A new certificate program is scheduled to begin operating at the end of the fall semester, 1995. Its formal title is: Certificate Program in the Study of the Liberal Arts through Great Books. This certificate will be awarded at the time of graduation to UWM students who have fulfilled a set of course requirements that amount to the nucleus of a rigorous education in the traditional liberal arts.
Though challenging, the certificate is well within the ability of average students. Students who begin working towards a certificate early in their career will normally be able to earn it and fulfill the requirements of their major program without increasing the number of credits needed for graduation.
*(Option A): "Two courses (at least 6 credits) at the 200 level or above chosen from
mathematics courses. Philosophy 2311 or 212, or Letters and Sciences statistics courses.
** (Option B): "Two courses (at least 6 credits) in a single foreign or Native American language
(not including literature-in-translation) at the 200-level or above."
Approved Great Books Courses
Semester I, 1995-96
Classics 302: Life and Literature of Classical Athens; Mulroy (Thucydides, History; Plato, Republic)
Comparative Literature 207 and 208: Masterpieces of Literature; Skalitzky and Katchoudourian (207: Iliad or Odyssey; Aeschylus Oresteia; Dante, Inferno; 208: works by Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Ibsen).
Comparative Literature 321: Literature of the Renaissance; Swanson (More, Utopia; Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel; Erasmus, Praise of Folly.)
English 452 and 453: Shakespeare I and Shakespeare II; Chang and Haas. (Shakespeare's works are divided between the two courses. Each semester students in each section collectively select six or seven plays to read.)
English 685-002: Chaucer and Malory; Jesmok (Selected Canterbury Tales and Le Morte D'Arthur read in Middle English).
Hebrew Studies 231: Books of the Old Testament in Translation; Szpek.
Honors 200-001/2: Heroism in Spiritual and Physical Warfare; Kornman (Homer, Iliad; Vergil, Aeneid; Aristotle, Poetics; Horace, Ars Poetica).
Honors 200-003: Introduction to Political Thought; Harvey (Plato, The Republic; Locke, Two Treatises of Government; Rousseau, Social Contract and Discourses.)
Honors 200-006: Politics and Morality; Callan (Freud, Civilization and its Discontents; Machiavelli, The Prince; Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto; Mill, On Liberty: Plato, selected Dialogues).
Philosophy 349: Great Moral Philosophers; Wainwright (Plato, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno; Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics; Kant, Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals; Mill, Utilitarianism).
Philosophy 381: The Greeks: Dialogue and Drama; Weiss (Plato, Symposium; Aristotle, Poetics; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex; Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy).
Spanish 353: Introduction to Spanish American Literature (in Spanish); Daydi-Tolson (Works by Marquez, Neruda, and others).
* = no prerequisites; + = only junior standing required. Honors Program courses require consent of Honors Program Director
+Classics 301: Greek Life and Literature; Ross (Herodotus, History; selected Greek tragedies), TR 2:05-3:20.
+Classics 303: Life and Literature of the Roman Empire; Shey (Vergil, Aeneid, Petronius, Satyricon; Apuleius, Golden Ass; Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy), TR 8:05-9:20 AM.
*Comparative Literature 207 and 208: Masterpieces of Literature; Skalitzky and Katchoudourian: 207 (Iliad or Odyssey; Aeschylus Oresteia; Dante, Inferno) TR 9:30-10:45; 208 (works by Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Ibsen) MWF 9:30 and TR 12:30.
+English 452 and 453: Shakespeare I and Shakespeare II; Chang and Haas. (Shakespeare's works are divided between the two courses. Each semester students in each section collectively select six or seven plays to read.) 452, TR 8:05-9:20 AM; 453, TR 9:30-10:45.
*Comparative Literature 309: Masterpices of Twentieth-Century Literature; Swanson (Proust, Swann's Way; Hamsun, Growth of the Soil; Dinesen, Out of Africa) MWF 10:30.
+English 507: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature: Freud; Gallop (Seven of Freud's principal essays, e.g., Interpretation of Dreams and Totem and Taboo are assigned.) TR 12:30-1:45.
English 685 (Honors Seminar): The Novel, Structure, and Technique; Bontley (Austen, Emma; Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby) TR 12:30-1:45.
Honors 200-003,4: Passion, Love and Marriage; Kornman (Plato, Symposium; Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice) TR 9:30-10:45 and 12:30-1:45.
Italian 333: The Divine Comedy in Translation; Baldassaro MWF 10:30. (Prerequisite: 5cr in lit-in-trans and/or 200-level English lit courses.)
Philosophy 349: Great Moral Philosophyers; Weiss (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics; Bacon, Essays; Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals). MW 4:30-5:45. (Prerequisite: junior standing and 3 cr. in Philos)
Philosophy 450: Plato; Weiss (Plato, Republic and Phaedo) T 3:30-6:10 (Prerequisite:junior standing; 3 cr in Philo; Philos 430).
*Spanish 380: Masterpieces of Spanish Literature; Flynn (El Cid; Cervantes, Don Quixote) W 5:30-8:10.