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Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. University policy permits three unexcused absences before action must be taken. More than three absences will lower your grade. After five absences, you risk failing the course. Lateness: Lateness of any kind (either late papers or chronic lateness to class) can lower your grade. Assignments: Three papers and reading response essays. [Students must also participate in the course electronic conference site.] Class Participation: Colloquia are classes where as much learning takes place through discussion as through formal presentation of material by the instructors. It is therefore imperative that students have prepared for class and are ready to participate. Preparation and participation will be taken into account when final grades are assigned. Grades:Your final grade will be based, for the most part on the three required papers (85%). [the first two papers will be worth 25% each and the final paper will be worth 35%.] 15% will be based on other written work, that posted on the electronic conference site and the reading response assignments, with class participation being taken into account. Required Texts: Abelard. Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew, and a Christian. trans. Payer. (Brill) Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Addison Wesley; Classics) Augustine. Confessions (NAL/Penguin Putnam) Cervantes. Don Quixote. trans. J.M. Cohen. (Penguin) Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. ed. and trans. Hieatt & Hieatt. (Bantam Classics) Dante. Inferno. trans. Allen Mandelbaum. (Bantam Classics) Descartes. Discourse on Method. trans. Donald Cress. (Hackett Publishing) Marie de France. The Lais. Trans. Robert Hanning & Joan Ferrante. (Labyrinth Press) Galileo. Discoveries and Opinions. trans. Stillman Drake. (Anchor Books/Doubleday) Machiavelli. The Prince. (Bantam Classics) Marlowe. Doctor Faustus. ed. Sylvan Barnet. (Signet Classics) Milton. Paradise Lost. ed. Scott Elledge. (Norton) Montaigne. Essays. trans. J.M. Cohen. (Penguin) Thomas More. Utopia. trans. Paul Turner. (Penguin) Shakespeare. King Lear. ed. David Bevington. (Bantam Classics) Sor Juana. Poems, Protest, and a Dream. trans. Margaret S. Peden. (Penguin) The Women Troubadors (Norton)
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