Core Curriculum texts

This page links to free, online versions of the major texts discussed in the two main Core Curriculum classes, Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization.

Literature Humanities

First semester

• The Iliad by Homer
• Hymn to Demeter by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The History by Herodotus
• The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Second semester

• The Aeneid by Virgil
• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
• The Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Contemporary Civilization

First semester

• The Republic by Plato
• Politics by Aristotle

Second semester

• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau