Junior Fall

World History Seminar

ST301: Ancient & Medieval World History (7 credits)

Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II, Shakespeare
Genesis, Exodus, The Holy Bible
Story of Civilization, vols. 1-4, Durant
The Renaissance, Durant*
The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone
The Odyssey, Homer
The Syntopicon, chapter 34, including readings from
   The Great Books of the Western World

AS301A: Ancient & Medieval Philosophy (3 credits)

Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Plato
The Greek Poets, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes*
On Christian Doctrine, Augustine
Elements, Euclid
Nicomachian Ethics, Aristotle

AS302A: Ancient & Medieval Religions (3 credits)

Upanishads of the Rig Veda*
Analects of Confucius
Koran*

AS305A: Ancient Art History (0.5 credit)

Far East, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, African, Muslim
The Syntopicon, chapters 4 and 6, including readings from
    The Great Books of the Western World

AS303A: Classics of Biology (2 credits)

Texts change year to year

ST395R: Simulations (2 credits)

 

Other

HB301: Hebrew V --OR-- FL301: Foreign Language Elective (2 credits)
ST305R: Directed Readings (variable credit)

Supplemental Classics may also be used in class
*Denotes Selections

Supplemental Classics: Junior Fall
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Sophocles
The Histories, Herodotus
The Iliad, Homer
Georgics, The Aeneid, Virgil
Lives, Plutarch
Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Copernicus
The Origin of the Species, Darwin
Geometry, Descartes
Elements, Euclid
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Faraday
Civilization and Its Discontents, The Ego, The Id, Freud
Two New Sciences, Galileo
On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood, Harvey
A Brief History of Time, Hawking
Treatise of Light, Huygens
The Principles of Psychology, James
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Newton
Introduction to Arithmetic, Nichomachus
On the Equilibrium of the Liquids, Pascal
The Gallic Wars, Caesar
Culture and Anarchy, Arnold
Against the Sophist, Isocrates
Essay on Population, Malthus
A Study of History, Toynbee
The Syntopicon, chapters 14, 27, 61 and 63 including readings from
   The Great Books of the Western World
“Kinetic Theory of Gases”, Bernouill
The Joy of Chemistry, Cobb and Fetterolf
“Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements”, Medeleeff
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - selected lectures
General Chemistry, Pauling

 

 

Junior Winter

World History Seminar

ST302: Modern World History (7 credits)

Henry V, The Tempest, Shakespeare
Acts, Romans, First Peter, Second Peter, James, The Holy Bible
Story of Civilization, vols. 6-11, Durant
The Lessons of History, Durant
From Dawn to Decadence, Barzun

AS301B: Modern Philosophy (3 credits)

Novum Organum, Bacon
Discourse on Method, Descartes
Abolition of Man, Lewis
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn
Areopagitica, Milton

AS302B: Modern Religions (3 credits)

Book of the Hopi
The Bab*
The Book of Mormon*
Popul Vuh*
Avesta*
Autobiography of a Yogi*
Zohar*

AS305B: Modern Art History (0.5 credit)

Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classical, Romantic, Modern
The Syntopicon, chapters 69 and 85, including readings from
   The Great Books of the Western World

AS303B: Intermediate Biology (2 credits)

Texts change year to year

 

Other

HB302: Hebrew VI --OR-- FL302: Foreign Language
    Elective (2 credits)
ST395R: Simulations (2 credits)
ST305R: Directed Readings (variable credit)
ST396R: Field Experience (3 required to graduate)

Supplemental Classics may also be used in class
*Denotes Selections

Supplemental Classics: Junior Winter
Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
Essays in the History of Liberty, Acton
Measure for Measure, Taming the Shrew, Shakespeare,
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
Orthodoxy, Lewis
The Thirteen-Petalled Rose, Steinsaltz
Kaballah
Talmud
The Story of Philosophy, Durant
The Syntopicon, chapters 7-10, 18, 25, 36-41, 48, 49, 51, 58, 66,
   77, 91 and 92 including readings from The Great Books of the
   Western World
Alciphron, Berkeley
Method for the Easy Comprehension of History, Bodin
I and Thou, Buber
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel
Pragmatism, James
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Jung
Introduction to Logic, Kant
Either/Or, Kierkegaard
Guide for the Perplexed, Miamonides
Notebooks, Da Vinci
Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos, Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space, Asimov
Understanding Physics, Asimov
E = mc2, Bodanis,
The Universe on a T-Shirt, Falk
Lectures on Physics, Feynman
The Universe in a Nutshell, Hawking
“The Uncertainty Principle”, Heisenberg
The Road to Reality, Penrose