Civilization Sequence Program

CVSP 202: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE  Fall 2008-09

Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, TUESDAYS, 12:30 pm

Date

Lecture

Reading assignment for class discussions

Sept 29 – Oct 3

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 6-10

Augustine I

Augustine, Confessions (continued)

Oct 13-17

Augustine II

Augustine, City of God (CVSP Reading Selection)

Oct 20-24

Introduction/

 al-Muhasibi

Al-Muhasibi, excerpts from his works (CVSP Reading Selection)

Oct 27-31

Al Ghazali

Al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (CVSP Reading Selection)

Nov 3-7

Ibn Rushd

Ibn Rushd, The Decisive Treatise (CVSP Reading Selection)

Nov 10-14

Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (CVSP Reading Selection)

Nov 17-21

No lecture

No new assignment

Nov 24-28

Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles &Summa Theologiae (CVSP Reading Selection)

Dec 1-5

Dante I

Dante, The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Transl. Mark Musa (Penguin) Cantos 1,2, 6, 9, 10, 16-18;

Dec 8-12

Dante II

Dante, Purgatory (continued): Cantos 21, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32 (lines 1-9)

Dec 15-19

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)

Mon Dec 22

- Tues 23 Dec

No lecture

No new assignment

Wed Dec 24

- Wed Jan 7

                Christmas and New Year vacation (Dec 24 – Jan 7)

Thurs Jan 8

-Fri Jan 9

No lecture

No new assignment

Jan 12-16

Machiavelli

Machiavelli, The Prince (Penguin)

Jan 19-23

Luther

Luther, On Christian Liberty (CVSP Reading Selection)