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Works studied by students in Ursinus College's Common Intellectual Experience course, which all freshmen must take. The list fluctuates somewhat from year to year:
Genesis
Plato's "Euthyphro"
The Bhagavad Gita
Dante's "Inferno"
Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michel de Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
Excerpts from Galileo
Rene Descartes's "Discourse on Method"
Harriet Jacobs's "Narrative of a Slave Girl"
The Declaration of Independence
Writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
