Reading List

• Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo (Grove Press)

  Voltaire. Candide (Norton, 2^nd ed.)

  Voltaire. Letters on England (Penguin)

  Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Dover)

  Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (Broadview, 3^rd ed.)

  Course Reader compiled by Professors Erving and Lulofs

  Hacker & Sommers. A Writer’s Reference, 7^th ed. (University of Puget Sound / Bedford St. Martin’s) 

   

Profs. Mike Benveniste

• Augustine. The Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford, 2009)

  Abelard and Heloise, Letters, 2^nd 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)

   

Profs. Denise Despres

• 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 

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.

Sophomore and Junior Years

• 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

• 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

Honors 213

The Mathematics of Symmetry (Mathematical Approaches Core) (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

  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)

Honors 214
Interrogating Inequality (Social Scientific Approaches Core) (1 unit)

• 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]
  
  

Senior Year

Honors 401
What is America? (Connections)

(1 unit)

• 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”

Honors Thesis

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.