Honors Program

Curriculum

Note: For each of the following courses, core texts are listed. These lists may be supplemented each year with two or three other texts. Next to the course number are listed the number of credit hours and the quarter the class is offered. A= Fall W = Winter S= Spring.

FRESHMAN COURSES:

HNRS 101 [5 A]
Heroes

Homer, The Odyssey
Sophocles, Antigone
The Bible, David narratives
David (selected sculptures)
Plato, The Apology of Socrates
Shakespeare, Henry V
Beethoven, Eroica (symphony)
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Shaw, Saint Joan
The Passion of Joan of Arc (film)

HNRS 102 [5 W]
Order and Liberty

Plato, The Republic
St. Augustine, City of God (selections)
Machiavelli, The Prince
Shakespeare, Macbeth
Locke, Second Treatise on Government
Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Mill, On Liberty
Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
David, selected paintings

HNRS 103 [5 S]
Scripture I

Genesis
Job
Ruth
Isaiah
Mendelssohn, Elijah (oratorio)
Blake, engravings of Job and Genesis
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel paintings
Lewis, Perelandra

SOPHOMORE COURSES:

HNRS 251 [4 A]
Cosmos

Bacon, Novum Organum
Galileo, Dialogues
Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Johnson, Darwin on Trial
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
Holst, The Planets (symphony)

HNRS 252 [4 W]
America

Declaration of Independence
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
Lincoln, selected speeches
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Dickinson, selected poems
Morrison, Beloved

HNRS 255 [4 S]
Scripture II

Mark
Acts
Romans
1 John
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)
Jesus of Montréal (film)
Godspell (film)

HNRS 333 [5 Su]
Beauty

(Summer Term Abroad: England)
Aristotle, Poetics
Plato, Ion
Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
Dewey, Art as Experience
Barzun, The Use and Abuse of Art
Amadeus (film) or Pollock (film)
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (music)
Cathedral architecture
National and Tate Galleries (selected paintings)

JUNIOR COURSES:

HNRS 359 [4 A]
Virtue

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The Koran
Aquinas, Summa Theologica (selections)
Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Thorean, Civil Disobedience
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Conrad, The Heart of Darkness
Weil, Roots

HNRS 361 [4 W]
Self and Society

St. Augustine, Confessions
Rousseau, Confessions
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
E.G. White, Life Sketches
Freud, The Future of an Illusion
James, Varieties of Religious Experience
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

HNRS 363 [4 S]
East

Confucius, Analects
Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
Bhagavad Gita
Lady Murasaki, Tale of Genji
Marco Polo, Travels
Hesse, Siddhartha
Hokusai, selected prints
Van Gogh, selected paintings

SENIOR COURSES:

HNRS 481 [4 A]
Christianity

Dante, The Divine Comedy
Julian of Norwich, Showings
Milton, Paradise Lost
Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Mozart, Requiem
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The Mission (film)

HNRS 485 [4 W]
Progress

Voltaire, Candide
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (selections)
Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population
M. Shelley, Frankenstein
Darwin, The Descent of Man
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
The Bounty (film)

HNRS 498 [3 W, S]
Honors Project

Preparation and evaluation of the Honors Project.
In Progress (IP) grading.