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CVSP 202

Reading Schedule

   

Civilization Sequence Program

CVSP 202: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE  Fall 2011-12

Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, TUESDAYS, 12:30 pm

Date

Lecture

Reading assignment for class discussions

Sept 26- 30

Introduction

Augustine, Confessions (Penguin), Book I, Chs. 1, 4-5, 7, 20; II, Chs. 1,4-5, 7; III. Chs. 4-5; IV, Ch. 1; V, Chs. 13-14; VI, Chs. 5, 15-16; VII, Chs. 1- 5, 9-10, 16-17, 21; VIII, Chs. 8-12; IX, Chs. 9-10;

X, Chs. 6-8, 11, 16-17, 24-27; XI, Chs. 14, 28; XIII, Chs. 8-9, 11.

Oct 03 - 07

Augustine I

Augustine, Confessions (continued)

Oct 10 – 14

Augustine II

Augustine, Confessions (continued)

Oct 17 – 21

Introduction/

 al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (CVSP Reading Selection)

Oct 24 – 28

al Ghazali

Al-Ghazali, (continued)

Oct 31 – Nov 04

Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (CVSP Reading Selection)

Nov 07 – 08

 AL-ADHA HOLIDAY

Nov 09-11

[No Lecture]

Ibn Rushd, The Decisive Treatise (CVSP Reading Selection)

Nov 14 – 18

Ibn Rushd

Ibn Rushd (continued)

Nov 21 – 25

[No Lecture]

Independence Day

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles &Summa Theologiae (CVSP Reading Selection)

Nov 28 – Dec 02

Dante I

Dante, The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Transl. Mark Musa (Penguin) Cantos 1,2, 6, 9, 10, 16-18;

Dec 05 – 09

Dante II

Dante, Purgatory (continued): Cantos 21, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32 (lines 1-9)

Dec 12 – 16

Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun, Al-Muqaddimah (Princeton), pp. 5-9, 11-48, 70. 91-142, 146-9, 230-1, 238-242, 285-9, 398-411 (and CVSP Reading Selection)

Dec 19 – 23

[No lecture]

Ibn Khaldun (continued)

Dec 26 – Jan 01

Christmas and New year Vacation (Dec 24- Jan. 01)

Jan 02- 06

Machiavelli

Machiavelli, The Prince (Penguin)

Jan 09 – 13

Luther

Luther, An open letter  to the Christian nobility of the German nation concerning the reform of the Christian estate (CVSP Reading Selection)

  

 Reading Selections

Augustine, City of God

Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali (tr. McCarthy)
Ibn Tufayl
Ibn Rushd
Aquinas
Ibn Khaldun
Luther

Flysheets Fall 2011-12

Flysheets Spring 2010-11

Introduction (See Lecture) Augustine I (See Lecture)
Augustine I (See Lecture) &  Augustine presentation Augustine II (See Lecture)
Augustine II (See Lecture) Intro/ Ghazali (See Lecture)
Intro/ Ghazali (See Lecture) Al Ghazali (See Lecture)
Al Ghazali (See Lecture) Ibn Tufayl (See Lecture)
Ibn Tufayl (See Lecture) Ibn Rushd (See Lecture)
Ibn Rushd (See Lecture) Aquinas (See Lecture)
Aquinas (See Lecture) Dante (See Lecture)     & Dante Presentation
Dante I (See Lecture) Ibn Khaldun (See Lecture)
Dante (See Lecture)     &      Dante Presentation Machiavelli
(See Lecture)
Ibn Khaldun (See Lecture) Luther (See Lecture)
Machiavelli
Luther (See Lecture)
                   

 
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