Honors Curriculum

The Human Situation

Required text selections from recent years:

Antiquity

Homer, Odyssey
Aeschylus, Oresteia trilogy
Euripides, Bacchae
Plato, Meno, Symposium, Phaedrus
Aristotle, Politics
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars
Virgil, Aeneid
Cicero, On Moral Duties
Augustine, Confessions

Selections from the Torah
1 and 2 Samuel
The book of Ruth
Amos, Hosea, Jonah
Job
Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew
Galatians, 1 Corinthians

Modernity

Dante, Inferno
Machiavelli, The Prince
Montaigne, Essays
Shakespeare, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest
Descartes, Discourses, Meditations
Swift, Gullivers Travels
Voltaire, Candide
Hegel, philosophic selections
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Nietzsche, Daybreak
Douglas, Autobiography of an Ex-slave
Emily Dickinson, poems
Beckett, Endgame
Ellison, Invisible Man
Levi, Survival at Auschwitz
Achebe, Things Fall Apart