STEVENSON COLLEGE CORE COURSE CURRICULUM & BOOK LIST
2012-2013
FALL QUARTER
Introduction to Self & Society
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism” (in Basic Writings of Existentialism)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Creation Myths (in course Reader)
Religious Thought & Critique
Huston Smith, The World’s Religions
The Hebrew Bible selections
Plato, “Apology,” “Crito,” & “Euthyphro”
The New Testament selections
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, “Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr” (in Basic
Writings…)
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, La Repuesta/The Answer
The Qur’an selections
Writings on Buddhism (in course Reader)
The Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
WINTER QUARTER
Self & Society in Conflict/Problems of Inequality and Modernity
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Genealogy of Morals" (in Basic Writings…)
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Social Justice, Identity, and Meaning
Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own
Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
Alex Haley and Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (in Course Reader)
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” (in Course
Reader)
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis I & Persepolis II
Gloria Anzaldua, La Frontera/Borderlands
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TEXT LIST
1. Anzaldua, Gloria. La Frontera/Borderlands. Aunt Lute Books, ISBN 1879960745
2. Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed. Picador, ISBN 0312626681
3. Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning. Pocket Books, ISBN 0807014273
4. Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Norton, ISBN 0393301583
5. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521574315
6. Haleem, M. A. S. Abel The Qur’an. Oxford University Press, 0199535957
7. Haley, Alex and Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ballantine Books,
ISBN 0345350685 8. Marino, Gordon ed. Basic Writings of Existentialism. Modern Library Classics
ISBN 0375759891
9. Marx, Karl and Engels, Frederick. The Communist Manifesto: With Related
Documents. Bedford/St.Martin's, ISBN 0312157118
10. Miller, Barbara Stoller trans. The Bhagavad Gita. Bantam Classics ISBN 0553213652
11. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard
Version, College Edition. ISBN 0195289609
12. Plato, Five Dialogues. Hackett, ISBN 0872206335
13. Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & The Story of a Return.
Pantheon Books, ISBN 0375423966
14. Smith, Huston. The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions. HarperOne;
Rev Rep edition ISBN 0062508113
15. Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz. The Answer/La Repuesta. The Feminist Press at CUNY,
ISBN 1558615989
16. Tao Te Ching. Vintage, ISBN 0679724346
17. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin, ISBN 014044100X
18. Trimble, John R. Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing. Prentice
Hall, ISBN 0130257133
19. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. Mariner Books. ISBN 0156030411
20. Course Reader, available at Bay Tree Bookstore on UCSC campus
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