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HUM 1020 Introduction to Humanities – Fall 2016
Prof. Orlando
CRN: 12202
Schedule of topics and assignments
Week 1: Aug 30th and Sept 1st
Welcome!
*Introduction, syllabus overview, course outline //
*Ancient Greece – A culture at large, Greek religion & mythology
Week 2: Sept 6th and 8th
*Ch. 2 Ancient Greece –Literature (Homer), philosophy (pre-Socratics, Socrates) //
*Plato: The Republic and “The Allegory of the Cave”, Aristotle and Empiricism
Week 3: Sept 13th and 15th
Quiz 1 Sept 13th
*Ch. 2 continued Ancient Greece – Athenian politics, Greek drama, art/sculpture, architecture, music //
*Begin Ch. 3 Roman Republic – History, Julius Caesar, The Pax Romana, Roman Law
Week 4: Sept 20th and Sept 22nd
Quiz 2 Sept 20th
*Ch. 3 continued - Roman politics, Cicero, Stoicism, poetry (Ovid), literature (Virgil), architecture “the
arch”, sculpture //
*The Fall of Rome: overextension, invasions and other factors
Week 5: Sept 27th and Sept 29th
Test #1 Sept 27th
*Ch. 6 – Middle Ages, Christendom, Medieval era art, Mysticism (Hildegard of Bingen), literature (Dante),
architecture - the Gothic style
Week 6: Oct 4th (No class on October 6th – College Night on West Campus)
Quiz 3 Oct 4th
*Factors leading to the Renaissance, Neo-Platonism, the Medici family, literature (Chaucer)
*Ch. 7 – Renaissance era, Italian art, Raphael, Botticelli, etc., “the School of Athens”, the printing press
Reformation / “theological warfare”
Week 7: Oct 11th and Oct 13th
Quiz 4 Oct 11th
*Ch 10 – Baroque era: aristocracy, paintings (Rembrandt, Parmigianino) Bernini’s David, John Milton //
*Music – harmonic progressions, Gabrieli, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel
Week 8: Oct 18th and Oct 20th
Quiz 5 Oct 18th
*Ch. 11 – Enlightenment | Scientific Revolution: philosophy, political science, Neo-classicism //
*Rococo style, Fragonard, the art of Jacques Louis David, the birth of symphony
Week 9: Oct 25th and Oct 27th
Test #2 Oct 25th
*Ch. 12 – Romanticism: Napoleon, Darwin, poetry “Ozymandias”, Goethe, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Week 10: Nov 1st and Nov 3rd
Quiz 6 Nov 1st
*Abolitionist literature // Art, the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner
*Ch 13 - Materialism – Colonialism, philosophies of Marx, Nietzsche //
Week 11: Nov 8th and Nov 10th
Quiz 7 Nov 8th
*Literature of Dickens/Twain, Architecture, Realism, Birth of photography, impressionist art Cézanne,
Gauguin
*20th century – Einstein, Freud, WWI, Harlem renaissance, Hitler and WWII //
Week 12: Nov 15th and Nov 17th
Quiz 8 Nov 15th
*Modern fiction, the birth of science fiction, Picasso, Non-objective art, The Dada movement, Bauhaus
*Surrealism: Salvador Dali, Expressionist art, Futurism
Week 13: Nov 22nd
Happy Thanksgiving!
Week 14: Nov 29th and Dec 1st
Quiz 9 Nov 29th
*Stravinsky: Rites of Spring, the blues, the birth of Jazz, Gershwin et al.
*Ch 14 – Globalism - The Cold War, Existentialism, Absurdity, Abstract expressionism: de Kooning,
Pollock, Rothko, the quest for Equality, Feminism
Week 15: Dec 6th and Dec 8th
Quiz 10 Dec 6th
*Postmodern fiction (Vonnegut), magic realism, modern science fiction, Pop art (Warhol), modern
architecture (Gehry)
*Experimental music, rock and popular music, electronic music
Week 16: (No class on Dec 13th) / Thursday Dec 15th
FINAL EXAM 5pm, Dec 15th