SSI-1-195 The Scientific and Romantic Revolutions (1 unit) |
Profs. George Erving and nese Devenot |
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Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo (Grove Press)
Voltaire. Candide (Norton, 2nd ed.)
Voltaire. Letters on England (Penguin)
Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Dover)
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (Broadview, 3rd ed.)
Course Reader compiled by Professors Erving and Lulofs
Hacker & Sommers. A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed. (University of Puget Sound / Bedford St. Martin’s)
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SSI-2-196 European Past Lives: A Seminar in Historical Inquiry (1 unit) |
Profs. Mike Benveniste
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Augustine. The Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford, 2009)
Abelard and Heloise, Letters, 2nd edition, trans. Betty Radice and Michael Clanchy (Penguin, 2003)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Confessions (Penguin, 1963)
Harriet Martineau, Autobiography (J.R. Osgood, 1877) out-of-print Gandhi, An Autobiography, trans. Mahadev Desai (Beacon, 1993)
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Honors 211 Metamorphosis and Identity (Humanistic Approaches Core) (1 unit) |
Profs. Denise Despres
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Ovid. Metamorphoses,trans. Martin, intro Bernard Knox (W. W. Norton) 2004
Dante. Inferno, trans. Mark Musa (Penguin)
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, intro Robert Mighall (Penguin)
Kafka. Metamorphosis, Modern Library Classics, ed. Stanley Corngold
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oxford World Classics, ed. Peter Holland, 2008
The Bacchae of Euripides, trans. C.K. Williams, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
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For sophomores and juniors, three of the following four classes are required (preferably taken in numerical order). You may substitute another class for the fourth.
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Course |
Professor |
Reading |
Honors 206 The Arts of the Classical World and the Middle Ages (Fine Arts Core) (1 unit) |
Prof. Kriszta Kotsis |
- Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren. Art History, Vol. 1, 5th ed., (Pearson, 2013)
- Reading Packet with various articles
- Recommended only:
- S. Barnet. A Short Guide to Writing About Art
or Hudson, S. and N. Noonan-Morrissey. The Art of Writing About Art
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Honors 212 Origins of the Modern World View (Natural Scientific Approaches Core) (1 unit) |
Prof. Andrew Rex |
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Voltaire. Philosophical Letters, trans. Dilworth
David C. Cassidy. Einstein and Our World
Newton. Opticks
Thomas Hankins. Science and the Enlightenment
B.J. Dobbs and 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)
René Descartes. Dioptrics
Thomas Young. Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics
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Honors 213
The Mathematics of Symmetry (Mathematical Approaches Core) (1 unit)
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Prof. James Bernhard |
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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
Ernst Snapper. The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Sept. 1979) pp. 207 – 216 (available on JStor)
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Honors 214 Interrogating Inequality (Social Scientific Approaches Core) (1 unit)
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Profs. Suzanne Holland |
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Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. [Vintage, 1978, 1995; ISBN-10: 0679752552; ISBN-13: 978-0679752554] Greenbaum, Susan. Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty. [Rutgers, 2015; ISBN: 978-0-8135-7413-4] Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. [Hackett, 1992; ISBN: 0-87220-150-3] Tucker, Robert. Ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. [Norton, 1978; ISBN: 978-0-393-09040-6] Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic & The Spirit of Capitalism. [Taylor & Francis, 1985; ISBN: 978-0-415-25406-90]
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Course |
Professor |
Reading |
Honors 401 What is America? (Connections)
(1 unit)
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Prof. Tiffany MacBain |
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian Simon Ortíz, from Sand Creek Claudia Rankine, Citizen
- Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Efficiency
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class Elissa Washuta, My Body is a Book of Rules James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time The Searchers (John Ford) The Queen of Versailles (Lorraine Barrett) Herman Melville, “Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids”
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Course |
Credit |
Thesis Guidelines |
Honors Thesis |
Credit is optional (1 or 2 units) |
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.
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