Required texts are available from the College Bookstore. Rely on the ISBN to be sure you are getting the correct edition. Students should purchase hard copy books, not electronic ones.
Any student for whom acquiring these core texts is a significant financial burden should email [email protected] with a request to use the First-Year Seminar book fund to acquire books.
- Ellison, R., Invisible Man, Vintage, ISBN: 978-0679732761
- Longsoldier, L., WHEREAS: Poems, Graywolf Press, ISBN: 978-1555977672
- Locke, J., Second Treatise on Government, Hackett, ISBN: 978-0915144860
- Hobbes, T., Leviathan, Penguin, ISBN: 978-0141395098
- Woolf, V., Orlando: A Biography, Harper Collins, ISBN: 978-0156701600
Any student for whom acquiring these core texts is a significant financial burden should email [email protected] with a request to use the First-Year Seminar book fund to acquire books.
Required Texts Fall 2025
Required texts are available from the College Bookstore. Rely on the ISBN to be sure you are getting the correct edition. Students should purchase hard copy books, not electronic ones.
* G. Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera, Aunt Lute Books, ISBN: 978-1951874025
* Aeschylus, Oresteia, Trans. R. Latimore, Chicago, ISBN: 978-0226311470
* M. Cavendish, Blazing World, Penguin, ISBN: 978-0140433722
* Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale, Chicago, ISBN: 978-0226303109
* V. Nabokov, Bend Sinister, Vintage, ISBN: 978-0679727279
Through a generous grant, students will also receive a copy of the FYSEM Course Reader, and two volumes of Plato's Republic, Trans. C. Emlyn-Jones and W. Preddy from W.W. Norton.
Any student for whom acquiring these core texts is a significant financial burden should email [email protected] with a request to use the First-Year Seminar book funds to acquire books.
* G. Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera, Aunt Lute Books, ISBN: 978-1951874025
* Aeschylus, Oresteia, Trans. R. Latimore, Chicago, ISBN: 978-0226311470
* M. Cavendish, Blazing World, Penguin, ISBN: 978-0140433722
* Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale, Chicago, ISBN: 978-0226303109
* V. Nabokov, Bend Sinister, Vintage, ISBN: 978-0679727279
Through a generous grant, students will also receive a copy of the FYSEM Course Reader, and two volumes of Plato's Republic, Trans. C. Emlyn-Jones and W. Preddy from W.W. Norton.
Any student for whom acquiring these core texts is a significant financial burden should email [email protected] with a request to use the First-Year Seminar book funds to acquire books.