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Civilization Sequence Program
CVSP 202: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE Fall 2011-12
Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, TUESDAYS, 12:30 pm |
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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) |
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Jan 02- 06 |
Machiavelli |
Machiavelli, The Prince (Penguin) |
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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) |