Freshman Year
​​Theology​
Philosophy
  1. Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo by Plato
  2. On the Predicaments (Isagoge) by Porphyry
  3. Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics by Aristotle
  4. Proemium to the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics by St. Thomas Aquinas
Natural Science
  1. Parts of Animals by Aristotle
  2. The Lifeless World of Biology by DeKoninck
  3. Souvenirs Entomologiques by Fabre
  4. On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  5. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by Harvey
  6. Systema Naturae by Linnaeus
  7. On the Equilibrium of Liquids by Pascal
  8. On Floating Bodies by Archimedes
  9. Plant Hybridization by Mendel
  10. Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et alia by Various Authors

Mathematics
  1. Elements by Euclid

Language
  1. Aids to the Study and Composition of English by Nesfield

Seminar
  1. Iliad, Odyssey by Homer
  2. Ion, Symposium, Republic by Plato
  3. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides by Aeschylus
  4. Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
  5. Histories by Herodotus
  6. Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Alexander) by Plutarch
  7. Poetics, Rhetoric by Aristotle
  8. Hippolytus by Euripides
  9. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  10. The Birds, The Clouds by Aristophanes
Sophomore Year
Theology
  1. 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
  2. On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
  3. On Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo
  4. Proslogion, Reply to Gaunilo by St. Anselm
  5. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St. John Damascene

Philosophy
  1. Fragments by Pre-Socratic Philosophers
  2. Physics, De Anima by Aristotle
  3. Natural Science
  4. On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle
  5. On the Principles of Nature, On the Combination of the Elements by St. Thomas Aquinas
  6. Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier
  7. Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules by Avogadro
  8. Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere by Dalton
  9. Combination of Gaseous Substances by Gay-Lussac
  10. Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of Air by Pascal
  11. Scientific papers of Berthollet, Couper, Lavoisier, Mendeleev, Richter, Wollaston, Cannizzaro,et alia by Various Authors

Mathematics
  1. Timaeus by Plato
  2. Almagest by Ptolemy
  3. Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
  4. On Conic Sections by Apollonius
  5. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Astronomia Nova by Kepler
  6. On Conoids and Spheroids by Archimedes
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Language
  1. Latin Readings According to the Stem Method—Sophomore Year by 
  2. Selections by Horace, Cicero
  3. Selections by St.Thomas Aquinas
  4. Canon of the Mass
Seminar
  1. Aeneid by Virgil
  2. On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
  3. The Rise of Rome by Livy
  4. Lives (Marcellus, Caius Marius, Sylla, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus, Comparison of Dion and Brutus) by Plutarch
  5. On Duties by Cicero
  6. Annals by Tacitus
  7. Manual by Epictetus
  8. Confessions, On the Teacher by St. Augustine
  9. Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  10. Divine Comedy; Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise by Dante
  11. Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet
  13. Faerie Queen by Spenser
  14. On the Teacher by St. Thomas Aquinas
Junior Year
Theology
Philosophy
  1. Nicomachean Ethics, Politics by Aristotle
  2. Natural Science
  3. Principles of Philosophy by Descartes
  4. Two New Sciences by Galileo
  5. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton
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Mathematics
  1. Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results, Introduction to the Analytic Art by Viete
  2. Geometry by Descartes
  3. Quadrature of the Parabola by Archimedes
  4. Mathematical works of Hippocrates, Archimedes, Cavalieri, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Newton, Berkeley, Balzano,et alia by Various Authors

Music
  1. Timaeus by Plato
  2. On Music by Boethius
  3. Sonatas by Mozart
  4. Tonality by Gustin
  5. On the Measurement of Tones by Kalkavage
  6. Seminar
  7. Don Quixote by Cervantes
  8. On Kingship, Summa Theologiae I-II, Q. 105, Art. 1 by St. Thomas Aquinas
  9. The Prince, Discourses by Machiavelli
  10. Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth: Part One, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets by Shakespeare
  11. The Great Instauration, The New Organon by Bacon
  12. Discourse on Method, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Meditations by Descartes
  13. Pensées by Pascal
  14. Leviathan by Hobbes
  15. Theologico-Political Treatise by Spinoza
  16. Paradise Lost by Milton
  17. Le Cid by Corneille
  18. Phaedre by Racine
  19. Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay on Civil Government by Locke
  20. Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge by Berkeley
  21. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Hume
  22. Gulliver’s Travels by Swift
  23. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
  24. Discourse on Metaphysics by Leibniz
  25. Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Rousseau
  26. Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
  27. Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay

Senior Year
Theology
Philosophy
  1. Physics, Metaphysics by Aristotle
  2. On Being and Essence by St. Thomas Aquinas

Natural Science
  1. Optics and Principia by Newton
  2. Treatise on Light by Huygens
  3. “On Light and Color” by Young
  4. De Magnete by Gilbert
  5. Experimental Researches in Electricity by Faraday
  6. various papers and essays by Maxwell
  7. Origin of the Species by Darwin
  8. Review of the Origin of the Species by Jenkins
  9. On the Genesis of Species by Mivart
  10. Experiments in Plant Hybridization by Mendel
  11. What is Life by Schrödinger
  12. One Long Argument by Mayr
  13. “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids”, Monod, Chance and Necessity by Watson & Crick
  14. “Philosophical Aspects of Darwinism” by Jonas
  15. “Punctuated Equilibria” by Eldredge & Gould
  16. The Way of the Cell by Harold
  17. “Life’s Irreducible Structure” by Polanyi
  18. “The Permanent Limitation of Biology” by Kass
  19. Summa Contra Gentiles, In metaphysicam Aristotelis commentaria, Questiones disputationae de potentia by St. Thomas Aquinas
  20. Metaphysics by Aristotle
  21. Literal Interpretation of Genesis by St. Augustine
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Mathematics
  1. Essay on the Theory of Numbers by Dedekind
  2. Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels by Lobachevski
  3. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Einstein

Seminar
  1. War and Peace by Tolstoy
  2. Wealth of Nations by Smith
  3. Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
  4. Faust by Goethe
  5. Philosophy of History, Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel
  6. Essence of Christianity by Feuerbach
  7. Emma by Austen
  8. Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the Revolution by Tocqueville
  9. Huckleberry Finn by Twain
  10. Capital, Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, German Ideology by Marx
  11. Quantity and Quality, Negation of the Negation by Engels
  12. A Doll's House by Ibsen
  13. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski
  14. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History, Beyond Good & Evil by Nietzsche
  15. Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments by Kierkegaard
  16. My Antonia by Cather
  17. Three Tales by Flaubert
  18. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman
  19. Heart of Darkness by Conrad
  20. Selected poems by Keats, Hopkins, and Stevens
  21. The Waste Land, Journey of the Magi by Eliot
  22. Dubliners (four selections:), Eveline, A Little Cloud, A Painful Case, The Dead by Joyce
  23. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Freud
  24. Analytical Psychology by Jung
  25. Introduction to Metaphysics, Lecture 1 by Heidegger
  26. The Bear by Faulkner
  27. The Division and Methods of the Sciences by St. Thomas Aquinas
  28. Pascendi Dominici Gregis by St. Pius X
  29. Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII
  30. Humani Generis by Pius XII
  31. Quadragesimo Anno by Pius XI
  32. A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill by O’Connor
  33. Phaedrus by Plato
  34. Veritatis Splendor by Pope St. John Paul II