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| Reading and Writing About the Great Issues | |
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| Reading and Thinking Critically | |
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| Understanding What You Read | |
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| Annotating the Text | |
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| Annotating in Practice | |
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| Summarizing What You Read | |
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| Summarizing in Practice | |
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| Examining Rhetorical Strategies | |
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| Analyzing the Context | |
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| Analyzing Audience and Gauging Reactions | |
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| Analyzing Structure and Genre | |
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| Analyzing Language | |
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| Rhetorical Strategies in Practice | |
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| Writing about the Readings | |
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| Responding to the Readings | |
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| Explaining the Readings | |
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| Exemplification | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Definition | |
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| Classification | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Process | |
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| Evaluating the Readings | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| Incorporating Quoted Material | |
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| Incorporating Paraphrased or Summarized Material | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Writing in Practice | |
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| Human Nature and The Cosmic Order | |
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| Faith and Inquiry | |
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| Genesis, Chapters 1 and 2 | |
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| Muhammad, From the Koran | |
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| North American Creation Myths | |
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| St. Anselm, The Ontological Argument, From Proslogion | |
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| William Paley, "The Watch and the Watchmaker," From Natural Theology | |
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| Alfred Tennyson, From In Memoriam | |
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| Charles Darwin, From The Origin of Species | |
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| From The Scopes Trial (transcript) | |
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| Choice and Destiny | |
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| Sophocles, Oedipus, the King | |
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| Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale" | |
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| William Shakespeare, scenes from Macbeth | |
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| Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, | |
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| Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever" | |
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| Richard Wright, From Native Son. B. F. Skinner, From Beyond Freedom and Dignity | |
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| Divine Goodness and the Problem of Evil | |
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| The Book of Job | |
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| Boethius, From The Consolation of Philosophy, Book Four | |
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| Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, From Ihya | |
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| John Milton, From Paradise Lost, Book Twelve | |
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| Henry Adams, From The Education of Henry Adams.Mary Baker Eddy, From Science and Health | |
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| C. S. Lewis, From The Problem of Pain | |
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| Viktor E. Frankl, From "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" | |
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| Male and Female | |
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| "The Legend of Lilith," From Alphabet of Ben Sira | |
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| The Koran, Chapter Four | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Prologue and Tale of the Wife of Bath" | |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft, From Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
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| Simone de Beauvoir, From The Second.Yukio Mishima, "Patriotism" | |
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| Alice Walker, "Roselily". Jan Morris, From Conundrum | |
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| Human Nature And The Social Order | |
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| The Individual and the Community | |
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| Plato, From Apology (on the Death of Socrates) | |
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| The Magna Charta | |
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| Nicolo Machiavelli, From The Prince | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence" | |
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| Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" | |
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| Hannah Arendt, From The Origins of Totalitarianism | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" | |
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| Joan Didion, Fixed Ideas: America After 9-11 | |
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| War and Peace | |
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| Homer, The Iliad, from Books VI & IX | |
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| Saint Thomas Aquinas, From Summa Theologica (On Just War Theory) | |
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| From "The International Agreement of the Geneva Convention" | |
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| Emma LeConte, From When the World Ended | |
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| Mohandas K. Gandhi, "Evidence before the Hunter Committee," From Satyagraha | |
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| Mao Tse-tung, "Imperialism, Revolution, and War". John Hersey, Hiroshima, Chapter One | |
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| Paul Fussell, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" | |
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| Affluence and Equity | |
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| Hesiod, Works and Days | |
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| Sir Thomas More, From Utopia | |
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| Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations | |
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| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto | |
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| Edward Bellamy, From Looking Backward | |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich, From Nickel and Dimed | |
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| F. A. Hayek, From The Road to Serfdom | |
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| E. F. Schumacher, "Buddhist Economics" | |