La Vie en France: Emma Cunningham-Bradshaw (A25) Shares Memories of Summer Internship Abroad
Johnnies
Internships are increasingly receptive to working with students remotely鈥攅ven ones in Paris.
French
At St. John’s the study of language and literature are interwoven, as learning the peculiarities of a given language extends and refines one’s sensibility. Students quickly acquire enough French grammar and vocabulary to begin translating and discussing Les Maximes of La Rochefoucauld and Les Pensées of Pascal, as well as pages from Descartes and Rousseau. Students then delve into the dangerous passion of Racine’s Phèdre and the caustic humor of Molière’s Misanthrope. Seniors edge towards modernity closely examine the poems of Baudelaire and Valéry, often tackling Proust’s Swann’s Way.
Reading List
Claude Berthollet 鈥淓xcerpt from Essai de Statique Chimique鈥�
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac 鈥淥n the Expansion of Gases by Heat,鈥� 鈥淢emoir on the Combination of Gaseous Substances with Each Other鈥�
Antoine Lavoisier Elements of Chemistry
Edme Mariotte Essays
Blaise Pascal Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids
Michel de Montaigne Essays
Blaise Pascal Generation of Conic Sections
Ptolemy Almagest
Fran莽ois Vi猫te Introduction to the Analytical Art
Ren茅 Descartes Geometry, Discourse on Method
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
Jean de la Fontaine Fables
Fran莽ois de La Rochefoucauld Maxims
Madame de La Fayette Princess of Cl猫ves
惭辞濒颈猫谤别 Le Misanthrope
Jean Racine 笔丑猫诲谤别
Ren茅 Descartes Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Blaise Pascal 笔别苍蝉茅别蝉
Andr茅-Marie Amp猫re Essays
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 鈥淓xcerpts from Coulomb鈥檚 M茅moires sur l鈥櫭﹍ectricit茅 et le magn茅tisme鈥�
Ren茅 Descartes Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal
Arthur Rimbaud Poems
Paul Val茅ry Poems
Fran莽ois Jacob & Jacques Monod Essays
Madame de S茅vign茅 Letters
Voltaire Candide
Marcel Duchamp Essays
脡douard Manet Art
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
The information presented is for illustration purposes only and may not reflect the current reading list and preceptorial and study group offerings. Works listed are studied at one or both campuses, although not always in their entirety.
Inspired by Johnnies and Beauvoir
Tutor
St. John鈥檚 College tutor Rebecca Goldner is set to deliver a talk July 5 as part of the Summer Wednesday Night Lecture Series on the Annapolis campus.
Teaching the World Over
Alumni
St. John鈥檚 College alumnus Chazaq Llinas (A13) spent two years in the Peace Corps in Africa and is now teaching in France.
Learning, Language, and Culture at Middlebury
Alumni
Sebastian Huerta (SF20) spent a summer General Pathways Fellowship speaking French鈥攁nd only French鈥攁t Middlebury Language Schools.
A Johnnie on Brand
Alumni
St. John鈥檚 College graduate Erin Milnes (A88) is the creative director at Catchword Branding in Oakland, California.
Alumnus Reflects on Language Tutorials and Translation
Alumni
Garrett Phelps (A18) fell in love with translation at St. John's. Now, he serves as the poetry editor at an international literary journal.
Objective Subjects: Portraits of Johnnies Abroad
Alumni | Johnnies
Alumna Miranda Blas (SF15) is painting portraits of St. John鈥檚 students studying abroad as she pursues her master of fine arts degree in France.
Senior Essay
Montaigne on the Mountain: Self-Determination in the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Tutors Talk Books: John Cornell
Tutor
Tutors Talk Books is a series of interviews with St. John鈥檚 College faculty. In this installment, we caught up with Santa Fe tutor John Cornell, who has taught at St. John鈥檚 since 1985.
Study Abroad Opportunities
St. John’s students can study abroad during summer vacations, gap years, or the year after graduation.