HUM 122 Outline

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COURSE SYLLABUS

HUM 122 SURVEY OF HUMANITIES II

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8.	COURSE OUTLINE
	Tentative Schedule
	Students will be responsible for reading and studying the material in the text according to the following outline of topics. (These topics to be discussed in class!)
	Class 1.	The nature and meaning of the humanities.
	Class 2.	Art of the early Renaissance: Masaccio, Giberti and Brunellerchi.
	Class 3.	Florence and Lorenzo the Magnificent.
	Class 4.	Oration on the Dignity of Man, Picko della Mirandola.
	Class 5.	The Prince, Machiavelli.
	Class 6.	The Praise of Folly, Erasmus.
	Class 7.	Raphael and Michelangelo
	Class 8.	Giorgione and Titian.
	Class 9.	Palestrina.
	Class 10.	"On Women" from The Courtier by Castiglione.
	Class 11.	Cellini and Bronze casting.
	Class 12.	Essays, Montaigne.
	Class 13.	Twelfth Night, Shakespeare.
	Class 14.	Twelfth Night (continued).
	Class 15.	Twelfth Night (continued).
	Class 16.	Baroque Instrumental and Vocal Music, Johann Sebastian Bach.
	Class 17.	The Adventures of Don Quixote, Cervantes.
	Class 18.	Paradise Lost, John Milton.
	Class 19.	The Classical Symphony, Haydn and Mozart.
	Class 20.	Alexander Pope.
	Class 21.	A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift.
	Class 22.	Selections from Candide, Voltaire.
	Class 23.	Beethoven.
	Class 24.	Verdi, Opera in Italy.
	Class 25.	Goethe, Faust.
	Class 26.	Selection from Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
	Class 27.	New Styles in Music, Gustav Mahler
	Class 28.	Dostoyevsky Selection from Crime and Punishment
	Class 29.	A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
	Class 30.	New Movements in the Visual Arts - The Movies
	Class 31.	T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
	Class 32.	Franz Kafka "Before the Law" from The Trial
	Class 33.	Aldous Huxley from Brave New World
	Class 34.	The Age of Jazz, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington
	Class 35.	Georgia O'Keeffe
	Class 36.	John Paul Sartre from Existentialism as Humanism
	Class 37.	Elie Wiesel from Night
	Class 38.	Flannery O'Connor Revelatio
	Class 39.	Trends in Contemporary Literature
	Class 40.	Trends in Contemporary Architecture
	Class 41.	Toward a Global Culture
	Class 42.	Fresco Technique
	Class 43.	Bronze Casting
	Class 44.	The Invention of Paper and Printing
	Class 45.	The Computer as Cultural Artifact