Calendar - EUH2000 Spring 2011 - VCC

Course Assignment Calendar

DATE	Day	Assignment	Lecture (Required Readings)
January 11	Tue		Course Introduction
January 13	Thurs		Origins of Civilization
January 18	Tue		Mesopotamia
Assigned Reading for January 20: Hammurabi’s Code (full text)
January 20	Thurs	Quiz #1	The Akkadian Empire and Western Writing
January 25	Tue		Egyptian Civilization
January 27	Thurs		West Asia – Hittites
Assigned Reading for Feb. 3 : Egyptian Creation Myth (full text) and Persian Documents
February 1	Tue		West Asia - Hebrews and Canaanites
February 3	Thurs	Quiz #2	Persian Empire
February 8	Tue		Zoroastrianism
February 10	Thurs		Ancient Greece
Assigned Reading for Feb. 15 : Plato’s Apology (full text)
February 15	Tue	Quiz #3	Classical Greece
February 17	Thurs		Hellenic Empire
Assigned Reading for Feb. 22 : The Twelve Tables (full text)
February 22	Tue	Quiz #4	Roman Republic to Empire
February 24	Thurs		Fall of Rome
March 1	Tue	EXAM #1	EXAM #1
March 3	Thurs	Research	Research Day
March 8	Tue	NO CLASS	Spring Break
March 10	Thurs	NO CLASS	Spring Break
March 15	Tue		History of Christianity
March 17	Thurs		History of Christianity Assigned Reading for March 22:
Assigned Reading for March 22 : Quran (text excerpt)
March 22	Tue	Quiz #5	History of Islam
March 24	Thurs		History of Islam Assigned Reading for March 31:
March 29	Tue		Post-Roman Europe & The Medieval Age
Assigned Reading for March 31: The Donation of Constantine (Full text) & others
March 31	Thurs	Quiz #6	The Franks and other Germanic Kingdoms
April 5	Tue		The Renaissance
April 7	Thurs		The Renaissance
Assigned Reading for April 12: 95 Theses (full text)
April 12	Tue	Quiz #7	The Reformation
April 14	Thurs		The Reformation
April 19	Tue		In to the Early Modern Period.
Assigned Reading for April 21:
April 21	Thurs	Quiz #8	Final Review
April 26	Tue	FINAL	Final Exam @ 5pm (Cover everything since Midterm)