Fall 2003 and Spring 2004

Texts for the Fall Semester.

Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 3rd ed, St. Martins, 0-312-20488-4

Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fagles . .

Sappho, trans. Mary Barnard, U California, 0-520-01117-1

Aeschylus I, ed. Grene and Lattimore, U Chicago, 0-226-30778-6

Plato, Symposium, trans. Nehamas and Woodruff, Hackett, 0-87220-076-0

Tanakh, Jewish Publication Society, 0-8276-0366-5

Virgil, The Aeneid of Virgil, trans Mandelbaum, Bantam, 0-553-21041-6

New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford Univ. Press, 0-19-528411-9

Augustine, Confessions, trans. Pine-Coffin, Penguin, 0-14-044114-x

Writing assignments are to be set by each instructor, but there will be a minimum of four written assignments and fifteen pages of writing each semester, as well as a final evaluative exercise at the end of each semester.

Schedule of Readings

Fall Semester

9/3, W Homer, Odyssey Book 1-4.

9/5, F Homer, Odyssey 5-8.

9/8, M Homer, Odyssey 9-12.

9/10, W Homer, Odyssey 13-16.

9/12, F Homer, Odyssey 17-20.

9/15, M Homer, Odyssey 21-24.

9/17, W Sappho

9/19, F Sappho

9/22, M Aeschylus, Agamemnon

9/24, W Aeschylus, Agamemnon

9/26, F Aeschylus, Agamemnon

9/29, M Aeschylus, Eumenides

10/1, W Aeschylus, Eumenides

10/3, F Plato, Symposium 1-39.

10/6, M Plato, Symposium 40-47.

10/7, T -- lecture by Prof. Kathryn Morgan, UCLA, 7:00 p.m., Maxey Aud.; "Passion and the Philosophical Life"

10/8, W Plato, Symposium 48-60.

10/10, F Plato, Symposium 61-77.

10/13, M Fall Break

10/15, W The Tanakh, Genesis 1-11.

10/17, F Genesis 12-22.

10/20, M Exodus 1-20.

10/22, W Exodus 21-32.

10/24, F Job 1-27.

10/27, M Job 29-31, 38-42.

10/29, W Virgil, Aeneid 1-2

10/31, F Virgil, Aeneid 3-4

11/3, M Virgil, Aeneid 5-6

11/5, W Virgil, Aeneid 7-8

11/7, F Virgil, Aeneid 9-10

11/10, M Virgil, Aeneid 11-12

11/12, F The Bible, New Revised Standard Version, The Gospel of Luke, 1-11

11/14, M The Gospel of Luke, 12-21.

11/17, M The Gospel of Luke, 22-24.

11/19, W Romans

11/21, F Romans

Thanksgiving Break

12/1, M Augustine, Confessions 1-3.

12/3, W Augustine, Confessions 4-6.

12/5, F Augustine, Confessions 7.

12/8, M Augustine, Confessions 8-9.

12/10, W Augustine, Confessions 10.

12/12, F Review and Evaluation

Texts for the Spring Semester

Drake, Stillman, ed., Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Doubleday Anchor. 0-385-09239-3.

Descartes, Meditations, Trans. D. Cress, Hackett, 0-87220-1929.

Shakespeare, Othello. Ed. Gerald Bentley, Penguin. 0-14-071410-3

Locke, Second Treatise of Government. Ed. C.B. Macpherson. Hackett. 0-915144-86-7

Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Trans. D. Cress. Hackett. 0-87220-150-3

Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Trans. J. Ellington. Hackett. 0-87220-166-x

Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed. P. Hunter. Norton. 0-393-96458-2

English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. S. Applebaum. Dover, 048692827

Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto. International, 0-7178-0241-8

Darwin, The Origin of Species. Ed. P. Appleman. Norton. 0-393-09219-4

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. W. Kaufmann.Vintage. 394-70401-0

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents. Trans. James Strachey. Norton. 0-393-09623-8

Morrison, Beloved. Plume. 0-452-26446-4

Schedule of Readings

Spring Semester

1/21, W Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

1/23, F Galileo, cont.

1/26, M Descartes, Meditations, 1.

1/28, W Descartes, Meditations, 2.

1/30, F Descartes, Meditations, 3.

2/2, M Shakespeare, Othello Acts 1-2.

2/4, W Shakespeare, Othello Acts 3-4.

2/6, F Shakespeare, Othello Act 5.

2/9, M Locke, Second Treatise on Government Ch. 1-4.

2/11, W Locke, Second Treatise on Government Ch. 5-6.

2/13, F Locke, Second Treatise on Government Ch. 7-9.

2/16, M Presidents' Day Break

2/18, W Rousseau, Origin of Inequality 1-18.

2/20, F Rousseau, Origin of Inequality Part 1.

2/23, M Rousseau, Origin of Inequality Part 2.

2/25, W Kant, "What Is Enlightenment?"; Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Preface.

2/27, F Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Section 1.

3/1, M Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Section 2.

3/3, W Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Bright Star", "On Melancholy";

Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Tintern Abbey", "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold".

3/5, F Wordsworth and Keats, continued.

3/8, M Wordsworth and Keats, continued.

3/10, W Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto 8-31, 43-44

3/12, F Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto.

Spring Break

3/29, M Shelley, Frankenstein 7-58.

3/31, W Shelley, Frankenstein 59-101.

4/2, F Shelley, Frankenstein 103-156.

4/5, M Darwin, Origin of Species, 27-30, 41-94, 115-121.

4/7, W Darwin, Origin of Species, cont.

4/9, F Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals Preface.

4/12, M Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals First Essay.

4/14, W Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals Second Essay.

4/16, F Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals Third Essay, sections 1, 8-15, 22-24, 27-28.

4/19, M Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, I-II.

4/21, W Freud, III-V.

4/23, F Freud, VI-VII.

4/26, M Freud, VIII.

4/2x, T lecture on Art by Marie Clifford; time / loc tba.

4/28, W Morrison, Beloved 1-52.

4/30, F Morrison, Beloved 53-111.

5/3, M Morrison, Beloved 112-174.

5/5, W Morrison, Beloved 177-247.

5/7, F Morrison, Beloved 251-end.

5/10, M Review and Evaluation.