Tuesday, September 6, 2005

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

Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels's "The Communist Manifesto"

Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species"

Romantic poetry

Friedrich Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"

Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved"

Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

Essays on feminism and on cloning