St. John's College, U. S.

St. John's College describes itself as one college on two campuses: St. John's College, Annapolis and St. John's College, Santa Fe. St. John's College, Annapolis was chartered in 1784, making it one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the U.S. The College incorporated the assets of King William's school, a grammar or preparatory school founded in 1696.

Curriculum Details

The Great Books

The same set of Great Books is the basis of the curriculum at both campuses of St. John's College. As of 2005, it is:

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Freshman Year

Homer: Iliad, Odyssey

Related Topics:
Homer - Iliad - Odyssey

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Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound

Related Topics:
Aeschylus - Agamemnon - Libation Bearers - Eumenides - Prometheus Bound

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Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes

Related Topics:
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone - Philoctetes

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Thucydides: Peloponnesian War

Related Topics:
Thucydides - Peloponnesian War

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Euripides: Hippolytus, Bacchae

Related Topics:
Euripides - Hippolytus - Bacchae

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Herodotus: Histories

Related Topics:
Herodotus - Histories

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Aristophanes: Clouds

Related Topics:
Aristophanes - Clouds

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Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus

Related Topics:
Plato - Meno - Gorgias - Republic - Apology - Crito - Phaedo - Symposium - Parmenides - Theaetetus - Sophist - Timaeus - Phaedrus

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Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals

Related Topics:
Aristotle - Poetics - Physics - Metaphysics - Nicomachean Ethics - On Generation and Corruption - Politics - Parts of Animals - Generation of Animals

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Euclid: Elements

Related Topics:
Euclid - Elements

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Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Related Topics:
Lucretius - On the Nature of Things

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Plutarch: Lycurgus, Solon

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Nicomachus: Arithmetic

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Antoine Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry

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William Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Blood

Related Topics:
William Harvey - Motion of the Heart and Blood

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Essays by: Archimedes, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Amedeo Avogadro, John Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Edme Mariotte, Hans Driesch, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Hans Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thomson, Dmitri Mendeleev, Berthollet, Joseph Proust

Related Topics:
Archimedes - Gabriel Fahrenheit - Amedeo Avogadro - John Dalton - Cannizzaro - Virchow - Edme Mariotte - Hans Driesch - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - Hans Spemann - Stears - J.J. Thomson - Dmitri Mendeleev - Berthollet - Joseph Proust

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Sophomore Year

The Bible

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Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories

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Apollonius: Conics

Related Topics:
Apollonius - Conics

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Virgil: Aeneid

Related Topics:
Virgil - Aeneid

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Plutarch: Caesar and Cato the Younger

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Epictetus: Discourses, Manual

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Tacitus: Annals

Related Topics:
Tacitus - Annals

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Ptolemy: Almagest

Related Topics:
Ptolemy - Almagest

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Plotinus: The Enneads

Related Topics:
Plotinus - The Enneads

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Augustine: Confessions

Related Topics:
Augustine - Confessions

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St. Anselm: Proslogion

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Aquinas: Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles

Related Topics:
Aquinas - Summa Theologica - Summa Contra Gentiles

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Dante: Divine Comedy

Related Topics:
Dante - Divine Comedy

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Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

Related Topics:
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales

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Josquin Des Prez: Mass

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Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses

Related Topics:
Machiavelli - The Prince

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Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres

Related Topics:
Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Spheres

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Martin Luther: The Freedom of a Christian

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François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel

Related Topics:
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli

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Michel de Montaigne: Essays

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François Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art

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Francis Bacon: Novum Organum

Related Topics:
Francis Bacon - Novum Organum

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William Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets

Related Topics:
William Shakespeare - Richard II - Henry V - The Tempest - As You Like It - Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - King Lear - Coriolanus - Sonnets

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Poems by: Andrew Marvell, John Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets

Related Topics:
Andrew Marvell - John Donne - 16th - 17th-century

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Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method

Related Topics:
Descartes - Geometry - Discourse on Method

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Blaise Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections

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Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions

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Joseph Haydn: Quartets

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Operas

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas

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Franz Schubert: Songs

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Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

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Junior Year

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Related Topics:
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote

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Galileo Galilei: Dialogues on Two New Sciences

Related Topics:
Galileo Galilei - Dialogues on Two New Sciences

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René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy, Rules for the Direction of the Mind

Related Topics:
René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy - Rules for the Direction of the Mind

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John Milton: Paradise Lost

Related Topics:
John Milton - Paradise Lost

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François de La Rochefoucauld: Maximes

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Jean de La Fontaine: Fables

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Blaise Pascal: Pensées

Related Topics:
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

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Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact

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George Eliot: Middlemarch

Related Topics:
George Eliot - Middlemarch

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Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise

Related Topics:
Baruch Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise

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John Locke: Second Treatise of Government

Related Topics:
John Locke - Second Treatise of Government

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Jean Racine: Phèdre

Related Topics:
Jean Racine - Phèdre

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Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica

Related Topics:
Isaac Newton - Principia Mathematica

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Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV

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Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace

Related Topics:
Gottfried Leibniz - Metaphysics

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Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Related Topics:
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

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David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on Origins of Inequality

Related Topics:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Social Contract - Discourse on Origins of Inequality

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Molière: The Misanthrope

Related Topics:
Molière - The Misanthrope

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Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations

Related Topics:
Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations

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Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Metaphysics of Morals

Related Topics:
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason - Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals - Metaphysics of Morals

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni

Related Topics:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni

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Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Related Topics:
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

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Richard Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers

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Senior Year

Declaration of Independence

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The Constitution

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Supreme Court opinions

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Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist Papers

Related Topics:
Hamilton - Jay - Madison - Federalist Papers

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Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species

Related Topics:
Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)

Related Topics:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Phenomenology of Mind - Logic - Encyclopedia

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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels

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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Related Topics:
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America

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Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches

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Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling

Related Topics:
Søren Kierkegaard - Philosophical Fragments - Fear and Trembling

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Karl Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology

Related Topics:
Karl Marx - Capital - The German Ideology

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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

Related Topics:
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

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Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

Related Topics:
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

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Herman Melville: Benito Cereno

Related Topics:
Herman Melville - Benito Cereno

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Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Related Topics:
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Flannery O'Connor: Parker's Back, The Artificial Nigger

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Sigmund Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

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Booker T. Washington: Selected Writings

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W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk

Related Topics:
W. E. B. DuBois - The Souls of Black Folk

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Martin Heidegger: What is Philosophy?

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Werner Heisenberg: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

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Robert Millikan: The Electron

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Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Related Topics:
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

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Essays by: Michael Faraday, J.J. Thomson, Gregor Mendel, Hermann Minkowski, Ernest Rutherford, Clinton Davisson, Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell, Louis-Victor de Broglie, Dreisch, Hans Christian Ørsted, André-Marie Ampère, Theodor Boveri, Walter Sutton, Morgan, Beadle and Tatum, Gerald Jay Sussman, Watson and Crick, Jacob & Monod, G. H. Hardy

Related Topics:
Michael Faraday - J.J. Thomson - Gregor Mendel - Hermann Minkowski - Ernest Rutherford - Clinton Davisson - Erwin Schrödinger - Niels Bohr - James Clerk Maxwell - Louis-Victor de Broglie - Dreisch - Hans Christian Ørsted - André-Marie Ampère - Theodor Boveri - Walter Sutton - Morgan - Beadle - Tatum - Gerald Jay Sussman - Watson - Crick - G. H. Hardy

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