Freshman Year
Theology
Philosophy
Theology
- The Holy Bible by The Holy Bible
Philosophy
- Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo by Plato
- On the Predicaments (Isagoge) by Porphyry
- Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics by Aristotle
- Proemium to the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics by St. Thomas Aquinas
Natural Science
Mathematics
Language
Seminar
- Parts of Animals by Aristotle
- The Lifeless World of Biology by DeKoninck
- Souvenirs Entomologiques by Fabre
- On the Natural Faculties by Galen
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by Harvey
- Systema Naturae by Linnaeus
- On the Equilibrium of Liquids by Pascal
- On Floating Bodies by Archimedes
- Plant Hybridization by Mendel
- Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et alia by Various Authors
Mathematics
- Elements by Euclid
Language
- Aids to the Study and Composition of English by Nesfield
Seminar
- Iliad, Odyssey by Homer
- Ion, Symposium, Republic by Plato
- Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides by Aeschylus
- Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
- Histories by Herodotus
- Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Alexander) by Plutarch
- Poetics, Rhetoric by Aristotle
- Hippolytus by Euripides
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Birds, The Clouds by Aristophanes
Sophomore Year
Theology
Philosophy
Mathematics
Language
Theology
- On Christian Doctrine, On the Spirit and the Letter, On Nature and Grace, On the Predestination of the Saints, On the Gift of Perseverance, City of God by St. Augustine
- On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
- On Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo
- Proslogion, Reply to Gaunilo by St. Anselm
- An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St. John Damascene
Philosophy
- Fragments by Pre-Socratic Philosophers
- Physics, De Anima by Aristotle
- Natural Science
- On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle
- On the Principles of Nature, On the Combination of the Elements by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier
- Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules by Avogadro
- Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere by Dalton
- Combination of Gaseous Substances by Gay-Lussac
- Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of Air by Pascal
- Scientific papers of Berthollet, Couper, Lavoisier, Mendeleev, Richter, Wollaston, Cannizzaro,et alia by Various Authors
Mathematics
- Timaeus by Plato
- Almagest by Ptolemy
- Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
- On Conic Sections by Apollonius
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Astronomia Nova by Kepler
- On Conoids and Spheroids by Archimedes
Language
- Latin Readings According to the Stem Method—Sophomore Year by
- Selections by Horace, Cicero
- Selections by St.Thomas Aquinas
- Canon of the Mass
Seminar
- Aeneid by Virgil
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- The Rise of Rome by Livy
- Lives (Marcellus, Caius Marius, Sylla, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus, Comparison of Dion and Brutus) by Plutarch
- On Duties by Cicero
- Annals by Tacitus
- Manual by Epictetus
- Confessions, On the Teacher by St. Augustine
- Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- Divine Comedy; Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise by Dante
- Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet
- Faerie Queen by Spenser
- On the Teacher by St. Thomas Aquinas
Junior Year
Theology
Philosophy
Mathematics
Music
Senior Year
Theology
Philosophy
Natural Science
Mathematics
Seminar
Theology
- Summa Theologiae: On Sacred Doctrine, On God, On Law by St. Thomas Aquinas
Philosophy
- Nicomachean Ethics, Politics by Aristotle
- Natural Science
- Principles of Philosophy by Descartes
- Two New Sciences by Galileo
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton
Mathematics
- Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results, Introduction to the Analytic Art by Viete
- Geometry by Descartes
- Quadrature of the Parabola by Archimedes
- Mathematical works of Hippocrates, Archimedes, Cavalieri, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Newton, Berkeley, Balzano,et alia by Various Authors
Music
- Timaeus by Plato
- On Music by Boethius
- Sonatas by Mozart
- Tonality by Gustin
- On the Measurement of Tones by Kalkavage
- Seminar
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- On Kingship, Summa Theologiae I-II, Q. 105, Art. 1 by St. Thomas Aquinas
- The Prince, Discourses by Machiavelli
- Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth: Part One, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets by Shakespeare
- The Great Instauration, The New Organon by Bacon
- Discourse on Method, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Meditations by Descartes
- Pensées by Pascal
- Leviathan by Hobbes
- Theologico-Political Treatise by Spinoza
- Paradise Lost by Milton
- Le Cid by Corneille
- Phaedre by Racine
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay on Civil Government by Locke
- Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge by Berkeley
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Hume
- Gulliver’s Travels by Swift
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
- Discourse on Metaphysics by Leibniz
- Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Rousseau
- Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
- Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Senior Year
Theology
- Summa Theologiae: On the Trinity, On the Sacraments, On the Passion of Christ by St. Thomas Aquinas
Philosophy
- Physics, Metaphysics by Aristotle
- On Being and Essence by St. Thomas Aquinas
Natural Science
- Optics and Principia by Newton
- Treatise on Light by Huygens
- “On Light and Color” by Young
- De Magnete by Gilbert
- Experimental Researches in Electricity by Faraday
- various papers and essays by Maxwell
- Origin of the Species by Darwin
- Review of the Origin of the Species by Jenkins
- On the Genesis of Species by Mivart
- Experiments in Plant Hybridization by Mendel
- What is Life by Schrödinger
- One Long Argument by Mayr
- “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids”, Monod, Chance and Necessity by Watson & Crick
- “Philosophical Aspects of Darwinism” by Jonas
- “Punctuated Equilibria” by Eldredge & Gould
- The Way of the Cell by Harold
- “Life’s Irreducible Structure” by Polanyi
- “The Permanent Limitation of Biology” by Kass
- Summa Contra Gentiles, In metaphysicam Aristotelis commentaria, Questiones disputationae de potentia by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- Literal Interpretation of Genesis by St. Augustine
Mathematics
- Essay on the Theory of Numbers by Dedekind
- Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels by Lobachevski
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Einstein
Seminar
- War and Peace by Tolstoy
- Wealth of Nations by Smith
- Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
- Faust by Goethe
- Philosophy of History, Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel
- Essence of Christianity by Feuerbach
- Emma by Austen
- Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the Revolution by Tocqueville
- Huckleberry Finn by Twain
- Capital, Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, German Ideology by Marx
- Quantity and Quality, Negation of the Negation by Engels
- A Doll's House by Ibsen
- Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski
- On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History, Beyond Good & Evil by Nietzsche
- Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments by Kierkegaard
- My Antonia by Cather
- Three Tales by Flaubert
- An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman
- Heart of Darkness by Conrad
- Selected poems by Keats, Hopkins, and Stevens
- The Waste Land, Journey of the Magi by Eliot
- Dubliners (four selections:), Eveline, A Little Cloud, A Painful Case, The Dead by Joyce
- Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Freud
- Analytical Psychology by Jung
- Introduction to Metaphysics, Lecture 1 by Heidegger
- The Bear by Faulkner
- The Division and Methods of the Sciences by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Pascendi Dominici Gregis by St. Pius X
- Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII
- Humani Generis by Pius XII
- Quadragesimo Anno by Pius XI
- A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill by O’Connor
- Phaedrus by Plato
- Veritatis Splendor by Pope St. John Paul II
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