Sophomore Fall

Political Economy Seminar

ST201: Political Economy (7 credits)

Daniel, Revelations, The Holy Bible
Essays of Influential Economists
Essays on Political Economy, Bastiat
Economic Harmonies, Bastiat
Wealth of Nations, Smith
Human Action, Mises
The End of Laissez-faire, Keynes
The Syntopicon, chapter 13, including readings
   from The Great Books of the Western World

AS204A: Family Leadership I (4 credits)

The Screwtape Letters, Lewis
Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Les Miserables, Hugo
Laddie, Porter
Othello, Shakespeare

AS212: Scientific Thought I (1 credit)

Origin of the Species, Darwin
On the Sacred Disease, Hippocrates
The Syntopicon, chapters 24 and 29 including
    readings from The Great Books of the Western World

AS203A: Applied Mathematics III (2 credits)

Texts change year to year

ST395R: Simulations (2 credits)

 

Other

HB201: Hebrew III (2 credits)
ST205R: Directed Readings (variable credit)

Supplemental Classics may also be used in class

Supplemental Classics: Sophomore Fall
Wuthering Heights, Bronte
Capitalism and Freedom, Money and Economic Activity, Friedman
The New Industrial State, Galbraith
The Road to Serfdom, Hayek
Economics in One Lesson, Hazlitt
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham
The Vital Few, Hughes
Everyman’s Dictionary of Economics, Liberty Fund
An Essay on Liberation, Marcuse
The Communist Manifesto, Capital, Marx and Engels
The Principles of Political Economy, Mill
Beyond the Welfare State, Myrdal
The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique
Personal Freedoms and Economic Freedoms in a Mixed Economy,
    Samuelson
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Schumpeter
The Tempest, Shakespeare
Population Matters, Simon
The Mainspring of Human Progress, Weaver
Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Copernicus
Geometry, Descartes
Elements, Euclid
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Faraday
Two New Sciences, Galileo
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, Harvey
The Principles of Psychology, James
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Newton
Introduction to Arithmetic, Nichomachus
On the Equilibrium of the Liquids, Pascal
Chance, Poincare
Principles of Zoology, Agassiz
Molecular Biology of the Cell, Alberts et al.,
Novum Organum, Bacon
The Origin of Species, Darwin
Gray’s Anatomy
“The Sacred Disease”, Hippocrates
“Mathematics of Heredity”, Mendel
Germ Theory and Its Application to Medicine, Pasteur

 

Sophomore Winter

Political Philosophy Seminar

ST202: Political Philosophy (7 credits)

Isaiah, The Holy Bible
Great Political Thinkers, Ebenstein*
The Republic, Plato
Politics, Aristotle
The Prince, Machiavelli
The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu*
The Proper Role of Government, Benson
Democracy in America, vol. 1, Tocqueville
The Lord of the Flies, Golding
Collected Work of Karl Marx, Marx & Engels
Fountainhead, Rand
The Syntopicon, chapters 3, 11, 12, 16, 31, 59, 62,
   87, and 95 including readings from The Great Books
   of the Western World
Survey of World Political Geography

AS204B: Family Leadership II (4 credits)

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Gray
Jane Eyre, Bronte
Little Britches, Moody
Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
King Lear, Shakespeare
The Chosen, Potok

AS213: Scientific Thought II (1 credit)

The Selfish Gene, Dawkins
The Double Helix, Watson
The Syntopicon, chapters 21, 53, and 83 including
   readings from The Great Books of the Western World

AS203B: Applied Mathematics IV (2 credits)

Texts change year to year

 

Other

HB202: Hebrew IV (2 credits)
ST395R: Simulations (2 credits)
ST205R: Directed Readings (variable credit)

Supplemental Classics may also be used in class
*Denotes Selections

Supplemental Classics: Sophomore Winter
Political Writings of John Adams, Adams
On Kingship, Aquinas
The City of God, Augustine
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
Principles of Morals and Legislation, Bentham
Reflections on the Revolution of France, Burke
The Republic, The Laws, Cicero
De Monarchia, Dante
Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe
Leviathan, Hobbes
Essays, Hume
On Liberty, Mill
Utopia, More
Histories, Polybius
The Social Contract, Rousseau
Pericles, MacBeth, Shakespeare
Candide, Voltaire
The Syntopicon, chapters 2, 20, 32, 43, 54-56, 60, 64, 65, and 67
    including readings from The Great Books of the Western World
Poetry and Mathematics, Buchanan
Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan
On Tyranny, Strauss
A History of Political Philosophy, Strauss
The Double Helix, Watson
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - selected lectures
Textbook of Medical Physiology, Guyton
The Selfish Gene, Dawkins
Silent Spring, Carson
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Bernard
What Is Life, Schrödinger