HUMANITIES 1301: Introduction to Humanities Fall 2010 Professor: Dr. Paul Pedisich: Room B-210; phone 230-3323 e-mail: paul.pedisich@brazosport.edu Course Requirements Regular attendance and participation in class. Chapter Tests: Week Four, Week Eight, and Week Eleven. Reading Assignment and Four Page Essay: Week Thirteen. Final Exam: Week Fifteen in accordance with Brazosport College published final exam schedule. Students must read the material assigned in this syllabus prior to attending class and must be prepared to participate in classroom discussions. Course Summary This course introduces the cultural legacy of humankind’s accomplishments, surveying expressions and reflections from the ancient world to the early twentieth century. Students will observe human expressions in architecture, art, dance, drama, literature, and music, and also become aware of human reflections seeking the truth in religion, philosophy, and government. The course emphasis will be mostly, but not exclusively, on western civilization. Reading Requirement As the course progresses students shall complete a Reading Assignment, consisting of an appropriate book of their own choosing. Using this book as a sole source, students shall submit a four page essay discussing the contents of that book. Students shall select the reading assignment book from the Humanities 1301 - Selected Bibliography and not use any other reference or research material for the four-page essay. Course Grades: I will calculate grades as follows: Chapter Test #1.……....….….….……15% Chapter Test #2.…….…….….....…....15% Chapter Test #3.…….……….……….15% Class Participation and Attendance.…15% Reading Assignment Essay.……...…..20% Final Exam……………….……….….20% If you miss more than 3 weeks of classes (six sessions) you will get an “F” in Participation and Attendance, and I may withdraw you from the course. Course Textbook: Philip E. Bishop, Adventures in the Human Spirit (Sixth Edition).

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CLASS SCHEDULE, SUBJECT MATTER, and HOMEWORK:

Week One: Introduction to the course, a discussion of human “expressions” and “reflections,” and a cursory survey of Chapter 1: The Humanities: An Introduction to the Adventure. The Ancient World. Required Reading: Chap. 2, pp. 25-31. Week Two: The Ancient World. Required Reading: Chap. 2, pp. 32-37. Ancient Greece: The Classical Spirit. Required Reading: Chap. 3, pp. 38-53. Week Three: Ancient Greece: The Classical Spirit. Required Reading: Chap. 3, pp. 54-66. Ancient Rome: The Spirit of Empire. Required Reading: Chap. 4, pp. 67-81. Week Four: Ancient Rome: The Spirit of Empire. Required Reading: Chap. 4, pp. 82-94. CHAPTER TEST #1 (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) Week Five: Spirit of Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Required Reading: Chap. 5, pp. 95-111. Spirit of Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Required Reading: Chap. 5, pp.112-127. Week Six: The Early Middle Ages: The Feudal Spirit. Required Reading: Chap. 6, pp. 128-142. The Early Middle Ages: The Feudal Spirit. Required Reading: Chap. 6, pp. 143-155. Week Seven: The Late Middle Ages: Gothic Awakening. Required Reading: Chap. 7, pp. 156-170. The Late Middle Ages: Gothic Awakening. Required Reading: Chap. 7, pp. 171-184. Week Eight: Chapter Test #2 (Chapters 5, 6, and 7) The Renaissance Spirit in Italy. Required Reading: Chap. 8, pp. 185-201. Week Nine: The Renaissance Spirit in Italy. Required Reading: Chap. 8, pp. 202-218. Reformation and Late Renaissance. Required Reading: Chap. 9, pp. 219-237. Week Ten: Reformation and Late Renaissance. Required Reading: Chap. 9, pp. 238-253. The Spirit of Baroque. Required Reading: Chap. 10, pp. 254-273. Week Eleven: The Spirit of Baroque. Required Reading: Chap. 10, pp. 274-290.

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Chapter Test #3 (Chapters 8, 9, and 10) Week Twelve: The Spirit of Enlightenment. Required Reading: Chap. 11, pp. 291-307. The Spirit of Enlightenment. Required Reading: Chap. 11, pp. 308-319. Week Thirteen: Essay Paper Due Revolution and Romanticism. Required Reading: Chap. 12, pp. 320-333. Revolution and Romanticism. Required Reading: Chap. 12, pp. 334-345. Week Fourteen: The Industrial Age: Spirit of Materialism. Required Reading: Chap. 13, pp. 364-380. The Spirit of Modernism. Required Reading: Chap. 14, pp. 381-399. Week Fifteen: FINAL EXAMINATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Learning Objectives: Introduction to Humanities 1301

Objective 1: Understand the works of individual expressions and human values within a historical and social context. Measure: Students will demonstrate this knowledge by achieving a score of 70% or greater on chapter test #1 covering this objective. Objective 2: Respond critically to works in the arts and in epistemological developments. Measure: Students will demonstrate this knowledge by achieving a score of 70% or greater on chapter tests #2 and #3 covering this objective. Objective 3: Articulate an informed personal reaction to human endeavors in the arts and humanities. Measure: Students will demonstrate this knowledge by achieving a score of 70% or greater on a graded written assignment of the student’s choice covering this objective. Objective 4: Demonstrate overall knowledge of the influence of literature, philosophy, and the arts as cultural experiences. Measure: Students will demonstrate this knowledge by achieving a score of 70% or greater on the final exam. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Humanities 1301 – Selected Bibliography

Early Civilization: Sykes, Bryan. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry. Johnson, Anthony. Solving Stonehenge: The Key to an Ancient Enigma. Watterson, Barbara. Women in Ancient Egypt. Andreu, Guillemette. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids. Lehner, Mark. The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries. McDermott, Bridget. Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs: How to Read the Secret Language of the Pharaohs. MacQueen, J.G. The Hittites and their Contemporaries in Asia Minor Herm, Gerhard. The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire and the Ancient World.

……………….………………………………………….………………………… Hadingham, Evan. Lines to the Mountain Gods: Nazca and the Mysteries of Peru. Moseley, Michael E. The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru. Classical Greece and Rome: Strauss, Barry. The Trojan War. Martin, Thomas R. Ancient Greece: From Prehistory to Hellenistic Times. Cavander, Kenneth (translator). The Struggle for Greece by Herodotus Miller, Stephen G. Ancient Greek Athletics. Pollitt, Jerome J. Art and Experience in Classical Greece. Boardman, John and David Finn. The Parthenon and Its Sculptures. Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. Cantarella, Eva. Pandora’s Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greece and Roman Antiquity. Yenne, Bill. Alexander the Great: Lessons from History’s Undefeated General. Green, Peter. The Hellenistic Age: A Short History.

……………….………………………………………….………………………… Wheeler, Robert Eric Mortimer. Roman Art and Architecture. Kohne, Eckart. Gladiators and Caesars: The Power Spectacle in Ancient Rome. Shadrake, Susanna. The World of the Gladiator. Strauss, Barry. The Spartacus War

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Carcopino, Jerome. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire. Deiss, Joseph Jay. Herculaneum: Italy’s Buried Treasure. Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Feiler, Bruce. Abraham: A journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. Davies, Philip R. and George J. Brooke, et al. The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pelikan Jaroslav. Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Throughout the Ages. Hitchens, Chris. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Baker, James R. Women’s Rights in the Old Testament Times. Wray, T. J. Good Girls, Bad Girls: The Enduring Lessons of Twelve Women of the Old Testament. Marty, Martin E. The Christian World: A Global History. Malone, Mary T. Women and Christianity: The First Thousand Years. Malone, Mary T. Women and Christianity: From 1000 to the Reformation. Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. Rubenstein, Richard E. When Jesus Became God – The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome. Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity: Ad 150-750. Dunn, Marilyn. The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages. Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Sells, Michael. Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations. Brooks, Geraldine. Nine Parts Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. Middle Ages: Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. Todd, Malcolm. The Early Germans. Wells, Peter S. Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered. Kerr, Julie. Life in the Medieval Cloister.

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Gies, Joseph and Frances Gies. Life in a Medieval Castle. Beckwith, John. Early Medieval Art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque. Trow, M.J. El Cid: The Making of a Legend. Wilson, Derek, Charlemagne. Fagan, Brian. The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. Howarth, David. 1066: The Year of the Conquest. Madden, Thomas F. A Concise History of the Crusades. Kostick, Conor. The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099. Walsh, Michael. Warriors of the Lord: The Military Orders of Christendom. Nicolle, David. Knights of Jerusalem: The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565 Boyle, David. The Troubadour’s Song. The Capture and Ransom of Richard the Lionhearted. Gallagher, Joseph. A Modern Reader’s Guide to Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Morgan, David. The Mongols. Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. Renaissance and Baroque: McNeill, William. Plagues and Peoples. Fernandez-armento, Felipe. Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci: An Account of His Development as an Artist. Franklin, David. Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550. King, Ross. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture. King, Ross. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling. Jones, Roger and Nicholas Penny. Raphael. Stamp, Richard. The Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art.

……………….………………………………………….………………………… Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Protestant Reformation. Medwick, Cathleen. Teresa of Avilla: The Progress of a Soul. Predmore, Richard L. Cervantes.

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Nicolson, Adam. God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture. Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring. (a novel) Sidky, H. Witchcraft, Lycanthrope, Drugs and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch Hunts Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Materialism: Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. Becker, Carl. Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers. Honour, Hugh. Neo-Classicism. Shelley, Mary and Walter J. Miller (foreword). Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus. Wilson, James D. The Romantic Heroic Ideal. Morris, Edmund. Beethoven, The Universal Composer. Whittall, Arnold. Romantic Music: A Concise History from Schubert to Sibelius. Jones, Steve. Darwin’s Ghost: “The Origin of Species” Updated. Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. Conradi, Peter J. Fyodor Dostoevsky. 20th and 21st Centuries: Nourse, Victoria. In Reckles Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics. Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. (a novel) Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific. Heyerdahl, Thor. The Ra Expeditions. Skloot, Rebrcca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. (20th century cell research)

……………….………………………………………….………………………… De Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key. (a novel –Paris roundup of Jews, World War II and after) Anonymous. A Women in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered city: A Diary. Michener, James. Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan. (Post-World War II novel) Dockerty, Paddy. The Khyber Pass: A history of Empire and Invasion.

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Loyn, Davis. In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian, and American Occupation. Zoya with John Follain and Rita Cristofari. Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Battle for Freedom. (Afghanistan) Ali, Amman Hirst. The Caged Virgin. (Somalia) Oufkir, Malika and Michele Fitoussi. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail. (Morocco) Bhutto, Benazir. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West. (Pakistan) Bozai, Agota. (David Kramer – translator) Too Err Is Divine. (Communist Hungary) Miscellaneous: Crosby, Alfred W. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History. Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History. Waldron, Arthur. The Great Wall of China. Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. Hempton, David. Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. Saramago, José. Death with Interruptions. (a novel – no one can die)