith in God.
What is the state of Christian faith today?
2 Understand the hierarchical vision of life; cosmic, social (feudal), individual (the relationship of the soul and the body).
To what extent does this ancient concept affect us today? Do we believe in the separation of soul and body?
3 Understand St. Augustine's influence on literature.
Does his influence persist in the twentieth century?
4 Understand courtly love.
To what extent has courtly love shaped our expectations of love?
Week 4
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales.
Important notice: your textbook gives you the original Middle English Canterbury Tales. Feel free to use a modern English translation which you may buy in paperback or check out from your local library.
Week 5
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Week 6
Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 7
Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
Week 8 Mid-Term Exam: Taken in the Testing Center on any campus. Bring blue book and picture ID
Week 9
Renaissance Period
Week 10
Week 11
King Lear
Week 12
Week 13 Thanksgiving
Week 14
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Week 15 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Part 4
Week 16 Final exam
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