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Western Heritage in a Global Context

General Education

Reading List

Fall 2012

Summer Reading – Strength in What Remains, Kidder

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sandars, trans.
Euripides Ten Plays, Roche, trans.
HarperCollins Study Bible - Student Edition, Attridge
Life of Galileo, Brecht
Mencius, Lau, trans.
The Ramayana, Narayan, trans.
The Republic, Plato
Tao Te Ching, Addiss and Lombardo, trans.
A World of Art 6th Ed., Sayre
A Writer’s Reference 7th Ed., Hacker
Syllabus for Western Heritage in a Global Context WH 181

Study Guides, Support Material, and Major Texts
Major Text:  Alive at the Core**
Study Guide: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Study Guide: Studying the Arts in WHGC
Major Text: Muhammad:  His Life Based on the Earliest Sources**
Study Guide: What is Truth
Major Text: The Buddha-Carita

** Copyrighted material, available in the printed syllabus

What is WHGC?

Western Heritage in a Global Context (known as WHGC) will engage some of the influential works and ideas of Western civilization in a conversation with important works of non-Western civilizations. We will also listen to voices that have often gone unrecognized in traditional Western Civilization courses. What we envision is a journey through time that creates cross-cultural communication and allows students to consider alternatives to the received wisdom of their own culture.