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DAILY SCHEDULE
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This schedule has been revised to reflect what actually happened in class.

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1/17	W	Introduction Notes

Part I	Themes From Ancient World
	F	Emergence of Agriculture

1/22	M	Earliest cities: Jericho and Chatal Huyuk
	W	Sumeria
			READING:  Gilgamesh, particular portions TBA
			Books I-VI, esp. II, IV
	F	The cycles of agriculture, Labors of the months. Notes
			Assignment One passed out

1/29	M	Out of the Wild: Stories of transition.  Class discussion
		READING:  Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, pp. 1-91 (Chap 1-VI)
		       Selections from Genesis, to be passed out
	W	Mother Culture, class discussion continued
			READING:  Ishamel, finish book book.
	F	Ishmael, continued

2/5	M	Images of Eden
			Assignment 1 NOT due in class. Date changed
	W	Ancient Earthworks and Megaliths
			Assignment 1 due in class. Date changed
	F	Moundbuilders, an introduction

2/12	M	 Historiography of the moundbuilders
			READING:  Silverberg, The Moundbuilders.
	W	1:30 pm Class cancelled
		Dr. Sharon Challener, Clarion University
			"The Ancient Maya, Living in the Cycle of Time"
			4:30, Doane Arts 104
	F	MIDTERM ONE Take-Home Exam.  Class discussion 
			
Part II	Heritage of the Pastoral

2/19	M	Roman villa and landscape
			ACKERMAN, The Villa, Chap 1-2.
	W	Villas of Pompeii and Tivoli
	F	Pastoral Poetry
			READING:  Virgil, Eclogue I (handout)

2/26	M	Renaissance Villas - a Landscape of Love?
			READING:  Ackerman, Chap 3-5.
				         Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory, TBA 
				         Langmuir, Lancscape, TBA
	W	Beginnings of landscape in the west 
	F	Palladio

3/5	M	The Villa in England and America
			READING:  Ackerman, Chap 6-7
	W	Thomas Jefferson
			READING:  Ackerman, Chap 8
F	Picturesque
		READING:  Ackerman, Chap 9-10

3/12	M	The romantic landscape: Reflections on the sublime
READING:  Kant, Burke, on the sublime.  (Handout)	
W	That wilder image:  American landscapes
	F	CLASS CANCELLED Lecture to be rescheduled
			Hudson River School
			READING:  Cole, Essay on American Scenery (Handout) 

3/19	SPRING BREAK

3/26	M	The American West: panora and photography.
	W	In search of the exotic:  South America & Heade
	F	Framing Nature, conclusions on the pastoral and landscapes

4/2	M	Midterm Two:  Villas and Landscapes
		Short essays based on slides.

Part III  Perspectives of Modern Architecture and Asian Tradition
	W	Frank Lloyd Wright
	F	FLW continued
		READING:  FLW, In the Cause of Architecture

4/9	M	LeCorbusier
			LeCORBUSIER, Towards a new architecture, Readings, pp. 153
	W	Le Corbusier and modern city planning
	F	Chinese landscape:  Introduction

FIELD TRIP to FALLINGWATER TO BE ARRANGED

4/16	M	Chinese painting manuals
Ching Hao & Mustard Seed Garden Manual, Readings, pp. 169-207.
	W	Masterpieces of Song landscape
	F	Building in the New World - introduction
			Paper Two due in class.

4/23	M	Chinese Landscape
READINGS:  Pi Fa Chi.  (Notes on Brush-work) by Ching Hao (Handout)
	W	Zen Painting and Gardens
			READING:  Parker, Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts 
F	

4/30	M	Final discussion

5/7	Monday, Final Exam, 7-10 pm, (Exam Period I)
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