Core 110 Syllabus and Booklist, Fall 2007
For the basic template of the syllabus for Core 110, follow this link:
List of Texts for Core, Fall 2007 (ISBN in parentheses)
**Boldface indicates text that is new to the Core program.**
Birth and Creation Unit:
- Native American creation accounts (in coursepack)
- Genesis 1-4 and Job 38-41 (in HarperCollins Study Bible) (0060655275)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (in coursepack)
- Film: Gattaca (dir. Andrew Niccol)
- Doris Lessing, “Debbie and Julie” (in coursepack)
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Norton Critical Edition) (0393969665)
- Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (0374105235)
Coming of Age and Education Unit:
- Plato, “Allegory of the Cave,” from Republic book VII (in coursepack)
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (1594480001)
- Film: Garden State (dir. Zach Braff)
- Simone Weil, “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God,” from Waiting for God (in coursepack)
- Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir (074324754X)
- Lealan Jones and Lloyd Newman, Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago (0671004646)
Citizenship and Service Unit:
- Gospel According to Matthew, Chapters 5-7 (The Sermon on the Mount) (in HarperCollins Study Bible)
- Elias Chacour and David Hazard, Blood Brothers (0800793218)
- William Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (0451526201)
- Genesis 6-9 (The Great Flood) (in HarperCollins Study Bible)
- “Understanding and Responding to Climate Change” (from the National Academy of Sciences) (in coursepack)
- Letters from Evangelical organizations on the issue of climate change (in coursepack)
- Film: An Inconvenient Truth (dir. Davis Guggenheim)
- Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates (0872205541)
- Sophocles, Antigone (Braun translation) (0195061675)
