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.
Winter 2023 Booklists
Humanities 1: The Foundations of Western Civilization: Israel and Greece
Professor | Booklist |
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Rodriguez | Homer, The Odyssey Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho New Oxford Annotated Bible (5th ed) Aeschylus, The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo |
West | Homer, The Odyssey The Bible Greek Tragedies I Greek Tragedies 3 Four texts on Socrates: Plato's "Euthyphro", "Apology of Socrates", and "Crito" and Aristophanes' "Clouds" |
Demetriou |
Homer, The Odyssey |
Markman | Aristophanes, Lysistrata Euripides, Medea Homer, The Odyssey Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures |
Humanities 4: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution (1660–1848)
Professor | Booklist |
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Kontje | Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (Penguin Classics Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oxford |
Watkins | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von The Sufferings of Young Werther Locke, John Second Treatise of Government Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Basic Political Writings Voltaire, Candide and Related Texts |
Lyon | Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality John Stuart, Mill On Liberty Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831 Edition) |