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World Civilizations: Student Resources
| W O R L D C I V I L I Z A T I O N I |
UGC 111R : Professor
Bono
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| SYLLABUS | SCHEDULE | COMMUNICATION | HELP | Site Map |
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| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
| Part I The World of Antiquity |
| Week and Dates | Topics / Important Dates | Readings |
| Week 1
Aug. 27, 29 |
Introduction: Culture and World Civilizations | . | . |
| Week 2
Sept. 5 |
Myth, Civilization, and the Sexualization of Nature in Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh | The Epic of Gilgamesh: "Preface" and "The Coming of Enkidu"
Enuma Elish |
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| Week
3
Sept. 10, 12
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Myth, Civilization, and the Sexualization
of Nature in Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh
NB: You MUST read and memorize my Notes on the "Political-Social Background to Ancient China" BEFORE the lecture on Wednesday, Sep. 12th. [Click "Notes" in right hand column.] The Making of China: Nature, the Body, Medicine, and the Fundamental Beliefs and Assumptions of Ancient Chinese Civilization |
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (Selections) Yin and Yang in Chinese Medical Theory |
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| Week
4
Sept. 17, 19 |
Ancient Chinese Medicine and Ancient
Chinese Views of the State and Society: How to Understand Taoism
and Confucianism.
Self, Society, and State: Taoism, Confucianism, and the Mandate of Heaven: |
Taoism: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
(Selections)
Confucius, The Analects (Selections) Legalism (Selections) On The Mandate of Heaven Shang Shu |
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| Week 5
Sept. 24, 26 |
Confucius, the State, and the Mandate of Heaven: Mastery
in Chinese Civilization Homer and the Heroic Age of Ancient Greece: Myths, Gods, Humans, and the Polis |
Hesiod’s Theogony (Selections) Homer, The Odyssey (Selections) |
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| Week 6
Oct. 1, 3 |
Homer and the Heroic Age of Ancient
Greece: Myths, Gods, Humans, and the Polis
Myth, Science, Medicine, and Greek Society: Greek Ideals of Mastery and the Idea of the “West” |
Hippocrates, The Sacred Disease
Aristotle, The Politics (Selections) |
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| Week
7
Oct. 8, 10 |
Myth, Science, Medicine, and Greek
Society: Greek Ideals of Mastery and the Idea of the “West”
Ancient Religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Ideals of Mastery in Indian Civilization. |
Genesis (Selections) Hinduism and Buddhism (Selected Readings) |
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| Week
8
Oct. 15, 17 |
Mohammed, The Koran, and the Expansion
of Islam Islamic Civilization and Ideals of Mastery. Arabic Science and Islamic Theology |
The Koran (Selections; Penguin
Classics)
Ibn Ishaq, The Biography of the Prophet Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History (Chapter One: Beginnings) |
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| Part II The Medieval World, & "New" Worlds, Old Civilizations. European Expansion and the Emergence of the Modern World |
| Week and Dates | Topics / Important Dates | Readings |
| Week
9
Oct. 22, 24 |
Japanese Civilization and Ideals of Mastery: Medieval Society, the Samurai Japanese Civilization and Ideals of Mastery: Medieval Society, the Samurai, Kokoro, and Modern Japan |
Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai) Natsume Soseki, Kokoro (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1957), read the entire novel. |
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| Week 10
Oct. 29, 31 |
The Rise of Europe. Medieval Society, Western Civilization,
and Saint Augustine MID-TERM EXAMINATION (Will be administered in individual recitation sections) Dante's Inferno and the Death of Tragedy |
Dante, The Inferno (Ciardi translation: Signet Classic) Cantos I, II, IV, V, X, XI, XIII, XIV, XV, XXVI, XXXIV |
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| Week
11
Nov. 5, 7 |
Dante, Medieval European Culture, and
Mastery Asia, Europe, and the Black Death: Nature, Culture, and Meaning |
Dante, The Inferno (Ciardi translation: Signet Classic) Cantos I, II, IV, V, X, XI, XIII, XIV, XV, XXVI, XXXIV |
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| Week
12
Nov. 12, 14 |
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, Florence, and the Black Death in Europe: Nature, God's Power, and the Limits of Man Africa and the Americas before Columbus |
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
(Selections)
"The Chronicle of Jean de Venette" Ibn Al-Wardi, An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence Marco Polo in China |
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| Week 13
Nov. 19 |
The America's on the Eve of Columbus and the Spanish Conquest: Europe and the "Other" | The Travels of Ibn Battuta
(Selections)
Leo Africanus, Description of Timbuktu Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man" (Selections) |
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| Week 14
Nov. 26, 28 |
Columbus, the New World, and European
Encounters with the Native American "Other" Wednesday: Formal PAPER DUE-Description |
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of Mexico (Selections) Bartolomé de las Casas, Destruction of the Indies (Selections) Michel de Montaigne, On Cannibals |
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| Week 15
Dec. 3, 5 |
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
and History as Performance
Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Endings, Beginnings, and Conclusions
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Shakespeare, The Tempest (Signet Classic), entire play, pp. 3-87. | Terms
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| Exam Period |
FINAL EXAM: DATE: Thursday, December 13, 2007 TIME: 3:30-6:30 p.m. Click here for Sample Essay Questions for the Final Examination! |
FINAL EXAM ROOM:
147 Diefendorf Hall (This Location is on the SOUTH Campus) |
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