Writing the Essay: Art In the World

• "Why Charlie Kaufman Is Us" by David Ulin
• "Kafka's Heir" by Anthony Lane
• "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T.S. Eliot
• "Representation" by W.T.J. Mitchell
• "Buster Keaton" by Anthony Lane
• Chapters 7-9 in "Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To the End of Taste" by Carl Wilson

Human Society & Culture

• "Culture" by Raymond Williams
• "The Science of Culture" by Edward Tylor
• "The Idea of Primitive Society" by Adam Kuper
• "The Study of Geography" by Franz Boas
• "The Potlatch" by Franz Boas (unfinished)
• "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronislaw Malinowski (unfinished)
• "Coming of Age In Samoa" by Margaret Mead
• "The Gift" by Marcel Mauss

International Cinema: 1960s to Present

• "Godard, Women and the Outsider" by James Monaco
• "The Great Tetralogy" by Seymour Chatman
• "The Taunt of the Gods: Reflections on Woman In the Dunes" by Linda C. Ehrlich and Antonio Santos

Introduction to Comparative Literature: "Is There An Other?"

• "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus
• "Antigone" by Sophocles
• "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles
• Book X in "Plato's Republic"
• "The Race of Bees" from Virgil's "Georgic"