First-Year SeminarBard College

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About the First-Year Seminar

Syllabus Fall 2012

Required Texts (Bard Bookstore): 

  • Genesis (Norton; trans. Alter)
  • The Republic, Plato (Norton; trans. Scott and Sterling)
  • The Aeneid, Virgil (Penguin; trans. Fagles)
  • Confessions, Saint Augustine (Penguin; trans. Pine-Coffin)
  • Inferno, Dante (Anchor; trans. Hollander)
  • Othello, William Shakespeare (Norton)
  • Discoveries and Opinions, Galileo-Galilei(Anchor; trans. Drake)

Syllabus Spring 2013

Required Texts (Bard Bookstore)
  • Montaigne, Michel;  The Essays (Penguin; trans. Cohen)
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Rousseau's Political Writings  (Norton; trans. Bondanella)
  • Kant, Immanuel; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge; trans. Gregor)
  • Shelley, Mary; Frankenstein (Norton)
  • Marx, Karl; Communist Manifesto (Norton; trans. Bender)
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich; Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Cambridge; trans. Del Caro)
  • DuBois, W.E.B.; The Souls of Black Folk (Norton)
  • Woolf, Virginia; To the Lighthouse (Harvest Books)
  • Levi, Primo; The Periodic Table (Schocken; trans. Rosenthal)
*Please note that certain professors often choose different translations of these books, so you should check with them before making your purchases*