CMS150 - Winter 2001

Trials of Conscience: Litigation

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Socrates

Week 1 Class 2[1/11/01]
- In class: Lecture 1.2
- Homework: Read:
  - Plato, Apologia
  - Prepare discussion questions
Week 2 Class 1 [1/16/01]
- In class:
  - discuss Plato, Lecture 2.1
  - quiz
- Homework: Read,
  - Stone, The Trial and Death of Socrates (p. 1-67)
  - Prepare discussion questions
Week 2 Class 2 [1/18/01]
- In class: discuss Stone, Lecture 2.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Xenophon, Apologia
  - Stone, The Trial and Death of Socrates (p. 68 -180)
  - Prepare discussion questions
  - Recommended:
    - an interview with I. F. Stone
    - Ralph Nader on I. F. Stone

Week 3 Class 1 [1/23/01]
- In class:
  - discuss Stone, Lecture 3.1
  - quiz
- Homework: Read,
  - Stone, The Trial and Death of Socrates (p. 181 -248)
  - Prepare Arguments analysis and discussion questions
Week 3 Class 2 [1/25/01]
- In class: discuss Stone, Lecture 3.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Aristophanes, The Clouds
  - Cohen, Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens (p. 1-118)
  - Prepare Source analysis and discussion questions

Week 4 Class 1 [1/30/01]
- In class:
  - discuss Cohen, Lecture 4.1
  - quiz
- Homework:
  - Cohen, Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens (p. 119-195)
  - Prepare Model analysis and discussion questions
Week 4 Class 2 [2/01/01]
- In class: Cohen, Lecture 4.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Cicero, pro Rabirio
  - Livy, ab Urbe Condita, 1.24-26
  - Suetonius, Div. Iul. 12 [scroll down until you get to par. xii]
  - Dio Cassius, 26-28 on the trial of Rabirius
  - Prepare discussion questions

Week 5 Class 1 [2/06/01]
- In class: discuss Cicero & Livy, Lecture 5.1
- Homework: Read,
  - Riggsby, Crime & Community in Ciceronian Rome (p. 1-78)
  - Prepare Case analysis and discussion questions
Week 5 Class 2 [2/08/01]
- In class: discuss Riggsby, Lecture 5.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Riggsby, Crime & Community in Ciceronian Rome (p. 79-186)
  - Roman History lectures:
  - Prepare Arguments analysis and discussion questions

Week 6 Class 1 [2/13/01]
- In class: discuss Riggsby, Lecture 6.1
- Homework:
  - Prepare for midterm
Week 6 Class 2 [2/15/01]
- Midterm in class today.
- Homework: Read,
  - Ginzburg, The Judge and the Historian (p. 1-110)
  - Prepare Source analysis and discussion questions

February Break [2/17 - 2/27]

Week 8 Class 2 [3/01/01]
- In class: discuss Ginzburg, Lecture 8.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Ginzburg, The Judge and the Historian (p. 110-211)
  - Prepare discussion questions
- In class: discuss Ginzburg, Lecture 9.1
- Homework: Read,
  - Turner, Dramas, Fields & Metaphors
  - Prepare Model analysis and discussion questions

Week 9 Class 2 [3/08/01]
- In class: discuss Turner, Lecture 9.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Trask, Joan of Arc
  - Prepare discussion questions

Week 10 Class 1 [3/13/01]
- In class: discuss Joan of Arc, Lecture 10.1
- Homework: Read,
  - Pernoud, Joan of Arc : By Herself and Her Witnesses (p. 1-137)
  - Prepare discussion questions
Week 10 Class 2 [3/15/01]
- In class: discuss Pernoud, Lecture 10.2
- Homework: Read,
  - Pernoud, Joan of Arc : By Herself and Her Witnesses (p. 138 -274)
  - Prepare Case analysis and discussion questions

Week 11 Class 1 [3/20/01]
- In class: discuss Pernoud, Lecture 11.1
- Homework: Read,
  - Sullivan, The Interrogation of Joan of Arc
  - Prepare Arguments analysis and discussion questions
Week 11 Class 2 [3/22/01]
- In class: discuss Sullivan, Lecture 11.2
- Homework: Read,
  - La Roy Durie, Montaillou : The Promised Land of Error
  - Prepare discussion questions

Week 12 Class 1 [3/27/01]
- In class: discuss La Roy Durie, Lecture 12.1
- Homework: Read,
  - La Roy Durie, Montaillou : The Promised Land of Error
  - Prepare Source analysis and discussion questions
Week 12 Class 2 [3/29/01]
- In class: discuss La Roy Durie, Lecture 12.2
- Homework: Read,
  - La Roy Durie, Montaillou : The Promised Land of Error
  - Prepare discussion questions

Week 13 Class 1 [4/3/01]
- In class: discuss La Roy Durie, Lecture 13.1
- Homework: Read,
  - Fiction in the Archives, Natalie Zeamon Davis
  - Prepare Model analysis and discussion questions
Week 13 Class 2 [4/5/01]
- In class: wrap up

EXAM ON WEDNESDAY OF FINALS WEEK (10:30 AM)