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20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
Perhaps nothing prepares one for leadership as well as coming face-to-face with greatness through the classics. A study of literature combines this with the additional contemplation of art, beauty, and application in the tradition of artist-statesmen such as Sophocles, Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Milton, Beethoven, Mozart, Tolstoy, Stowe, and Solzhenitsyn.
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Students are not required to minor. Those who do choose to minor must complete the minor requirements in addition to their Statesmanship major. Once completed, minors carry 20 academic credits. Students may complete more than one minor. The four possible minors are Education, Entrepreneurial Business, Literature and Political Science.
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- Hawthorne, any novels
- Hemingway, any novels
- Juvenal, Satires
- Kafka, any novels
- Kipling, any novels
- Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- London, any novels
- Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Moliere, any plays
- O'Connor, Flannery, any novels
- Orczy, any novels
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Paternak, Dr. Zhivago
- Potok, any novels
- Scott, Walter, any novels
- Shakespeare, any plays (5 required)*
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Solzhenitsyn, any books
- The Song of Roland
- Sophocles, any plays
- Steinbeck, any novels
- Stevenson, any novels
- Swift, any novels
- Taylor, The Healing Power of Stories*
- Tolstoy, any novels
- Tolkein, and novels
- Twain, any novels
- Vergil, Aeneid
- Voltaire, Candide
- Wallace, Ben Hur
- Wharton, Ethan Frome
- Other pre-approved works
POETRY (one book of poetry counts as one selection): Auden, Blake, Browning, Byron, Coleridge, Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Eliot, Emerson, Frost, Joyce, Keats, Lawrence, Longfellow, Milton, Pope, Shakespeare, Shelley, Swift, Tennyson, Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats and other pre-approved works. |
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for the Literature Minor are as follows:
- Read thirty works from the list below.
- Submit a written response to each.
- In addition to the Senior Thesis, submit a Minor Thesis on a topic from the field of Literature (must be accepted by the Graduation Committee).
A student's grasp of his or her minor will also be tested in the Oral Defense.
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CLASSICS LIST
- Adams, Henry, any novels
- Aeschylus, any plays
- Alcott, Little Women
- Aristophanes, any plays
- Aristotle, Poetics, Interpretation
- Austen, any novels
- Beowulf
- Bronte, any novels
- Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Conrad, any novels
- Cooper, James Fenimore, any novels
- Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident
- Dante, The Divine Comedy, any volume
- Defoe, any novels
- Dickens, any novels
- Disraeli, Sybil
- Dostoevski, any novels
- Douglas, The Robe
- Eliot, George, any novels
- Euripides, any plays
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Forster, A Passage to India
- Hamilton, Mythology
- Hardy, Thomas, any novels
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*Required
Education Minor | Entrepreneurial Business Minor | Political Science Minor
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