While not an exhaustive list, these works are required in their respective Great Books (GBK) courses.
GBK 101: Among Gods and Heroes
HOMER: The Iliad and The Odyssey
AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus the King and Antigone or Oedipus at Colonus
THUCYDIDES: History of the Peloponnesian War
PLATO: Euthyphro and Apology
GBK 202: Classical Cultures
PLATO: The Republic and Meno
ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics
EUCLID: The Elements (selections)
VIRGIL: The Aeneid
GBK 203: The Hebrew and Christian Traditions
HEBREW BIBLE: Genesis 1-11, Exodus 1-24, Jeremiah 1-33, Isaiah 40-55 and Job
NEW TESTAMENT: Two Gospels, Galatians, and Romans
AUGUSTINE: Confessions (selections)
AQUINAS: Summa Theologica (selections)
GBK 304: Order and Ingenuity
DANTE: The Divine Comedy (selections)
CHAUCER: The Canterbury Tales (selections)
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince
CERVANTES: Don Quixote (selections)
LUTHER or CALVIN: Selections
GALILEO: “The Two Chief World Systems”
MONTAIGNE: Essays (selections)
GBK 305: The Modern Worldview
SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet and King Lear
BACON: The New Organon (selections)
DESCARTES: Discourse on Method
PASCAL: Pensees (selections)
HOBBES: Leviathan (selections)
NEWTON: Selections
LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government
HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selections)
MILTON: Paradise Lost
GBK 306: Reason and Revolution
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract
GOETHE: Faust
SMITH: Wealth of Nations (selections)
JEFFERSON: “Declaration of Independence”
HAMILTON: The Federalist Papers (selections)
ROMANTIC POETS: Selections
KANT: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (selections)
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America (selections)
MARX and ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion
EMERSON: Essays: First Series or THOREAU: Walden
DARWIN: The Origin of Species (selections)
GBK 407: The Age of Ambivalence
DOSTOEVSKY: The Brothers Karamazov
PEIRCE: “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”
YEATS: The Tower
MENDEL: “Experiments in Plant Hybridizations”
FREUD: Civilization and its Discontents (or another selection)
WEBER: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
NIETZSCHE: Twilight of the Idols (or another selection)
DU BOIS: The Souls of Black Folk
O’CONNOR: Selected short stories
GBK 495: Special Topics (Subtitle)
Recent Special Topics Courses include Flannery O’Connor, Early Modern Allegories and Make-Believe Worlds, Soul and Conscience, The Iliad of Homer, Goethe: Poet & Scientist, Milton, Jane Austin, Walker Percy, and Narratives of Calling. |
