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The Curriculum

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The Honors College reading list is composed of a number of great works from the history of Western civilization and is decided on by consensus of the Honors College faculty. In addition to the study of the written word, Honors College students study a number of great works of music and visual art.

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Odyssey
Aeschylus II
Sophocles
Euripides V
Aristophanes
Herodotus
Thucydides
Plato
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Poetics
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Proverbs
Gospel of Mark
Leviticus
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Horace
Cicero Cornell 2014
Aeneid
Ovid Hackett
The Gospel of Luke
The Acts of the Apostles
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Plutarch I
Plutarch II
Ptolemy The Almagest Green Lion Press
Epictetus
Tacitus
Eusebius
Athanasius
On God and Christ
St. Augustine
City of God
Consolation of Philosophy 2
St. Benedict
ST John of Damascus
Proverbs (8)
Creeds of the Churches
Song of Solomon
The Qur'an
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Chretien
Averroes
Aquinas
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Paradiso
Grefory
Petrarch
Canterbury tales
Julian of Norwhich
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Machiavelli
Erasmus praise of folly
Copernicus
Martin Luther
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Gospel of John
Ecclesiastes
Sir phillip sydney
Shakespeare
John Donne
Dq
Descartes
Gallileo
Blaise pascal
John Locke
Newton
Hume
Milton
John Edwards
Wesley
Locke
Montesquieu
Edmond Burke
Phillis Wheatley
Federalist
Romans
Esther
Kant
Coleridge
Hegel
Austen
Democracy in america
Kierkegaard
Douglass
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Tennyson
Lincoln douglas
Anna Karenina
Nietzsche
Eliot
Husserl
Freud
Churchill
Bonhoeffer
C.S. Lewis
Oconnor
Mlk jr
Solzhenitsyn
Barth
The epistles to the colossians and philemon
Kuhn
Einstein-Relativity
Darwin
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Genesis
Tolkein
Steinbeck
Exodus
Numbers
Nyssa
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
Agonistes
Samuel
Kings
Faulkner
Ezra
Nehemiah
Zechariah
Haggai
Job
Matthew
Leibniz
Proverbs (21)
Anselm
Karamazov
Proverbs (23)
Proverbs (24)
Shakespeare
Hebrews
Les miserables
Revelation
Last battle
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