Sections offered SPRING 2019:
#5033 |
RICHARD CECIL |
MW 1:00pm-2:15pm |
HU 108 |
#7760 |
RICHARD CECIL |
MW 2:30pm-3:45pm |
HU 111 |
CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit, IUB GenEd A&H credit
This semester we will focus on the qualities that make a person a hero(ine), in the eyes of ancient authors, and compare those qualities with ones we admire today. Beginning with Gilgamesh’s heroic struggle to overcome death, and ending with Satan’s struggle to undermine God’s (according to Milton) plan for mankind, we will read, discuss, and write about ten of the ancient and early modern world’s greatest accounts of heroism. In the final two and a half weeks, we will discuss first-person accounts of heroes written by each member of the class.
Written work for the course will consist of daily written discussion questions, three critical discussions of 3-5 pages, and a final 6-10 page creative paper.
Course texts:
- Gilgamesh
- Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
- Virgil’s Aenead
- Njal’s Saga
- Sophocles’s Antigone andOedipus Rex
- Seneca’s Trojan Women
- Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Hamlet
- Milton’s Paradise Lost