CORE CURRICULUM What they're studying

Works studied by students in Ursinus College's Common Intellectual Experience course, which all freshmen must take. The list fluctuates somewhat from year to year:
Genesis
Plato's "Euthyphro"
The Bhagavad Gita
Dante's "Inferno"
Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michel de Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
Excerpts from Galileo
Rene Descartes' "Discourse on Method"
Harriet Jacobs' "Narrative of a Slave Girl"
The Declaration of Independence
Writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto"
Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species"
Romantic poetry
Friedrich Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"
Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved"
Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"
Essays on feminism and on cloning
Source: Washington Post