Dangerously Optimistic Since 1853 WWW.SHIMER.EDU 312.235.3555 Shimer [email protected] PROFILE Academic Year 2014-2015

Shimer is a small independent four-year located just minutes from downtown . Our students de- velop their capacity for critical thought and interpersonal communication through careful reading of the , which sustain a life-long passion for learning. With small, discussion-based classes, a full-time teaching faculty, and original-source texts, Shimer offers a rare and enduring educational experience. Academics Admission Criteria Financial Aid Method: All classes are discussions College-preparatory course work Shimer offers need- and merit-based of the Great Books. Text books and High School/College Transcripts financial aid and is a Barron’s Best Buy. lectures are not used at Shimer. These Scholarships and more: SAT/ACT Scores recommended Class size: Average 9 students, Montaigne Scholarship- full- and half- minimum 1. 2 writing samples tuition scholarships based on writing Course Work: 85 credit hours spent in Letter of recommendation and discussion of an original text. interdisiplinary core classes, Admission Information: Matching Scholarship- Matching up to focusing on Natural Science, Social Application Fee: $25 $2000 per year of external scholarships. Science, Humanities, and Integrative Application Deadline: Rolling Homeschoolers and Nontraditional Studies. The remaining 40 hours are ACT Code: 1142 Schooling Scholarship- Up to $6000 spent in elective classes. SAT Code: 1717 per year. Majors: Humanities, Liberal Studies, 2014-2015 Tuition and Fees: $32,499 Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship- Up to Natural Science, and Social Science. 2014-2015 Room and Board: $10,804+ $6000 per year. (varies with meal plan and room type) FAFSA Code: 001756 Contact Us Dean of Admission: James Bowers Shimer College is proud to share a [email protected], (312) 235-3543 campus with the Illinois Institute of General Phone: (312) 235-3555 Assistant Director of Admission: Technology (IIT) and Vandercook Admission Fax: (888) 808-3133 Adrian Nelson, College of Music. In addition to General Email: [email protected] [email protected], (312) 235-3549 Shimer electives, students may take Address: Director of Financial Aid: elective courses at either of these two Shimer College Janet Henthorn, institutions and Harold Washington 3424 S. [email protected], (312) 235-3507 College, located nearby in the Loop. Chicago, Illinois 60616 Database Services Administrator: Website: www.shimer.edu Bridget Anderson, b.anderson@shimer. edu, (312) 235-3509 Noteworthy Shimer-in-Oxford Program: Each Shimer student has an opportunity to spend a semester or a year at Oxford , typically taking one core class with a Shimer faculty member and two tutorials with Oxford faculty. These tutorials are one-on- one, and their subjects are defined by the individual student on the basis of his or her specific academic interests. Past subjects have ranged from Ancient Greek, to Gnostic Gospels, to Principles of Architecture, to Tolkien, to Evolutionary Biology. Early Entrance Program: Shimer has accepted exceptionally bright juniors and seniors wishing to enter college prior to their graduation from high school since 1950. BA to JD Program: Through an agreement with Chicago-Kent College of Law, Shimer is able to offer exceptional students an accelerated route to the JD. IIT Community: Shimer students have access to virtually all facilities, services, and student organizations at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Students can also concentrate in pre-med, , and more. Chicago Access: Shimer students have unlimited access to Chicago buses and the “L” train system through the UPass. Shimer is located across the street from an “L” stop, and only 2 train stops away from the loop. College Assembly: Students at Shimer are part of a governing body called the Assembly. In it, every student, professor, and staff member has an opportunity to participate in decisions of college-wide importance. SHIMER CORE CURRICULUM SOCIAL SCIENCES 2: THE WESTERN POLITCAL TRADITION NATURAL SCIENCES 3: THE NATURE OF Aristotle, Politics, Nicomachean Ethics LIGHT HUMANITIES 1: ART AND MUSIC Douglass, Story of My Life Descartes, Optics Albers, Interaction of Color Hobbes, Leviathan Galileo, Concerning the Two New Alberti, On Painting Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government Sciences Cooper, Learning to Listen Machiavelli, The Prince Huygens, Treatise on Light Leonardo, Notebooks Plato, Republic Newton, Opticks, Principia Plato, Ion Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Selections from du Fay, Franklin, Faraday, Hertz, Rilke, Letters on Cezanne Inequality, Emile Maxwell, Oersted, Young Steinberg, Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Taylor, Learning to Look Women NATURAL SCIENCES 4: MODERN Tolstoy, What is Art? U.S. Declaration of Independence SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS Vasari, Lives of the Artists U.S. Constitution Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful Federalist Papers Dyson, Origins of Life HUMANITIES 2: POETRY, DRAMA AND Einstein, Relativity, “Photoelectric Effect” FICTION SOCIAL SCIENCES 3: MODERN THEORIES Feynman, QED, Character of Physical Law The Norton Anthology of Poetry OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics Aristotle, Poetics Arendt, The Human Condition Heisenberg, Physics and Auerbach, “Odysseus’ Scar” Beauvoir, The Second Sex Schrödinger, What is Life?, ”Four Lectures on Beckett, Waiting for Godot Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Wave Mechanics” Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of Selections from Crick, Davisson, Millikan, Homer, Odyssey Right Spermann Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Antigone Marshall, Principles of Economics Shakespeare, Hamlet Marx, Das Kapital, “Manifesto of the INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 2: FOUNDATIONS Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Communist Party” OF MATHEMATICS AND LOGIC Mill, On Liberty Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Prior Analytics, HUMANITIES 3: PHILOSOPHY AND Sartre, Essays on Existentialism On Interpretation THEOLOGY Smith, Wealth of Nations Descartes, Discourse on the Method Anselm, Proslogion Tocqueville, Democracy in America Einstein, Relativity Aquinas, Summa Theologica Euclid, Elements Aristotle, Metaphysics SOCIAL SCIENCES 4: SOCIAL Lobachevsky, “Theory of Parallel Lines” Augustine, Confessions PERSPECTIVES AND SOCIAL ACTION Nagel and Newman, Gödel’s Proof The Bible, Genesis, John, I Corinthians Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method Newton, Principia Descartes, Meditations Foucault, History of Sexuality Venn, “On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Representation of Propositions and Reasonings” Locke, Essay on Human Understanding Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures Pascal, Pensées Harding, ed., Feminism and Methodology INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 5: HISTORY AND Plato, Apology, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities PHILOSOPHY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Teresa of Ávila, Autobiography Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia Epic of Gilgamesh Milgram, Obedience to Authority Aeschylus, Oresteia HUMANITIES 4: MODERN CURRENTS IN Weber, “Objectivity in the Social Sciences” Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles THE HUMANITIES Aristotle, On the Heavens Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity NATURAL SCIENCES 1: LAWS AND Augustine, City of God Buber, I and Thou MODELS IN CHEMISTRY The Bible, Genesis, The Gospels Derrida, Dissemination Aristotle, Physics Dante, Inferno Kafka, The Trial Bacon, New Organon Herodotus, Persian Wars Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Cannizzaro, Sketch of a Course in Chemical Hildegard of Bingen Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Philosophy Homer, Iliad Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Plato, Republic Pascal, Scientific Treatises Ptolemy, Almagest SOCIAL SCIENCES 1: SOCIETY, CULTURE, The Presocratics Sappho, Poetry AND PERSONALITY Selections from Boyle, Priestly, Lavoisier, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War Benedict, Patterns of Culture Thompson, Dalton, Avogadro, Joule, Faraday, Virgil, Aeneid Chodorow, “Family Structure and Feminine Mendeleev, Curie Personality” INTEGRATIVE STUDIES 6: HISTORY AND Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk NATURAL SCIENCES 2: EVOLUTION, PHILOSOPHY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Durkheim, Suicide GENETICS, ANIMAL BEHAVIOR Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Aristotle, On the Soul, On the Parts of Animals Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Psychoanalysis Chetverikov, On Certain Aspects of the Spheres Gilligan, In a Different Voice Evolutionary Process Galileo, “On the Heavens” James, Psychology: The Briefer Course Cuvier, Revolutionary Upheavals on the Goethe, Faust Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts Surface of the Globe Hume, Treatise on Human Nature of 1844 Darwin, Origin of Species, Descent of Man Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysic of Morals Piaget, “Moral Feelings and Judgments” Goodall, Chimpanzees of Gombe Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments Hardy, Hardy-Weinberg Law Luther, Three Treatises Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy Milton, Paradise Lost Capitalism Lorenz, On Aggression Pizan, Treasure of the City of Ladies Mendel, “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” Shakespeare, Tempest