EduCarter
  • Educarter
  • Business English
    • The Power of Stories
    • Financial Literacy
    • Financial Crises - Ups and Downs
    • Leadership
    • Teamwork and Project Management >
      • Business Modelling
    • Investing
    • Introduction to Economics
    • Corporate Ethics
    • Inequality
    • Lobbying
    • Marketing and Branding >
      • Manipulated
    • Personal Branding >
      • Types of e-Portfolios and CVs
      • Video Profiles
      • Possible Platforms for Your e-Portfolio
  • Musings
  • Balance
  • ASL
    • Cultural Literacy
    • "The Odyssey" as Journey
    • Hellenic Period
    • Hellenistic Period
    • (Western) Roman Period >
      • Developments in the Levant and North Africa
    • Byzantine Period
    • From Medieval to Early Renaissance >
      • Pilgrimage
      • Romanesque Style
      • Gothic Style
    • Dante's Inferno
    • The Italian Renaissance - Florence and Venice
    • The Northern Renaissance - Continental Europe
    • Hamlet >
      • Famous Soliloquys
    • Resources for ASL
  • A Bit about Me

arts, socıety & lıterature

​Cultural Literacy
​Hellenistic Period
​From Medieval to Early Renaissance
​Hamlet
​"The Odyssey" as Journey
​(Western) Roman Period
​Dante's Inferno
​Hellenic Period
​Byzantine Period
​The Italian Renaissance - Florence and Venice
​Arts, Society and Literature (ASL):
  • Helps students develop an understanding of Western cultural references.
  • Allows easy access to Western arts, literature and ideas especially for those brought up in a non-Western culture.
  • Explores the evolution of Western ideas and thought as they find expression in art, architecture, literature, music, philosophy and the humanities.
  • Asks some of humanity’s most enduring questions.
  • Will pique your interest so you will take this interest with you throughout your life.
Our Book List:
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Our main non-fiction text is "Arts & Ideas" by William Fleming.
​ISBN 978-0534-613-822

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Our first reading of fiction is Homer's "The Odyssey" in translation by Robert Fagles, perhaps the most accessible translation in English. ISBN 978-0140-268-867

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We will be reading Alain de Botton's "The Consolations of Philosophy", a highly readable account of Western philosophy. ISBN 978-0679-779-179

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In the Spring, we will read Dante's "Inferno" from "The Divine Comedy" ISBN 978-0451-531-391

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... and 
"Hamlet". ISBN 978-0521-618-748

We will also be reading a compendium of supplementary texts, all online, ranging from pre-Socratic philosophers through Pliny through Michaelangelo's poem about why he is not a painter ...

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  • Educarter
  • Business English
    • The Power of Stories
    • Financial Literacy
    • Financial Crises - Ups and Downs
    • Leadership
    • Teamwork and Project Management >
      • Business Modelling
    • Investing
    • Introduction to Economics
    • Corporate Ethics
    • Inequality
    • Lobbying
    • Marketing and Branding >
      • Manipulated
    • Personal Branding >
      • Types of e-Portfolios and CVs
      • Video Profiles
      • Possible Platforms for Your e-Portfolio
  • Musings
  • Balance
  • ASL
    • Cultural Literacy
    • "The Odyssey" as Journey
    • Hellenic Period
    • Hellenistic Period
    • (Western) Roman Period >
      • Developments in the Levant and North Africa
    • Byzantine Period
    • From Medieval to Early Renaissance >
      • Pilgrimage
      • Romanesque Style
      • Gothic Style
    • Dante's Inferno
    • The Italian Renaissance - Florence and Venice
    • The Northern Renaissance - Continental Europe
    • Hamlet >
      • Famous Soliloquys
    • Resources for ASL
  • A Bit about Me