Humanities 3
680:023. Humanities III: The Age of Revolution to the Present--3 credits.
Literature, philosophy, religion, and the fine arts, integrated with the history of Western Civilization since the French Revolution of 1789 (offered Fall, Spring, and Summer).
Books Approved for Use in Humanities 3
History Texts
Instructors may use any standard "Western Civ." textbook from a major publisher, such as:
Greer, Lewis, Brief History of the Western World
(One Volume Edition)
Kagan, Paul, et al., The Western Heritage (Vol. II)
Kishlansky, et al., Civilization in the West
Lerner, Meacham, Burns, Western Civilizations (Vol. II)
McKay, et al., A History of Western Society
Perry, Western Civilization
(the Concise or the Longer Version)
Spielvogel, Western Civilization (Vol. II, Vol. C)
Recommendations of the Humanities Text Working Group
1. That in each of the three Humanities courses, faculty be encouraged to assign a minimum of four complete works, assuming those works to be of moderate length; faculty are encouraged to assign more works, if shorter works are used.
2. That the use of literary anthologies be approved, when those anthologies include complete shorter works or when they are used in conjunction with complete works, the total assigned readings to be equivalent to the use of four or more complete texts. We recommend the use of an anthology similar to the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces (2 vols.). Documents collections can be very useful as adjuncts to such literary anthologies, and complete texts.
3. That the use of a main Western civilization text be continued, and that the breadth of choice that currently prevails in selecting such texts continue to accommodate varying pedagogical approaches to the teaching of the courses. Some faculty have also found volumes such as art history texts valuable in supplementing their use of Western civilization texts. An inexpensive example of such a text is Cole and Gelt's Art of the Western World.
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I. NINETEENTH CENTURY:
Literature and Drama:
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
F. M. Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Johann Wolfgang von Gœthe, Faust (Part I or Parts I & II)
Henrik Ibsen, Any Play
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons or On the Eve
Emilè Zola, Germinal
Political and Philosophical:
Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity
G. W. F. Hegel, The Idea of History
Søren Kierkegaard, Any Work
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
J. S. Mill, "On Women"
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
John Henry Newman, Sermons
Friedrich Nietzsche, Any Work
Friedrich Schleiermacher, Any Work
Poetry:
Romantic Poets, Selected Poems
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II. TWENTIETH CENTURY
Literature and Drama:
James Baldwin, One of His Works
Simone de Beauvoir, One of Her Works
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Bertolt Brecht, Any Play
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Philip Caputo, Rumor of War
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yellow Wallpaper
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist, Dubliners
Franz Kafka, The Trial or any Novel
Franz Kafka, A Selection of Short Stories, and/or "Metamorphosis"
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Arthur Miller, Playing for Time or Death of a Salesman
Toni Morrison, Sula
George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm
Harold Pagliaro, Naked Heart
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Salman Rushdie, One of His Works
Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit
Gertrude Stein, One of Her Works
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Elie Wiesel, Night
Christa Wolf, Cassandra
Political and Philosophical:
Beauvoir, Simone de. Any Work
W. E. B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment"
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Poetry:
T. S. Eliot, "The Wasteland," "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Note:
Books which have been assigned at least five times over the past four years (2000-2004) and do not appear on the suggested list include:
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Faber, Because of Romek
Kaufman, Theology for a Nuclear Age
Matute, Celebration in the Northewst
Wiesenthal, The Sunflower
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