Course:Arts One/Syllabus

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Group A

2012/2013: Explorations and Encounters

Author Title
Homer The Odyssey
Sophocles/Seneca Oedipis/Oedipus Tyrannus
Lucretius On the Nature of Things/Pilgrimage Tales and Lives of the Saints
Chaucer Canterbury Tales
Dante The Inferno
Polo Travels of Marco Polo
Mandeville The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta Travels
More Utopia
Las Casas The Destruction of the Indies
Banville Doctor Copernicus
Brecht Life of Galileo
Shakespeare Othello
Rousseau Discours on the Inequality of Man
Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Kant Universal History
Kant Perpetual Peace
Kant What is Enlightenment?
Shelley Frankenstein
Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle
Marx/Engels The Communist Manifesto
Kipling Kim
Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
Fanon The Wretched of the Earth
Akutagawa Kappa
Goto The Kappa Child
Jordan The Crying Game
Kinclaid A Small Place


2011/2012: Dangerous Questions, Forbidden Knowledge

First semester
Author Title
God? Book of Genesis
Kant What is Enlightenment/Conjectural Beginning of Human History
Irvine Socrates on Trial
Plato Euthyphro
Sophocles Oedipus
Seneca Oedipus Tyrannus
Plato Republic
Machiavelli The Prince
Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Brecht Life of Galileo
Shakespeare Hamlet
Rousseau Discours on the Inequlity of Man
Shelley Frankenstein
Second semester
Author Title
Lippman The Scopes Trial
Nietzsche On the Geneology of Morality
Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau
Chopin The Awakening
Freud Dora, Sexualty, etc.
Foucault History of Sexuality Vol. I
Plath Bell Jar
Else The Case of Rober J Oppenheimer
DeLillo End Zone
Walter The Zero
McCarthy The Road

Group B

2012/2013: Monster in the Mirror

2011/2012: Monsters in Ink


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