The Valpo Core

List of Texts for Core, Spring 2008 (ISBN in parentheses)

**Boldface indicates text that is new to the Core program.**

Love Unit:

1. 1 Corinthians, Chapters 1 and 13 (in HarperCollins Study Bible) (0060655275)
2. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” (from Stride Toward Freedom) and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (in coursepack)
3. Euripides/Hughes, Alcestis (0374527261)
4. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (0072434228)
5. Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (selections) (in coursepack)
6. Film: Dead Man Walking (dir. Tim Robbins)
7. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It (0226500667)

Work and Vocation Unit:

1. Studs Terkel, Working, “Who Built the Pyramids?” (Mike Lefevre’s story) (in coursepack)
2. Film: Luther (screened in class) (dir. Eric Till)
3. Martin Luther. “To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate” (excerpt) (in coursepack)
4. Karlfried Froehlich. “Luther on Vocation” (in coursepack)
5. Bowe, Bowe & Streeter, eds., Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs (selections) (0609807072)
6. Film: Billy Elliot (dir. Nicola Blackwell)
7. Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (selections) (0812973011)

Life and Death Unit:

1. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (0142437182)
2. Gospel According to Luke (from HarperCollins Study Bible)
3. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (0767902890)
4. C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (0060652381)
5. Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking (selections) (0140276238)
6. Film: Wit (dir. Mike Nichols)
7. Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies (selections) (0385496095)