Academic Life
Sequence of Readings
Senior Year
In the Senior Year, the students participate in sequences of readings that prepare them to live a postgraduate life well. Topics such as the human person, human culture, human dignity, human love, as well as the unity, diversity, and complementarily of moral and social living are the central topics discussed in the tutorials.
Senior Tutorials and Representative Readings
The Human Person and Culture
| Arendt | Eichman in Jerusalem |
| Arendt | On Revolution |
| Aristotle | Politics of Aristotle |
| Camus | The Rebel |
| de Tocqueville | Democracy in America |
| Ellul | Propaganda |
| Frankl | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Freud | Civilization and Its Discontents |
| John Paul II | Fides et Ratio |
| Locke | Some Thoughts Concerning Education |
| Montessori | Discovery of the Child |
| Pieper | Leisure Basis of Culture |
| Plato | Collected Dialogues |
| St. Exupery | Wind, Sand, and Stars |
| The Ignatius Bible | |
| Vatican II Documents |
Philosophy of Love
| Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics |
| Augustine | Confessions of St. Augustine |
| Buscaglia | Love |
| Dante | The Divine Comedy |
| Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther |
| Lewis | Four Loves |
| Plato | Collected Dialogues |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Deus Caritas Est |
| Shakespeare | Collected Works |
| The Ignatius Bible |
Biology
| Augros & Stanciu | New Biology |
| Darwin | Origin of Species |
| Eiseley | Immense Journey |
| Lorenz | King Solomon’s Ring |
| Margulis & Schwartz | Five Kingdoms |
| Mendel | Experiments in Plant Hybridization |
| Sacks | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
| Watson | Double Helix |
| Penfield | Mystery of the Mind |
| Lorenz | Foundations of Ethology |
Catechesis IV
| Casti Connubi | |
| Catechesi Trandendae | |
| Catechism of the Catholic Church | |
| Centissimus Annus | |
| Code of Canon Law | |
| Evangelium Vitae | |
| Evangelli Nuntiandi | |
| Familiaris Consortio | |
| Humanae Vitae | |
| Laborem Exergens | |
| Letters of Families | |
| Rerum Novarum | |
| Vatican II Documents |
Comparative Cultures
| Benedict | The Chrysanthemum and the Sword |
| Confucius | The Analects |
| Lau Tsu | Tao de Ching |
| Standing Bear | Land of the Spotted Eagle |
| Wiener | Ways of Thinking of Eastern People |
| People | Bhagavad Gita |
| Dhammapada | |
| Upanishads |
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