Week	Date	Topic
1	Jan. 11th	Perspectives on Western Civilization  (Mark Bailey) Readings: Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, and Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Combined Volume, 9th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), Preface, xxvi.  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911), s.v. History. Seminar:  Introduction to GAS and Humanities
2	Jan. 18th	Paleolithic Art  (Dave Phillips) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Chapter 1, §§ 1–3.†  Read about Lucy - your oldest ancestor.  Paleolithic Images.  Genesis 37–45. † The chapters in your textbook do not have numbered sections.  You must count the subheadings yourself.  Thus, §§ 1.1–1.2 refers to Section 1: "Early Humans and Their Culture" and the subsections "The Paleolithic Age" and "The Neolithic Age". Seminar: Early Humans and the Idea of Civilization
3	Jan. 25th	The Neolithic Revolution (Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 1, §§ 4–* (the end), including the readings "The Royal Standard at Ur" and Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia".  One of The Instructions of Curuppag or The Instruction of Ptahhotep or The Sekhti and the Workman. Seminar: The Bronze Age in Mesopotamia and Egypt
4	Feb. 1st	Presocratic Philosophy  (Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 2, §§ 1–3.  Selections from Homer's Illiad or selections from Hesiod's Works and Days (read no more than an hour).  Maps of the Ancient World. Seminar: Empires of the Ancient Middle East
5	Feb. 8th	The Greek Polis  (Maria Vasilodimitrakis) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 2, §§ 4–*.  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, s.v. Thales of Miletus (62?-546 B.C.).  Bailey, "Pre-Socratic Philosophy" (2006). Seminar: The World of the Greek City-States
6	Feb. 15th	Plato  (Farzad Babadi) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 3, §§ 1–3.  Seminar: The Birth of Philosophy
7	Feb. 22nd	Aristotle  (Farzad Babadi) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 3, §§ 4–6.   Christopher Planeaux, "Plato's Biography"  (1999). Seminar: Greek Philosophy and Midterm Review
8	Feb. 25th–      Feb. 29th	Study Week: No classes scheduled
9	Mar. 7th	Alexander the Great  (Mark Bailey) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 3, §§ 4–6.  Selectively (no more than 60-90 min.) in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," (350 BCE). In-Class Mid-Term Examination in the regularly scheduled seminar class
10	Mar. 14th	The Roman Republic  (Mark Bailey) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 3, § 3, §§ 7–*.  For the curious, Plutarch's Life of Alexander, trans. John Dryden. Seminar: The Greek Mind: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
11	Mar. 21st	Good Friday / No classes scheduled Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 4, §§ 1–4. Seminar: The Hellenistic World
12	Mar. 28th	The Roman Empire  (Allison McNaught) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 4, §§ 5–*; Ch. 5, §§ 1–3.  Paul Cartledge, "Spartan Wives: Liberation or License?" in Interpretations of the Western World, ed. Mark Kishlansky (Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007), pp. 33–56. Seminar: Western Europe during Roman Antiquity
13	Apr. 4th	Women in the Ancient World  (Allison McNaught) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 3, § 3.3; Ch. 4, § 3.3; Ch. 5, § 3.3. Seminar:
14	Apr. 11th	Early Christianity  (Dave Phillips) Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner, The Western Heritage, Ch. 1, §§ 5.2–5.3; Ch. 5, § 4. Seminar: General Review
15	Apr. 14th–      Apr. 18th	Exam Week. No classes scheduled