WEEKLY SCHEDULE

ENGLISH 203
RALPH BUNCHE SCHOLARS

Please note that our schedule might be subject to changes! If not otherwise
indicated, reading assignments are from The Norton Anthology: World Literature.
Volume 1. Shorter Third Edition. But we are also reading our two other texts by
Catalina de Erauso and A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome
de las Casas.

Even though it is not listed in the weekly schedule, the expectations are that you do
the assigned readings for class but also consistently work on your research. Define a
topic early on (see deadline in schedule), compile your sources and extra readings
(include all that in Annotated Bibliography), start researching as early as possible.

TUESDAY THURSDAY
Week 1: Introduction to Course; read Creation Myths (on ETUDES);
8/29 preface to our textbook Genesis; Short Diagnostic;
Week 2: Read “Preface” xix-xxv; 3-15; Read Sappho (16-21; 467-469;
9/5 Enuma Elish (21-26); 469-474: poems); Three Women
Gilgamesh (33-37; 38-88) Poets (1262-1264)
Quiz Reading Journal 1 (post on Etudes
before class time; latest 8:55AM!)

Last day to drop for refund and

without a “W”: Sun, Sept 11.

Week 3: Read Homer’s The Iliad (121- Reading Journal 2 (Etudes)

9/12 129; 129-177) Euripides (475-481; 525-528;
Quiz Medea (528-564).

Week 4: Virgil (573-577): The Aeneid Ancient India (677-685); The

9/19 (577-648). Bhagavad-Gita (727-729);
Quiz You also said you wanted to read
The Ramayana of Valmiki (686-
Please see me to discuss 691; 692-726)? Too much?!
possible research topics Reading Journal 3 (Etudes)
Week 5: St. Augustine (801-815; 832- Song of Roland (985-1029)
9/26 834): The Confessions (834- Reading Journal 4 (Etudes)
858). Ovid (649-652); prep for Essay 1
Metamorphoses (652-675)
Quiz
Week 6: Dante: Inferno, 1049-1053; Dante: Inferno, 1143-1172
10/3 1053-1143 (up to Canto XXVI)
Quiz

Week 7: Essay 1 due at the beginning Chinese Classic Poetry (747-755);

10/10 of class. Confucius (766-770): Analects
The Thousand and One Nights (770-780); Daodejing / Laozi:
(1173-1197) selections (780ff)
Medieval Chinese (1281-1289):
Tang Poetry (1304-1343): Li Bo;
Du Fu; Bo Juyi; Yuan Zhen; Li
Qingzhao
Reading Journal 5 (Etudes)

Week 8: Japan’s Classical Age (1345- Midterm

10/17 1353); Murasaki Chikibu
(1378-1382); The Tale of
Genji (1383-1493)
Finalize your topic for
Research
Week 9: Discussion on Research with Encounters with Islam: (1505-
10/24 class; Proposal for Research 1517); Sunjata: 1514-1576
Essay due on Etudes; writing Reading Journal 6 (Etudes)
workshop

Week 10: “Europe and the New World:” Bring first draft of research; peer
10/31 1607-1617; Petrarch: 1618- editing
1620; Sonnets: 1621-1624

de Erauso: The Book of Travel;

Memoire of a Basque
Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite
in the New World
Week 11: India’s Classical Age: 1251- “Book of Travels:” 1579-1584;
11/7 1259; Somadeva: 1272-1274; Machiavelli: 1625-1629; The
Kathasaritsagara, 1274-79 Prince: 1629-1637
Reading Journal 7 (Etudes)

Week 12: De Navarre: 1637-1639; The “Encounter:” 1902-1904; Popol

11/14 Heptameron (1640-1647); Vuh (1905-1920
De Montaigne: 1647-1650; Last day to drop class with a “W”,
Essays (1650-1665) Sun, Nov 20
Week 13: De las Casas: A short Account Thanksgiving Day
11/22 of the Destruction of the Indies
(selections)
Week 14: Cervantes: 1666-1671; Don Don Quixote: 1736-1775 and1797-
11/29 Quixote; 1671-1719; 1800

Week 15: Presentations All Research Essays due at

12/6 beginning of the class
Presentations (cont.)

Week 16: FINAL EXAM:

12/13 Thursday, Dec 15; 9:30-11:30AM
Final’s Week