Liberal Studies in the Great Books Minor

The minor in Integrated Studies in the Great Books provides a variety of course options and a flexible sequence of study. The six courses capture well the point of reading classic texts and the opportunity to participate more fully in the ideal of liberal arts education. Accordingly, the minor is intrinsically interdisciplinary and horizon-expanding.

Minor requirements include:

Required Courses:

PH 105 - Human Nature Seminar
PH 107 - Ethics
In lieu of PH 105 and PH 107, students may take PH 108-109 The Philosophical Life Seminar I-II, a two-semester course, taught by the one professor and covering the same topics as PH 105 and PH 107 but ordered historically.

Choose two of the six Great Books seminars:

Choose two electives from the following:

GBS 271 - Great Books Seminar I: The Ancient World - Homar to Plutarch
GBS 272 - Great Books Seminar II: The Medieval World - Augustine to Chaucer.
GBS 273 - Great Books Seminar III: The Renaissance - Machiavelli to Pascal
GBS 274 - Great Books Seminar IV: The Enlightenment and Its Discontents - Locke to Dostoevsky
GBS 275 - Great Books Seminar V: The Contemporary World
GBS 276 - Great Books Seminar VI: Non-Western Classics
GBS 455-457 - Integrated Studies Seminars
GBS 467-469 - Focused Study Seminar
*As an introduction to the Major, we offer a course for freshmen and sophomores,GBS 106 Introduction to Integrated Studies: Great Ideas, Great Texts, and Great People, which may count as the open elective.

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