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FALL SEMESTER
ENGL 101
| A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations; 9th Edition | Kate L. Turabian |
| The Elements of Style | William J. Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White |
| The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles, trans. Robert Fagles |
| The Iliad of Homer | Homer, trans. Richmond Lattimore |
| The Odyssey | Homer, trans. Robert Fitzgerald |
| Poetics | Aristotle, trans. S. H. Butcher |
| The Oresteia | Aeschylus, trans. Peter Meineck |
| The Iliad | Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore |
| The Odyssey | Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald |
| Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra | Sophocles, translated by H.D.F. Kitto |
ENGL 201
| A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations | Kate L. Turabian |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton, ed. Meritt Hughes |
| Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo | trans. J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night´s Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays | ed. Candace Ward |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. A. Kent Hieatt |
| Immortal Poems of the English Language | ed. Oscar Williams |
FREN 101
| VIS–VIS: Beginning French 4th Edition Edition | Evelyne Amon |
FREN 201
Greek 301
| Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek. Workbook I. Revised Third Edition. | Gilbert Lawall, James F. Johnson, Luigi Miraglia; edited by James Morwood |
Greek 303
| Greek Grammar | Herbert Weir Smyth |
| Glossary of Terms in Grammar, Rhetoric, and Prosody for Readers of Greek and Latin | Richard Upsher Smith, Jr. |
| Cebes’ Tablet & Prodicus’ “Choice of Heracles”: An Intermediate Greek Reader | C. T. Hadavas |
| Plato’s Euthyphro & Clitophon | Jacques A. Bailly |
HIST 101
| The Founding Of Christendom | Carroll, Warren |
| Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 1 | Plutarch |
| Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives | Benedict XVI |
| The Holy Bible | |
| The Founding of Christendom | Warren Carroll |
| Plutarch’s Lives | Plutarch |
| Cicero: Selected Works | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| The Everlasting Man | G.K. Chesterton |
| The Portable Greek Historians | M. I. Finley, ed. |
| Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources | Christopher Francese and R. Scott Smith |
| Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write and Think about History, Third Edition | Jim Cullen |
HIST 201
| The West: A Narrative History, 3rd Edition | Frankforter and Spellman |
| Essaying the Past, 2nd edition | Jim Cullen |
| Christian Liberty | Martin Luther |
| True Reformers | Jerome K. Williams |
| The West: A Narrative History, volume two | Frankforter & Spellman |
| Piers Plowman | William Langland |
| The New Atlantis | Francis Bacon |
| The Prince | Machiavelli |
| The Dividing of Christendom | Dawson |
| Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts that Continue to Shape our World | Gregory, Brad |
| The West: A Narrative History, Combined Volume, third edition | Frankforter, A. Daniel and William M. Spellman |
| Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century France | Diefendorf, Barbara |
| A Reformation Debate | Calvin, John and Jacopo Sadoleto |
| Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor | Duffy, Eamon |
| Glory of Christendom | Carroll, Warren |
| Cleaving of Christendom | Carroll, Warren |
| Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History, 2nd edition | Cullen, Jim |
LATN 101
| Learn Latin from the Romans | Eleanor Dickey |
LATN 199
| Sermones Romani | Hans H. Ørberg |
| Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles: Latin Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary | Geoffrey Steadman |
| Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis | James W. Halporn |
| Cassell’s Latin Dictionary | D. P. Simpson |
| Wheelock’s Latin. 7th edition | Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. Lafleur |
| Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar | J. H. Allen, J. B. Greenough, et al. |
LATN 201
| Sermones Romani | Hans H. Ørberg |
| Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles: Latin Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary | Geoffrey Steadman |
| Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis | James W. Halporn |
| Cassell’s Latin Dictionary | D. P. Simpson |
| Wheelock’s Latin. 7th edition | Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. Lafleur |
| Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar | J. H. Allen, J. B. Greenough, et al. |
| Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic | Robert Knapp and Pamela Vaughn |
| Finis Rei Publicae Workbook: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic | Robert Knapp and Pamela Vaughn |
| A Glossary of Terms in Grammar, Rhetoric, and Prosody for Readers of Greek and Latin: A Vade Mecum | Richard Upsher Smith, Jr. |
| Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English- Latin | S.A. Handford, ed. |
| Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar | Basil Gildersleeve and Gonzalo Lodge |
| Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico | Hans-Friedrich Mueller |
MATH
Math 102
| The Whole Truth About Whole Numbers | Forman and Rash |
MATH 103
| The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements, Vol. 1 | Euclid |
| The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements, Vol. 2 | Euclid |
MATH 150
| A First Course in Statistics, 11th ed. | McClave and Sincich |
MATH 201
| Calculus, 10th ed. | Larson and Edwards |
MATH 244
| Introduction to Computing | David Evans |
PHIL 101
| Five Dialogues (Crito, Euthyphro, Apology, Meno, Phaedo) | Plato; translated by G.M.A. and John M. Cooper |
| The Basic Works of Aristotle | Aristotle; edited by Richard McKeon |
| Gorgias | Plato; translated by Donald Zeyl |
| Five Dialogues | Plato |
| Republic | Plato |
| Being Logical | D.Q. McInerny |
| Republic | Plato |
| Socratic Logic | Peter Kreeft |
PHIL 201
| Basic Works of Aristotle | Editor: McKeon |
PHIL 302
| Meditations on First Philosophy, 3rd edition | Rene Descartes; Trans. by Donald A. Cress |
| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, 2nd ed. | David Hume; edited by Eric Steinberg |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 2nd ed. | David Hume; edited by Richard Popkin |
PSAE 201
| Two Treatises of Government | Locke, John |
| The Politics | Aristotle (Carnes Lord, trans.) |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli (Harvey Mansfield, trans.) |
| The First And Second Discourses | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Roger and Judith Masters, trans.) |
| Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville (Harvey Mansfield, trans.) |
| Republic | Plato |
| The Political Writings | St. Augustine |
| On Law, Morality, and Politics | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Second Treatise of Government | John Locke |
| The Basic Political Writings | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 | Karl Marx |
SCIE 192
| Principles of Biology | Brooker et al |
SCIE 194
| How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life 5th Ed. | Lois A. Bloomfield |
SPAN 101
| Functionally Fluent Beginning Spanish Course | Gruber, Diana Maria |
| Schaum’s Outline of Spanish Grammar | Schmitt, Conrad |
SPAN 201
| Buen viaje! Level 2 | McGraw-Hill Education |
THEO 101
| Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance With the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John II | |
| Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition | |
| Theology for Beginners | Sheed, F. J. |
THEO 201
| The Holy Bible, RSV Second Catholic Edition | Holy Spirit |
| A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: Vol. 1 Old Testament | John Bergsma & Brant Pitre |
| The Lord | Romano Guardini |
| Bible Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition | Holy Spirit |
| Christian Handbook of Apologetics | Kreeft and Tacelli |
THEO 301
| Veritatis Splendor | Pope Saint John Paul II |
| The Sources of Christian Ethics | Servais Pinckaers, O.P. |
| Morality: The Catholic View | Servais Pinckaers, O.P. |
SPRING SEMESTER
ENGL 102
| The Aeneid | Virgil |
| Beowulf: Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Edition | trans. Seamus Heaney |
| Inferno | Dante, trans. Anthony Esolen |
| Purgatory | Dante, trans. Anthony Esolen |
| Paradise | Dante, trans. Anthony Esolen |
ENGL 202
| Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
| Complete Stories | O’Connor, Flannery |
| Brideshead Revisited | Waugh, Evelyn |
| Immortal Poems of the English Language | Williams, Oscar, ed. |
| Selected Short Stories | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Immortal Poems of the English Language | Oscar Williams, ed. |
| The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems | T.S. Eliot |
FREN 202
| VIS–VIS: Beginning French 4th Edition Edition | Evelyne Amon |
GREK 302
| Athenaze, Book I. Revised 3rd Edition | Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, et al. |
| Athenaze, Book II. Revised 3rd Edition | Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, et al. |
| Athenaze, Workbook I. 3rd Edition | Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, et al. |
| Athenaze, Workbook II. 3rd Edition | Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, et al. |
| Thucydides Reader: Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories | Blaise Nagy |
GREK 304
| Lysias: Selected Speeches | Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox |
| Greek Prose Reading Course for Postbeginners 3. Political Oratory. Demosthenes: Third Philippic | Malcolm Campbell |
| Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon | Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott |
| A Glossary of Terms in Grammar, Rhetoric, and Prosody for Readers of Greek and Latin: A Vade Mecum | Richard Upsher Smith, Jr. |
| Greek Grammar | Herbert Weir Smyth and Gordon M. Messing |
HIST 102
| The West: A Narrative History (3rd edition, combined volume) | A. Daniel Frankforter and William M. Spellman |
| Early Christian Lives | Carolinne White, ed. and trans. |
| The Confessions | St. Augustine of Hippo |
| RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in English | St. Benedict of Nursia |
| Two Lives of Charlemagne | Einhard and Notker the Stammerer |
| The Song of Roland | Robert Harrison, trans. |
| Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write and Think about History, 2nd Edition | Jim Cullen
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| Chronicles of the Crusades | Villehardouin & Joinville |
| Early Christian Lives | |
| History of Christendom vol. I The Founding of Christendom | Carroll, Warren |
| History of Christendom vol. II The Building of Christendom | Carroll, Warren |
| History of Christendom vol. III The Glory of Christendom | Carroll, Warren |
HIST 202
| The West: A Narrative History, Combined Volume | Frankforter and Spellman |
| The Gospel of Life | John Paul II |
| Letters Concerning the English Nation | Voltaire |
| Communist Manifesto | Marx and Engels |
| Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man | Henri De Lubac |
| Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man | Henri De Lubac |
| The Gods of Revolution | Dawson |
| An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine | Newman |
| The Tools of Empire | Daniel R. Hedrick |
| Five Days in London: May 1940 | John Lukacs |
LATN 102
| Learn Latin from the Romans | Eleanor Dickey |
| A Glossary of Terms in Grammar, Rhetoric, and Prosody for Readers of Greek and Latin: A Vade Mecum | Richard Upsher Smith, Jr. |
| English Grammar for Students of Latin | Norma Goldman |
LATN 202
| Cassell’s Latin Dictionary | D. P. Simpson |
| The Student’s Ovid: Selections from the Metamorphoses | Margaret Worsham Musgrove |
| Wheelock’s Latin Reader (2nd Ed.) | Richard A. LaFleur |
PHIL 102
| Book of Readings from St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature | |
| Leisure: The Basis of Culture | Josef Pieper |
| The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature | Leon Kass |
| Aquinas on Human Nature | Thomas Aquinas |
| Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy | Rene Descartes |
| Leisure: The Basis of Culture | Josef Pieper |
PHIL 202
| Metaphysics | D. Flippen |
PHIL 302
| Meditations on First Philosophy, 3rd edition | Rene Descartes; Translated by Donald A. Cress |
| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, 2nd edition | David Hume; Editor Eric Steinberg |
| Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, 2nd edition | David Hume; Editor Richard H. Popkin |
| Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy | René Descartes |
| Socrates Children: The 100 Greatest Philosophers. Volume 3: Modern Philosophers | Peter Kreeft |
PSAE 202
| Papal Encyclicals of Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, St. Paul VI, St. John Paul II, Francis I | Vatican Website |
| The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature | John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander, eds |
| Pursuing the Common Good | Margaret S. Archer and Pierpaolo Donati, eds |
| Just War Theory Revisited | Oliver O’Donovan |
| Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition | Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering, eds |
Core Booklist_THEO 102
| Catechism of the Catholic Church | |
| The Aquinas Catechism | Thomas Aquinas |
| Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church | |
| Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition | USCCB |
| Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition | |
| Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas | Peter Kreeft |
THEO 202
| The Lord | Romano Guardini |
| Bible Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition | Holy Spirit |
THEO 302
| Handbook of Christian Apologetics | Peter Kreeft & Ronald Tacelli |