Some stuff to read before age 300

curriculum of MA in Liberal Arts at St. John's College

originally posted on ywns, 10/6/07 

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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