
Textbook List for Semester 1 2021
History
HIS101: Western Societies from Antiquity to the Present
No textbook required
HIS203: Early Church and Roman Empire
- Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol.1, The Founding of Christendom, Front Royal, VA.: Christendom Press, 2004
- Warren H. Carroll, A History of Christendom, Vol.2, The Building of Christendom, Front Royal, VA.: Christendom Press, 1987
HIS303: Humanists and Reformers
- Bard Thompson, Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge UK: Eerdmans, 2007 (http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6348/humanists-and-reformers.aspx)
HIS304: Enlightenment Europe and the Creation of the Modern World
- Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Pegasus Books, 2018)
Isaac Kramner, ed. The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Penguin Books, 1996)
Literature
LIT101: Composition and Literature
- Aesop. Fables. (trans. S.A. Handford). London: Puffin, 1994.
- Homer. The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fagles). London: Penguin, 1996.
- Plato. The Republic (intro. By Melissa Lane). London: Penguin,
- Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. London: Penguin, 2005.
- LIT101 Subject Reader (including selected Myths and Fairy Tales from a variety of sources)
LIT201: Literature of the Western World: Medieval and Renaissance
- Dante, The Divine Comedy (trans. Robin Kirkpatrick). Penguin, 2012. ISBN: 9780141197494
- Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde (trans. Nevill Coghill). Penguin, 1971. ISBN: 9780140442397
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. Simon Armitage). London: Faber and Faber, 2008. ISBN: 9780571223282
- Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. London: Penguin, 2015. ISBN: 9780141396507
- Shakespeare, William. King Lear. London: Penguin, 2015. ISBN: 9780141396460
- Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. London: Signet Classics, 2010. ISBN: 9780451531612
LIT301: Search for Meaning
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. Penguin.
- William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying. Vintage.
- Ernest Hemingway. Fiesta: or The Sun Also Rises. Vintage.
- Arthur Miller. The Death of a Salesman. Penguin.
- Subject Reader including poems and short stories by selected authors
LIT302: Australian Literature
- Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. UQP, 2000.
- Tranter, John. The Floor of Heaven. UQP, 2007.
- Williamson, David. The Club. Currency Press, 2013.
- LIT302: Australian Literature Reader
Philosophy
PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy
No textbook required
PHI201: Medieval Philosophy
- Edward Feser, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae, 2014)
PHI301: Modern Philosophy
No textbook required
PHI303: Philosophy of Language
No textbook required
Theology
THE101: Theological Foundations of Christian Culture
No textbook required
THE201: Sacramental Theology
No textbook required
THE301: Theology of the Post-Conciliar Era
No textbook required
THE303: Moral and Sexual Integrity
No textbook required
Science
SCI303: History and Philosophy of Science
- Peter Godfrey-Smith, Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Fourth Edition, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
SCI305: Human Biology I
No textbook required
Greek
GRE101: Classical Greek I
- Donald J. Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek (second edition) University of California Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780520275713 (Please note that you must have a copy of the second edition.)
- The dictionary of Classical Greek recommended for this course is: James Morwood and John Taylor (eds.), Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University, 2002
Note that a different dictionary will be recommended for later courses in Greek, although Morwood & Taylor is still useful as a quick reference.
It is necessary that you possess a copy of the textbook but you do not need to own any dictionary.
GRE201: Classical Greek III
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Donald J. Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek (second edition) University of California Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780520275713 (Please note that you must have a copy of the second edition.)
Students wishing to pursue study in Greek further may like to consider acquiring the full size “LSJ”: Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick Mackenzie et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) – or any later edition. Otherwise the following two derivatives of LSJ are more than adequate for this course:
- Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott, A lexicon abridged from Liddell and Scott’s Greek- English lexicon, (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992) [Many editions]
- Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott, An intermediate Greek-English lexicon : founded upon the seventh edition of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English lexicon, (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992) [Many editions].
Latin
LAN101: Classical Latin I
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Sharpley, G.D.A. The Complete Latin Course, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Oxford, 2014
LAN203: Classical Latin III
- Sharpley, G.D.A. The Complete Latin Course, 2nd Edition, Routledge, Oxford, 2014
LAN301: Language and Culture in Late Republican Rome
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A unit reader will be available for purchase at the beginning of semester. The unit reader is required from Week 1 onwards.
Please note: Course readers may be required for some units. These will be available to purchase from Reception at the start of the semester.