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What These Pages Are All About.In the early 1980’s, Mercer University began the Great Books Program, modeled after the course of study at St John's College, as an alternative to the standard distributional track of basic courses needed to graduate. The program was divided into eight courses that were required to complete the program and an additional ninth course which was optional. The course titles, descriptions and the books read in each course are as follows. However, since more than one professor teaches them each quarter it is offered and different professors may teach them each year, the selection of texts for each one may vary from professor to professor and from year to year. The selections listed below were taken from the course syllabi from Spring, 1987 through Fall, 1989, except for the ninth class which I never took. I gleaned the works for that class from a fax I recieved in February, 1996 of the list of books used in the program. However, the final reading list for the various classes is the prerogative of the individual professors I have attempted to provide textual links to all of the works listed below. It is noted whether the link is in plain text or is formatted for html. The works are in English, unless otherwise noted. I also plan to provide links to other lists of the Great Books of Western Civilization (such as the reading lists at St. John's College) when I find them. Any highlighted link listed under the work in the various lists should take you to the actual text located somewhere on the Worldwide Web. Any highlighted link under the author should take you to biographical material and/or other resources available on the Internet. Whether or not these links are useful will be in the eyes of the user.
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