Liberal Arts Proposal for Dartmouth

Curriculum for Dartmouth

First Year

First Quarter

First Week

  1. Genesis
  2. Hesiod, Theogony
  3. Hesiod, Works and Days

Second Week

  1. Homer, Iliad I-IV
  2. Homer, Iliad V-VIII
  3. Homer, Iliad X-XII

Third Week

  1. Homer, Iliad XIII-XVI
  2. Homer, Iliad XVII-XX
  3. Homer, Iliad XXI-XXIV

Fourth Week

  1. Gilgamesh
  2. Thucydides I
  3. Thucydides II

Fifth Week

  1. Thucydides III-V
  2. Thucydides VI-VIII
  3. Job

Sixth Week

  1. Aeschylus, Oresteia 
  2. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
  3. Sophocles, Antigone  

Seventh Week

  1. Isaiah
  2. Aristophanes, Clouds
  3. Aristophanes, Frogs

Eighth Week

  1. Plato, Apology
  2. Plato, Crito
  3. Plato, Phaedo

Ninth Week

  1. Plato, Republic I
  2. Plato, Republic II-III
  3. Plato, Republic IV-V

Tenth Week

  1. Plato, Republic VI-VII
  2. Plato, Republic VIII-IX
  3. Plato, Republic X

Second Quarter

First Week

  1. Plato Symposium
  2. Song of Solomon
  3. Psalms

Second Week

  1. Aristotle, Ethics I-II
  2. Aristotle, Ethics III-IV
  3. Aristotle, Ethics V-VI

Third Week

  1. Aristotle, Ethics VII-VIII
  2. Aristotle, Ethics IX-X
  3. Aristotle, Politics I-II

Fourth Week

  1. Aristotle, Politics III-IV
  2. Aristotle, Politics V-VIII
  3. Aristotle, Poetics

Fifth Week

  1. Aristotle, Metaphysics I
  2. Aristotle, Metaphysics I
  3. Aristotle Physics II

Sixth Week

  1. Aristotle, Physics II
  2. Aristotle, On the Soul I-II
  3. Aristotle, On the Soul II-III

Seventh Week

  1. Aristotle, Physics VII
  2. Aristotle, Physics VII
  3. Aristotle, Metaphysics XI

Eighth Week

1) Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I-II

2) Lucretius, De Rerum Natura III-IV

3) Lucretius, De Rerum Natura V-VI

Ninth Week

  1. Livy I
  2. Polybius VI
  3. Cicero, De Re Publica

Tenth Week

  1. Plutarch, Caesar, Alexander
  2. Plutarch, Romulus, Theseus

Third Quarter

First Week

  1. Exodus
  2. Exodus
  3. Deuteronomy

Second Week

  1. Virgil, Aeneid I-III
  2. Virgil, Aeneid IV-VI, Georgics IV

Third Week

  1. Virgil, Aeneid VII-XII
  2. Tacitus, Annals I-VI
  3. Tacitus, History I-V

Fourth Week

  1. Matthew
  2. Paul, Romans
  3. Revelations

Fifth Week

  1. Augustine, Confessions
  2. Augustine, Confessions
  3. Augustine, City of God

Sixth Week

  1. Augustine, City of God
  2. Aquinas, Summa Theologica
  3. Aquinas, Summa Theologica 

Seventh Week

  1. Aquinas, Summa Theologica
  2. Aquinas, Summa Theologica 
  3. Dante, Inferno

Eighth Week

  1. Ibn Kaldun, The Muqaddimah
  2. Ibn, Kaldun, The Muqaddimah
  3. Dante, Inferno

Ninth Week

  1. Dante, Inferno
  2. Dante, Paradiso
  3. Dante, Paradiso

Tenth Week

  1. Njal Saga
  2. Njal Saga
  3. Song of Roland

Second Year

First Quarter

First Week

  1. Montaigne, Essays
  2. Montaigne, Essays
  3. Machiavelli, Prince

Second Week,

  1. Machiavelli, Prince
  2. Machiavelli, Discourses
  3. Machiavelli, Discourses

Third Week

  1. Cervantes, Don Quixote
  2. Cervantes, Don Quixote
  3. Cervantes, Don Quixote

Fourth Week

  1. Racine, Phaedre
  2. Shakespeare, Hamlet
  3. Shakespeare, Lear

Fifth Week

  1. Shakespeare, Lear
  2. Shakespeare, Tempest
  3. Bacon, New Atlantis

Sixth Week

  1. Galileo, Two World Systems
  2. Galileo, Two World Systems

3) Descartes, Discourse on Method

Seventh Week

  1. Descartes, Discourse on Method
  2. Descartes, Meditations
  3. Descartes, Meditations

Eighth Week

  1. Hobbes, Leviathan
  2. Hobbes, Leviathan
  3. Hobbes, Leviathan

Ninth Week

  1. Hobbes, Leviathan
  2. Pascal, Pensées
  3. Pascal, Pensées

Tenth Week

  1. Vico, The New Science
  2. Vico, The New Science
  3. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Second Quarter 

First Week

  1. Locke, Second Treatise
  2. Locke, Second Treatise
  3. Locke, Second Treatise

Second Week

  1. Montesquieu, Persian Letters
  2. Montesquieu, Persian Letters
  3. Hume, Dialogues of Natural Religion

Third Week

  1. Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  2. Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  3. Hume, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Fourth Week

  1. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections)
  2. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections)
  3. D’Alembert, Preface to L’Encylopedie

Fifth Week

  1. Rousseau, First Discourse
  2. Rousseau, Second Discourse
  3. Rousseau, Second Discourse

Sixth Week

  1. Rousseau, Emile I
  2. Rousseau, Emile II
  3. Rousseau, Emile III

Seventh Week

  1. Rousseau, Emile IV
  2. Rousseau, Emile V
  3. Rousseau, Social Contract I

Eighth Week

  1. Rousseau, Social Contract II
  2. Rousseau, Social Contract III-IV 
  3. Rousseau, Reveries

Ninth Week

  1. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
  2. Tocqueville, The Ancient Regime and the French Revolution.
  3. Tocqueville, Democracy in America I

Tenth Week

  1. Tocqueville, Democracy in America I
  2. Tocqueville, Democracy in America II
  3. Tocqueville, Democracy in America III

Third Quarter

First Week

  1. Kant, Foundation of the Metaphysic of Morals
  2. Kant, Foundation of the Metaphysic of Morals
  3. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Introduction)

Second Week

  1. Goethe, Faust I
  2. Goethe, Faust I
  3. Goethe, Faust II

Third Week

  1. Goethe, Faust II
  2. Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind (selections)
  3. Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind (selections)

Fourth Week

  1. Hegel, Philosophy of History
  2. Hegel, Philosophy of History
  3. Hegel, Philosophy of History

Fifth Week

  1. Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
  2. Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
  3. Marx, German Ideology

Sixth Week

  1. Marx, Das Capital (selections)
  2. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  3. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Seventh Week

  1. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  2. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  3. Darwin, Origin of Species

Eighth Week

  1. Darwin, Origin of Species
  2. Nietzsche, Toward a Genealogy of Morals
  3. Nietzsche, Toward a Genealogy of Morals

Ninth Week

  1. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
  2. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
  3. Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (selections)

Tenth Week

  1. Weber, Science as a Vocation
  2. Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
  3. Heidegger, Letter on Humanism