George Fox University

Liberation Scholars

Summer 2021
WEEK ONE
  1. Ancient Greece
    • Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, “Apology”
  2. Ancient Greece, Continued
    • Aristotle, Politics
  3. Medieval Spain
    • Ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan
  4. Early Modern Mexico and Spain
    • Poems of Sor Juana
    • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
  5. Hebrew Bible
    • Hebrew Bible, Ezra and Nehemiah
WEEK TWO
  1. Early Modern England
    • John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
  2. Nineteenth-Century America
    • Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
  3. Twentieth-Century America
    • Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street
  4. Education Today
    • Andrew Delbanco, College What It Was, Is, and Should Be
  5. Quaker Activism
    • John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman
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