Textbooks & Readers
Please see below for a list of textbooks required for each unit.
Most units also require a unit reader. Readers cost $15-45 each and will be available for purchase at the start of the semester.
A limited number of book grants are available for undergraduate students halfway through the year. Please keep an eye on your student email for further details from the Associate Dean of Studies at this time.
Semester 2 2025
HIS104 Rome: From Republic to Christian Empire
TBA
HIS205/303: The Renaissance: Humanists and Reformers
TBA
HIS304: Enlightenment Europe and the Creation of the Modern World
- Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny, Pegasus Books, 2018
- Isaac Kramnick (ed), The Portable Enlightenment Reader, New York: Penguin, 1996
- Unit reader
LIT104: Roman and Early Christian Literature
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Virgil, The Aeneid (trans. Robert Fagles). Penguin Classics.
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Lucretius, The Nature of Things (trans. Alicia Stallings). Penguin Classics.
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Augustine, Confessions (trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin). Penguin Classics.
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E. Hillard & C. G. Botting, Elementary Latin Exercises. London, 1910; now BCP, 1995. ISBN: 9780715615256 (purchase through https://booko.com.au/9780715615256/Elementary-Latin-Exercises)
LIT204: Renaissance Literature
TBA
LIT303: The Catholic Imagination in Modern Literature
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Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath (trans. Tiina Nunnally). Penguin Classics.
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Graham Greene, Brighton Rock. Vintage.
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Graham Greene, The End of the Affair. Vintage.
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Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited. Penguin Classics.
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Patrick Shanley, Doubt. Theatre Communications Group.
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Flannery O’Connor, Complete Stories. Faber Paperback. (ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0571245789)
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and Prose. Â Penguin Classics.
PHI104: Hellenistic, Roman and Christian Philosophy – The Good Life
- Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Unit reader
PHI204: Political Philosophy: From Aristotle to Locke
TBA
PHI306: Close Study of a Text in Modern Philosophy
TBA
PHI308: Medieval Philosophy
TBA
THE104: The New Testament and the Person of Christ
TBA
THE202: Fundamental Moral Theology
TBA
THE304: Social and Public Theology
TBA
LAN102: Classical Latin II
TBA
LAN204: Classical Latin IV
TBA
LAN302: Pagans and Christians from Augustus to Augustine
TBA
GRE102: Classical Greek II
TBA
GRE202: Classical Greek IV
TBA
GRE302: The Genres of Greek Literature
TBA
RED502: Teaching the Sacraments
Cavalletti, Sofia. The History of the Kingdom of God Part 2. Liturgy and the Kingdom of God. (Chicago: LTP, 2011).
RED503: Challenges and Strategies in Religious Education
Educating in Christ, by Gerard O’Shea
RED504: Introduction to Biblical Studies
Cavalletti, Sofia. The History of the Kingdom of God Part 1. From Creation to Parousia. Chicago: LTP, 2011.
Resources for all other units will be provided to you directly.Â