HUMANITIES 131 CULTURAL CONNECTIONS SYLLABUS Fall 2009 DATE LECTURE/DISCUSSION TOPICS READINGS August 25 COURSE INTRODUCTION Review: xvi-xxiv; What is Art, Music, & Literature Discussion Research aspects of the How to View, Listen, Read Middle Ages CLASSICAL ERA (GREEK AND ROMAN IDEAS, VALUES, AND ARTS) Sept. 1 MIDDLE AGES Text: 265-293 Cathedrals, Art, Gregorian Chant Readings 46 and 47 Sept. 8 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE Text: 295-321, Reading 49 Florence, The Medicis, Cereta and Machiavelli and 50 Small Group Project: Machiavelli Sept. 15 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE--IDEAS, ART Text: 323-359 LITERATURE Reading 52, 621-628 Individual Activity: Observation of the Natural World Sept. 22 NO CLASS – STUDENT SUCCESS DAY Sept. 29 THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH (Reformation and Counter-Reformation) Text: 359-377 Handout Study Questions Oct. 6 Exam #1 THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE BAROQUE PERIOD and ABSOLUTISM: LOUIS XIV & PALACE AT VERSAILLES Text: 378-386, 393-421 Reading 65, 66, pp. 689-91 Oct. 13 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Text: 423-461 Compare Contrast Music of Bach (Baroque) and Music of Mozart (Classical) Oct. 20 ROMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS Text: 463-494 Romanticism in Painting & Literature Beethoven, Berlioz, and Bruchner Small Group Project: Walt Whitman, “ The Learned Astronomer ” and Keat’s “ La Belle Dame Sans Merci”DATE LECTURE/DISCUSSION TOPICS READINGS Oct. 27 REALISM, IMPRESSIONISM Text: 517-530 POST -IMPRESSIONISM Things Fall Apart Nov. 3 AFRICAN CULTURAL ARTS Text: 536, 548-552 Discussion: Quiz & Collaborative Project on Achebe's Things Fall Apart Handout: Study Questions Nov. 10 Exam #2 Text: 563-75 THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE in Literature, Visual Arts, and Jazz Nov. 17 MODERNISM Text: 531-557 MODERNISM in Painting: In Music: Stravinsky, Schoenberg In Literature Cultural Events Project Due 11-24 Nov. 24 MODERNISM (Cont.) Text: 559-599 Dec. 1 POST-MODERNIST COLLAGE Text: 624-39 Dec. 8 POST-MODERNIST PRESENTATIONS, Due Handout: Study Questions Dec. 15 Exam #3 Final Course