CLST 389-01W / CATH 300-01W / HIST 300B-01W / MSTU 398-01W Classical Backgrounds: Augustine - Writing Intensive Spring Semester 2012 Dr. Jacqueline Long MWF 10:25am-11:15am Mundelein 308

• Augustine, Sermons: Various Newly Discovered, tr. Edmund Hill (New City Press 2000)
• Augustine, Letters, vol. 6, tr. Robert B. Eno (Catholic University of America Press 1995)
• Augustine, On Christian Teaching, tr. R. P. H. Green (Oxford University Press 2008)
• Augustine, Confessions, tr. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press 1998)
• Augustine, City of God Against the Pagans, tr. Robert Dyson (Cambridge University Press 1998)
• Garry Wills, Saint Augustine (Penguin Group Incorporated 2005)
• William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th edn. (Longman); the 1st edn. (1918) is available on-line from bartleby.com
• Additional resources in Blackboard

Life in the Church in Late-Roman Africa	Church, Bishop, and Martyrs W 1/18: Introduction Study resources: SQ3R for Primary-Source Coursework Patrick Rael, Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: a Guide for College Students (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College 2004), "How to Read a Primary Source" (2.b in the menu on the left under "Reading") "How to Read a Secondary Source" (2.a in the menu on the left under "Reading") (alternatively, David W. Koeller, Using Historical Sources, History Department, North Park University, Chicago, copyright 2005) F 1/20 Paula Fredriksen, "Christians in the Roman Empire in the First Three Centuries CE," in David S. Potter, ed., A Companion to the Roman Empire, 587-606 (Malden MA, Oxford, Carlton Victoria: Blackwell Publishing 2006) Garry Wills, Augustine, pp. 65-99 M 1/23 Augustine, Sermon 306E W 1/25 Augustine, Sermon 299A Strunk and White, chh. I, III, pp. 1-14, 34-38 (on-line, first edition Ch. II, first edition Ch. IV) Resolve to begin thinking about your research project Donatism and the Persistence of Memory F 1/27 Maureen A. Tilley, "Sustaining Donatist Self-Identity: From the Church of the Martyrs to the Collecta of the Desert," Journal of Early Christian Studies 5.1 (1997) 21-35 Strunk and White, ch. IV, pp. 39-65 (on-line, first edition Ch. V plus first edition Ch. VI) M 1/30 Augustine, Sermon 360A Writing Exercise 1 due today! W 2/1 Augustine, Sermon 360C Augustine, Letter 28* Remind yourself to think about your research project F 2/3 Wills, Augustine pp. 99-145 Brent Shaw, "African Christianity: Disputes, Definitions, and 'Donatists'," in M. R. Greenshields and T. A. Robinson, eds., Orthodoxy and Heresy in Religious Movements: Discipline and Dissent, 5-34 (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press 1992; rpt. in Shaw, Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa, Aldershot Hamps: 1995) Factual quiz today! The Supervisory Bishop M 2/6 Augustine, Letters 13*, 18*, 21*, 22*, 26* Strunk and White, ch. IV, pp. 39-65 (on-line, first edition Ch. V plus first edition Ch. VI) W 2/8 Augustine, Letter 20* Discussion Leaders - Writing Assignment 2 Think about your research project F 2/10 Augustine, Letters 4*, 5* Discussion Leaders - Writing Assignment 2 M 2/13 Augustine, Letters 1*, 24* Discussion Leaders - Writing Assignment 2 W 2/15 Augustine, Letters 9*, 10* Discussion Leaders - Writing Assignment 2 Think seriously about your research project F 2/17 Augustine, Letters 7*, 8*, 17*, 25* Discussion Leaders - Writing Assignment 2 Factual quiz today! Ruling Family M 2/20 Augustine, Sermon 354A Formulate, test, and refine definite ideas about your research project W 2/22 Augustine, Sermon 159A Finalize proposals for your research project F 2/24 Augustine, Letters 3*, 6* Proposals for your research project due today!
Literary Life	The Beginning of Discovery: Words and the Heart M 2/27 Augustine, On Christian Teaching, Prologue and Book 1 W 2/29 Catherine Chin, "The Grammarian's Spoils: De Doctrina Christiana and the Contexts of Literary Education," in Augustine and the Disciplines: from Cassiacum to Confessions, ed. K. Pollmann and M. Vessey, 167-83 (Oxford UP 2005) Receive assignments to collaborative groups for your research project and begin planning your collaboration F 3/2 Wills, Augustine, pp. xi-10 Factual quiz today! M-Sa 3/5-10 Midsemester Break - no classes Signs M 3/12 Augustine, On Christian Teaching, Book 2 W 3/14 Wills, Augustine, pp. 10-35 Interpretation F 3/16 Augustine, On Christian Teaching, Book 3 1-page statements of group plans (1 per group) for your research project due today! M 3/19 Augustine, Sermon 341 Writing Exercise 3 due today! W 3/21 Wills, Augustine, pp. 36-47 Explicitly Not Rules of Rhetoric F 3/23 Augustine, On Christian Teaching, Book 4 M 3/26 Wills, Augustine, pp. 48-64 Factual quiz today! W 3/28 Re-assessing preaching: review Serm. 159A, 299A, 306E, 341, 354A, 360A, 360C Writing Exercise 4 due today!
Greatest Hits	Lens of Life: through Letters into Faith F 3/30 Augustine, Confessions, Books 1-2 M 4/2 Augustine, Confessions, Books 3-4 W 4/4 Augustine, Confessions, Books 5-6 Th (4:15pm) - M (4:15pm) 4/5-9: Easter Break - no classes W 4/11 Augustine, Confessions, Books 7-8 F 4/13 Augustine, Confessions, Books 9-10 M 4/16 Augustine, Confessions, Books 11-13 Thomas Williams, "Biblical Interpetation," in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. E. Stump and N. Kretzmann, 59-70 (Cambridge UP 2001) Factual quiz today! Response to Sack of the Romans' City W 4/18 Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, Book 1 Augustine, Letter 1*A F 4/20 Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, Book 2 M 4/23 Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, Book 4 W 4/25 Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, Book 5 F 4/27 Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, Book 14 Finished paper from your research project due today!
M 4/30 9:00am	Absolute, final deadline for submission of any work on extended deadlines Conformed with Loyola's Final Exam Schedule.

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