| Day | Date | Topic | Assignment |
| M | Aug 26 | Introduction & Background | introduction &textbook |
| W | Aug 28 | The Physicists | Milesian Phyicists & bibliography |
| M | Sept 2 | Labor Day...No Class | . |
| W | Sept 4 | Pythagoreans | Pythagoreans |
| M | Sept 9 | Guide to using the Internet...Class meets in MRC | Microcomputer Resource Center |
| W | Sept 11 | The Historical Context...Late Start at 4:30 | visit The Perseus Project |
| M | Sept 16 | Heraclitus & Parmenides | Heraclitus & Parmenides |
| W | Sept 18 | Eleatics (Zeno's Paradoxes) | Zeno's Paradoxes |
| M | Sept 23 | Pluralists & Atomists... Quiz (20 min.) | . |
| W | Sept 25 | Socrates & the Sophists | Apology & Republic Bk 1 & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 41-56; 112-137) |
| M | Sept 30 | Plato on the Forms | Meno & Phaedo (Cahn, ed. pp. 4-27; 66-111) |
| W | Oct 2 | Plato on Politics | Crito & Republic Bks 2-5 (Cahn, ed. pp. 57-65; 138-202) |
| M | Oct 7 | Plato's Metaphysics | Republic Bks 6,7---(Cahn, ed. pp. 202-231) |
| W | Oct 9 | Introduction to Aristotle | Categories, Chs. 1-5 Introduction to Aristotle & Aristotle on Logic & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 235-240) |
| M | Oct 14 | In Class Exam | . |
| W | Oct 16 | Aristotle of Physics & Psychology | Physics, Bk 2; On the Soul, Bk 2 Aristotle on Scientific Explanations (Cahn, ed. pp. 241-273) |
| Oct 21-25 | Fall Break...No Class | . | |
| M | Oct 28 | Aristotle on Metaphysics | Aristotle's Metaphysics |
| W | Oct 30 | Aristotle on Ethics & Politics | Nicomachean Ethics---(Cahn, ed. pp. 274-324) |
| M | Nov 4 | Hellenistic Philosophy (1) | Life Philosophies of Late Antiquity Epicurus & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 325-334) |
| W | Nov 6 | Hellenistic Philosophy (2) | Epictetus---(Cahn, ed. pp. 335-354) |
| M | Nov 11 | Make-up exam date: 1st Quiz and/or 1st Exam | |
| W | Nov 13 | Neo-Platonism & Early Christian Philosophy: Guest Lecturer: Dr. R. Goss | Introduction to Medieval Philosophy & Neo-Platonists bibliography |
| M | Nov 18 | Second Quiz | . |
| W | Nov 20 | From Augustine to Scholasticism: Guest Lecturer: Dr. R. Goss | Confessions (Bk 11) & Augustine & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 355-374) |
| M | Nov 25 | Boethius to Anselm | Early Middle Ages & bibliography |
| W | Nov 27 | 10th & 11th Centuries: Anselm | High Middle Ages Anselm & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 375-406) |
| M | Dec 2 | 12 & 13th centuries | . |
| W | Dec 4 | Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica (Qs. 1,2) & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 407-428) |
| M | Dec 9 | Looking back: an overview | Final Review |
| W | Dec 11 | Examination Make-up | Exams |
| T | Dec 17 | Final Exam | Nb Day & Time: Tuesday, 3:20-5:20pm Final Exam |