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- GBK
101--Among Gods and Heroes
- The introductory course in the Great
Books Program concentrates on the ancient Greeks, and includes works by
Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Plato.
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- GBK 202--Classical
Culture
- Prerequisite: GBK 101 or
approval of the program director.
- Readings from such authors as Plato,
Euclid, Aristotle, and Virgil.
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- GBK 203--The Hebrew and Christian
Traditions
- Prerequisite: GBK 101 or
approval of the program director.
- Readings in several books of the Old
and New Testaments, as well as selections from Augustine and
Aquinas.
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- GBK 304--Order and
Ingenuity
- Prerequisites: GBK 101 and
GBK 202 or 203, or approval of the program director.
- Readings from such authors as Dante,
Chaucer, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Galileo, and Montaigne.
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- GBK 305--The Modern World
View
- Prerequisites: GBK 202 or
203; or approval of the program director.
- Readings from such authors as Newton,
Descartes, Shakespeare, Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and
Milton.
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- GBK 306--Reason and
Revolution
- Prerequisites: GBK 202 or
203; or approval of the program director.
- Readings from such authors as
Rousseau, Goethe, Smith, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Wollstonecraft,
Kant, Toqueville, Marx, Engels, Emerson, and Darwin.
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- GBK 407--The Age of
Ambivalence
- Prerequisites: GBK 202,
203, and either GBK 304, 305, or 306; or approval of the program
director.
- Readings from such authors as
Dostoevski, Yeats, Mendel, Freud, Weber, and Nietzsche.
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- GBK
495--Special
Topics
- Prequisites: To be
determined by the instructor.
- A study of texts, themes or authors
not covered in the regular offerings or an intensive study of a major
work.
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