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Annapolis Seminar Reading List Schedule

Seminar classes meet on Monday and Thursday evenings. To help students prepare in advance of each class, reading assignment schedules are provided below.

Seminar Reading Lists

These lists may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean’s office.

Fall 2026

Please see below for an overview of seminar readings. Printable reading lists schedules with information on specific readings are available on mySJC. To access the schedule, login using your mySJC credentials, click on the “Students,” “Staff,” or “Faculty” tab and then select “Student Reading Lists” on the left-hand navigation.

Date Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
Aug. 27 Homer:
Iliad		 Bible
Genesis		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote		 Tolstoi:
War and Peace
Aug. 31 Homer:
Iliad		 Bible
Genesis		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote		 Tolstoi:
War and Peace
Sept. 3 Homer:
Iliad		 Bible
Genesis		 Descartes:
Meditations		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 7 Homer:
Iliad		 Bible
Exodus		 Descartes:
Meditations		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 10 Homer:
Odyssey		 Bible
Leviticus; Deuteronomy		 Pascal:
Pensées		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 14 Homer:
Odyssey		 Bible
Samuel and Kings		 Pascal:
Pensées		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit, Stoicism and Skepticism
Sept. 17 Homer:
Odyssey		 Bible
Psalms		 Milton:
Paradise Lost		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit, Unhappy Consciousness; Reason
Sept. 21 Plato:
Meno		 Bible
Amos; Jonah; Isiah		 Milton:
Paradise Lost		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit, Conscience and The Beautiful Soul
Sept. 24 Aeschylus:
Agamemnon		 Bible
Job		 Milton:
Paradise Lost		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit, The Beautiful Soul and Forgiveness; Absolute Knowing
Sept. 28 Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers; Eumenides		 Lucretius:
De Rerum Natura		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Tocqueville:
Democracy in America
Oct. 1 Plato:
Gorgias		 Lucretius:
De Rerum Natura		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Tocqueville:
Democracy in lAmerica
Oct. 5 Plato:
Gorgias		 Virgil:
Aeneid		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Tocqueville:
Democracy in America
Oct. 8 Plutarch:
Lives, Lycurgus; Solon		 Virgil:
Aeneid		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Marx and Engels:
The German Ideology
Oct. 12 Herodotus:
History		 Virgil:
Aeneid		 Spinoza:
Ethics		 Marx and Engels:
Capital
Oct. 15 Herodotus:
History		 Plutarch:
Lives, Caesar; Cato the Younger		 Spinoza:
Ethics		 Marx:
Capital and The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Oct. 19 Herodotus:
History		 Tacitus:
Annals		 Leibniz:
Discourse on Metaphysics		 Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling
Oct. 22 Plato:
Republic		 Tacitus:
Annals		 Leibniz:
Philosophical Essays		 Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments
Oct. 26 Plato:
Republic		 Epictetus:
Handbook		 Leibniz:
Principles of Nature and Grace; Monadology; Philosophical Essays		 Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments
Oct. 29 Plato:
Republic		 Bible
Matthew		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 2 Plato:
Republic		 Bible
Luke		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 5 Plato:
Republic		 Bible
Acts		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 9 Plato:
Republic		 Bible
Gospel of John; First Letter of John		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 12 Aristophanes:
Clouds		 Bible
I Corinthians		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 16 Plato:
Apology and Crito		 Bible
Romans; James		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 19 Plato:
Phaedo		 Plotinus Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 23 Plato:
Phaedo		 Augustine:
Confessions		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 30 Sophocles:
Oedipus Tyrannus		 Augustine:
Confessions		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 3 Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus		 Augustine:
Confessions		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 7 Sophocles:
Antigone		 Anselm:
Proslogium		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 10 Euripides:
Medea		 Christian Creeds; Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, Prologue; Prima Pars		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 14 Plato:
Symposium		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, Prologue; Prima Pars		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 17 Plato:
Symposium		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, Prologue; Prima Pars		 Preceptorial Preceptorial

 

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