Course Catalog • Humanities & Western Civilization

A program of study emphasizing the reading and discussion of some of the influential writings and ideas that have shaped the intellectual and cultural heritage of the Western world. Western Civilization I includes readings from the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods. Prerequisite: Not open to freshmen except members of the Honors Program. Three written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. Instructor: Jennifer Heller.

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Trulove, et al. Patterns in Western Civilization, Vol 1, 4th ed., Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007.
• Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays, Penguin, 1st ed., 2003.
• Plato. The Trial and Death of Socrates, 3rd ed., Hackett, 2001.
• Plato. Republic, trans. Grube, 1st ed., Hackett, 1992.
• Aristotle. Politics, trans. Reeve, 1st ed., Hackett, 1998.
• Virgil. Aeneid, 1st ed., Hackett, 2005.
• Seneca. Letters from a Stoic, 1st ed., Penguin, 1969.
• St. Augustine. Confessions, 1st ed., Penguin, 1961.
• The Koran. trans. Dawood, Penguin, 2004.
• Aquinas. On Politics and Ethics, 1st ed., Norton, 1987.
• Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, 1st ed., Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1982.
• Machiavelli. The Prince, 1st ed., Hackett, 1995.
• Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 1st ed., Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1957.

A program of study emphasizing the reading and discussion of some of the influential writings and ideas that have shaped the intellectual and cultural heritage of the Western world. Western Civilization II includes readings from the modern period. Prerequisite: HWC 114 or HWC 204. Not open to freshmen except members of the Honors Program. Three written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. Instructor: Jennifer Heller.

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Trulove, et al. Patterns in Western Civilization, Vol. 2, 4th ed., Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007.
• Klein. All But My Life, 1st ed., Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1995.
• Marx, et al. The Communist Manifesto, 1st ed., Macmillan Publishing, 1999.
• Descartes. Discourse on Method, 3rd ed., Hackett, 1998.
• Rousseau. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, 1st ed., Hackett, 1992.
• Shelley. Frankenstein, 1st ed., Dover, 1994.
• Freud. The Future of an Illusion, 1st ed., Norton, 1989.
• Dostoevsky. Notes from Underground, 1st ed., Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1994.
• Mill. On Liberty, 1st ed., Hackett, 1978.
• Woolf. A Room of One’s Own, 1st ed., Harcourt, 1989.
• Locke. Second Treatise of Government , 1st ed., Harlan Davidson, 2002.
• Du Bois. The Souls of Black Folk, 1st ed., Dover, 1994.
• Nietzsche.Twilight of the Idols, 1st ed., Hackett, 1997.