2008-09 Catalog - Saint Mary's College of California

Curriculum Collegiate SeminarC O U R S E S20 Greek ThoughtHomer, The OdysseyAeschylus, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, EumenidesSophocles, Oedipus Rex, AntigoneThucydides, Peloponnesian WarsAristophanes, LysistrataPlato, Meno, Apology, Crito, PhaedoAristotle, Nicomachean EthicsEuclid, The ElementsArt Selections (artworks)Sappho, poemsEuripides, BacchaeThe reading list is current but subject to modification. From some texts,selections are read.21 Roman, Early Christian, and Medieval ThoughtEpictetus, The HandbookLucretius, On the Nature of the UniverseVirgil, The AeneidPlutarch, Life of Coriolanus, Life of Mark AnthonyGenesis, 1– 6Gospel of MarkArt SelectionsSt. Augustine, ConfessionsMarie De France, “Prologue,” “Guigemar,” and “Equitan”St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentilesde Pizan,The Book of the City of LadiesDante, The Divine Comedy, “The Inferno”Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” “The Merchant’s Tale”Rumi, selected poemsJulian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine LovePrerequisite: Seminar 20.The reading list is current but subject to modification. From some textsselections are read.110 Classical, Christian, and Medieval ThoughtFor transfer students only.Homer, The OdysseyAeschylus, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The EumenidesThucydides, Peloponnesian WarsPlato, SymposiumSappho, poemsEuclid, The ElementsAristotle, Nichomachean EthicsVirgil, The AenidGospel of MarkEpictetus, The Handbook (The Encheiridion)St. Augustine, ConfessionsJulian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine LoveDante, InfernoChaucer, Canterbury TalesThe reading list is current but subject to modification. From some texts,selections are read.122 Renaissance, 17th- and 18th-Century ThoughtMachiavelli, The PrinceLuther, On Christian LibertyBartolome de las Casas, Devastation of the IndiesCervantes, Don QuixoteShakespeare, King LearAdam Smith, Wealth of NationsGalileo, The Starry MessengerDescartes, Discourse on MethodHobbes, LeviathanJohn Locke, Second Treatise of GovernmentSor Juana Ines de la Cruz, “Letter to Sor Filotea De La Cruz”Voltaire, CandideRousseau, Discourse on InequalityWollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of WomanJane Austen, EmmaLippi, “La Vergine Col Figlio” (art)Prerequisite: Seminar 21 or 110 and sophomore standingThe reading list is current but subject to modification. From some textsselections are read.123 19th- and 20th-Century ThoughtNewman, The Uses of KnowledgeDarwin, on the Origin of SpeciesWhitman, Leaves of Grass, selectionMarx, Wage-Labour and CapitalWeber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismNeruda, Selected odesKafka, MetamorphosisThoreau, WalkingFreud, Dissection of the Psychical PersonalityShaw, PygmalionWoolf, Mrs. DallowayPicasso, “Guernica” (art)Unamuno, St. Emmanuel The Good, MartyrGarcia Marquez, Love and Other DemonsA.M. Touring, Computing Machinery and IntelligenceMalcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham JailToni Morrison, BelovedNietzsche, Genealogy of MoralsFlannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to FindPrerequisite: Seminar 122 and junior standingThe reading list is current but subject to modification. From some texts,selections are read.78