Reading List

• Keith Hjortshoj, The Transition to College Writing (Bedford)
• The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin)
• Shakespeare, The Tempest, A Case Study in Critical Controversy, ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan (Bedford)
• Sir Walter Ralegh, The Discoverie of Guiana (Bedford)
• Shusaku Endo, The Samurai (New Directions)
• J.H. Elliott, The Old World and The New 1492-1650 (Cambridge UP)
  
• John E. Wills, The World from 1450-1700 (paper Oxford UP)
  

• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Discourses, trans. Walker and Richardson
• Augustine, The Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford World's Classics)
• Guibert of Nogent, Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from the Time of the Crusades, ed. and trans. Joseph McAlhany and Jay Rubenstein (Penguin Classics)
• Michel de Montaigne, Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
• Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, ed. and trans. J.M. Cohen (Penguin Classics)
• Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Penguin 20th Century Classics)

• Homer, Odyssey, trans. Stanley Lombardo (Hackett)
• Virgil, Aeneid, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam)
• Dante, Inferno, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam)
• Joyce, Ulysses, ed. Gabler (Vintage)

For sophomores and juniors, three of the following four classes are required (preferably taken in numerical order).

Sophomore and Junior Years

• P.J.E. Davies et al., Jason’s History of Art, The Western Tradition, 7th ed.
• Reading packet with miscellaneous articles
• Recommended only:
  S. Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art or
  S. Hudson and N. Noonan-Morrissey, The Art of Writing about Art

• Voltaire, Philosophical Letters, trans. Dilworth
• David C. Cassidy, Einstein and Our World
• Newton, Opticks
• Thomas Hankins, Science and the Enlightenment
• B.J. Dobbs & M.C. Jacob, Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism
• Thomas S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution
• David Park, The Fire Within the Eye
• Christian Huygens, A Treatise on Light (selections)
• Rene Descartes, Dioptrics
• Thomas Young, “Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics”

Honors 213
Mathematical Reasoning: Foundations
of Geometry (1 unit)

• Marvin Jay Greenberg, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries
• Robert Simson, The Elements of Euclid
• John Keill, Euclid's Elements of Geometry
• John Bolyai, The Science Absolute of Space
• N. Lobachevskii, Geometrical Researches of the Theory of Parallels
• David Hilbert, Foundations of Geometry
• Imre Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations, The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
• Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis
• Snapper, Ernst, The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
• Mathematics Magizine, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Sept. 1979) pp 207-216, Avail on JStore

Honors 214
Social Scientific Approaches
to Knowing (1 unit)

• Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. Russell Price
• Rousseau, The Social Contract, trans. Cole
• Marx and Engels, The German Ideology, trans. C.J. Arthur
• Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, trans. John Toews
• Mill, On Liberty
• Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Douglas Smith
• Foucault, Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan
• Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed
• Rawls, The Law of Peoples

Junior Year

Honors 401
The Self & The Other in Postmodernity (1 unit)

• Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling, (Princeton University Press, 1983)
• Levinas, Emmanuel. Ethics and Infinity, (Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 1995)
• Armstrong, Karen. “Death of God?” in The Case for God.
• Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
• Derrida, Jacques. “Whom to Give to” from The Gift of Death
• Foucault, Michel. “The Panopticon”
• Noddings, Nel. Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
• Taylor, Astra. Examined Life: Philosophy is in the Streets
• Zizek, Slavoj. The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

Senior Year

Successful completion of the Honors curriculum (a minimum of 7 units), the normal requirements for graduation, and the research, writing, and presentation of a senior thesis make the student eligible for graduation as a Coolidge Otis Chapman Honors Scholar.