Integrated Humanities IV

Integrated Humanities IV

$725.00

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.    

Credits: 3 (1 History, 1 English/Literature, 1 Bible/Theology); Honors

The Int. Humanities I-IV courses are intended for high school students.

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 much 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

     

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