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Amerikan üniversitelerinde öğrencilere en çok okutulan 10 kitap

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AMERİKA BÜLTENİ (6 Aralık 2016)

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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