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Fall 2008 Online Course Textbook List


Students may purchase required textbooks online at the Syracuse University Bookstore, or you may choose to purchase them independently. Alternate sources where many textbooks may be purchased online include Follett's Orange Bookstore, Varsity Books, Barnes and Noble and Amazon. There is also a new, free site which you might like to try called FetchBook. This site provides free book cost comparisons between 80+ different stores.

Click on an area of study link below to view textbooks for listed courses.

African American Studies

English and Textual Studies

History

Nutrition Science and Dietetics

Philosophy

Religion

Sociology

Writing Program

 


AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (College of Arts and Sciences)

Slavery and Abolition
AAS 402-U800 Class #24266
AAS 600-U800 Class #24507
HST 402-U800 Class # 24508
HST 600-U800 Class # 25261
3 credits
Instructor:
Milton Sernett

Required Texts:
1) Milton Sernett, North Star Country (Syracuse University Press, 2002) ISBN 9780815629153.
2)James B. Stewart, Holy Warriors (Hill & Wang, 1997) ISBN 9780809015962.

ENGLISH AND TEXTUAL STUDIES (College of Arts and Sciences)

Sophomore Poetry Workshop
ETS 215-U800 Class #18181
3 credits
Instructor:
Sarah C. Harwell

Required Text:
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, longer 5th ed. (Norton, 2004) ISBN 9780393979206.

Sophomore Fiction Workshop
ETS 217-U800 Class #14832
3 credits
Instructor: Sarah C. Harwell

Required Text:
Ann Charters, Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, 7th ed. (Bedford St Martins, 2006) ISBN 9780312442712.

Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry
ETS 401-U800 Class #18185

3 credits
Instructor:
Sarah C. Harwell

Required Texts:
1) Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, longer 5th ed. (Norton, 2004) ISBN 9780393979206.
2) Mary Oliver, Poetry Handbook (Harcourt, 1995) ISBN 9780156724005.

Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction
ETS 403-U800 Class #18189

3 credits
Instructor: Sarah C. Harwell

Required Text:
Ann Charters, Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, 7th ed. (Bedford St Martins, 2006) ISBN 9780312442712.

HISTORY (College of Arts and Sciences)

Slavery and Abolition
AAS 402-U800 Class #24266
AAS 600-U800 Class #24507
HST 402-U800 Class # 24508
HST 600-U800 Class # 25261

3 credits
Instructor:
Milton Sernett

Required Text:
1) Milton Sernett, North Star Country (Syracuse University Press, 2002) ISBN
2)James B. Stewart, Holy Warriors (Hill & Wang, 1997) ISBN

NUTRITION SCIENCE AND DIETETICS
(School of Human Services and Health Professions)

Nutrition in Health
NSD 225-U800 Class #24822
3 credits
Instructor: Joan A.
Nicholson

Required Text (Choice):
Sharon Rady Rolfes and Eleanor Noss Whitney, Understanding Nutrition Pkg with Diet Analysis 8.0 Updated, 11th ed. (Cengage, 2008) ISBN 9780495499053.
OR
Sharon Rady Rolfes and Eleanor Noss Whitney, Understanding Nutrition, 11th ed. (Cengage, 2008) ISBN 9780495116868 PLUS ESHA Research, Diet Analysis + Version 8.0.1 CD (Cengage, 2008) ISBN 9780495557159.
[Students must purchase the book and the software but can elect to purchase them as the new package or the used book and the CD as separate items.]

PHILOSOPHY (College of Arts and Sciences)

Critical Thinking
PHI 171-U800 Class #13167

3 credits
Instructor: Eric Parkinson

Required Texts:
Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker, Critical Thinking, 9th edition (McGraw Hill Text Publishing, 2005) ISBN 9780073386676.
This textbook has a website with additional study guides and student resources:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007312625X/information_center_view0/

A few readings centering on contemporary debates may be assigned. These will be located on the World Wide Web and will not require purchasing an additional book. Note: The accompanying CD is useful though not required.

RELIGION (College of Arts and Sciences)

Religions of the World
REL 101-U800 Class #24243
3 credits
Instructor:
Larson

Required Texts:
1) Robert E Van Voorst, Anthology of World Scriptures, 6th ed. (Cengage, 2008) ISBN 9780495503873.
2) Michael Molloy, Experiencing the World's Religions: Tradition, Challenge and Change, 4th ed.(McGraw-Hill, 2008) ISBN 9780073535647.

Religion, Meaning and Knowledge
REL 191-U800 Class #24109
3 credits
Instructor: Edward F. Mooney


Required Texts:
1) Basho Matsuo, Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Viking Press, 1967) ISBN 9780140441857.
2) Henry G. Bugbee, Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form (University of Georgia Press, 1999) ISBN 9780820320717.
3) Albert Camus (Matthew Ward, translator), Stranger (Vintage Books, 1989) ISBN 9780679720201.
4) Emily Dickinson, Essential Dickinson (Ecco Press, 2006) ISBN 9780060887919.
5) Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Penguin Group USA, 2001) ISBN 9780142000083.
6) Kathleen Norris, Cloister Walk (Riverhead Books, 1997) ISBN 9781573225847.

SOCIOLOGY (College of Arts and Sciences)

Class, Status and Power
SOC 377-U800 Class #17513

3 credits
Instructor: Richard Ratcliff

Required Texts:
1) David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (Touchstone Books, 2001) ISBN 9780684853789.
2) Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 9780805088380.
3) Paul Fussell, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1992) ISBN 9780671792251.
4) Mary Patillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Balck Middle Class (University of Chicago, 2000) ISBN 9780226649290.
5) Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong, New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?, 3rd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) ISBN 9780742545540.
5) David Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Random House, 2005) ISBN 9780375708213.

Globalization and Social Change (3)
SOC 434-U800 Class #24114
Instructor: Richard Ratcliff


Required Texts:
1) Benjamin R. Barber and Andrea Schultz, Jihad Vs. McWorld (Ballantine Books/Random House, 1996) ISBN 9780345383044.
2) John Boli and Frank Lechner, eds., The Globalization Reader, 3rd ed. (Blackwell Pub/John Wiley, 2007) ISBN 9781405155533.
3 ) Barbara Ehrenerich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds., Global Woman: Nannnies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, 2nd ed. (Owl Books/Random House, 2004) ISBN 9780805075090.
4) Naomi Klein, No Logo: No Space No Choice No Jobs (Picador USA/Macmillan, 2002) ISBN 9780312421434.

Social Impact of the Internet
SOC 446-U800 Class #24115
SOC 646-U800 Class #24116
3 credits
Instructor:
Gary Spencer

This instructor does not require any textbooks for this class.

Sociology of Evil (3)
SOC 449-U801 Class #24117
SOC 649-U801 Class #24118
Instructor: Gary Spencer

This instructor does not require any textbooks for this class.

Social Impact of the Internet
SOC 446-U800 Class #24115
SOC 646-U800 Class #24116

3 credits
Instructor:
Gary Spencer

This instructor does not require any textbooks for this class.

Sociology of Evil (3)
SOC 449-U801 Class #24117
SOC 649-U801 Class #24118
Instructor: Gary Spencer

This instructor does not require any textbooks for this class.

WRITING PROGRAM (College of Arts and Sciences)

Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
WRT 205-U800 Class #18869
3 Credits
Instructor: Staff

For instructor and text information, please contact the Writing Program.