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University of Central Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts

Department of Humanities and Philosophy

HUM 2113 General Humanities: Ancient to Medieval COURSE SYLLABUS for SPRING 2018

Dr. Stephen C. Law LA 203C 974-5615 slaw@uco.edu Office Hours: MWF 7:30-7:50, 10:00-10:50, 1:00-1:50; TR 7:30-8:00; and also by appointment. Course CRN: 26971 Location: LA 243 Meeting Time of Class: MWF 9:00 – 9:50 AM

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION: General Humanities: Ancient to Medieval is a survey of art, architecture, music, literature, philosophy, and religion from the beginning to the end of the Medieval Period. Prerequisites: ENG 1113 & 1213.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: This course is an Aesthetic Analysis Core Course and fulfills one of the core curriculum requirements

of the University. Aesthetic analysis courses in the Humanities introduce students to ideas about beauty and perception and how these ideas shift over time and across cultures and manifest in various media, including philosophical texts, music, visual and literary arts. Students will learn how to discuss, interpret, compare and evaluate these cultural artifacts within their social and intellectual contexts. Specifically, this course will introduce students to Aesthetic Analysis through course content and written assignments that engage students in the aesthetic encounter, explore the relationship between cultural artifacts and political, moral, and philosophical ideologies, and ask them to identify standards for making critical judgments about artifacts and their role in society. The following are the outcomes a successful student will attain by the end of the course:

1. Recognize key cultural artifacts of different types and their social and aesthetic relevance 2. Read, analyze, and synthesize historical texts and ideas 3. Compare western and non-western cultural endeavors across time and place, with a focus on either the ancient world to the

Renaissance, or the modern world from the Renaissance to the present. 4. Understand how the present is indebted to past cultural developments and the history of ideas

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING OUTCOMES: University of Central Oklahoma is a learning-centered organization committed to transformative education. The officially designated learning outcomes that are emphasized in this course are: (1) Global & Cultural Competencies (through study of artifacts from multiple cultures), and (2) Problem Solving.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: This course is traditional in format, not an online course. While structured to be both entertaining and enlightening, it will require considerable effort on the part of the student. You will be expected to fulfill all of the following: • Reading Assignments: It is essential that reading assignments be done before coming to class; this will assure that we can approach the

material on a level commensurate with the sophomore level designation. Consult with the assigned schedule on the reverse side of this page for a list of what you will be expected to read. USE THE PAGE NUMBERS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE (not the top). There will be occasional bonus point quizzes on the reading assignments, which will provide you with an opportunity to (1) demonstrate to the instructor that you have, in fact, done the reading, and (2) earn extra credit as the semester progresses. These bonus points can make a considerable difference in the final grade you earn for the class.

• Take-Home Essays: there will be three take-home essays of no-less than 500 words each. These are to be turned in as 2-3 page typed manuscripts, using 1 inch margins and double-spaced text. Essays turned in late will be penalized at least one full letter grade. Each essay will be worth 10 points.

• Exams: There will be two tests and a final exam. All three of these exams will contain both objective questions (matching, true-false, and fill-in-the-blank) and subjective questions (identification of terms, identification of art works). The tests will increase in value: the first will be worth 80 points, the second worth 90 points, and the final worth 100 points. Make-up exams will only be given when the student has contacted the instructor before the exam has started; the instructor reserves the right to administer a make-up exam that is different from the regularly scheduled exam.

• Attendance: Attendance is required and will be taken on a daily basis. Each student is permitted three (and only three) absences; your final score will be reduced by 5 points for each absence after that. Any student with 6 or more absences will be given an “F” for the semester grade. Absences are not “free days” – they should be reserved for emergency situations. Any student with a perfect attendance record (no absences for any reason) will be given a 10 point bonus award. Also: be on time! Students who are late to class create a disturbance that affects everyone in the room). You cannot attend a different section of General Humanities in lieu of coming to class.

• Visit to a Humanities Tutor: ALL students should visit one of the official departmental humanities tutors BEFORE the first exam. Tutoring is something you have already paid for as a course fee. You will earn a 5 bonus for this visit. A minimum of 30 minutes is required; bring your book and your class notes so the tutor can help you effectively.

GRADING: The respective values of the above requirements are as follows:

Exams: 3 tests at 80/90/100 points = 270 points Take-Home Essays: 3 essays at 10 points each = 30 points Final grades will be allocated on a 10% scale as follows: A = 300-270 B = 269-240 C = 239-210 D = 209-180 F = 179-0

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HUM 2113 READING ASSIGNMENTS SPRING 2018

TEXT: There is one text required for this course, the UCO version of The Humanistic Tradition, Volume I, Gloria K. Fiero. NY: McGraw Hill, 2011. ISBN: 9781308188089

COURSE OUTLINE and READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Monday, Jan 8: introduction Wednesday, Jan 10: Prehistory & the Birth of Civilization (read pages 1-15 before class) Friday, Jan 12: Mesopotamia (read pages 16-36 before class) Monday, Jan 15: MLK Day, no class Wednesday, Jan 17: Egypt (read pages 52-69 before class) Friday, Jan 19: Bronze Age Aegean part 1 (read pages 76-79 before class) Monday, Jan 22: Bronze Age Aegean part 2 (read pages 80-81 before class) Wednesday, Jan 24: the Greek Pantheon (read pages 85-86 before class) Friday, Jan 26: Homer (read pages 81-84 before class) Monday, Jan 29: early Greek Culture (read pages 100-101, 114-120, and 127-130 before class) Wednesday, Jan 31 Athens & the Persian Wars (read page 86 before class) Friday, Feb 2 : Classical sculpture (read pages 118-122 before class) Monday, Feb 5: sanctuaries & Greek architecture (read pages 89, 122-126 before class) Wednesday, Feb 7: Greek theater & Antigone (read pages 90-99 before class) Friday, Feb 9: Peloponnesian War & Socrates (read pages 87-89, 101-104 before class) Monday, Feb 12: Plato & Aristotle (read pages 104-111 before class), 1st Take-Home Essay due at the beginning of class Wednesday, 14: the Hellenistic Period (read pages 130-135 before class) Friday, Feb 16: Test 1

Monday, Feb 19: the Etruscans (read pages 138-139 before class) Wednesday, Feb 21: Republican Rome (read pages 139-141, 143, 152 before class) Friday, Feb 23: Augustan Rome (read pages 141-142, 146-150 before class) Monday, Feb 26: the Julio-Claudians (read pages 150-152 before class) Wednesday, Feb 28: Roman architecture & Pompeii (read pages 152-164 before class) Friday, Mar 2: Roman religions & philosophies (read pages 143-146 before class) Monday, Mar 5: history of the Hebrews part 1 (read pages 29-32 before class) Wednesday, Mar 7: history of the Hebrews part 2 (read pages 33-42 before class) Friday, Mar 9: Jesus & Judea (read pages 183-190 before class) Monday, Mar 12: the making of the New Testament (read pages190-193 before class) Wednesday, Mar 14: orthodoxy / heterodoxy & Early Christian art (read pages 198-210 before class) Friday, Mar 16: the “Fall of Rome” & Byzantium (read page 164 before class), Take-Home Essay due at the beginning of class March 17-25: Spring Break Monday, Mar 26: Byzantium (read pages 210-216 before class) Wednesday, Mar 28: Liberal Arts Symposium Friday, Mar 30: Test 2 Monday, Apr 2: Dark Age Britain (no reading) Wednesday, Apr 4: the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings (read pages 250-254 before class) Friday, Apr 6 NCUR at UCO (http://sites.uco.edu/academic-affairs/ohip/ncur2018/index.asp) Monday, Apr 9 : early Islamic Culture (read pages 226-247 before class) Wednesday, Apr 11: the Franks (read pages 255-258 before class) Friday, Apr 13: monasticism (read pages 200-201, 292-294 before class) Monday, Apr 16: pilgrimage & the Romanesque (read pages 300-307 before class) Wednesday, Apr 18: the Normans & the Song of Roland (read pages 258-265 before class) Friday, Apr 20: the Feudal Romanesque (read pages 266-274 before class) Monday, Apr 23: the Gothic Age (read pages 276-285, , 294-297, 307-317 before class) Wednesday, Apr 25: Dante (read pages 285-292 before class) Friday, Apr 27: the Late Middle Ages (read pages 358-374 before class) Wednesday, May2: Final Exam 9:00 –10:50 AM

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EXPECTATION OF WORK STATEMENT (OSRHE II-2-34): According to the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education, “It is expected that a full-time college student will spend time each week in class attendance and study out of class approaching a 40-hour work week. A person employed on a full-time basis should not simultaneously expect to maintain a full-time schedule. At the undergraduate level, this means that for each hour in class, a student is expected to spend at least two hours doing homework.” Note: the official policy of the UCO College of Liberal Arts is that, for each hour in class, a student should be expected to spend at least three hours doing homework.

SKILLS NECESSARY FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THIS CLASS: • This course requires that you both read the text and come to class. This is not an either/or situation. • You need to be able to listen well and determine what is important. There’s no such thing as an “auto-pilot” in learning – you

have to engage yourself with the topics at hand. A good student comes to class both in body and mind. No wisdom accrues to those who don’t make an effort.

• Note-taking is essential: not all of the material covered will be in the book. If you have no notes, you won’t have everything you need when it comes time to study for the exams. If you are unfamiliar with the notion of note-taking, search the web for recommendations on “how to take notes in college.” Good students even take notes while reading their books!

• It is also assumed that you will be able to write English in a clear and concise manner. Essays will be written in class as part of the exams.

DSS NOTICE: The University of Central Oklahoma complies with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Students with disabilities who need special accommodations must make their requests by contacting Disability Support Services, at (405) 974-2516. The DSS Office is located in the Nigh University Center, Room 305. Students should also notify the instructor of special accommodation needs as soon as possible. Per Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”), pregnant and parenting students may request adjustments by contacting the Title IX Coordinator, at (405) 974-3377 or TitleIX@uco.edu. The Title IX Office is located in the Lillard Administration Building, Room 114D.

OTHER POLICIES AND CONSIDERATIONS: There are a few other important issues that you need to be aware of, both for this class, and others classes in general: • Use of any electronic device is prohibited without the expressed permission of the instructor. Cell phones are to be turned

off when class begins; text messaging is strictly forbidden. Any student observed text messaging during class will be counted absent for the day; any student caught text messaging during an exam will be given an automatic “F” for the semester grade. Computers may only be used for taking notes. Anyone caught using a computer for any other purpose during a lecture will be counted absent for the day.

• This university does have an “honor code.” You should be familiar with its contents. You’ll find it in the Code of Student Conduct. Cheating and plagiarism are serious violations of academic conduct that may lead to your expulsion from the university. Helping others cheat is considered just as serious. If you observe someone violating the honor code of the university, you have a responsibility to report that violation to the instructor.

• UCO subscribes to the Turnitin.com plagiarism prevention service. Students, by taking this course, agree that all required assignments may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted assignments will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com restricted access reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such assignments. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com website. Turnitin.com is just one of the various plagiarism prevention tools and methods that may be utilized by your instructor during the semester. The UCO Student Handbook describes the process for contesting allegations of plagiarism.

• Baseball caps and hats with wide brims may not be worn during examinations. • If, after the first exam, your test recommends that you come by my office to discuss your performance, do so. I can make

specific recommendations about how you might improve your study skills. • Grades will not be discussed via email. If you wish to discuss the grading of an exam or quiz please come by the office.

A list of other university wide requirements can be found at:

http://sites.uco.edu/academic-affairs/files/aa-forms/StudentInfoSheet.pdf