Required Readings

First Year Seminar Required Readings

Summer 2012 Reading: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies

Heritage: 

Selections from Thomas of Celano's writings on  The Life of St. Francis

Sr. Margaret Carney's Siena Lecture on St. Clare (Video Link)

Genesis 1-4

Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from the Republic

Natural World:
St. Francis' "Canticle of the Creatures"
Excerpt from Carolyn Merchant's "Death of Nature"

Diversity:
The Story of St. Francis and the Leper

Peggy McIntosh's "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies"

Social Justice:

The Story of St. Francis and the  Wolf of Gubbio
Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"