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💻 Engineering →

🏛️ Humanities & the Arts →

📊 Social Sciences →

🐯 General →

🔬 Natural Sciences →

💻 Engineering

✔️ I’ve read the following:

Computer Science

Intro. to Programming Systems COS 217

Algorithms & Data Structures COS 226

Mathematics for Numerical Computing & Machine Learning COS 302 / SML/ECE 305

Intro. to Machine Learning COS 324

Functional Programming & Formal Methods COS 326

Advanced Programming Techniques COS 333

  • 📕 The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike

Computer Architecture & Organization COS/ECE 375

  • 📕 Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware Software Interface by Patterson & Hennessy (my highlights)

Automated Reasoning about Software COS/ECE 516

Adv. Computer Networks COS 561

  • 📄 How to Read a Paper by S. Keshav

Foundational Papers in Networks & Operating Systems COS 597L

Chemical & Biological Engineering

Technical Leadership in Engineering CBE/EGR 531

  • 📕 Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Burnett & Evans (my highlights)

🏛 Humanities & the Arts

✔️ I’ve read the following:

Humanistic Studies

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature & the Arts HUM 216

  • 📕 The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  • 📜 Apology by Plato
  • 📜 The Odyssey by Homer

East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations HUM/EAS/COM 233

Between Selves: Living Letters from Antiquity to the Present HUM 416 / CLA 415 / ENG 410

Art & Archaeology

19th-Century European Art: Painting & Literature in 19th C. France & England ART/ECS/COM 450 / HUM 451

Modern Art: Science & Its Fictions in the Long 19th Century ART/HUM 577

  • 📕 The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (my highlights)
  • 📕 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • 📕 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Classics

Classical Mythology CLA/HUM/GSS/HLS 212

  • 📕 Jason & the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of Rhodes
  • 📜 The Odyssey by Homer

The Trojan War: A Linguistic Intro. CLA 307 / TRA 306 / LIN 259

  • 📕 The Trojan War: A Very Short Intro. by Eric H. Cline

Socrates CLG 105

  • 📜 Apology by Plato

English

American Literature: 1930-Present ENG 368 / AMS 340

  • 📕 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • 📔 Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
  • 📕 Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights)

Junior Independent Work Seminar ENG 397

Comparative Literature

The Modern Period COM 318 / ECS 319 / LAS 308

Anarchism, Nihilism, Utopia: Art, Literature & Radical Politics COM 351

  • 📕 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (my highlights)

Religion

Religion & the Public Conversation REL 100

  • 📕 Religion: A Very Short Intro. by Thomas A. Tweed

Religion, Race & Politics in the U.S. REL 372 / AAS 367

Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky SLA/RES 219

  • 📕 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (my highlights)

Dostoevsky SLA/RES 416

  • 📕 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (my highlights)

Theater

Intro. to Theater Making THR/MTD 101

📊 Social Sciences

✔️ I’ve read the following:

History

The Byzantine Empire HIS/MED 205 / HUM 204 / HLS 209

  • 📕 Byzantium: A Very Short Intro. by Peter Sarris

Europe from Antiquity to 1700 HIS/MED 211

American Origins: The Colonization of North America HIS 371

World After Empire HIS 411 / AAS 416

  • 📕 The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • 📕 Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois (my highlights)

The Age of Democratic Revolutions HIS 487

  • 📕 The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89 by Edmund S. Morgan (my highlights)

African American Studies

African American Studies & the Philosophy of Race AAS 201 / PHI 291

The Souls of Black Folk – Reading W.E.B. Du Bois AAS/URB 231 / ENG 245

Toni Morrison & Her Circle AAS/ENG 320

Art, Apartheid & South Africa AAS/AFS 411 / ART 471

  • 📕 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

International & Regional Studies

Landmarks of European Identity EPS/ECS 302

Translation, Migration, Culture TRA/HUM 400 / COM 409

  • 📕 Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli (my highlights)

Politics

The Just Society POL/CHV 307

  • 📄 The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels

Causes of War POL/SPI 388

  • 📕 The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (my highlights)

Study of America

Native American Literature NAI/AMS 322 / ENG 242

  • 📕 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Anthropology

Violence ANT/HUM 264

  • 📕 The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Public & International Affairs

The Comparative Political Economy of Development SPI 561 / POL 523

🐯 General

Pre-read

  • 📕 Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf (my highlights)

First-Year Seminars

Exploring the Graphic Novel FRS 111

  • 📔 American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • 📔 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
  • 📔 Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
  • 📔 Watchmen by Moore & Gibbons

What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search FRS 121

  • 📕 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (my highlights)
  • 📕 Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

History of Freedom FRS 137

  • ✉️ Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Gaslight! Control, Coercion, or Just Conflict?: The Cultural History of a TikTok Term FRS 153

  • 📕 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (my highlights)
  • 📕 1984 by George Orwell

Marx in the 21st Century FRS 167

  • 📄 The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels

American & Russian Science Fiction: Story-Worlds in Dialogue FRS 189

  • 📕 Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky & Strugatsky (my highlights)
  • 📕 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  • 📕 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (my highlights)
  • 📕 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • 📕 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Writing

Imagining Childhood WRI 118

  • 📚 A Pocket for Corduroy • Corduroy • The Giving Tree • Where the Wild Things Are • Horton Hears a Who!

🔬 Natural Sciences

✔️ I’ve read the following:

Psychology

Computational Models of Cognition PSY/COS 360