Lists of Works

global Humanities 1
Fall 2024: (In)Equalities

This list of works to be taught in Global Humanities I is preliminary and subject to change; we’ll be updating the list over the summer as the syllabus is finalized. We’ll also post required editions and translations for those works that will not be made available as PDFs. 

• Elizabeth Burgos and Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú
• Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
• Françoise de Graffigny, Letters from a Peruvian Woman
• Bong Joon-Ho, Snowpiercers
• Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”
• Nella Larsen, Passing
• Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
• Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Noble” from Beyond Good and Evil
• John Rawls, “Justice as Fairness” and “A Kantian Conception of Equality”
• Sophocles, Philoctetes
• Leo Tolstoy, Death of Ivan Illyich

global humanities 2
winter 2025: longing and belonging

The faculty for Global Humanities II is still deciding on the list of works, but their preliminary list (subject to change) includes Romeo and Juliet (both Shakespeare’s play and Gounod’s opera), Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Miguel de Cervantes’s The Stage of Wonders, Jorge Luis Bourges’s “Averroes Search,” Wanuri Kahiu’s film Rafiki, Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film Drive My Car. Check back in late June for more updates!