FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR: The Common Course - Studies in Human Experience

In 1953, Bard College inaugurated an experimental “Common Course” designed to show how the question of human freedom can be approached through a liberal arts education. Sixty years later, the Common Course continues to engage the individual experiences of first-year students, and to relate those experiences to extraordinary works of literature, philosophy, religion, politics, science and the arts. In this way, the course introduces students to important intellectual, cultural, and artistic ideas that serve as a common foundation in liberal arts education. The core texts for the fall semester include Biblical texts and works by Plato, Mencius, Xunzi, Lucretius, Augustine, Ibn Tufayl, Montaigne, Luther, Descartes, Galileo, Milton and Weber. The core texts for the spring semester include works by Locke, Rousseau, Equiano, Kant, Mary Shelley, Büchner, Marx, Nietzsche, Melville, Freud, Faulkner, and Arendt. Plenary sessions, guest lectures, panel presentations, performances, and student organized symposia events provide a collective forum where students and faculty come together to investigate and test the ideas explored in the classroom. All  first-year students are required to take this course.

 

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J. Brudvig

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E. Kaufman

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J. Pruitt

 

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A. Benson

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D. Grover

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T. von Prittwitz und Gaffron

 

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H. Gibbs

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L. Hawley

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C. McIntosh

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D. Mendelsohn

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N. Lewis

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W. Cornelissen

 

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L. Botstein/M. Folkman

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R. Cioffi

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P. Rosenblum

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K. Scheible

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A. Kitnick

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P. Kemerli

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R. Weston

 

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J. Elliott

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W. Mason

 

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I. Hashmi

 

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L. Curtis

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C. Heinowitz

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A. Stroup

 

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T. Bartscherer

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P. Laki

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M. Mutter

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A. Seaton

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C. Thery

 

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K. Boivin

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B. Walker