The require readings of 21L.002
I was thinking about this yesterday. The require readings for 21L.002: Foundations of Western Culture II were pretty tremendously varied and interesting.
When I took it, they were:
- Bernardino, Fray The War of Conquest: How It Was Waged Here in Mexico
- Blake, William Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Card, Orson Scott Ender’s Game
- Card, Orson Scott Speaker for the Dead
- Machiavelli, Nicolo The Prince
- Ondaatje, Michael Anil’s Ghost
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Voltaire, Francois-Marie Candide
- Whitman, Walt Civil War Poetry and Prose
- Williams, Helen Maria Letters Written in France
And selected parts of:
- Cortes, Hernan Letters from Mexico
- Levinson, Sanford Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
- Lowell, Robert “For the Union Dead”
- Walcott, Derek “A Far Cry from Africa,” “Ruins of a Great House,” and “Season of Phantasmal Peace”
What a ridiculous range of stuff! I’m glad I took it.