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Ideas in Western Culture
Fall: Homer, Iliad Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Sophocles, Philoctetes Plato, The Republic Pericles, Funeral Oration Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Physics Old Testament, Genesis New Testament, Gospel of John, Romans
Winter: Egyptian Book of the Dead W.E.B. Dubois, The Negro Martin Bernal, Black Athena St. Augustine, Confessions Aquinas, Selections St. Anselm, Selections Dante, Selections Machiavelli, The Prince Erasmus & Luther, Discourse on Free Will Descartes, Dialogues on Natural Religion Hume, Meditations Locke, Second Treatise on Government Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman Rousseau, Emile Equiano, Travels Phyllis Wheatley, Selected Poems Thomas Jefferson, Selections
Spring: Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Mill, Utilitarianism Rawls, Justice Marx, Selections Darwin, Selections Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations S.J. Gould, Mismeasure of Man Hitler, Mein Kampf H. Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem Sartre, The Condemned of Altona Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex Nietzshe, On the Genealogy of Morals Freud, Selections, Civilization and Its Discontents
Europe and the Americas Fall: St. Augustine, Confessions Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Melville, Bartleby The Scrivener Marx, Communist Manifesto Bible, Genesis, Revelations Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Paredes, With His Pistol in His Hand F. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Juan Rudolfo, The Burning Plain Popol-Vuh Rigoberta Menchu, I... Rigoberta Menchu Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Winter: Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture Paul Radin, The Trickster Homeric Hymn to Hermes Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Shakespeare, The Tempest Aime Cesaire, A Tempest C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World Euripides, Bacchae Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John F. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Euripides, Medea Derek Wolcoff, Collected Poems Aime Cesaire, Return To My Native Land
Spring: John de Mandeville, Travels Christopher Columbus, Letters Fr. Bernardo de Sahagun, The Conquest of Mexico Carmen Taffola, La Malinche Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain B. de las Casas, In Defense of the Indians J. Clifford, Identity Among the Mashpee de la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas de Ayal, New Chronicle and Good Government Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, Social Contract Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman F. Douglass, Autobiography Esteban Echeverria, The Slaughterhouse Whiman, Leaves of Grass Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Great Works Fall: Bible Homer, Odyssey Sappho, Selections Sophocles, Antigone Plato, The Republic Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Virgil, Aeneid St. Augustine, Confessions, Koran
Winter: Rule of St. Benedict Marie De France, Lais Islamic Readings St. Thomas Aquinas, Selections Dante, Inferno Machiavelli, The Prince Martin Luther, Selections Shakespeare, King Lear Descartes, Discourse on Mehtod, Meditations Rousseau, Selections Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman F. Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
Spring: Keats, Selections Wordsworth, Selections Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Darwin, Selections Marx & Engels, Selections Dickens, Hard Times Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, Future of an Illusion Woolf, To the Lighthouse Tomas Rivera, And the Earth Did Not Part Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths T. Morrison, Song of Solomon
Values, Technology, Science, and Society Fall: Epic of Gilgamesh Old Testament, Genesis Confucius, Analects Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days Sappho, Selections Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Plato, The Republic Aristotle, Selections Lucretius, The Nature of the Universe New Testament, Selections
Winter: The Koran Marco Polo, Travels Dante, Paradiso Machiavelli, The Prince Shakespeare, The Tempest Galileo, Selections Descartes, Discourse on Method, Meditations Bacon, The New Atlantis Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Spring: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Marx, Selections Darwin, Selections Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Elie Wiesel, Night Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man James Watson, The Double Helix |