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Great Books and Films

Course Credits: 10

Course Curriculum

 

Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
Video Lectures Taught by J. Rufus Fears
University of Oklahoma
Ph.D., Harvard University

 

Course Description

 

What makes a written work eternal-its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years from the lifetime of its author?

 

In this course, Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are books that have shaped the minds of great individuals, who in turn have shaped events of historic magnitude.

 

In addition to listening to the lectures, student will build a life long reading habit by freely choosing books that compel him to read. Each book will be discussed and student will be encouraged to join or form a book group.

 

The other half of the course will deal with great films. Armed with a list of films that have won the Academy Awards Best Picture Show throughout history, and an alternate list of popular movies, student will choose films to view, rate, and discuss on a weekly basis.

 

Course Lecture Titles

 

Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison

 

Homer, Iliad

 

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

Bhagavad Gita

 

Book of Exodus

 

Gospel of Mark

 

Koran

 

Gilgamesh

 

Beowulf

 

Book of Job

 

Aeschylus, Oresteia

 

Euripides, Bacchae

 

Plato, Phaedo

 

Dante, The Divine Comedy

 

Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

 

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

 

George Orwell, 1984

 

Vergil, Aeneid

 

Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

 

Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

 

Confucius, The Analects

 

Machiavelli, The Prince

 

Plato, Republic

 

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

 

Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2

 

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

 

Lord Acton, The History of Freedom

 

Cicero, On Moral Duties (De Officiis)

 

Gandhi, An Autobiography

 

Churchill, My Early Life; Painting as a Pastime; WWII

 

Lessons from the Great Books