School of Life Challenge

Title: School of Life Challenge
Host: Bethy
Timeframe: 2011

Do you miss being a student? Did you major in English but you haven't read a classic in years? In this reading challenge you can pick and choose books that are assigned in classes related to your old major.

How To Participate
   1. Decide which major or subject you would like to study
   2. Visit your alma mater's website and see if they have class syllabi online. If they don't, check one of the hundreds of free online classes at Yale, MIT, or any other college
   3. Pick a few classes in your major
   4. Choose one or more books required in each class syllabus
   5. You do not have to write reviews
   6. You may keep in touch and leave links to your reviews below, if you choose to write them
   7. You do not have to have a blog
   8. The books you choose can be overlaps from other reading challenges
   9. The challenge begins January 1 and ends December 31, 2011

Levels of Participation
cum laude: 6 books
magna cum laude: 8 books
summa cum laude: 12 books

I haven't quite picked my list yet, but I did find a ton of free online courses that I am geeking out over.

Update: I have found a lovely site at UCLA which has graduate reading lists for a wide variety of topics. LOVE IT! My top choices so far:

Chatterjee's Victorian Reading List
Pizzo's Victorian Reading List
Folklore and Mythology
GLBTQ Literature