HON 1010 (1st semester): Ancient World (Non-Roman)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Homer: the Iliad, the Odyssey
- Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Job
- New Testament: The Gospel of Mark
- Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
- Aeschylus: The Oresteia
- Euripides: Medea
- Aristophanes: Lysistrata
- Plato: The Dialogues of Plato, The Republic
- Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
HON 1020 (2nd semester): Ancient World (Roman) & Medieval Texts
- Confucius: The Analects
- Tao Te Ching
- Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
- Virgil: The Aeneid
- Ovid: The Metamorphoses
- Aurelius: Meditations
- The Ramayana
- The Nibelungenlied
- Augustine: Confessions, The City of God (selections)
- Beowulf
- The Song of Roland
- Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
- Qur’an (selected suras)
- Anselm & Aquinas: readings in medieval theology (handout)
HON 2010 (3rd semester): Renaissance & Enlightenment Texts
- Luther: On Christian Liberty
- Erasmus: Praise of Folly
- Marlowe: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
- Shakespeare: King Lear, The Merchant of Venice
- Molière: Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
- Déscartes: Meditations
- Montaigne: Essays
- Hobbes: Leviathan (Part One)
- Milton: Paradise Lost
- Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
- Voltaire: Candide
HON 2020 (4th semester): 19th Century Texts
- Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future System
- Shelley: Frankenstein (1818 edition)
- Goethe: Faust
- Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto
- Melville: Moby Dick
- Darwin: The Origin of Species (selections)
- Flaubert: Madame Bovary
- Mill: On Liberty, Utilitarianism
- Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
- Twain: Huckleberry Finn
- Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
- Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Douglass: The Life of Frederick Douglass
- Washington: Up From Slavery
- Jacobs: The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
HON 3010 (5th semester): 20th Century Texts
- Nietzsche: The Gay Science
- Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Kafka: The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony
- Eliot: The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Woolf: To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own
- Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
- Foucault: The History of Sexuality Volume I
- Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations Part I
- Camus: Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague
- Borges: Ficciones
- Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
- de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (selections)
- Said: Orientalism (selections)
- Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
- Havel: Living in Truth (read only essays by Havel)
- Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
- Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
- Miller: Death of a Salesman