Week 1  The Grail Legend, Arthurian Legend
Wednesday, Aug 30 Introduction and Goals. Research methods. Library tour
Friday, Sept 1  The Arthurian Grail Legend. Lancelot  pp 185-196
Week 2: Prepare to Quest. Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot
Monday, Sept 4 Lancelot pp 197-222
Wednesday, Sept 6 Lancelot pp 223-253
Friday, Sept 8 Lancelot pp 254-280 Personal Reaction paper due
Watch the movie First Knight over the weekend.
Week 3 Inventing the Quest. Chretien de Troyes's Perceval
Monday, Sept 11 Perceval pp 374-405
Wednesday, Sept 13 Perceval pp 406-435
 Wednesday evening film: Rohmer's Perceval; Guest speaker Jack Shannon, '99
Friday, Sept 15 Perceval pp. 436-470
Week 4  Questing the Spiritual: The Quest of the Holy Grail
Monday, Sept 18 Perceval pp 471-495 Personal Reaction paper due
Wednesday Sept 20 Quest  pp 31-66
Wednesday evening film : Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Friday, Sept 22 Quest pp 67-94
Week 5  The Quest of the Holy Grail
Monday, Sept 25 Quest pp 94-134
Wednesday, Sept 27 Quest pp 207-235
    Friday, Sept 29 Quest pp 235-268 Personal Reaction paper due

Week 6 Continuation of that Noble Quest
Monday, Oct 2 Quest  pp 269-284
Tuesday, Oct 3 Guest Speakers Norris J. Lacy and Anne Longley
Wednesday, Oct 4 Research for 19th century Gothic Revival, Tennyson, Pre-Rafaelite painters
Prepare for oral presentations
Friday, Oct 6 Malory "Balin or the Knight with the Two Swords"  Book II s  Book II of Le Morte Artur
Week 8: The Romantic Quest of Medievalism. Tennyson: Idylls of the King. Poetry and the Pre-Rafaelite painters.
Oct 9 Read Tennyson  The Holy Grail and  Sir Galahad from Idylls of the King Oral Presentation: Gothic Revival, Tennyson
Wednesday, Oct 11 Oral Presentation: Pre-Rafaelite painters
Friday, Oct 13  Oral Presentation: Wagner's Parsifal
Week 9: Wagner's Opera Parsifal
Wednesday, Oct 18 Guest lecturer Jim Kidd on the Parsifal opera
Friday, Oct 20 Discussion of the Romantic Quest of Medievalism Personal Reaction Paper due
Week 10: Questing the Modern. T.S.Eliot "The Wasteland"
Monday, Oct 23 "The Wasteland" Hypertext of The Waste Land , part 1
Wednesday, Oct 25 "The Wasteland" Hypertext of The Waste Land , part 2
Friday, Oct 27 "The Wasteland" Hyper-text, part 3
Week 11: Questing the Modern, continued
Monday, Oct 30 "The Wasteland" Hyper-text, part 4.
Wednesday, Nov 1 "The Wasteland" part 5, conclusion. Personal Reaction Paper due
    Wednesday Evening Film: "Excaliber"
Friday, Nov 3 Group Research on Hitler and the Masons
Week 12 Appropriations of the Quest
Monday, Nov 6 Oral Presentation: Hitler's appropriation of the Grail
Wednesday, Nov 8 Oral Presentation: The Masons' Grail
    Wednesday Evening Film: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
Friday, Nov 10 The Natural  Read pp. 1-25
Week 13 Adaptations of the Quest
Monday, Nov 13  The Natural  by Bernard Malamud
Wednesday, Nov 15 The Natural
Friday, Nov 17 Visit by former HSC president, General Sam Wilson. Personal Reaction paper due
Week 14 Continuing to Adapt the Quest
Monday, Nov 20 The Natural
Monday Evening Film: "The Natural"
Thanksgiving Break
Week 15Our Own Quest: Grail Projects
Monday, Nov 27 Discussion of Projects
Wednesday, Nov 29 Discussion of Projects
Wednesday Evening Film "The Fisher King"
Friday Dec 1 Research for Projects
Week 16Presentations of Grail Projects
Monday, Dec 4 Presentations
Wednesday, Dec 6 Presentations
Wednesday Evening Film "The Big Blue" Fuqua center
Friday, Dec 8 Presentations
Week 17 The Quest for Meaning: What's It All About?
Monday, Dec 11 Discussion of the course