Semester 2 2023
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.
HIS102: The Ancient World
- TBA
HIS204: The Medieval World
- Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol.2, The Building of Christendom, Front Royal, VA.: Christendom Press, 1987
- Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol.3, The Glory of Christendom, Front Royal, VA.: Christendom Press, 1993
HIS301: Topics in Twentieth-Century History
- Richard Pipes, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, Vintage Books, 1996
- Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship, 4th edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
- Steven Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement 1945-1968, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006
HIS302: Australian Politics, Culture and Religion
- TBA
LIT102: Literature of the Western World: Ancient
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Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Penguin. ISBN 9780140443332
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Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. ISBN: 9780140275360
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Murray, P (ed.) Classical Literary Criticism. Penguin. ISBN: 9780140446517
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Sophocles. The Theban Plays. Trans. E.F. Watling. ISBN: 9780140440034
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Virgil. Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fagles. Penguin. ISBN: 978-0143106296
LIT202: Literature of the Western World: Milton to Modern
- LIT202 Reader
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
LIT303: The Catholic Imagination in Modern Literature
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Arbery. Will. Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573708626
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Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems (Faber, 2002). ISBN: 9780571105489
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Greene, Graham. The End of the Affair. Vintage. ISBN: 9780099478447
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems and Prose. Penguin. ISBN: 9780140420159
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O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Faber, 2008. ISBN: 9780571241309
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Shanley, Patrick. Doubt. (Theatre Communications Group, 2005). ISBN: 9781559362764
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Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter: 1. The Wreath. (trans T. Nunnally). Penguin. ISBN: 9780141180410 (This translation of The Wreath is essential)
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Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Penguin. ISBN: 9780241472736
LIT304: Shakespeare
- TBA
PHI102: Metaphysics
No textbooks
PHI202: Moral Philosophy
No textbooks
PHI302: Social and Political Philosophy
No textbooks
PHI304: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
No textbooks
THE102: The Development of Revelation
No textbooks
THE202: Fundamental Moral Theology
No textbooks
THE302: Bioethics and the Catholic Tradition
Fisher A, Catholic Bioethics for a New Millenium, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
THE304: Public Morality and Catholic Social Ethics
No textbooks
SCI304: Darwinian Revolution
No textbook required
SCI306: Human Biology II
- TBA
SCI308: Formal Logic
No textbook required
RED501: Historical Context of Catholic Teaching
Refer to the DropBox link in your Orientation letter
RED502: Catechesis in Sacramental Theology
Refer to the DropBox link in your Orientation letter
RED503: Challenges and Strategies in Religious Education
Refer to the DropBox link in your Orientation letter
RED504: Introduction to Biblical Studies
Refer to the DropBox link in your Orientation letter
LAN311: Virgil
[Please note that LAN302 Pagans and Christians from Augustus to Augustine will not be offered in 2023]
If you are reading an ancient text for the first time, the best translation is the one which engages your attention. Guidance on specific translations has already been given. Please contact your lecturer for more information.
We will be reading Virgil’s Eclogues. A copy of the Latin text will be provided at the beginning of the semester.
You will be required to show knowledge of Virgil’s other two major works, in particular the Aeneid. In order of importance, you should read the following.
VIRGIL, The Aeneid
VIRGIL, The Georgics
HOMER, The Odyssey
THEOCRITUS, Idylls (esp. 1, 3-11, 20, 27)
A general history of Rome with good coverage of the period in which Virgil was writing is Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2016).
LAN204
The only compulsory text is Ashley Carter, Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE (BCP, 2003; now Bloomsbury, 2018) which you should already possess. You should read as much as possible about the history of ancient Rome. A good general history to start with is Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2016).
GRE302: The Genres of Greek Literature
If you are reading an ancient text for the first time, the best translation is the one which engages your attention. Guidance on specific translations has already been given. Please contact your lecturer for more information. We will be using the same unit reader as the one prescribed for GRE301 in semester 1.
HOMER, The Odyssey
HERODOTUS, The Histories
AESCHYLUS, The Oresteia
A good general history of Greece is A. R. Burn’s Pelican History of Greece (1966), later republished as The Penguin History of Greece (1990).