Suggested textbook for WCUL 101 and 102:
Hunt et al., The Making of the West
Western Culture Topics
Themes covered in WCUL 101 may include:
Reason and Revelation
Freedom and Responsibility
The Nature of Morality
Organizing Society
The Earth and the Cosmos
Contact and Exchange
Crime and Punishment
Power and Marginalization
Festival and Commemoration
Tranquility and Beauty
Texts and works of art used in WCUL 101 may include:
Gilgamesh
Genesis
Homer, The Iliad, selections
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex or Antigone
Plato, The Apology
The Parthenon
One gospel, selections
Augustine, Confessions, selections
Chartres Cathedral
Dante, Inferno, selections
Machiavelli, The Prince
Western Culture Professors
Elliott Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs
Morton Hall, 321
(434) 223-6246
rburke@hsc.edu
Elliott Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of the Rhetoric Program
Pannill 100 A
(434) 223-6255
nnace@hsc.edu
