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.
Fall 2022 Booklists
Humanities 3: Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern Europe
| Professor | Booklist |
|---|---|
| Geoffrey West | Thomas More, Three Early Modern Utopias, 9780199537990 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream, 9780140447033 Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 9780140446029 William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 9780143130239 Margaret Cavendish, Blazing World, 9780140433722 John Milton, Paradise Lost, 9780375757969 |
| Tatiana Zavodny | William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 9780143128564 John Milton, Paradise Lost, 9780375757969 Moderata Fonte, The Merits of Women, 9780226550633 |
| Patrick Patterson | Thomas More, Utopia w/Erasmus' The Sileni of Alcibaides, 9780872203761 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 9780199535699 William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 9780812969122 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 9780872201774 John Milton, Paradise Lost, 9780199535743 |
| Antony Lyon | Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 9780199535699 Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, 9780142437070 Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 9780140446043 Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 9780140446456 Juana Inés, Selected Works, 9780393351880 William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 9780143130239 John Milton, Paradise Lost, 9780375757969 |
Spring 2022 Booklists
Humanities 2: Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages
| Professor | Booklist |
|---|---|
| Stanley Chodorow | Holy Bible, RSV (any) Virgil, Aeneid tr. Mandelbaum (Penguin), 9780553210415 Augustine, Confessions tr. Ruden (Modern Library), 9780812986488 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival tr. Edwards (Oxford World's Classics), 9780192806154 Dante, The Divine Comedy tr. Ciardi, New American Library, 9780451208637 |
| Geoffrey West | Virgil, Aeneid tr. Mandelbaum (Random House), 9780553210415 Lucretius, On The Nature of Things tr. Melville (Oxford), 9780199555147 Bible, NRSV (any) Augustine, Confessions tr. Boulding (Knopf Doubleday), 9780375700217 Beowulf tr. Heaney (Norton), 9780393320978 Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Penguin), 9780140424386 Dante, The Divine Comedy (Oxford), 9780199535644 |
| Edward Watts | Virgil, The Aeneid tr. Fagles (Penguin), 9780143105138 New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version (Oxford), 9780190276072 Plutarch, Lives, Volume VII tr. Perrin (Harvard University Press), 9780674991101 Einhard, Notker the Stammerer, Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin), 9780140455052 |
| Kristina Markman | Bible, New Revised Standard Version (any) Dante, The Portable Dante tr. Musa (Penguin), 9780142437544 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tr. Armitage (Norton), 9780393334159 Travels of Sir. John Mandeville tr. C.W.R.D. Moseley (Penguin), 9780141441436 Virgil, Aeneid tr. Fagles (Penguin), 9780143106296 |
Humanities 5: Modern Culture
| Professor | Booklist |
|---|---|
| Michael Caldwell | Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (Dover), 9780486455617 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground tr. Pevear (Vintage), 9780679734529 Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex tr. Borde & Malovany-Chevallier (Penguin), 9780307277787 W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Dover), 9780486280417 Mat Johnson, Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery illu. Warren Pleece (Penguin), 9781506705644 Jericho Brown, The New Testament (Copper Canyon), 9781556594571 |
| Antony Lyon | George Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier Mariner (HMH) 9780156767507 Albert Camus, The Plague tr. Gilbert Vintage (Penguin) 9780679720218 Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Copper Canyon), 9781556594861 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (Anchor Books), 9781101911761 Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind (Milkweed), 9781639550494 |
