You are expected to read all assignments before coming to class on the day they appear on the schedule for each week. Some of these readings are difficult and slow reading, even though they span a small number of pages. Because of this, I advise you to start your readings at least 3 days before we discuss it in class. For effective college level reading, you should plan to read the assignment all the way through at least once and then review it again the day before it is discussed in class. If you read your assignments only the night before we discuss them in class, chances are you will not have assimilated them as fully as is necessary for truly effective learning and class participation.

Abbreviations used here are:
   CHA = Celtic Heroic Age;
   Reader = Reader Packet for course.

Week 1
   Tues. 1/15/02 Introduction/Syllabus
   Thurs. 1/17/02 Backgrounds and Beginnings

Week 2
   Tues. 1/22/02 Cahill, How the Irish Saved..., pp. 1-97
   Thurs. 1/24/02 Cahill, How the Irish Saved..., pp. 98-218

Week 3
   Tues. 1/29/02 CHA, "Part I: Ancient Celtic Europe," pp. 1-50
   Thurs. 1/31/02 Reader, "Second Battle of Mag Tuired"

Week 4
   Tues. 2/5/02 CHA, "Arthurian material," pp. 293-301
                         CHA, "History of the Britons," pp. 275-90
   Thurs. 2/7/02 Mabinogi, "Culhwch and Olwen," pp. 119-58
                         Research Paper Due (Historical Person Topic)

Week 5
   Tues. 2/12/02 Reader, Sections on "Language"
                         Research Paper Presentations
   Thurs. 2/14/02 Reader, Ross "Law, Learning and Literature"
                         CHA, "The Story of Mac Da Tho's Pig," pp. 68-75

Week 6
   Tues. 2/19/02 CHA, "Bricriu's Feast," pp. 76-105
   Thurs. 2/21/02 CHA, "Wooing of Etain," pp. 146-65
                         Reader, "The Dream of Oengus"

Week 7
   Tues. 2/26/02 The Tain, Intro., "Before the Tain," pp. vii-52
   Thurs. 2/28/02 The Tain, pp. 52-156

Week 8
   Tues. 3/5/02 The Tain, pp. 156-255
                         Research Paper Due (Literary Text Topic)
   Thurs. 3/7/02 CHA, "Death of Cuchulainn," pp. 134-43
                         Research Paper Presentations

Week 9
3/11/02-3/15/02 SPRING BREAK

Week 10
   Tues. 3/19/02 Reader, "A Brief Introduction to Early Irish Poetry..."
   Thurs. 3/21/02 CHA, "Llywarch Hen," pp. 371-90

Week 11
   Tues. 3/26/02 CHA, "Gododdin," pp. 304-41
   Thurs. 3/28/02 Celtic Art
                         Research Paper Due (Art and Architecture Topic)

Week 12
   Tues. 4/2/02 Celtic Art, continued
                         Research Paper Presentations
   Thurs. 4/4/02 Mabinogi, "The Tale of Gwion Bach and
                         the Tale of Taliesin," and "Cad Goddeu," pp. 159-88

Week 13
   Tues. 4/9/02 Reader, Ross, "The World of the Spirit..."
   Thurs. 4/11/02 Bitel, Isle of the Saints, pp. xi-82
                         CHA, "Patrician texts," pp. 209-12

Week 14
   Tues. 4/16/02 Bitel, Isle of the Saints, pp. 83-244
   Thurs. 4/18/02 Mabinogi, "Intro" and "Pwyll," pp. ix-56

Week 15
   Tues. 4/22/02 Mabinogi, "Branwen" and "Manawydan," pp. 57-88
                         Analytical Paper Due
   Thurs. 4/24/02 Mabinogi, "Branwen" and "Manawydan," continued
                         Analytical Paper Presentations

Week 16
   Tues. 4/29/02 Mabinogi, "Math," pp. 89-110
   Thurs. 5/2/02 Wrap-up discussion
   Fri. 5/3/02 Deadline for postings to Tuath 12:00 midnight