AMERİKA BÜLTENİ (6 Aralık 2016)
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İngilizce eğitim veren üniversitelere ait 1 milyon müfredatın verilerini son 15 yıldır derleyen Open Syllabus Project verilerine göre, İngilizce eğitim veren üniversiteler öğrencilerine en çok felsefe ve politika klasiklerini okutuyor.
İngilizce dünyası üniversitelerinde en çok okutulan edebiyat kitabı Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’nin Frankenstein romanı. Daha sonra sırasıyla Chaucer’in Canterbury Hikâyeleri, John Milton’ın Kayıp Cennet’i ve Şekspir’in Hamlet’i geliyor.
Tarih kitapları arasında ise George Brown Tindall’ın kitabı, America: A Narrative History, ilk sırada yer alıyor. Anne Moody’nin Jim Crow çağı Amerikasında siyahi bir kadının yaşamını sergileyen anı kitabı Coming of Age in Mississippi ise ikinci sırada. Tarih alanında Amerikan üniversitelerinde en çok okutulan üçüncü kitap ise Marx’ın ‘Komünist Manifesto’su. Komünist Manifesto, sosyoloji alanında ise en çok okutulan kitap aynı zamanda.
İşte son 15 yılın müfredat verilerine göre Amerikan üniversitelerinin genelinde en çok okutulan 10 kitap:
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William |
2 | Republic | Plato |
3 | Biology | Campbell, Neil A. |
4 | The Communist Manifesto | Marx, Karl |
5 | Ethics | Aristotle |
6 | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò |
7 | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas |
8 | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary W. |
9 | Oedipus | Sophocles |
10 | Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations | Turabian, Kate L. |
Önde gelen bazı Amerikan üniversitelerinin öğrencilerine en fazla okuttuğu 10 kitap:
Princeton
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | The Clash of Civilizations | Huntington, Samuel |
2 | Globalization and its Discontents | Stiglitz, Joseph |
3 | The Logic of Congressional Action | Arnold, R. Douglas |
4 | Public Finance | Rosen, Harvey |
5 | Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy | Schumpeter, Joseph A. |
6 | The Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
7 | Diplomacy | Kissinger, Henry |
8 | The Protestant Ethic | Weber, Max |
9 | To End a War | Holbrooke, Richard |
10 | Ethnic Groups in Conflict | Horowitz, Donald |
Harvard
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Letter from the Birmingham Jail | King, Jr., Martin Luther |
2 | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William |
3 | Leadership without Easy Answers | Heifetz, Ronald |
4 | The Clash of Civilizations | Huntington, Samuel |
5 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Kahneman, Daniel |
6 | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò |
7 | A Primer for Policy Analysis | Stokey, Edith |
8 | A Theory of Justice | Rawls, John |
9 | Principles of Corporate Finance | Brealey, Richard |
10 | Thank You for Arguing | Heinrichs, Jay |
Yale
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Republic | Plato |
2 | Quarterly Review | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
3 | Invisible Man | Ellison, Ralph |
4 | The Odyssey | Homer |
5 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | Agee, James |
6 | Democracy in America | Tocqueville, Alexis De |
7 | Anthropology | Boas, Franz |
8 | Zapata and the Mexican Revolution | Womack, John |
9 | The Anti-Politics Machine | Ferguson, James |
10 | The Iliad | Homer |
Columbia
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | The Clash of Civilizations | Huntington, Samuel |
2 | Republic | Plato |
3 | On Liberty | Mill, John Stuart |
4 | The Social Contract | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques |
5 | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas |
6 | The Politics | Aristotle |
7 | The Metaphysics of Morals | Kant, Immanuel |
8 | Wealth of Nations | Smith, Adam |
9 | Calculus: Early Transcendentals | Stewart, James |
10 | Civilization and its Discontents | Freud, Sigmund |
Stanford
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas |
2 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Kuhn, Thomas |
3 | Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing | Manning, Christopher |
4 | Code and other Laws of Cyberspace | Lessig, Lawrence |
5 | “Creative Writing” | Stegner, Wallace |
6 | Republic | Plato |
7 | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel |
8 | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary W. |
9 | Understanding Media | McLuhan, Marshall |
10 | Rethinking the Public Sphere | Fraser, Nancy |
University of Chicago
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Ethics | Aristotle |
2 | Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle |
3 | Statistics with Stata 3 | Hamilton, Lawrence |
4 | Office Hours | Foster, Norm |
5 | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò |
6 | The Discourses | Machiavelli, Niccolò |
7 | The Metaphysics of Morals | Kant, Immanuel |
8 | Confessions | Saint Augustine |
9 | Artificial Intelligence | Russell, Stuart |
10 | Two Treatises of Government | Locke, John |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Leviathan | Hobbes, Thomas |
2 | The Communist Manifesto | Marx, Karl |
3 | Macroeconomics | Blanchard, Olivier |
4 | The Prince | Machiavelli, Niccolò |
5 | Lectures on Macroeconomics | Blanchard, Olivier |
6 | Capital | Marx, Karl |
7 | The Elements of Style | Strunk, William |
8 | Economics | Krugman, Paul |
9 | Japanese, the Spoken Language, Part 1 | Jorden, Eleanor Harz |
10 | Quarterly Review | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
Duke
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Introduction to Econometrics | Stock, James |
2 | “The Problem of Social Cost” | Coase, R. H. |
3 | Wealth of Nations | Smith, Adam |
4 | The Tragedy of the Commons | Hardin, Garrett James |
5 | Econometrics | Hayashi, Fumio |
6 | Leadership without Easy Answers | Heifetz, Ronald |
7 | Analytical Politics | Hinich, Melvin |
8 | Principles of Corporate Finance | Brealey, Richard |
9 | Macroeconomics | Barro, Robert |
10 | Macroeconomic Theory | Sargent, Thomas |
University of Pennsylvania
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Oedipus | Sophocles |
2 | A Short Guide to Writing About Art | Barnet, Sylvan |
3 | Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph |
4 | The Evolution of Cooperation | Axelrod, Robert |
5 | Republic | Plato |
6 | Autobiography | Franklin, Benjamin |
7 | The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent | Harle, J. C. |
8 | Canterbury Tales | Chaucer, Geoffrey |
9 | Confessions | Saint Augustine |
10 | Persuasion | Austen, Jane |
Brown
Kitap | Yazarı | |
1 | Learning and Teaching | Sheridan, Harold J. |
2 | Cyborg Citizen | Gray, Chris Hables |
3 | The Technological Society | Ellul, Jacques |
4 | The Learning Center | Brown, Robert |
5 | The Communist Manifesto | Marx, Karl |
6 | The Transparent Society | Brin, David |
7 | Social History of American Technology | Cowan, Ruth S. |
8 | Illuminations | Benjamin, Walter |
9 | Simulations | Baudrillard, Jean |
10 | The Control Revolution | Beniger, James |
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