Freshman Fall

Government Seminar

ST101: Government (6 credits)

Documents of State

(1215 Magna Charta , 1610 Virginia Articles, 1620 Mayflower
Compact, 1776 Adams’ Thoughts on Government,1776
Declaration of Independence, 1789 U.S. Constitution, 1787
Northwest Ordinance, 1791 Jefferson on National Bank, 1791
Hamilton on National Bank)

The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare

Deuteronomy, Books of Matthew/ John, The Holy Bible

Federalist Papers 1,2,10,14-15,18-20,
    22,38,51,68,84,85, Madison, et. al.

Democracy in America, vol. 2, Tocqueville

War and Peace, Tolstoy

The Second Treatise on Government, Locke

The 5,000 Year Leap, Skousen
Alas, Babylon, Frank

The Virginian, Wister

AS101A: Personal Leadership (2 credits)

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey
The Weight of Glory, Lewis
Meditations, Aurelius

AS102A: Art History I (0.5 credit)

Ancient, Medieval, Modern & American

AS210: Math Classics I (1 credit)

Introduction to Arithmetic, Nicomachus
The Harmonies of the World, Kepler
The Syntopicon, chapter 52, including readings
    from The Great Books of the Western World

AS103A: Applied Mathematics I Block (2 credits)

Texts change year to year

ST395R: Simulations (2 credits)

 

Other

HB101: Hebrew I (2 credits)
ST105R: Directed Readings (variable credit)

Supplemental Classics may also be used in class

Supplemental Classics: Freshman Fall
The Real Thomas Jefferson, Allison, et al.
Roots of American Order, Kirk
The Real George Washington, Parry, et al.
Lives (Poplicola & Solon), Plutarch
A Second Treatise of Government, Locke
Laddie, Porter
The Syntopicon, chapters 15, 19, and 45 including
    readings from The Great Books of the Western World
A Thomas Jefferson Education, DeMille
Biographies of Great Statesmen
As A Man Thinketh, Allen
Understanding the Times, Noebel
Emily Post’s Etiquette, Post
Endurance, Lansing
Miss Manners Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium, Martin
Coincidence, Chaos, & All That Math Jazz, Berger & Starbird
The Heart of Mathematics, Berger & Starbird
Five Equations that Changed the World, Guillen
“Concerning Probability”, La Place

Freshman Winter

U.S. History Seminar

ST102: US History (6 credits)

Documents of State

(1796 Washington’s Farewell Address, 1820 Missouri
Compromise, 1823 Monroe Doctrine, 1850 Calhoun & Webster
Compromise, 1860 Cooper Union Address, 1863 Gettysburg
Address, 1944 A New Bill of Rights, 1945 Yalta Agreement, 1947
The X Article, 1983 Evil Empire Speech)

Hamlet, Shakespeare
Job, Jonah and Pauline Epistles, The Holy Bible
American Historical Biographies & Essays
Surveys of American History
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
1984, Orwell
The Making of America, Skousen
Pride and Prejudice, Austen

AS101B: Organizational Leadership (2 credits)

The E-Myth Revisited, Gerber
Essays, Emerson
The One-Minute Manager, Blanchard

AS102B: Art History II (0.5 credit)

Ancient, Medieval, Modern & American

AS211: Math Classics II (1 credit)

The Two New Sciences, Galileo
An Introduction to Mathematics, Whitehead
The Syntopicon, chapter 5, including readings from
    The Great Books of the Western World

AS103B: Applied Mathematics II Block (2 credits)

Geometry
Texts change year to year

 

Other

HB102: Hebrew II (2 credits)
ST395R: Simulations (2 credits)
ST105R: Directed Readings (variable credit)
ST396R: Field Experience (3 required to graduate)

Supplemental Classics may also be used in class

Supplemental Classics: Freshman Winter
America: The Last Best Hope, Bennett
Great Expectations, Dickens
A History of the American People, Johnson
The American Republic, Liberty Fund
Henry V, Shakespeare
Walden, Thoreau
John Adams, McCullough
Truman, McCulloch
An Economic Interpretation of the American Constitution, Beard
Common Sense, Paine
Collected Writings, Penn
Emile, Rousseau
Sea Power, Mahan
The Oxford Companion to United States History, Boyer
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Ferguson, et al
Flatland, Abbott
“Mathematics of Population and Food”, Malthus
“Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought”, Whitehead