Heritage
The Heritage of the West in World Perspective
Heritage is no ordinary history or Western civilization course. It is a wide-ranging study of the history of ideas, cultures, religions, creative works, and pivotal problems that have shaped humanity for thousands of years. Beginning with fossils and ending with speculations about the future, this program brings together history, literature, philosophy, religion, and the arts in an integrated approach to the study of Western culture as part of a global cultural history. It is the equivalent of two year-long courses. For more information about the Heritage program, please look through the information at this website and feel free to contact any of our faculty or staff.
The books we will be using for Fall 2010 are as follows:
- The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2nd edition, Editors: Sarah Lawall and Maynard Mack, Volume(s) A,B,C, 2003, W.W. Norton & Company, paperback, ISBN 978-0-393-92453-4. Referred to in the syllabus as WLit.
- The Visual Arts: A History, Revised Edition, Hugh Honour, John F. Fleming, Publisher: Pearson, 2010, paperback, ISBN-10:0205665357, ISBN-13: 9780205665358 OR 2005 edition is an option; ISBN: 013-193507-0. Referred to in the syllabus as ART.
- The World: A History, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Prentice Hall, 2010.
EITHER: Volume One (to 1500), 2nd edition, ISBN: 0136061486;
OR: Combined Volume (to 2010), 2nd edition, ISBN 0205745318, 0136061472 or 0136061478 (the latter ISBN affords you access to extra materials online, but this is not required). You may be able to buy this volume second-hand from sophomores who took Heritage last year. Referred to in the syllabus as WORLD.
- Listen, Sixth Edition, Joseph Kerman, Gary Tomlinson and Vivian Kerman, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008, paperback, ISBN 13: 978-0-312-43419-9. Referred to in the syllabus as LISTEN.
- Classics of Philosophy, Vol. 1 Ancient and Medieval, Louis P. Pojman, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780195116458. Referred to in the syllabus as PHILO.
- The Bhagavad-Gita, trans. Barbara Stoler Miller, Bantam, paperback, ISBN 978-0553213652.
- The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, Oxford University Press, ISBN-13-9780195289602 or 10-0195289609 (that's the 4th ed., but ANY edition of the Oxford Annotated is OK). Referred to in the syllabus as NOAB.
- The Qur'an, trans. M.A. S. Abdel Haleem, 2008, Oxford Universaity Press, ISBN 978-0199535958.
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