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Humanities Program Courses

Humanities courses are each offered once during the academic year. HUM 3, 4, and 5 are also offered during each Summer Session.

Spring 2023 Booklists

Humanities 2: Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages

Professor Booklist
Watts Virgil, The Aeneid
Bible
Plutarch, Lives, Vol. VII
Notker the Stammerer, Two Lives of Charlemagne
Caciola Virgil, The Aeneid
Bible
Augustine, Confessions
Gregory of Tours, A History of the Franks
Abelard and Heloise, The Letters
The Lais of Marie de France
Lyon Virgil, The Aeneid
Bible
Augustine, Confessions
Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Markman Virgil, The Aeneid
Bible
Dante, Inferno
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Humanities 5: Modern Culture

Professor Booklist
West George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier
Rodriguez Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Elie Wiesel, Night
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Caldwell Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
Derek Walcott, Omeros