Humanities Readings
At the heart of the Milligan liberal arts education is an old-fashioned approach to education: we read the great works of the men and women in history who have shaped the way we live and think about the world. Milligan's interdisciplinary humanities program is one of the hallmarks of a Milligan education. Students form close intellectual friendships with each other and with their professors in a rewarding educational experience that establishes a shared, solid foundation for life-long learning. Here is a sampling of previous first-year readings:
| Homer Thucydides Aeschylus Sophocles Plato Aristotle Virgil Augustine Beowulf Catherine of Siena Dante Chaucer Pico della Mirandola Machiavelli Erasmus Martin Luther John Calvin William Shakespeare Moliere Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift Mary Wollstonecraft John Wesley Voltaire John Locke David Hume Goethe William Blake Robert Burns William Wordsworth John Keats Alfred Tennyson Percy Bysshe Shelley George Eliot Robert Browning |
E. B. Browning Henry David Thoreau Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman Frederick Douglass Gustave Flaubert Gerard Manley Hopkins Thomas Hardy Kate Chopin Anton Chekhov Henrik Ibsen Chinua Achebe William Butler Yeats W. E. B. DuBois Erich Maria Remarque George Bernard Shaw Karl Marx Nella Larsen Virginia Woolf John Maynard Keynes John Steinbeck Flannery O'Connor Thadeusz Borowski Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus Frantz Fanon Dorothy Sayers Simone de Beauvoir Anne Sexton Adrienne Rich Martin Luther King, Jr. Isabel Wilkerson Lorraine Hansberry |
Click here for sophomore humanities (201) readings.
