Book List
The senior colloquium mainly revolves around the works that the Gallatin student has included in his or her book list. These are texts that had a significant impact on the student's thinking and were important during his or her course work. These texts must be of high quality, although they do not necessarily have to be part of a recognized canon of "great books".
The book list should consist of 20-25 books, representing several academic disciplines and arranged according to follow four historical periods:
Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Classics
→ At least 7 works produced before the mid-1600s;
Modernity–The Humanities
→ At least 4 works, produced after the mid-1600s, in Humanities disciplines such as Literature, Philosophy, History, the Arts, Critical Theory, and Religion;
Modernity–The Social and Natural Sciences
→ At least 4 non-fiction works, produced after the mid-1600s, in the Natural Sciences and Social Science disciplines such as Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology.
Area of Concentration
→ At least 5 additional works representing the student's area or areas of concentration; students whose area of concentration already appears among the above categories may simply choose five additional works from these categories.
This is my full list:
The book list should consist of 20-25 books, representing several academic disciplines and arranged according to follow four historical periods:
Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Classics
→ At least 7 works produced before the mid-1600s;
Modernity–The Humanities
→ At least 4 works, produced after the mid-1600s, in Humanities disciplines such as Literature, Philosophy, History, the Arts, Critical Theory, and Religion;
Modernity–The Social and Natural Sciences
→ At least 4 non-fiction works, produced after the mid-1600s, in the Natural Sciences and Social Science disciplines such as Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology.
Area of Concentration
→ At least 5 additional works representing the student's area or areas of concentration; students whose area of concentration already appears among the above categories may simply choose five additional works from these categories.
This is my full list:
- Epicurus – Letter to Menoeceus
- Lucretius – On the Nature of the Universe
- Dante – Inferno
- Athenaeus – The Deipnosophists, or, the Banquet of the Learned
- Apicius – De Re Coquinaria ("On Cooking")
- Plato – The Symposium
- Ovid – Metamorphoses
- Massimo Montanari – Let the Meatballs Rest
- Sylvia Malaguzzi – Food and Feasting in Art
- Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page – Culinary Artistry
- MFK Fisher – How to Cook a Wolf
- Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- David Beriss and David Sutton – The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat
- Josée Johnston and Shyon Baumann – Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape
- Jeremy MacClancy – Consuming Culture
- Hervé This – Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism
- Sylvia Lovegren – Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
- Jozef Youssef – Molecular Gastronomy at Home: Taking Culinary Physics Out of the Lab and into Your Kitchen
- Signe Rosseau – Food Media: Celebrity Chef
- Denise Vivaldo – The Food Stylist’s Handbook