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BLS Fall Schedule Changes
The BLS sessions for Fall semester have been changed:
• 1st Session: 25 Aug to 15 Oct
• 2nd Session: 22 Oct to 12 Dec

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• 1st Session—Wed. 27 Aug.
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• 2nd Session—Fri. 24 Oct.

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• 1st Session—Fri. 19 Sept.
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• 2nd Session—Mon. 17 Nov.

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BLS Textbook Requirements

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Seminars in the Humanities

BLS 300: Communication in Contemporary Society

BLS 300: The Real You

  • Berger, Peter & Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. Anchor, 1967. ISBN: 0385058985
  • Giddens, Anthony. Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 0804719446
  • West, Cornel. Race Matters, Rev. Ed. Vintage, 2001. ISBN: 0679749861

BLS 300: Self, Society, & Salvation

  • None: All readings are online.

BLS 300: Visions of the Creation

  • Sproul, Barbara. Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World. HarperCollins, 1991. ISBN: 0060675012
  • Swimme, Brian, & Thomas Berry. The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era. HarperCollins, 1992. ISBN: 0062508350

Selected Topics in Literature

BLS 320: American Romanticism

  • Lauter, Paul, ed. Heath Anthology of American Literature: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865, vol. B. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. ISBN 0618532986
  • Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers. Penguin, 1988. ISBN 0140390073
  • Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Norton, 2000. ISBN 0393976378
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Norton, 1994. ISBN 0393963039

BLS 320: Contemporary Asian Literature

  • Jin, Ha. Waiting. Vintage, 1999. ISBN 9780375706417
  • Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore. Vintage, 2005. ISBN 9781400079278
  • Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997. ISBN 9780060977498
  • Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. Penguin, 1980. ISBN 9780812976533

BLS 320: Contemporary Short Stories

  • Charters, Ann, ed. The Story and Its Writer, 7th ed. (compact edition) Bedford/St.Martin's, 2006. ISBN 0312442718
  • Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings. (any edition)

BLS 320: Mystery, Mayhem & Murder

  • Griffith, Kelley. Writing Essays About Literature, 7th ed. Heinle, 2005. ISBN 1413003958
  • Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Berkley, 2000. ISBN 0425173895
  • Mosley, Walter. Little Scarlet. Warner, 2005. ISBN 0446612715
  • Highsmith, Patricia. The Talented Mr. Ripley. Vintage, 1992. ISBN 0679742298
  • James, P.D. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Touchstone, 2001. ISBN 0743219554

BLS 320: Reading the Human Experience

  • Abcarian, Richard, & Marvin Klotz, eds. Literature: The Human Experience, 9th ed. (COMPLETE edition) Bedford/St.Martin's, 2005. ISBN 0312436513
  • Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. (any edition)

BLS 320: The Russian Novel of Conscience

  • Tolstoy, Leo. Hadji Murad (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude), from Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy. Perennial, 1967. ISBN 0060830719. —or— Harper Perennial, 2004. ISBN 0060586974. Text is also available online here.
  • Kovalevskaya, Sofya. Nihilist Girl. Modern Language Assoc., 2001. ISBN 0873527909
  • Zamyatin, Yevgeny. We. (trans. Mirra Ginzburg) Viking, 1999. ISBN 0380633132
  • Chukovskaya, Lydia. Sofia Petrovna. (trans. Aline Werth) NWUP, 1994. ISBN 0810111500

BLS 320: Telling Stories: The Art & Craft of the Memoir

  • Hooks, Bell. Bone Black. Owl/Holt, 1997. ISBN 0805055126
  • Saltzman, Mark. Lost in Place. Vintage, 1996. ISBN 0679767789
  • Walls, Jeanette. The Glass Castle. Scribner, 2006. ISBN 074324754X

BLS 320: Women, War & Terror

  • Ginzburg, Evgenia. Journey into the Whirlwind. (any edition)
  • Isaacson, Judith. Seed of Sarah. (any edition)
  • Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. (any edition)
  • Recommended: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. (PBS documentary: DVD)

Selected Topics in the Fine Arts

BLS 340: The Art of Life

  • Kimmelman, Michael. The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0143037331
  • Grizzly Man. Dir. Werner Herzog. Lions Gate Films, 2005. UPC 031398186366

BLS 340: Big Plays, Big Ideas

  • Klaus, Carl H., Miriam Gilbert & Bradford S. Field. Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater, 5th Ed. Bedford/St.Martin's, 2003. ISBN 031239733X

BLS 340: Eye Appeal: Spectacle on Stage and in Life

  • Hartnoll, Phyllis. The Theatre: A Concise History. Thames & Hudson, 1998. ISBN 0500203121

BLS 340: Magic, Media, & Popular Imagination

  • Edwards, Emily. Metaphysical Media: Occult Experience in Popular Culture. Southern Illinois UP, 2005. ISBN 0809326485
    (available from Chicago Distribution Center, 800-621-2736)

BLS 340: Painting on the Page

  • Brown, Dan. The DaVinci Code: Illustrated Edition. Doubleday, 2004. ISBN 0385513755
  • Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Plume, 2001. ISBN 0452282152
  • Levey, Michael. From Giotto to Cézanne. Thames & Hudson, 1985. ISBN-13 9780500200247
  • Martin, Steve. Picasso at the Lapin Agile and other plays. Grove, 1996. ISBN 0802135234

BLS 340: Photography: Contexts & Illusions

  • Wells, Liz. Photography: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415190584
  • Wells, Liz, ed. The Photography Reader. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 041524661X

BLS 340: Shakespeare Off the Page

  • Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Washington Square, 1992. ISBN: 074347712X*
  • — The Tempest. Washington Square, 2004. ISBN: 0743482832*
  • — Richard III. Washington Square, 2004. ISBN: 0743482840*
  • — A Midsummer Night's Dream. Washington Square, 2004. ISBN: 0743477545*
  • — Julius Caesar. Washington Square, 2004. ISBN: 0743482743*
  • One of the following:
    • — Romeo and Juliet. Washington Square, 1992. ISBN: 0743477111*
    • — Taming of the Shrew. Washington Square, 1992. ISBN: 0743477574*
  • Film adaptations:
    • Hamlet. Dir. Michael Almereyda. Perfs. Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray. Miramax, 2000.
    • Richard III. Dir. Richard Loncraine. Perfs. Ian McKellan, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr. United Artists, 1995.
    • Shakespeare in Love. Dir. John Madden. Perfs. Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench. Miramax, 1998.
  • Computer microphone for voice recording.
  • * For those who prefer a complete anthology, this one is recommended:
    The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Penguin, 2002. ISBN: 0141000589

Selected Topics in Philosophy, Religion & Ethics

BLS 360: American Dreams

  • Kushner, Tony. Angels in America. Theatre Communications Group, 2003. ISBN: 1559362316
  • Hansberry, Loraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Knopf, 1994. ISBN: 0679755330
  • Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Penguin, 1998. ISBN: 0141180978
  • Roth, Philip. The Human Stain. Vintage, 2000. ISBN: 0375726349
  • Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. Plume, 1996. ISBN: 0452279070
  • Cullen, Jim. The American Dream. Oxford, 2004. ISBN: 0195173252

BLS 360: Divided We Stand: Religion & Democracy in America

  • Lambert, Frank. The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 069112602X
  • Noll, Mark A. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 0807830127

BLS 360: Ethics & Technology

  • Postman, Neil. Technopoly. Vintage/Random House, 1992. ISBN 0679745408
  • Winston, Morton, & Ralph Edelbach. Society, Ethics, & Technology. Thompson, 2006. ISBN 0534520855

BLS 360: Life, Death, & Meaning

  • Benatar, David, ed. Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ISBN 0742533689
  • Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. (any edition)
  • Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. (any edition)

BLS 360: Mystics in America

  • Berg, Michael. The Way: Using the Wisdom of Kabbalah for Spiritual Transformation and Fulfillment. Wiley 2002. ISBN 0471228796
  • Carrette, Jeremy. Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion. Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0415302099
  • Chödrön, Pema. When Things Fall Apart. Shambhala Publications 1997. ISBN 1570623449
  • Williams, Angel Kyodo. Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace. Compass 2002. ISBN 0140196307
  • Emmerich, Anne Catherine. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Dover, 2004. ISBN 0486439798

BLS 360: Vice, Crime, & American Law

  • None: All readings are online.

Selected Topics in Historical Perspectives

BLS 380: The New South

  • Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. University of Georgia Press, 1995 (1932). ISBN: 082031661X
  • McLaurin, Melton. Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South. University of Georgia Press, 1987. ISBN: 0820309435
  • Rosengarten, Theodore. All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. University of Chicago Press, 1974. ISBN: 0226727742

BLS 380: Old Europe / New Europe: A Cultural History

  • Swanson, John, & Michael Melancon. Modern Europe: Sources & Perspectives from History. Longman, 2002. ISBN 0321086481
  • additional readings online (Kollontai & Nikolaidis)
  • Recommended: Di Scala, Spencer. Twentieth Century Europe. McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN 007016052X

BLS 380: Religious Resistance to Political Power

  • Most readings are online. For Unit 8, select one of the following:
    • Pazira, Nelofer. A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan. Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0743281330
    • Elliot, Jason. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan. Picador, 2001. ISBN 0312288468

BLS 380: The Sixties

  • Anderson, Terry H. The Sixties, 3rd ed. Pearson/Longman 2007. ISBN 0321421671
  • FitzGerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. (any edition)
  • Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. Norton 2001 (1963). ISBN 0393322572
  • Gosse, Van. The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St.Martin's 2005. ISBN 0312133979
  • Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ballantine 1999 (1964). ISBN 0345350685

Capstone Seminar

BLS 400: Senior Seminar in the Humanities

  • Frankfurt, Harry G. On Bullshit. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 0691122946
  • Edmundson, Mark. Why Read? Bloomsbury, 2005. ISBN 1582346089

 

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