| Courses include, but are not limited to: | |
|---|---|
| Classical Epic | Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid |
| Dante | The Divine Comedy and selected works |
| Tragedy and Comedy | Greek and Shakespearean drama |
| Milton | Paradise Lost and other major works |
| Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess |
| Shakespeare | Comedies, Tragedies, Roman Plays, History Plays |
| Augustan Literature | Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson |
| Romantic Poetry | Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats |
| Victorian Literature | Essays, poetry and fiction by major Victorian writers |
| Faulkner | Major novels and short stories |
| Southern Literature | Poetry, fiction, and criticism by Southern writers of the twentieth century |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | Major modern writers of fiction and poetry in England and America |
| Studies in the Novel | Major 18th and 19th century British and Continental novelists |
| Russian Novel | Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevski |
| Menippean Satire | Lucian, Petronius, Apuleius, Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Sterne, Lewis Carroll, Joyce, John Barth |
| Literary Criticism | Theories of both the interpretation and the nature of poetic knowledge |
UD students not only read St. Augustine's Confessions in Rome, traveling to Ostia to marvel at the place in which, according to Book IX, St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had a joint mystical vision of God -- they also travel 4.4 miles from the Irving campus to read the text with residents of South Irving.
+ Read MoreAs you know if you’ve read even some of our first UD Reads book, "All the Light We Cannot See," it’s possible to build a radio from random, scavenged parts, as long as you can find the necessary random, scavenged parts, as Werner does in the book. This is also essentially what Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Physics Jacob Moldenhauer did as well: He scavenged parts from the Physics Department, and built a radio.
+ Read MoreThe University of Dallas Board of Trustees announced today that it has unanimously selected Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA '82 MA '83, to serve as the university's ninth president. The first alumnus of UD to be president, Hibbs has served as dean of the Honors College and distinguished professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University since 2003.
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