Integrated Humanities IV

• *$695 (à la carte  tuition per class)
• - $139 (20% tuition deposit required to secure a seat in class)
• = $556 balance of tuition (invoiced as 12 monthly payments, June thru May*)

THE MODERN WORLD 

Course Description: Students taking this course will benefit from the integration of History, Literature, and Theology in true liberal arts fashion. The facts and events of modern history are illuminated by literature and primary sources of the time period, along with thought-provoking essays written by a wide range of contemporary scholars and educators. Class discussions encourage students to understand these events and their repercussions in light of ultimate things, always with the goal of becoming more like our Savior, Jesus Christ.    

*Dr. Olsson & Dr. Soderberg's sections have been approved by New Saint Andrews College for dual credit at that institution (2 NSA elective credits). For more information about this option, please contact the LOS registrar. 

Credits: 3 (1 History, 1 English, 1 Theology); Honors-level

Mtg. Days:  Mon., Tues., Wed., & Thur (4 days each week)

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

• Omnibus VI: The Modern World, student textbook, 1st & 2nd ed.

Each teacher will select books from the following list which the students will read either entirely or in part (the teachers may not necessarily include every title listed below, but will include most of this classic literature):

Semester 1: Primary Books and Secondary Books

• Paradise Lost, by John Milton
• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
• Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
• Pensees, by Blaise Pascal
• Emma, by Jane Austen
• Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, by Friedrich Von Gentz
• The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
• Democracy in America: by Alexis De Tocqueville
• Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
• On Christian Doctrine, by St. Augustine
• Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
• Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
• Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
• John Adams, by David McCullough
• Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
• Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
• Fifty Great Short Stories, by Milton Crane
  
  

Semester 2: Primary Books and Secondary Books

• Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Oxford History of the United States, by James M. McPherson
• Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, by Friedrich Nietzsche
• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
• Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, by Stephen Ambrose
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• The Stranger, by Albert Camus
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
• Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud
• The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman
• That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis
• Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
• Poetry of T.S. Eliot

*Registration & Payment Plans: Upon registration, Logos Online will create a monthly payment plan for the balance of tuition, paid in monthly installments with the first payment due June 1 and the final payment in May. Families who register after June 1 will be invoiced immediately for the months that have transpired at the time of registration. For example, if a student registers on August 25, the family will pay the 20% deposit as well as the monthly payments for June, July, and August. They will then continue forward with the monthly payment plan for the balance of tuition.