Ernest Kaulbach

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  -- / A

Unique #:  34910            Flags:  Writing

Semester:  Fall 2013            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  n/a

Prerequisites: E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A.

Description: How are literary classics made, and what do they themselves make? What is the relationship between the Classics and various classes, or categories, of identity, whether socioeconomic, ethnic/racial, sexual, or generational? Do the Classics themselves support the division of people into different classes? What about popular adaptations of and glosses on the Classics?

For the first weeks, this class will forget, dumb down, downsize, revise or bowdlerize the Classics by going online: regarding them as Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, Wikipedia Articles, PBS Dramas, commercial movies, Commercials or even “Ms. (School) Marm’s Helpful Hints.” In the next few weeks of this course, we will go offline – to the library – to find works (poetry, drama, fiction) inspired by the original texts (of Milton, Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc.). For the rest of the semester, we’ll be reading the original texts, line by line.

This class helps to prepare students for success in the English major by making them better readers, writers, and thinkers, by teaching basic research skills, and by providing models for approaching literature with various historical and cultural contexts in mind.

Texts: Texts to be selected from among the following.King James Bible; Wycliffe Bible; “Chapman’s Homer”; Rushdie’s Qu’ran; Shakespeare (Sonnet, Tempest, Historical Play); Chaucer (Chaucer’s Dante, Boethius, Boccaccio, Jean de Meun?); Voyage of the Beagle; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Dryden’s Aeneis; Alice in Wonderland; Biography of Malcolm X; M.S. Bell, All Souls’ Rising; Ramayana/Adam’s Bridge; Hakluyt’s Voyages.

Requirements & Grading: Requirements: Short response papers and critical essays, consistent engagement with our reading and with class discussion, final exam.

Grades: 50% (papers), 30% (interaction with texts/other class members), 20% (final exam).

History of the Exegesis of the Septuagint (Greek) Bible to reference the use of the Bible in Art, Law, Medicine, Science, Literature, Music, etc. up to 1500 CE. Progress assessed by short quizzes and final exam, although the principal assessment will be determined by a lengthy research paper (done and edited in stages).

Texts:

Any RSV version of the Bible.

Grading:

1.) attendance2.) weekly quizzes3.) final4.) paper.To receive an “A,” one must have an “A” in all four areas (same for “B”). A lesser grade “B” or “C” means that the student receives the lesser grade for the entire course. Miss more than two classes and you receive a “B.”

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  III / U

Unique #:  83585            Flags:  n/a

Semester:  Summer 2013, first session            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: The course will begin with some older models for satire (Horace, Boethius, Chaucer, for example), a critical essay, and move into some of the well-known authors (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Irving, Twain, Bierce). All the previous introduce what “satire” means. At this point, we sometimes read pieces suggested by you and could read pieces never intended to be satirical (e.g., Bible or Declaration of Independence). Usually we’ve spent most of the semester on contemporary works (Loved One, Confederacy of Dunces, Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Doctor Strangelove, Lolita).

The readings could change. Please let me know what you want to read.

Texts: Packet of readings from IT Copy Service (MLK next to Fire Station); Paperbacks of readings we choose to do.

Requirements & Grading: Final Grade is comprised of attendance (33%), short papers (33%), and final paper or exam (33%). More than 2 absences will result in a “B” for final grade, more than 4 a “C,” etc. You may rewrite papers for a higher grade if the original paper showed some effort. In any case, you must attend and write “A” or “B” papers to get an “A” or “B”.

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  V / U

Unique #:  35550            Flags:  Writing

Semester:  Spring 2013            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: The titles, “Paradise Lost” or “East of Eden” or even “Wealth of Nations,” tell us right off that the subject matter so titled has some relationship to the Bible: Adam and Eve lost Paradise, one brother killed another, the wealth of the world makes a pilgrimage to England. Our textbook sets passages from the Bible right next to extracts from these works of English and American literature.

In this class, we will explicate the extract in terms of the Biblical passage to develop some interpretive skills. We will learn about the author’s use of Biblical allegory, typology and the such which give his/her work sobriety; but we will also learn about the author’s use of irony, bathos and the such which make his/her work more lively.

Texts: The Bible and Literature: a Reader, D. Jasper and S. Prickett

Requirements & Grading: Writing assignments 50%, class attendance 50% (do not miss more than two classes unless you want to have your grade reduced one full letter).

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  III / U

Unique #:  35665            Flags:  n/a

Semester:  Spring 2013            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: The course will begin with some older models for satire (Horace, Boethius, Chaucer, for example), a critical essay, and move into some of the well-known authors (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Irving, Twain, Bierce). All the previous introduce what “satire” means. At this point, we sometimes read pieces suggested by you and could read pieces never intended to be satirical (e.g., Bible or Declaration of Independence). Usually we’ve spent most of the semester on contemporary works (Loved One, Confederacy of Dunces, Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Doctor Strangelove, Lolita).

The readings could change.  Please let me know what you want to read.

Texts: Packet of readings from IT Copy Service (MLK next to Fire Station); Paperbacks of readings we choose to do.

Requirements & Grading: Final Grade is comprised of attendance (33%), short papers (33%), and final paper or exam (33%). More than 2 absences will result in a “B” for final grade, more than 4 a “C,” etc. You may rewrite papers for a higher grade if the original paper showed some effort. In any case, you must attend and write “A” or “B” papers to get an “A” or “B”.

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  n/a

Unique #:  35280            Flags:  Global cultures

Semester:  Fall 2012            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  C L 315            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A, and a passing score on the reading section of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) test.

Description: This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important.

Texts: Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd edition, Volume A; Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee; Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane; Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on corner of MLK & Lavaca).

Requirements & Grading: An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an “A” you must have an “A” in all three areas; same for a “B”. If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than two classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  III / U

Unique #:  35640            Flags:  n/a

Semester:  Fall 2012            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: The course will begin with some older models for satire (Horace, Boethius, Chaucer, for example), a critical essay, and move into some of the well-known authors (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Irving, Twain, Bierce). All the previous introduce what “satire” means. At this point, we sometimes read pieces suggested by you and could read pieces never intended to be satirical (e.g., Bible or Declaration of Independence). Usually we’ve spent most of the semester on contemporary works (Loved One, Confederacy of Dunces, Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Doctor Strangelove, Lolita).

The readings could change.  Please let me know what you want to read.

Texts: Packet of readings from IT Copy Service (MLK next to Fire Station); Paperbacks of readings we choose to do.

Requirements & Grading: Final Grade is comprised of attendance (33%), short papers (33%), and final paper or exam (33%). More than 2 absences will result in a “B” for final grade, more than 4 a “C,” etc. You may rewrite papers for a higher grade if the original paper showed some effort. In any case, you must attend and write “A” or “B” papers to get an “A” or “B”.

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  n/a

Unique #:  83815            Flags:  Writing

Semester: Summer 2012, second session            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  n/a

Prerequisites: E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A.

Description: How are literary classics made, and what do they themselves make? What is the relationship between the Classics and various classes, or categories, of identity, whether socioeconomic, ethnic/racial, sexual, or generational? Do the Classics themselves support the division of people into different classes? What about popular adaptations of and glosses on the Classics?

For the first weeks, this class will forget, dumb down, downsize, revise or bowdlerize the Classics by going online: regarding them as Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, Wikipedia Articles, PBS Dramas, commercial movies, Commercials or even “Ms. (School) Marm’s Helpful Hints.” In the next few weeks of this course, we will go offline – to the library – to find works (poetry, drama, fiction) inspired by the original texts (of Milton, Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc.). For the rest of the semester, we’ll be reading the original texts, line by line.

This class helps to prepare students for success in the English major by making them better readers, writers, and thinkers, by teaching basic research skills, and by providing models for approaching literature with various historical and cultural contexts in mind.

Texts: Texts to be selected from among the following. King James Bible; Wycliffe Bible; “Chapman’s Homer”; Rushdie’s Qu’ran; Shakespeare (Sonnet, Tempest, Historical Play); Chaucer (Chaucer’s Dante, Boethius, Boccaccio, Jean de Meun?); Voyage of the Beagle; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Dryden’s Aeneis; Alice in Wonderland; Biography of Malcolm X; M.S. Bell, All Souls’ Rising; Ramayana/Adam’s Bridge; Hakluyt’s Voyages.

Requirements & Grading: Requirements: Short response papers and critical essays, consistent engagement with our reading and with class discussion, final exam.

Grades: 50% (papers), 30% (interaction with texts/other class members), 20% (final exam).

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  n/a

Unique #:  35145            Flags:  Global cultures

Semester:  Spring 2012            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  C L 315            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A, and a passing score on the reading section of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) test.

Description: This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important.

Texts: Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd edition, Volume A; Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee; Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane; Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on corner of MLK & Lavaca).

Requirements & Grading: An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an “A” you must have an “A” in all three areas; same for a “B”. If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than two classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

Instructor:  Kaulbach, E            Areas:  n/a

Unique #:  35200            Flags:  n/a

Semester:  Spring 2012            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

E 322 and 324 may not both be counted unless the topics vary.

Only one of the following may be counted unless the topics vary: E 320M, 324, 376L, 379M, 379N.

May not be counted toward a major in English.

Prerequisites: C L 315, E 603B, 316K, or T C 603B.

Description: We will study the early history of English Law by learning the early meaning of legal terminology, e.g., the meaning of “law,” “fee,” “lord,” “sake,” “moot,” “ court,” “plea,” “procedure,” “brief,” etc. We will begin with the terms from Alfred (Anglo-Saxon), work our way through terms from Henry I and II (Anglo-Norman), and add on elements from Latin, Old Norse and German.

Texts: TBA—special arrangement with publisher.

Requirements & Grading: Short ½-page papers. Grades:  1/3 attendance, 1/3 papers, 1/3 final exam—not averaged (you have to have an “A” in all three areas to earn an “A”).

Prerequisites: E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A.

Description: How are literary classics made, and what do they themselves make? What is the relationship between the Classics and various classes, or categories, of identity, whether socioeconomic, ethnic/racial, sexual, or generational? Do the Classics themselves support the division of people into different classes? What about popular adaptations of and glosses on the Classics?

For the first weeks, this class will forget, dumb down, downsize, revise or bowdlerize the Classics by going online: regarding them as Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, Wikipedia Articles, PBS Dramas, commercial movies, Commercials or even “Ms. (School) Marm’s Helpful Hints.” In the next few weeks of this course, we will go offline – to the library – to find works (poetry, drama, fiction) inspired by the original texts (of Milton, Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc.). For the rest of the semester, we’ll be reading the original texts, line by line.

This class helps to prepare students for success in the English major by making them better readers, writers, and thinkers, by teaching basic research skills, and by providing models for approaching literature with various historical and cultural contexts in mind. 

Texts: Texts to be selected from among the following. King James Bible; Wycliffe Bible; “Chapman’s Homer”; Rushdie’s Qu’ran; Shakespeare (Sonnet, Tempest, Historical Play); Chaucer (Chaucer’s Dante, Boethius, Boccaccio, Jean de Meun?); Voyage of the Beagle; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Dryden’s Aeneis; Alice in Wonderland; Biography of Malcolm X; M.S. Bell, All Souls’ Rising; Ramayana/Adam’s Bridge; Hakluyt’s Voyages.

Requirements & Grading: Requirements: Short response papers and critical essays, consistent engagement with our reading and with class discussion, final exam.

Grades: 50% (papers), 30% (interaction with texts/other class members), 20% (final exam).

Prerequisites: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A, and a passing score on the reading section of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) test.

Description: This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important. 

Texts: Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., Volume A; 
Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee
; Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane; 
Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on corner of MLK & Lavaca).

Requirements & Grading: An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your final grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an "A" you must have an "A" in all three areas; same for a "B". If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than 2 classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

Prerequisites: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A, and a passing score on the reading section of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) test.

Description: This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important. 

Texts: Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., Volume A; 
Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee
; Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane; 
Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on corner of MLK & Lavaca).

Requirements & Grading: An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your final grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an "A" you must have an "A" in all three areas; same for a "B". If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than 2 classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: The course will begin with some older models for satire (Horace, Boethius, Chaucer, for example), a critical essay, and move into some of the well-known authors (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Irving, Twain, Bierce). All the previous introduce what “satire” means. At this point, we sometimes read pieces suggested by you and could read pieces never intended to be satirical (e.g., Bible or Declaration of Independence). Usually we’ve spent most of the semester on contemporary works (Loved One, Confederacy of Dunces, Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Doctor Strangelove, Lolita).

The readings could change. Please let me know what you want to read.

Texts: Packet of readings from IT Copy Service (MLK next to Fire Station); Paperbacks of readings we choose to do.

Requirements & Grading: Final Grade is comprised of attendance (33%), short papers (33%), and final paper or exam (33%). More than 2 absences will result in a “B” for final grade, more than 4 a “C,” etc. You may rewrite papers for a higher grade if the original paper showed some effort. In any case, you must attend and write “A” or “B” papers to get an “A” or “B”.

Prerequisites: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A, and a passing score on the reading section of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) test.

Course Description: This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important.

Texts: Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., Volume A; 
Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee
; Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane; 
Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on corner of MLK & Lavaca).

Grading: An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your final grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an "A" you must have an "A" in all three areas; same for a "B". If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than 2 classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

This couse is not applicable to the English Degree.

We will study the History of Early English Law by way of learning terms and

 meaning of law terms, e.g., “law,” “case,” “fee,” “tenant,” “sake,” “moot,” “plea,” “procedure,”

 “brief.” We will start with Anglo-Saxon terms, proceed to Anglo-Norman terms and add on

terms and notions borrowed from Latin (Rome), Old Norse (Vikings) and German (Riparian).

The three texts: Alfred’s Saxon, Henry I’s and II’s (Anglo-Norman/Latin) and the “Pleas of the

Crown” (Anglo-Norman Justices in Eyre, Old French with facing English translation). We will

not go much beyond 1300.

Requirements: upper division standing, short papers/quizzes, final exam.

Grades: assigned on attendance, papers/quizzes, final. You have to have an “A” in all three

areas to earn an “A.” Miss more than two classes and I will drop your grade one full letter.

Texts: all texts are Xeroxed, at IT Copy (next to Firehouse on MLK)

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: Become familiar with the principal texts, interpretations, and images of the Old and New Testaments, so as to be able to recognize the use of the Bible in any form of literature, e.g., sciences, history, medicine, law, music, art, etc. Since the West depends upon the interpretation of “Alexandria,” that's the interpretation we will study, although we will find that the West incorporates Jewish, Muslim, and pagan interpretations (as indicated by the required second text).

See the attached list of Readings and read them all, even though I spend half of the semester only on Genesis.

Texts: Any RSV (Revised Standard Version) Bible; The Bible As It Was, James L. Kugel.

Requirements & Grading: Papers (50%), attendance (25%), final (25%); have to attain “A” in all three areas or “B” in all three areas to receive the respective “A” or “B.”

Course Description: How are literary classics made, and what do they themselves make? What is the relationship between the Classics and various classes, or categories, of identity, whether socioeconomic, ethnic/racial, sexual, or generational? Do the Classics themselves support the division of people into different classes? What about popular adaptations of and glosses on the Classics? For the first weeks, this class will forget, dumb down, downsize, revise or bowdlerize the Classics by going online: regarding them as Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, Wikipedia Articles, PBS Dramas, commercial movies, Commercials or even “Ms. (School) Marm’s Helpful Hints.” In the next few weeks of this course, we will go offline – to the library – to find works (poetry, drama, fiction) inspired by the original texts (of Milton, Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc.). For the rest of the semester, we’ll be reading the original texts, line by line. This class helps to prepare students for success in the English major by making them better readers, writers, and thinkers, by teaching basic research skills, and by providing models for approaching literature with various historical and cultural contexts in mind.

Texts: Texts to be selected from among the following. King James Bible; Wycliffe Bible; “Chapman’s Homer”; Rushdie’s Qu’ran; Shakespeare (Sonnet, Tempest, Historical Play); Chaucer (Chaucer’s Dante, Boethius, Boccaccio, Jean de Meun?); Voyage of the Beagle; Milton, Samson Agonistes; Dryden’s Aeneis; Alice in Wonderland; Biography of Malcolm X; M.S. Bell, All Souls’ Rising; Ramayana/Adam’s Bridge; Hakluyt’s Voyages.

Grading: Requirements: Short response papers and critical essays, consistent engagement with our reading and with class discussion, final exam. Grades: 50% (papers), 30% (interaction with texts/other class members), 20% (final exam).

Prerequisites: E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A.

Course Description: This is a course in early Classics: Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, and of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are important.
Texts: Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd ed., Volume A; 
Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee
; Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane; 
Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on corner of MLK & Lavaca).

Grading: An average of three areas, each of which counts 1/3 of your final grade: attendance and quizzes, mid-term essay, final exam. To receive an "A" you must have an "A" in all three areas; same for a "B". If you fail any area, you fail the class. Miss more than 2 classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

Prerequisites: Completion of at least thirty semester hours of coursework, including E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, or T C 603A, and a passing score on the reading section of the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) test.

Course Description: The course will begin with some older models for satire (Horace, Boethius, Chaucer, for example), a critical essay, and move into some of the well-known authors (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Irving, Twain, Bierce). All the previous introduce what “satire” means. At this point, we sometimes read pieces suggested by you and could read pieces never intended to be satirical (e.g., Bible or Declaration of Independence). Usually we’ve spent most of the semester on contemporary works (Loved One, Confederacy of Dunces, Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Doctor Strangelove, Lolita). The readings could change. Please let me know what you want to read.

Texts: Packet of readings from IT Copy Service (MLK next to Fire Station); Paperbacks of readings we choose to do.

Grading: Final Grade is comprised of attendance (33%), short papers (33%), and final paper or exam (33%). More than 2 absences will result in a “B” for final grade, more than 4 a “C,” etc. You may rewrite papers for a higher grade if the original paper showed some effort. In any case, you must attend and write “A” or “B” papers to get an “A” or “B”.

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing. 

For more information, please download the full syllabus.

E316K: Masterworks of Literature - World (34557)

Professor Kaulbach

Office: Calhoun 17

Phone: 471-8365

e-mail:ekaulbach@mail.utexas.edu

DESCRIPTION:

This is a course in early Classics – Classics of the West, of Africa, of the Middle East, of the Far East. We will read nothing written after the 1400’s. Works will be interpreted by teachers of the works, as nearly contemporaneous with the works as possible. Class lectures will tell you how and why these selections are “Classics” – how they influence your culture. It will take you several sessions to figure out what is meant by “Classics.”

Please stay ahead of me in the Readings. I will start slowly (to show you the method of interpretation), pick up speed at mid-semester and fly at the end of the semester. 

READINGS:

• “Contents” of  Anthology, vol.”A”  (pp.v-xvi)
• “Genesis,” chs. 1-10 (Anthology, pp.50-60)
• Timaeus, purchase separately (pp.28-60 in pb edition of Penguin)
• Homer, Iliad, Bks. 1 (lines 1-302) and 22 (lines 5-486) in Anthology, pp.233-240, 259-269
• Homer, Odyssey, Bks 9,10,11 (Anthology, pp.389-432)
• Virgil, Aeneid, Bks 1 (lines 1-49) and 6 (lines 171-1025) in Anthology, pp. 1228-1250
• Ovid, Amores (Xerox packet)
• Krishna Dvaipaiyana Vyasa, The Mahabharata, “Introduction,” Bk.2, in Anthology, pp.829-850, and xerox
• AshvaGhosa, Life of the Buddha, “The Four Signs,” Anthology, pp.1048-1056
• Anonymous, “Love Poems from Sanskrit,” Xerox and Anthology, pp.954-960
• Various Authors, “Love Poems from Tamil,” Xerox and Anthology, pp.947-953
• Confucius, “Analects” (Anthology, pp.1091-1104)
• Book of Songs (Anthology, pp.1069-1073, 1089)
• Li Po, “Drinking Alone in the Moonlight” (xerox)
• Song of Cheoyong (xerox)
• Sei Shonagon, Pillow Book (xerox)
• “Seafarer” (xerox)
• Qur’an, Surah 2, “The Cow” (xerox)
• Sundiata, purchase separately
• Petrarch, Sonnet (xerox)

TEXTS:

• Longman Anthology of World Literature, ONLY Volume A
• Timaeus and Critias, ed. Desmond Lee
• Sundiata, ed. D.T. Niane
• Xerox packet (at IT Copy and Printing, on MLK west of Mcdonald’s & before Fire Station)

GRADES:

A combination (not average) of two areas, both of which contribute to your final grade: attendance/quizzes and final exam. To receive an “A,” you must have an “A” in both areas; same for a “B.” If you get a C in either area, you get a C for the class. Fail any area and you fail the class.  Miss more than 2 classes and your attendance grade is reduced by one full grade.

For more information, please download the full syllabus.

Bible as Literature

E358J (34875)/RS 355(44445)  MWF9-10  Par 103

Kaulbach

       Office:Calhoun Hall 17

       Office Hrs: MTWF 11-12

       Office Phone: 471-8365

       e-mail:ekaulbach@mail.utexas.edu

Description:

Become familiar with the principal texts, interpretations and images of the Old and New Testaments, so as to be able to recognize the use of the Bible in any form of Lit, e.g., sciences, history, medicine, law, music, art, etc.  Since the West depends upon the interpretation of “Alexandria,” that’s the interpretation we will study, although we will find that the West incorporates Jewish, Muslim and  pagan interpretations (as indicated by the required second text).

See the attached list of Readings and read them all, even though I spend most of the classes only on Genesis.

Requirements: 

substantial writing component, daily attendance (don’t miss more than two classes), and a final exam.

Grades:

paper (50%), attendance (25%), final (25%); have to attain “A” in all three areas or “B” in all three areas to receive the respective “A” or “B.” a “C” in any of the three areas means a “C.”

Texts:

• any RSV (Revised Standard Version)  Bible
• The Bible As It Was, James L. Kugel (suggested)

For more information, please download the full syllabus.

TBD