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Assignments

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Created 2006-06-21 13:07

Winter Quarter

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Jan 7

Week 1

Read Aeneid & Chapters 1-3 of Roman Art & Architecture

8

9

Seminar on Books I-IV of Aeneid

10

Welcome!

Guest: Tom Rainey on Augustus:10AM

11

Seminar on Books V-VIII of Aeneid

12

Roman Art & The Nature of Program: Greece vs.Rome

13

14

Week 2

Read Aeneid & Chapters 4-6 of Roman Art & Architecture

15

16

Seminar on Books IX-XII of Aeneid

Film: La Strada

17

 Andrew on Virgil

18

Joint seminar on Rome

 Virgil Paper Due!!!

19

Workshop on Virgil Paper

20

21

Week 3

Read Inferno: Introduction thru Canto XXI

22

23

Seminar: Inferno: Intro through Canto XI            

Film: The Bicycle Thief   

24

25

Fieldtrip to Da Vinci exhibition

11:45. Leave campus 9:30   

NOTE: Bring $6.50 entrance fee           

26

Art History Quiz

27

28

Week 4

Read Inferno

29

30 

Seminar:Inferno, Cantos XII-XXX 

Film: Amarcord

31

Stephen Beck on Plotinus & Neo-Platonists     

Feb 1

Inferno: Canto XXXI-end.

Dante Paper Due!

Michael Clifthorne on Travel

2

Workshop on Dante Paper

3

4

Week 5

Read  Renaissance Reader: Petrarca

5

6 

Seminar: Petrarca 

Film: Night of the Shooting Stars

7

Romanesque to Renaissance Architecture and Painting lecture

8

Seminar: Petrarca

9

Outline and very rough draft of Research Paper due

10

11

Week 6

Read Renaissance Reader: Boccaccio

12

13

Seminar: Boccaccio

Film: Il Postino

14

Eary Renaissance Artists: Masaccio and Piero della Francesca

15

Seminar: Boccaccio

16

Art History Quiz

17

18

Week 7

Read Brunelleschi’s Dome & Chapters 4-6 of Renaissance Florence

19

20

Seminar on Brunelleschi’s Dome

Film: Cinema Paradiso

21

Sean Williams on Renaissance Music

Film: Black Orpheus for Carnival

22

Seminar on

Brunelleschi's Dome

23

 Writing workshop on Research paper.

24

25

Week 8

Read Birth of Venus

26

27

Seminar on Birth of Venus

Film: 8 1/2

28

Guest Lecture: Elizabeth Williamson on Italian theater.

Film: The Medici part 3

1

Seminar on Birth of Venus

2

Renaissance painters: Fra Angelico, Castagno, Botticelli

3

March 4

Week 9

Read Renaissance Reader: Castiglione, Macchiavelli 

Chapter 7 of Renaissance Florence

5

6

Seminar: Castiglione

Film: Life is Beautiful

7

 Slides:Leonardo & Michelangelo

 

8

Seminar on Macchiavelli

9

Research paper due.

Whole Program Visual Seminar

Film: The Medici part 4

10

11

Week 10

12

13

Seminar on Cellini’s Life plus Michelangelo's Poetry

 

14

Venetian Painters and Mannerism

15

 Film: Room with a View, whole program meets in A1107 @2PM

16

Art show and Whole program symposium on "What is a Classic?"

FOOD IS REQUIRED

17

18

Week 11

Evaluations

19

20

21

22

23

24

Fall Quarter

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Sept 25

Introductions, etc.

26 Read Odyssey Books 1-4 for seminar

27 Homer Lecture & Video:

In Search of the Trojan War, part 1

28

Read Odyssey Books 5-11 for seminar

29

30

October

WEEK 1

Oct 2.

.Minoan Culture

Video: In Search of the Trojan War, Part 2

Biers: Chapters 1 & 2

3

Read Odyssey Books 12-17 for seminar

4 Mycenean Lecture

In Search of the Trojan War, part 3

Read Biers: Chapter 3

5

Read Odyssey Books 13-24 for seminar

6

Paper on

Homer

Due by 12:00 noon

7

8

WEEK 2

9

Archaic Art & Lyric Poetry

Biers: Chapters 4 & 5

10 Read Greek Lyric:

Sappho, Alcaeus,

Archilocus for

seminar

11 Archaic Art

Video: In Search of the Trojan War, part 4

Read Biers: Chapters 6 & 7

12 Read Greek Lyric: Pindar for

seminar

Students must notify us of play & scene they intend to perform

13 14

15

WEEK 3

16 Aeschylus Lecture

Video: In Search of the Trojan War, part 5

17 Read “Agamemnon” for seminar

18 Exam on Bronze

& Archaic Periods

19 Visiting Lecturer: C.D.C.

Reeve on “The Odyssey”

20

In Search of the Trojan War, part 6

21

22

WEEK 4

23 Film: Iphigenia

Read Chapter 5 in Ancient Greece

24 Read “The Libation Bearers” for seminar

25 Intro to Classical Greece

Lecture (joint lecture)

Read Biers (Chapter 8)

26 Read ”Eumenides” for seminar

27

28

29

WEEK 5

30

Classical Greece Lecture

Read Pollitt: pages 1– 64

Read Chapter 6 in Ancient Greece

31 Read Pollitt pages 1- 64 for seminar

Nov 1 Walking tour of downtown

Olympia’s Greek architecture

(Faculty retreat)

2 Read Pollitt: Pages 64 – 110

for seminar

(Faculty retreat)

3 Paper on

Aeschylus

Due by 12:00 noon

4

5

WEEK 6

Nov 6

Classical Greek Lecture

Read Chapter 7 in Ancient Greece

7 Read Pollitt, Chapter 4

for seminar

8 Classical Art and

Architecture

9 Read Bacchae for seminar

Guest lecture by Doranne Crable

all meet in E1107 @ 2:00

10

11

12

WEEK 7

13 Bacchae Lecture and Later Drama

Read Chapter 8 in Ancient Greece

14 Read Pollitt, Chapter 5 for seminar

15 Exam on Classical

Greek World

16 Film: Zorba

17Rewrite of paper on Homer or Aeschylus

Due by 12:00 noon

18

19

WEEK 8

20 Thanksgiving Break

NO CLASSES

21 Thanksgiving

Break

NO CLASSES

22 Thanksgiving Break

NO CLASSES

23 Thanksgiving Day

24 Thanksgiving

Break

NO CLASSES

25

26

27 Film: Symposium

and lecture on Plato

Read Chapter 9 in Ancient Greece

28 Read Symposium

for seminar

29 Hellenistic lecture

Read Biers (Chapter 10)

30 Seminar: whole group on what we’ve learned about Greek thought and art.

December 1

Paper: Plato or Euripides

Due by 12:00 noon

2

3

WEEK 9

Dec 4

Etruscan Lecture Read Etruscan Art

Read Chapter 11 in Ancient Greece

5 Read Etruscan Art

for seminar

6 Student presentations:

Scenes from Greek plays

7 Student Presentations:

Scenes from Greek plays

8

9

10

WEEK 10


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