{"id":156,"date":"2014-01-24T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:54:11","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Great Books in the Bachelor of Humanities Program<\/h2>\n<p>A selection of the books studied in the four years of the Bachelor of Humanities Program<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em; line-height: 1.5em;\">First Year \u2014 Ancient Religions and Cultures<\/span><\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tao-Te-Ching-240x387.jpg\" alt=\"Tao Te Ching\" width=\"132\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Homer-240x356.jpg\" alt=\"Homer\" width=\"144\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/medea.jpg\" alt=\"medea\" width=\"135\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Upanisads<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Bhagavad Gita<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jayadeva, <i>Gita Govinda<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Lao Tzu, <em>Tao Te Ching<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Confucius, <i>Analects<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Hebrew Bible<\/li>\n<li>Homer, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<i>Iliad<\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Homer, <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Odyssey<\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Hesiod, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Theogony<\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Aeschylus, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The Oresteia<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Sophocles, <i>Antigone<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Sophocles, <i>Oedipus Rex<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Euripides, <i>Bacchae<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Euripides, <i>Medea<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Aristophanes, <i>Clouds<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Second Year \u2014 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Religion<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plato-240x366.gif\" alt=\"Plato\" width=\"140\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Augustine-240x365.jpg\" alt=\"Augustine\" width=\"140\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dante.jpg\" alt=\"Dante\" width=\"138\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Plato, <i>Apology<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Plato, <i>Meno<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Plato, <i>Symposium<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Plato, <i>Republic<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle, <i>Physics<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Aristotle, <i>Ethics<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ovid, <i>Metamorphoses<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Vergil, <i>Aeneid<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Mishnah<\/li>\n<li>Talmud<\/li>\n<li>The New Testament<\/li>\n<li>Plotinus, <i>Enneads<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Augustine, <i>Confessions<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Boethius, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<i>Consolation of Philosophy<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Al-Qur\u2019an (Koran)<\/li>\n<li>Eriugena, <i>Periphyseon<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Bonaventure, <i>The Mind\u2019s Journey to God<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Aquinas, <i>Summa Theologiae<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Dante, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<i>Divine Comedy<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Third Year \u2014 Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment<\/span><\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hamlet-240x376.jpg\" alt=\"Hamlet\" width=\"136\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Machiavelli-240x371.jpg\" alt=\"Machiavelli\" width=\"138\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/frankenstein-mary-shelley-240x357.jpg\" alt=\"Frankenstein by Mary Shelley\" width=\"143\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Petrarch, <i>Canzoniere<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Boccaccio, <i>Decameron<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Machiavelli, <i>The Prince<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ariosto, <i>Orlando Furioso<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Castiglione, <i>Book of the Courtier<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Rabelais, <i>Gargantua and Pantagruel<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Luther, 95 Theses<\/li>\n<li>Calvin, <i>Institutes<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Montaigne, <i>Essays<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tasso, <i>The Liberation of Jerusalem<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Cervantes, <i>Don Quixote<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Sidney, <i>Defence of Poetry<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Bacon, <i>Essays<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Shakespeare, <i>Julius Caesar<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare,\u00a0<em>The Tempest<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Shakespeare, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Hamlet<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Milton, <i>Paradise Lost<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Moli\u00e8re, <i>Tartuffe<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Franklin,\u00a0<em>The Autobiography<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Adam Smith,\u00a0<em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Voltaire, <i>Candide<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Diderot, <i>Rameau&#8217;s Nephew<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kant, <i>What is Enlightenment<\/i>?<\/li>\n<li>Goethe, <i>Sorrows of Young Werther<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Wollstonecraft, <i>Vindication of the Rights of Women<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jane Austen,\u00a0<em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mary Shelley, <i>Frankenstein<\/i><\/li>\n<li>American Declaration of Independence &amp; Federalist Papers #10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Fourth Year \u2014 German Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Globalisation<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nietzsche-240x384.gif\" alt=\"Nietzsche\" width=\"133\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heidegger-240x380.jpg\" alt=\"Heidegger\" width=\"135\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/wp-content\/uploads\/Second_sex-240x370.jpg\" alt=\"Second_sex\" width=\"138\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Rousseau,\u00a0<i>Discourse on the Origins of Inequality<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Rousseau,\u00a0<i>Social Contract<\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Kant,\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Schiller,\u00a0<em>Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hegel, <i>Introduction to the Philosophy of History<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Hegel, <i>Phenomenology of Spirit<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Marx and Engels, <i>Communist Manifesto<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche, <i>Birth of Tragedy<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche, <i>Beyond Good and Evil<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Hesse, <i>Siddhartha<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger, <i>Introduction to Metaphysics<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger,\u00a0<em>The Origin of the Work of Art<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger, <i>Essay Concerning Technology<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Heidegger, <i>Being and Time<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Arendt, <i>The Human Condition<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Simone de Beauvoir, <i>The Second Sex<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Camus, <i>The Plague<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Foucault, <i>Discipline &amp; Punish<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>Said, <i>Orientalism<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Salman Rushdie,\u00a0<em>Midnight&#8217;s Children: A Novel<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Charles Taylor,\u00a0<em>Modern Social Imaginaries<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>More about what you will study<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Professors\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/professors\/\">The Professors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Degree streams\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/degree-streams\/\">Degree Streams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Study abroad\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/study-abroad\/\">Study Abroad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Language requirement\" href=\"\">Language Requirement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 5%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 45%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 45%;\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 5%;\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><strong>\u2190<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\"><a title=\"What you will study\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bhum\/will-study\/\">What you will study<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a title=\"An ideal learning environment\" href=\"\">An ideal learning environment<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><strong>\u2192<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Books in the Bachelor of Humanities Program A selection of the books studied in the four years of the Bachelor of Humanities Program First Year \u2014 Ancient Religions and Cultures The Epic of Gilgamesh The Upanisads The Bhagavad Gita Jayadeva, Gita Govinda Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Confucius, Analects The Hebrew Bible Homer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Books - Bachelor of Humanities &mdash; 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