world traditions
This seminar discusses fundamental human questions as they arise in great books from Africa, The Middle East, Asia, East Asia and North America. An elective seminar, it can be taken after completion of Greek Thought. Below is a typical reading list but may change any semester to accommodate new texts.
Reading List:
- Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Birch, Stories from a Ming Collection
- Cleary, The Essential Koran
- Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Gale West, African Folktales
- Kawabata, A Thousand Cranes
- Mahfouz, The Time and the Place
- Miller, The Bhagavad Gita
- Narayan, The Ramayana
- Rumi, Say I am You
- Wallis, Two Old Women
- Mair, Tao Te Ching
