Reflect, refract, illumine ([info]ywns) wrote,
@ 2007-10-06 10:10:00
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curriculum of MA in Liberal Arts at St. John's College
Curriculum - Literature

Literature Seminar
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Euripides: Hippolytus, Bacchae, Electra
Aristophanes: Frogs

Literature Tutorial
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales in Middle English*
Shakespeare: King Lear
Aristotle: Poetics
Selected English lyric poetry

Literature Preceptorial (samples)
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Joyce: Ulysses
Virgil: Aeneid
Eliot: Middlemarch
Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov


Curriculum - Politics and Society

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Politics and Society Seminar
Plutarch: Lives: Lycurgus and Solon
Plato: Republic
Aristotle: Politics*
Machiavelli: The Prince
Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government
Rousseau: On the Origin and Foundations of Inequality
Marx: 1844 Manuscripts*
Tocqueville: Democracy in America*

Politics and Society Tutorial
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics*
Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on Law
Hobbes: Leviathan*
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Melville: Billy Budd
Federalist Papers*
Selected U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

Politics and Society Preceptorial (samples)
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws
Shakespeare: The history plays
Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Rousseau: Emile
Hegel: The Philosophy of Right


Curriculum - Mathematics and Natural Science

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Mathematics and Natural Science Seminar
Plato: Timaeus *
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Aristotle: Physics *
Ptolemy: Almagest *
Galileo: Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems *
Darwin: The Origin of Species *
Freud: Selected Works *

Mathematics and Natural Science Tutorial
Euclid: Elements *
Lobachevsky: The Theory of Parallels *

Mathematics and Natural Science Preceptorial (samples)
On Light: Aristotle, Descartes, Huygens, and Newton
Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
Maxwell: Theory of Heat
Bacon: The Principles of Natural Philosophy
Galileo: Two New Sciences


Curriculum - History

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History Seminar
(First-semester students are not eligible to enroll in the history segment)
Herodotus: Histories *
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War *
Livy: Early History of Rome *
Polybius: Histories *
Plutarch: Lives *
Tacitus: Annals *
Tocqueville: The Old Regime and the French Revolution *

History Tutorial
Augustine: The City of God *
Vico: The New Science *
Kant: Idea of a Universal History
Herder: Ideas Toward the Philosophy of the History of Mankind *
Hegel: Philosophy of History *
Marx: The German Ideology
Nietzsche: Uses and Abuses of History for Life
Dilthey: Introduction to the Human Sciences *
Collingwood: The Idea of History *
Strauss: Political Philosophy and History *

History Preceptorial (samples)
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Machiavelli: The Florentine Histories
Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Arendt: The Origin of Totalitarianism

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[info]gregorygirl
2007-10-06 02:54 pm UTC (link)
I love St. John's. I might transfer there next year because my school is closing.

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[info]ironheadjane
2007-10-06 04:14 pm UTC (link)
That actually looks like fun.

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[info]anaskyfish
2007-10-08 04:34 am UTC (link)
That's a pretty good list: are asterisk'd books ones you've already read? I'm starting Vico's The New Science after my failed summer attempt (I can't get any reading or thinking or pretty much anything done in the summer), definitely looking forward to getting into it.

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[info]ywns
2007-10-08 05:03 am UTC (link)
The asterisks are something from St John's; there may be curriculum differences by campus or some such. I've read almost none of these, barring some of the Greek plays, Herodotus, the Constitution, etc. I snagged it for inspiration for the ongoing Bildung. I find myself talking to students about the Enlightenment and realizing I'm trying to sound as if I know something about it!

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