Academic Program

Annapolis Undergraduate Reading List for the First Week of School

The following reading list may be subect to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean's office.

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These are the readings for the first four seminars for 2011-2012:

Date Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
Aug. 25 Homer: Iliad I-VI Bible: Genesis 1-11 Cervantes: Don Quixote  Part I** Tolstoi: War and Peace
Aug. 29 Homer: Iliad VII-XII Bible: Genesis 12-25 Cervantes: Don Quixote Tolstoi: War and Peace
Sep. 01 Homer: Iliad XIII-XVIII Bible: Genesis 26-50 Descartes: Meditations Letter of Dedication, Preface, I-III Hegel: Logic, sections 79-89
Sep. 05 Homer: Iliad XIX-XXIV Bible: Exodus; Numbers 20 Descartes: Meditations IV-VI Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit  Introduction, sections 73-89

**Juniors are asked to read all of Don Quixote before returning, but the first seminar will be on Part I only.