History of World Literature I
English 3361
Summer I 2008

Thomas A. Ryan                                                           MTWR, 8-10:00 a.m.

Office: 202 CH                                                                          100 PH

Phone: 272-2692 or 272-2758              Web: http//www.uta.edu/english/TAR/tar.html

Email: ryan@uta.edu Course Web Site http//www.uta.edu/english/TAR/worldlit.html

Office Hours:  MTW, 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Course Prerequisites: Six hours of sophomore literature

Text: Literature of the Western World. 5^th Edition. Vol. I. Ed. by Brian Wilkie and James Hurt

Course Description The primary focus of this course will be the literature of the Western World.  Students will be encouraged to explore the literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and historical milieus of the works we shall read and to share their discoveries with the other students in the class through email and class discussion.

Course Learning Goals/Objectives Through their reading, class discussion, and completion of written examinations, students will increase their understanding of the Western literary tradition.

Attendance and Drop Policy Attendance in class and class participation are important. It is also extremely important that you read the assigned material before coming to class. We will have one or two reading quizzes a week. Please also note that 10% of your final grade is based on attendance and participation. If for some reason you cannot continue in the class, remember to officially drop the course. It is now against University policy for faculty members to drop students.

Course Requirements There will be a Midsemester and a Final Examination in addition to the reading/lecture quizzes.

Course Evaluation and Final Grade The two examinations will each count thirty percent, the quizzes will count thirty percent, and attendance and class participation will count ten percent. The quizzes will cover the readings and lectures since the last quiz and include the readings for the day the quiz is scheduled. I will drop your lowest quiz grade.

Student Evaluation of Teaching Toward the end of the semester, I shall ask your opinion on the success of the course by having you complete the Student Evaluation of Teaching Survey.

Americans with Disabilities Act The University of Texas at Arlington is on record as being committed to both the spirit and the letter of federal equal opportunity legislation; reference Public Law 93112 The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. With the passage of new federal legislation entitled Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], pursuant to section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act, there is renewed focus on providing this population with the same opportunities enjoyed by all citizens. As a faculty member, I am required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability. Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated administrative channels.

Academic Dishonesty It is the philosophy of the University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is a completely unacceptable mode of conduct and will not be tolerated in any form. All persons involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with University regulations and procedures. Discipline may include suspension or expulsion from the University. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." (Regents' Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22)

Class Schedule

Dates and assignments are tentative

T	May 27	Introduction; OT Genesis
W	May 28	Homer, The Iliad: 1, 18, 24 The Odyssey: 1-2, 4-5, 8-13, 24
R	May 29	1^st Quiz Homer, The Odyssey, cont.
M	June 2	Aeschylus, Oresteia
T	June 3	2^nd Quiz; Aristotle, Poetics (1225) Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone
W	June 4	Euripides, Medea, Helen Aristophanes, Lysistrata
R	June 5	3rd Quiz Aesop; Greek Lyric
M	June 9	4^th Quiz Virgil, from Aeneid
T	June 10	Ovid, Amores, Heroides, Metamorphoses
W	June 11	Roman Lyric
R	June 12	5^th Quiz Midsemester Test
M	June 16	The Cattle Raid of Cooley Marie de France, Lais and Fables
T	June 17	6^th Quiz Capellanus (1819); Aquinas (1834); Boniface VIII (1841) Dante, Inferno, 1-13
W	June 18	Inferno, 16-17, 26-27, 32-34 Purgatorio, all (including synopses)
R	June 19	7^th Quiz Chaucer: Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Nun’s Priest’s Tale
M	June 23	Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies
T	June 24	8^th Quiz Petrarch, Boccaccio
W	June 25	Pico della Mirandola, (2265); Copernicus (2288) Marguerite de Navarre Montaigne, “Of Cannibals”
R	June 26	Cervantes, Don Quixote Milton. Paradise Lost:1, 4, 9
M	June 30	9^th Quiz Final Examination

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