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HUMANITIES 111: FUNDAMENTAL SUGGESTED TEXTS: SUGGESTED TEXTS: CONCEPTS OF ART AND MUSIC Enuma Elish Catherine of Siena, letters or of Divine Providence Mahabharata REQUIRED TEXTS: al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error Joshua C. Taylor, Learning to Look 1001 Arabian Nights , Guide for the Perplexed (selections) Alberti, On Painting Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji Upanishads Josef Albers, Interactions of Color , Oedipus at Colonus Bhagavad Gita Svetlana Alpers, Vexations of Art Other works of premodern from various Confucius, Analects world traditions Susanne Langer, Feeling and Form 212: PHILOSOPHICAL Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne HUMANITIES 113: LITERATURE IN REASONING THE MODERN WORLD REQUIRED ARTWORKS AND MUSICAL REQUIRED TEXTS: PIECES: REQUIRED TEXTS: , Apology, Phaedo, Phaedrus Renaissance paintings illustrating the use of Shakespeare, , Othello or King Lear (if , Nicomachean Ethics perspective choosing Hamlet, Grammaticus’s Amleth may Descartes, on First Philosophy Paintings by Cézanne and at least one be used) Locke, Essay on Human Understanding, or Hume, Impressionist Selections from Norton Anthology of Poetry on Natural Religion Velazquez, Las Meninas At least one of the following major novels: Austen, Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Bach, Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould recording) or Emma; Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, “On the Prejudices of the Philosophers” Brothers Karamazov or ; () Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (piano Ellison, Invisible Man; Morrison, Beloved or Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations version and orchestration by Ravel) Song of Solomon Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity SUGGESTED TEXTS AND OTHER COURSE At least one of the following works of shorter fiction: Chopin, The Awakening; Dostoevsky, SUGGESTED TEXTS: MATERIALS: Notes from Underground; Hurston, Their Eyes Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (with Plato, Ion Were Watching God; Woolf, To the Lighthouse; commentaries) , Metamorphoses short stories by Borges, James, Joyce, Kafka, Book of Equanimity Melville, or O’Connor , What is Art? Dhammapada One modern play from the following list: Beckett, Tao Te Ching Boralsky, A Brief History of the Artist from God to Waiting for Godot; Chekhov, Three Sisters; Picasso Pinter, The Homecoming; Stoppard, Rosencrantz Aristotle, Metaphysics Vasari, Lives of the Artists (e.g., Uccello and and Guildenstern are Dead (to be used only in Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan Michaelangelo) conjunction with Shakespeare’s Hamlet) Ralph Ellison, Jazz HUMANITIES 213: CRITICAL HUMANITIES 211: RELIGIOUS ASSESSMENT IN THE HUMANITIES Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise REASONING Representative compositions from Western REQUIRED TEXTS: classical, jazz and other world musical REQUIRED TEXTS: Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy (with music by traditions Hebrew Bible: Genesis, with selected rabbinic Debussy and Wagner) Representative works of visual art from a range of literature Buber, I and Thou artistic traditions : Gospel of John, selected Pauline Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Representative works of aesthetics and fine arts Epistle Heidegger, Origin of the Work of Art (with art by van Gogh) criticism Qur’an: early Meccan surahs, surahs retelling biblical stories Harlem Renaissance unit: visual art, jazz, texts by Locke, Schuyler and Hughes HUMANITIES 112: LITERATURE IN Augustine, THE ANCIENT WORLD Cone, God of the Oppressed and/or The Spirituals Anselm, Proslogion and the Blues (with music) REQUIRED TEXTS: Julian of Norwich, Showings or Teresa of Avila, Sontag, On Photography (with photography by Diane Arbus and others) Bible: David narratives Autobiography or Interior Castle Butler, Antigone’s Claim , Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (Preface, Exordium, Eulogy on Abraham) Sophocles, Oedipus and Antigone Pascal, Pensées Aristotle, Poetics Auerbach, Odysseus’ Scar

Office of Admission | 30 North Brainard Street | Naperville, IL 60540 | 630-637-5800 northcentralcollege.edu/majors SUGGESTED TEXTS: Wheelwright, The Presocratics Descartes, Optics, On Light, On Refraction Derrida, Plato’s Pharmacy Black, Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry Huygens, Treatise On Light Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals Lavoisier, Memoir on the Calcination of Tin . . ., Representative works of criticism on texts in the Elements of Chemistry (selections) REQUIRED LAB EXERCISES AND Humanities DEMONSTRATIONS: Macquer, excerpts from A Dictionary of Chemistry, The Theory and Practice of Chemistry Repeat Galilean experiments (pendulum, rolling LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS 121: balls, etc.) CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF Pascal, Scientific Treatises Types and behaviors of waves LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS Priestly, On Depholgisticated Air Snell’s Law Stahl, excerpts from On Sulfur REQUIRED TEXTS: Reflection and refraction of light Thompson, Source of the Heat Which is Excited by “Bits and Bins” (faculty-authored logic problem) Friction Wave tank Aristotle, Posterior Analytics Du Chatelet, Dissertation on the Nature and Prisms , Elements, Book 1 Propagation of Fire Diffraction of light (one slit and two slits) Descartes, “” and/or REQUIRED LAB EXERCISES AND Measurement of distance between rulings in a “Rules for the Direction of the Mind” diffraction grating DEMONSTRATIONS: SUGGESTED TEXTS: Air and hydraulic pressure NATURAL SCIENCES 231: ATOMS Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics, Weight of air AND ELECTRICITY Categories, Sophistic Refutations Boyle’s law Euclid, Elements, Book 5 REQUIRED TEXTS: Latent heat of Gerasa, Introduction to Shamos, Great Experiments in Physics Mathematics Mechanical equivalent of heat Avogadro, A Manner of Determining the Relative Diogenes Laertius, Book 7 of Lives of Philosophers “Dephlogistication” (burning) of Masses. . . (excerpts on Stoic Logic) magnesium Berzelius, excerpts: Electrochemical Theory, Descartes, “Geometry” Specific heats of different elements Chemical Symbols and Formulas , Treatise on Conic Sections Supercooling Curie, 1911 Nobel Lecture, On Radioactivity Calcination of iron Cannizzaro, Sketch of a Course of Chemical LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS 122: Philosophy MODERN FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC NATURAL SCIENCES 132: Clausius, On the Nature of the Motion that We AND MATHEMATICS EVOLUTION, CLASSIFICATION AND Call Heat ANIMAL BEHAVIOR REQUIRED TEXTS: Dalton, 1810 extract, Atomic Principles of Chemistry, Letter to Nicholson, 1808 Extract “A Little Reasoning about Reasoning and Logic” REQUIRED TEXTS: Dulong, Atomic Weights and Specific Heat (faculty-authored essay) Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy DuFay, The Two-Fluid Theory of Electricity Lobachevsky, Geometrical Investigations on the Darwin, Origin of Species, Descent of Man Franklin, The One-Fluid Theory of Electricity Theory of Parallel Lines Goodall, The Chimps of Gombe Newton, Principia Faraday, Decomposition of Tin Chloride, On some Lorenz, On Aggression Points of Magnetic Philosophy… Einstein, Relativity Tattersall, Masters of the Planet “On Paradox” (faculty-authored essay) Maxwell, On Action at A Distance (Faraday’s Point Aristotle, On the Soul of View), On Ether Nagel & Newman, Gödel’s Proof Cuvier, Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Globe REQUIRED LAB EXERCISES AND SUGGESTED TEXTS: DEMONSTRATIONS: Paley, Natural Theology Newton and/or Leibniz on fundamental theorems Simple quantitative analysis: Percent acid in a of calculus REQUIRED LAB EXERCISES AND mixture by weight using titration Boole, Laws of Thought DEMONSTRATIONS: Coin lab Venn, On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Fastener Lab Measurements of specific heats of elements Representation of Propositions and Reasonings Observing and describing variation in Atomic motion (TBD) Foundational texts in statistics and probability (e.g., Bayles 1763, Laplace ca. 1820, Fisher »» Nature Observation of elements and qualitative 1925) »» Preserved specimens descriptions of metals and non-metals Cantor on infinite numbers Observing animal behavior (ape or fish, human) Electrostatics Dedekind, on the Theory of Numbers Dominance lab Mapping of electromagnetic field Measurement of electromagnetic induction NATURAL SCIENCES 131: NATURAL SCIENCES 133: CLASSICAL Precipitation of tin PREMODERN SCIENCE AND THE PHYSICS, MOTION AND LIGHT CHEMICAL REVOLUTION The properties of electromagnetic waves REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS: REQUIRED TEXTS: Galileo, Dialogues Concerning the Two New Aristotle, The Physics Sciences Bacon, The Newton, Principia: The Central Argument, Shamos, Great Experiments in Physics (selections) Shamos, Great Experiments in Physics , On the Nature of the Universe Newton, Newton’s Philosophy of Nature

Office of Admission | 30 North Brainard Street | Naperville, IL 60540 | 630-637-5800 Be central. northcentralcollege.edu/majors NATURAL SCIENCES 232: SOCIAL SCIENCES 141: SOCIETY, SUGGESTED TEXTS: TWENTIETH CENTURY CULTURE, AND PERSONALITY Mann, writings on public education REVOLUTIONS IN PHYSICS REQUIRED TEXTS: Thoreau, Civil Disobedience REQUIRED TEXTS: Benedict, Patterns of Culture Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Shamos, Great Experiments in Physics James, Psychology: The Briefer Course Lincoln, selected speeches Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, QED: The Durkheim, Suicide Strange Theory of Light and Matter Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, New Einstein, Relativity Introductory Lecture #XXXI, and at least one SOCIAL SCIENCES 241: MODERN analytic case study Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics THEORIES OF SOCIETY, POLITICS, Snow, The Two Cultures Piaget, Moral Feelings and Judgments AND ECONOMICS Planck, 8 Lectures on Modern Physics Gilligan, In a Different Voice REQUIRED TEXTS: Einstein, The Photoelectric Effect SUGGESTED TEXTS: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit and/or Philosophy Millikan, A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Conklin, Consuming Grief of Right Planck’s h. and The Electron Texts on moral development by Kohlberg and Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of Bohr, The Structure of the Atom Chodorow 1844 and Manifesto of the Communist Party DeBroglie, The Initial Idea of Wave Mechanics Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism SOCIAL SCIENCES 142: THE Schrödinger, Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics, Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Fundamental Idea of Quantum Mechanics WESTERN POLITICAL TRADITION Davisson, Are Electrons Waves? SUGGESTED TEXTS: REQUIRED TEXTS: Marx, selections from one of more of the REQUIRED LAB EXERCISES AND Plato, Republic following works on economics: Wage Labor and DEMONSTRATIONS: Aristotle, Politics Capital, Grundrisse, or Capital; selections from Blackbody radiation Machiavelli, Theses on Feuerbach and/or German Ideology Photoelectric effect Hobbes, Leviathan Mill, and/or On the Subjection of Women Electron diffraction Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government Marshall, selections from Principles of Economics Mass/charge of electron Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Human Selections from Hayek and Keynes on Economics Observation of spectral lines Inequality, Social Contract, and/or selections from Émile Galbraith, The Inevitability of Planning Bragg reflection (with microwaves) Smith, Wealth of Nations Sen, Equality of What? NATURAL SCIENCES 233: MODERN Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of BIOLOGY AND GENETICS Women SOCIAL SCIENCES 242: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND SOCIAL REQUIRED TEXTS: SUGGESTED TEXTS: REALITY Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization REQUIRED TEXTS: Aquinas, selected writings on politics Hardy, Hardy–Weinberg Law Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia , The Spirit of the Laws Chetverikov, On Certain Aspects of the Arendt, The Human Condition Evolutionary Process. . . Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise Foucault, Discipline and Punish or History of Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species Sexuality Schrödinger, What is Life? SOCIAL SCIENCES 143: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures or Local Dyson, Origins of Life STATES Knowledge Nusslein-Volhard, Coming to Life Berger and Luckmann, Social Construction of Crick, The Structure of the Hereditary Material, On REQUIRED TEXTS: Reality Protein Synthesis American State Papers, including United States SUGGESTED TEXTS: Selected works on Molecular Biology, The Genetic Declaration of Independence; United States Code, and Epigenetics Constitution; The Federalist; and additional Huxley, Brave New World selections from The People Shall Judge, Volume LeGuin, The Dispossessed 1 Part 1 REQUIRED LAB EXERCISES AND Laing and Esterson, Sanity, Madness, and the DEMONSTRATIONS: de Tocqueville, On Family Calculations of population genetics/Punnett At least two Supreme Court cases squares Selections from Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Simulation of Dyson’s toy model Historical Writings DNA Extraction Douglass, Story of My Life Microscope viewing (mitosis) DuBois, Souls of Black Folk Miller experiment King, Letter from Birmingham Jail

Office of Admission | 30 North Brainard Street | Naperville, IL 60540 | 630-637-5800 Be central. northcentralcollege.edu/majors SOCIAL SCIENCES 243: METHOD New Testament: Gospel of Luke Montaigne, Essays AND CRITIQUE IN THE SOCIAL , More, Utopia SCIENCES Augustine, City of God Petrarch, poetry REQUIRED TEXTS: Selections from the Qur’an, including Surah 2 Pico, Oration on the Dignity of Man Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method and/or (The Cow) Rabelais, Elementary Forms of Religious Life At least one work of Islamic theology or Racine, any play philosophy (such as al-Ghazali, Deliverance Weber, essays on methodology, preferably , including Objectivity in the Social Sciences and/ from Error or ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan) or Social Psychology of World Religions The Lais of Marie de France Aimé Césaire, A Tempest de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Dante, Inferno Relevant scholarly works, such as the following: Selections on feminism and methodology, »» Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The including at least two essays by Haraway, SUGGESTED TEXTS: Inconstancy of the Native Soul Harding, and Flax and/or selections from Keller, Works of Roman Stoicism »» Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch Feminism and Science New Testament: Acts of the Apostles or other Milgram, Obedience to Authority texts not assigned elsewhere in the core INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 454: The Martyrdom of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity ROMANTICISM TO THE WORLD SUGGESTED TEXTS: TODAY A work of medieval mysticism not used elsewhere Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed in the core REQUIRED TEXTS: Zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment: A ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad Simulation Study of the Psychology of J. W. von Goethe, Faust, pt. I Imprisonment Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People , Dialogues Concerning Natural Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Beowulf or another work of medieval imaginative Religion Cities literature , Groundwork of the Metaphysics Ghandi, selected writings Dante, Purgatorio and/or Paradiso of Morals Relevant scholarly works, such as the following: A significant novel by a woman, such as: George INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 451: »» Theodore W. Jennings, Outlaw Justice Eliot, , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA TO Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse »» Asma Barlas, Believing Women in Islam CLASSICAL ATHENS Modern visual art/architecture, with relevant »» Carolyn Walker Bynum, The Body of Christ REQUIRED TEXTS: in the Later Middle Ages A significant work of music, with relevant readings The Epic of Gilgamesh »» Ernst Kantorowicz, Dante’s Two Suns” A work on contemporary cosmology, such as the Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth and/or Pro Patria Mori in Medieval Political Thought following: Hebrew Bible: Exodus, Song of Songs »» Hubble, Explorations in Space Homer, The INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 453: »» Riess and Turner, The Expanding Universe RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION Sappho, poetry A work on 20th century history AND ENLIGHTENMENT , Agamemnon and Eumenides SUGGESTED TEXTS: Selections from and/or REQUIRED TEXTS: Rousseau, any work that is not required in Social Aristotle, On the Heavens The Arabian Nights Sciences 2 , Canterbury Tales SUGGESTED TEXTS: Goethe, Faust, Part II Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe Other Biblical selections not read elsewhere in Hegel, Introduction to Philosophy of History the core Christine de Pizan, Treasure of the City of Ladies Nietzsche, Use and Abuse of History Hesiod, Theogony or Works and Days Selections from Luther Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England Aeschylus, Libation Bearers Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Dickens, Spheres Plato, Republic (selections not used elsewhere in Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire core) Galileo, The Starry Messenger Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (also known as If Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selections not Kepler, The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy This is a Man) used elsewhere in the core) , Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem Relevant scholarly works, such as the following: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko A significant graphic novel or film »» Jan Assmann, The Price of Monotheism SUGGESTED TEXTS: Relevant scholarly works, such as the following: »» Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai Boccaccio, Decameron »» C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins »» Nicole Loraux, The Divided City Calvin, selections »» Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel and Haiti »» Simone Weil, “The Iliad” or The Poem of Force Cervantes, »» Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism , In Praise of Folly or writings against Poems by William Blake, John Keats, INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 452: Luther on free will Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Wislawa Szymborska CLASSICAL ROME TO MIDDLE AGES Galileo, Concerning the Use of Biblical Quotations in Matters of Science REQUIRED TEXTS: Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Aeneid Leibniz, Monadology or Theodicy Selections from at least one Roman historian (e.g., , Seutonius, Josephus) Moliere, any play

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