Private: Faculty of Arts and Science – Humanities
Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
Open Textbooks and Concordia Courses
| Western Civilization: A Concise History – Volume 1 | |
| Western Civilization | |
| Roman Gods | |
| The Roman Empire | |
| Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology | |
| Essentials of Linguistics | |
| How Language Works (Gasser) | |
| A Foundation Course in Reading German | |
| German Frame-semantic Online Lexicon | |
| Hola a Todos: Elementary Spanish I | |
| Libro Libre: Beginning Spanish | |
| Antología abierta de literatura hispana | |
| Open Textbook Title | Potentially Relevant Courses |
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Western Civilization: A Concise History – Volume 1
This classics text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in western civilization, from Mesopotamia to the fall of Rome.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
Western Civilization
This peer-reviewed, open lumen learning course covers introductory concepts in western civilization, from the Hittites to the Protestant Reformation.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
Rome
Roman Gods
This peer-reviewed Roman text has been successfully adopted by other faculty. Drawing exclusively on the evidence from urban Rome up to the age of Constantine, the book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of “god” along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ritual.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
The Roman Empire
This roman empire text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in the roman empire.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
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Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
This mythology text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in classical mythology, from Apollo to Zeus.
Includes: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities
Linguistics
Essentials of Linguistics
This peer-reviewed open textbook covers the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), supplemented with a discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings.
Includes: videos, interactive assessments
How Language Works (Gasser)
This LibreTexts looks at a range of introductory topics and themes related to linguistics, the science of language. It examines some of the biases we all have concerning language and uses this as a base for its exploration.
Includes: exercises, instructor and student resources
German
A Foundation Course in Reading German
A textbook published by University of Wisconsin-Madison and went through many versions over the years, it is designed to guide a learner who has no previous German experience to gain the ability to accurately understand formal written German prose, aided only by a comprehensive dictionary.
German Frame-semantic Online Lexicon
This open German-English vocabulary resource applies the linguistic theory of Frame Semantics to the language classroom to teach the meanings of vocabulary items and how to use them appropriately.
Includes: videos, activities
Spanish
Hola a Todos: Elementary Spanish I
A textbook for introductory Spanish, created by faculty at the University of North Georgia.
Includes: activities, exercises
Libro Libre: Beginning Spanish
A textbook for introductory Spanish that has been positively reviewed.
Includes: activities, exercises
Antología abierta de literatura hispana
A positively reviewed text with introductions and annotations co-created by students.
Includes: teaching and implementation guide to expand on open textbook with instructions and downloadable appendices (see Critical Edition Assignment Implementation Guide)
May suit: SPAN 311 Crisis and Introspection: Spanish Literature from the 18th to the 21st Centuries
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