Week 1
August

Introduction

Unit One: Africa
'Origin Stories' (Library Reserve)
Sunjata: A West African Epic

Week 2
August

Sunjata continued
Anansi stories - in Origin Stories (Library Reserve)
The Life of Olaudah Equiano (Library Reserve)

Week 3
September

Labor Day Holiday

Unit Two: The Near and Mid East
Introduction p. 1/755, Pyramid Texts, Shipwrecked Sailor, Doomed Prince
Adapa, the Man; Songs of Enheduanna; Gilgamesh

Week 4
September

Arabic Literature introduction p. 227/771, Early Arabic Poetry
The Quran,
Rabia the Mystic, The Thousand and One Nights, The Book of Reflections

Week 5
September

The Epic of Kings, The Rubaiyat, Rumi poems, The Rose Garden

Unit Three:South Asia
Introduction p. 9, The Rig Veda; Stories: 'Purana' (Library Reserve) QUIZ
Hinduism: The Upanishads

Week 6
September

Hinduism: The Bhagavad-Gita
Buddhism: Buddhist texts; Stories:'Six Tusked Elephant' (Library Reserve)
Valmiki The Ramayana, Poems of Love and War

Week 7
September

The Ramayana, The Gatha Saptashati (poems)
MIDTERM EXAM
Regional Bhakti Literatures; Stories:' Birth of Krishna' (Library Reserve)

Week 8
October

Stories: 'Suggestions of Earlier Myths' (Library Reserve), Gandhi Passive Resistance

Unit Four:China
Introduction p. 192, Early Dynasties,The Book of Songs, The Songs of Ch'u; Stories: 'The Origin, Pan Gu, Cleverness, Kindness, Persons with Magical Powers' (Library Reserve), Daoism

Daoism: Laozi and Zhuangzi; Confucianism
Confucianism:early and later; Legalism and the Qin Dynasty
The Shiji:: Biographies (Library Reserve) and the Han Dynasty

Week 10
October

Tao Qian poems and Peach Blossom Spring, Cold Mountian Poems (Library Reserve), Buddhism
Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bo Juyi poems, The Red Cliff I and II (Library Reserve)
Xi Xiang Jii or The Western Chamber Romance ('Selections from Xi Xiangji') (Library Reserve)

Week 11
October

Outlaws of the Marsh: Sagacious Lu…/Monkey
Flowers in the Mirror, The Dream of the Red Chamber

Unit Five: Japan
Introduction p.458/453, poems of the Ancient Period; 'In the Beginning the World was Slush' (Library Reserve) QUIZ

Week 12
November

Tales of Ise, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
Izumi Shikibu poems, The Tale of Genji
The Lady Who Admired Vermin, Tales of the Heike

Week 13
November

An Account of My Hermitage, Zen Stories
Noh Play: Semimaru, essay: One Mind Linking All Powers,
The Life of An Amorous Woman

Week 14
November

Poems: Haiku and stories: Rashomon, The Tattooer

Unit Six: The Americas
Introduction p. 5/1499, Inca: Atawallpa, The Huarochiri Manuscript; Rainforest: Kuchi and Semenia
Mayan: Chilam Balam: Chiefs and How Human Time Began; The Popul Vu

Week 15
November

The Popul Vu

THANKSGIVING

Week 16
December

The Aztec Priests' Speech Creation Myths (Library Reserve), Stories: 'White Buffala Woman, An Indian Cinderella, Life Among the Paiutes, Black Elk: The Butchering at Wounded Knee' (Library Reserve)