[Art of Ireland: Course Schedule]

Course Schedule: **

(M, 25/VIII/03: Villanova C/asses Begin )

1. T, 26/VIII/03: Introduction: Course Goals, Requirements, & Assignments;

Review of Texts; Discussion of Syllabus; Student Questionnaire

Assiqnment: read "Iceman" & "Stonehenge" article (posted on website).

2. R, 28/VIII/03: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic in Ireland Assignment: "A Neolithic Fortress and Funeral Center"

(article posted on website) and Harbison: Intro., p. 9-14,&

Chap. 2, "Search for the First Settlers".

Take a look at schedule and try to decide on a good date for an oral report

(F, 29/VIII/03: Last Day for Dropping/Adding Classes d for requesting Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

(M, 1/IX/03: No Classes Held (Labor Day Holiday)

3. T, 2/IX/03: Lecture: Stone Age Ireland--Neolithic in Ireland - cont'd Comparanda: Other Stone Age Cultures

Film: "Iceman'; answer questionnaire & turn in on T, 9/IX/03 Assignment: Harbison, Ch. 3, "Farmers and Megalith Builders", pp. 27-86.

4. R, 4/IX/03: 5t. Thomas of Villanova Day-Class Schedule Altered Scheduled screening of "The Mysteries of Stonehenge" (Film #F159,16 mm; 57 mins.];

Questionnaire on Stonehenge film: due on T, 9/IX/03 Assiqnment: Article, "The Social Archaeology of Megalithic

Monuments" (to be read); and Harbison: Ch. 4: "The Rise of

Metalworking", pp. 87-132.

5. T, 9/IX/03: By today, each of you will have settled on dates/topics far oral reports Neolithic in Ireland - cont'd

Questionnaires on Stonehenge and Iceman due today

Assiqnment: Article on Neolithic to be read; Harbison: Chap. 5: "A

Golden Age", pp. 133-54; consult Treasures of Irish Art,

1500 BC to 1500 AD (on reserve at Falvey Reserve Desk)

6. R, 11/IX/03: Bronze Age in Ireland - Minor Arts

Assiqnment: Consult, Treasures of Irish Art, 1500 BC to 1500 AD (on reserve at Falvey Reserve Desk)

7. T, 16/IX/03: Bronze Age in Ireland (continued)

Assiqnment: Continue with reading of Harbison and consult, Treasuresof Irish Art, 1500 BC to 1500 AD. (Falvey Reserve)

8. R, 18/IX/03: Bronze Age - cont'd.

Assiqnment: Continue consulting Treasures...

9.T,23/IX/03: Iron Age in Ireland: Its Art Forms--Architecture, Sculpture, Iron Work.

Screening of Film: "Exploring the Celtic Lands: Home in the Celtic Lands" (25 mins.)

Assignment: Article, "An Early Iron Age Farm Community in Central Europe" (on website) Rees & Rees, Celtic heritage, Intro., pp. 11-25.

10.R,25/IX/03: Iron Age - Cultural Morays

Screening of Film: "Exploring the Celtic Lands: Celtic Harvest"

with questionnaire to be handed in on R, 2/X/03. Assignment: Rees & Rees, Celtic heritage, Ch. 2, "Branches of the

Tradition", sections 1 & 2, pp. 26-41 and Ch. 3, pp. 83-94,

on reserve in Falvey Reserve Room.

(F, 20 - Su, 22/IX/02: Parent's Weekend)

11. T, 30/IX/03: Iron Age in Ireland - cont'd.

Assiqnment: Rees and Rees, Celtic Heritage, Ch. 5, "Hierarchy of the Provinces", pp. 119-139.

12. R, 2/X/03: Heroic Age in Ireland - continued; Film Questionnaire Due Today

Assignment: Article: "An Early Iron Age Farm Community in Central Europe" (class discussion to follow), and Rees & Rees, Ch. 9, "Numbers", pp. 186-204.

13. T, 7/X/03: MIDTERM EXAMINATION

(no "make-up" slide examinations possible).

Assignment: Rees & Rees, Chap. 9: "Numbers", pp. 186-204, and Chap 10, "Storyteller's Repertory", pp. 207-12;

from Nerys Patterson's Cattle Lords d Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland (2nd ed. South Bend, IN: Notre Dame Univ. Press, 1994), Chap. 4, "The Spatial Organization of Society", pp. 89-117, and Chap. 9, "The Forms of Irish Kinship" pp. 239-56, (both chapters on reserve in Falvey--2 copies).