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The Junior Year

Following is a list of the core curriculum courses that are part of the Freshman year, including course descriptions and readings. Official course syllabi are made available to enrolled students on or before the first day of class.

Please note that this list does not include courses that fulfill foreign language, simulation, or field experience requirements. Click here for more information about these courses and when they are offered.

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ST3410 World History: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Greece (3 credits)

  • Fall 2011 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
  • Fall 2011 On-line (Junior)
  • Fall 2013 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
  • Fall 2013 On-line (Junior)
  • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

This course covers the rise of ancient Greece, the development of the City State, the defeat the of the Persian Empire, the Peloponnesian war, the rise of Phillip of Macedon, and the dissolution of the Empire after the death of Alexander.

  • Herodotus, Histories
    • Plutarch, The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
      • Greeks
    • Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

      ST3420 World History: Rome to the Renaissance (3 credits)

      • Fall 2011 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
      • Fall 2011 On-line (Junior)
      • Fall 2013 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
      • Fall 2013 On-line (Junior)
      • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

      The first portion of this course covers the beginnings of Rome, the building of the Roman Republic, its transformation into the Roman Empire and eventual fall. The second portion covers the Middle Ages, beginning with the fall of Rome and ending in the Renaissance.

      • Plutarch, The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
        • Romans
      • Tacitus, Annals
        • Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged)
          • Edition: David P. Womersley, editor
        • William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
          • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

            LT3410 Roman and Medieval Literature (3 credits)

            • Fall 2011 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
            • Fall 2011 On-line (Junior)
            • Fall 2013 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
            • Fall 2013 On-line (Junior)
            • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

            This course covers Roman and Medieval literature.

            • Virgil, Aeneid
              • Augustine, Confessions
                • Dante, Divine Comedy

                  LT3420 Shakespearian Histories (3 credits)

                  • Fall 2011 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                  • Fall 2011 On-line (Junior)
                  • Fall 2013 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                  • Fall 2013 On-line (Junior)
                  • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                  In this course students will study several of Shakespeare’s histories.

                  • William Shakespeare, Richard II
                    • William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part One
                      • William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part Two
                        • William Shakespeare, Henry V
                          • William Shakespeare, Richard III

                            LT3430 Ancient Greek Literature (3 credits)

                            • Fall 2011 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                            • Fall 2011 On-line (Junior)
                            • Fall 2013 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                            • Fall 2013 On-line (Junior)
                            • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                            This course covers ancient Greek literature including, Homer, and Greece’s greatest tragedies and comedies.

                            • Homer, The Odyssey
                              • Aeschylus, Oresteia Trilogy
                                • Sophocles, Oedipus Trilogy
                                  • Euripides, Orestes
                                    • Aristophanes, The Clouds, The Frogs

                                      ST3530 Modern History I (3 credits)

                                      • Winter 2012 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                      • Winter 2012 On-line (Junior)
                                      • Winter 2014 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                      • Winter 2014 On-line (Junior)
                                      • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                                      History is not only the discussion of widely accepted facts, but also a method of seeking truth by studying the patterns of cause and effects that have determined events. This course studies several great histories written in the modern era and is continued in ST3540.

                                      • Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
                                        • Jacob Burkhart, Civilization of the Renaissance Italy
                                          • Egon Friedall, A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Renaissance & Reformation
                                            • Egon Friedall, A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Baroque, Roccoco, and Enlightenment

                                              ST3540 Modern History II (3 credits)

                                              • Winter 2012 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                              • Winter 2012 On-line (Junior)
                                              • Winter 2014 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                              • Winter 2014 On-line (Junior)
                                              • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                                              History is not only the discussion of widely accepted facts, but also a method of seeking truth by studying the patterns of cause and effects that have determined events. This course studies several great histories written in the modern era and is a continuation of ST3530.

                                              • Giambattista Vico, New Science
                                                • Alexis de Tocqueville, Acien Regime and the French Revolution
                                                  • Egon Friedall, A Cultural History of the Modern Age: The Crisis of the European Soul

                                                    LT3510 19th Century Russian Literature (3 credits)

                                                    • Winter 2012 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                                    • Winter 2012 On-line (Junior)
                                                    • Winter 2014 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                                    • Winter 2014 On-line (Junior)
                                                    • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                                                    This course covers two of the greatest classics on human nature and human relations: War and Peace and Brothers Karamazov.

                                                    • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
                                                      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov

                                                        LT3520 19th Century French and German Literature (3 credits)

                                                        • Winter 2012 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                                        • Winter 2012 On-line (Junior)
                                                        • Winter 2014 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                                        • Winter 2014 On-line (Junior)
                                                        • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                                                        The course covers two classics that significantly impacted Europe in the 19th century and continue their influence today. The idealism and sacrifice of the French revolutions and Germany’s great study of fallen man in Goethe’s Faustus.

                                                        • Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
                                                          • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faustus

                                                            FA3510 Art, Architecture and Music (4 credits)

                                                            • Winter 2012 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                                            • Winter 2012 On-line (Junior)
                                                            • Winter 2014 On-campus: Cedar City, UT (Junior)
                                                            • Winter 2014 On-line (Junior)
                                                            • This course is also offered each summer as part of an interdisciplinary cohort. (more info)

                                                            This course will introduce students to the major periods in art, architecture and music, and to the artists who produced. Correlations will be drawn between artistic trends and the philosophical and historical periods that influenced them.


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