A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum

I just finished reading A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum by Mark C. Henrie (Wilmington: ISI, 2000). This book, which I posted quotes from here, is a great introduction to the state of the modern American university, and how to navigate through it all to seek wisdom and to actually gain something from the Western heritage that we are inheritors of. I highly recommend it. It has helped me put some things together and has been springboard that I'm sure I will come back to for jumping off into fields of inquiry with which I am less familiar. After an initial essay Mark Henrie recommends at least 8 courses to constitute a core curriculum for any university student in college to take. They are as follows: Classical Literature in Translation, Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, The Bible, Christian Thought Before 1500, Modern Political Theory, Shakespeare, U. S. History Before 1865, and Nineteenth-Century European Intellectual History. And then he gives ten courses more in his last short chapter, of recommended ones to take if you can. His insights in to how to assess or deal with different professors critical interpretations are a highlight of the book.