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Class Sessions and Reading Assignments

This is a page that lists the class sessions and assignments for J. B. Owens's spring 1997 course Religious Reformation and Conflict. You may return to the main page for this course by selecting its title in this paragraph.

CONSIDER: "An idea is always grasped in relative association, never in absolute isolation, and no idea, in history, keeps a changeless self-identity."
--Joseph R. Levenson, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate

Note:

For your own good, no one who expects to do well in this course should be carrying over 16 credit-hours this semester, fewer if you are working more than 10 hours per week.

Note Bene:

Permission to submit late work or to be absent from class will only be granted in PRIOR notification has been given to me through the means provided below, unless such notification is impossible. Since failure to complete work will give you a zero for the assignment, you should not submit unexcused late work nor fail to make up any missed assignment for which an excuse has been obtained.

As CLASS ATTENDANCE is important, it is mandatory. Moreover, if you miss four (4) or more classes, you will fail this course.

Questions? Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of your message.

Assignments

All assignments are to be completed by the date indicated. ALWAYS bring with you to class the book we are discussing during that class session.

See the Course Syllabus for further information is you are confused by any of the information below.

List Participation

Work for this course includes an on-line discussion list. Your participation in the dialogue of the list will be an important component of your grade. Fifty (50) of the reading assignments below are marked with an asterisk (*). As a minimum, you must submit THREE (3) questions or comments (in three separate messages) about twenty (20) of these by 3:00 pm on the day when they will be discussed.

Because I will not necessarily respond on the list to all of these questions, you are encouraged to help each other (remember that this is part of your grade). YOU MUST respond promptly (within 72 hours) to any on-line questions I ask you.

Questions? Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of your message.

COURSE ORGANIZATION

14 January: Introduction to the course.
Get your computer account, send me your e-mail address, read the www pages for this course.
16 January
What is the Reformation all about?
21 January
Discussion of the research project. Read the PROJECT DESCRIPTION and the other pages listed there. Come to class prepared to ask questions about this material.

NOTE: Those who have not obtained an ISU computer account before this class session must drop the course.

23 January
Markus, preface and chapter 1*.
28 January
Markus, part I*.

NOTE: Your project design statement must be sent to my e-mail address by 3:00 pm today. Failure to do so will result in a failing grade for the entire project.

30 January
Markus, part II*.
4 February
Markus, part III*.

NOTE: The preliminary bibliography for your class project must be sent to my e-mail address by 3:00 pm today. Failure to do so will result in a failing grade for the entire project.

6 February
Discussion -- Ancient Christianity and comparative history.

NOTE: Your first examination will be available by 3:00 pm today.

11 February
Clendinnen, preface and chapters 1, 2*, and 3*.

NOTE: Your first examination must be sent to my e-mail address (owenjack@fs.isu.edu) by 3:00 pm today.

13 February
Clendinnen, chapter 4*.
18 February
Clendinnen, chapters 5*, 6*, and Appendix* of documents.
20 February
Clendinnen, chapters 7* and [8 and the Epilogue]*.
25 February
Clendinnen, chapters 9* and 10*.
27 February
Clendinnen, chapters 11* and [12 and the Epilogue]*.
4 March
Baylor, Introduction and chapter 1*.
6 March
Baylor, chapters 2*, 3*, and 4*; and appendix a*.

10-14 March
SPRING BREAK

18 March
Baylor, chapters 5*, 6*, and 7*.
20 March
Baylor, chapter 8*; and appendices b*, c*, d*, and e*.
25 March
Baylor, chapters 9*, 10*, and 11*; and appendix f*.
27 March
Baylor, chapters 12* and 13*.

NOTE: Your second examination will be available by 3:00 pm today.

1 April
Diefendorf, introduction and chapter 1 (pp. 9-22).

NOTE: Your second examination must be sent to my e-mail address (owenjack@isu.edu) by 3:00 pm today.

3 April
Diefendorf, [chapter 1, pp. 22-27, and chapter 2]*.
8 April
Diefendorf, chapters 3* and 4*.
10 April
Diefendorf, chapters 5* and 6*.
15 April
Diefendorf, chapters 7* and 8*.
17 April
Diefendorf, chapters 9*, 10*, and conclusion.
22 April
Kagan, introduction and chapter 1*.
24 April
Kagan, chapters 2* and 3*.

NOTE: Your project paper must be sent to my e-mail address by 3:00 pm today.

29 April
Kagan, chapters 4* and 5*.
1 May
Kagan, chapter 6* and conclusion.

NOTE: The text of your third examination will be available by 3:00 pm today.

8 May
Your third examination must be sent to my e-mail address by 7:00 pm today.

Questions? Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of your message.
 

All contents copyright (C) 1996.
J. B. Owens
All rights reserved.


Revised:  10 January 1997


URL: http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/rrc/reading.html