SEM 103: Western Tradition II
Employing and building upon the strategies of critical thinking, critical reading, and shared inquiry learned in previous seminars, students will read, write about and discuss a selection of Renaissance, 17th, 18th and 19th century texts from the Western tradition.
The reading list is current but subject to modification. From some texts selections are read.
Reading List
- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (selections)
- Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (selections)
- Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron (selections)
- Francisco de Vitoria, On the Indians
- Descartes, Discourse on Method (selections)
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times
- John Donne, "The Good Morrow"
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
- Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace
- Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
- Machiavelli, The Prince (selections)
- Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters (selections)
- Florence Nightingale, Cassandra
- Otto-Peters, "Lace-Makers"
- Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (selections)
- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
- Voltaire, Candide
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selections)
- Selections from Romantic Poetry