GROUP I

The following sections will examine a series of moments in Western history instrumental in the development of our current conceptions of education. These moments will include the creation of the Platonic Academy in classical Greece, the invention of the university in medieval France, and the transformation of the medieval university along classical lines in nineteenth-century Germany and America. The effect of intellectual movements such as scholasticism, humanism, and Romanticism upon these moments in Western history will constitute a central aspect of our inquiry. At the same time as we plot the development of Western ideas of education, however, we will also consider the critiques of these ideas offered from both inside and outside the institutions with which these ideas were affiliated. Why did monks resist the advent of the university in the Middle Ages? How does the "Bildingsroman" or novel of formation, like those which Goethe and George Eliot composed, relate to philosophical writings on education, like those which Rousseau and Nietzsche drafted? How have women, such as the medieval Heloise and the modern Virginia Woolf, and members of minority groups, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, responded to institutions of education from which they have so often been excluded? If the value of education, and particularly education in a certain "Western tradition," still remains hotly debated today, it may be because debates about education lie at the very heart of that Western tradition.

FSEM I JB First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91744

Professor: J. Barringer

Time: M W 1:20 pm ­ 2:40 pm OLIN 301

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche The Future of Our Educational Institutions; excerpts from John Dewey on Education: Selected Writings.

FSEM I LB First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92215

Professor: L. Botstein

Time: Tu Th 6:30 pm - 7:50 pm OLIN 201

Additional texts: John Dewey on Education: Selected Writings; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche Schopenhauer as Educator.

FSEM I PG First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91925

Professor: P. Gadsby

Time: M W 7:00 pm ­ 8:20 pm OLIN 301

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche The Future of Our Educational Institutions.

FSEM I FG First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92216

Professor: F. Grab

Time: W Fr 9:00 am ­ 10:20 am LC 206

Additional texts: Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel, Book 2; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche Schopenhauer as Educator; Kipling Kim; Brecht The Mother.

FSEM I BLF First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91893

Professor: B. LaFarge

Time: Tu Th 9:00 am ­ 10:20 am OLIN 309

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Voltaire Candide; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss.

FSEM I NL First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91711

Professor: N. Leonard

Time: Tu Th 10:30 am ­ 11:50 am OLIN 310

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss.

FSEM I LS1 First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92217

Professor: L. Schwartz

Time: W F 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm OLIN 107

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche The Future of Our Educational Institutions.

FSEM I LS2 First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92218

Professor: L. Schwartz

Time: M F 6:00 pm - 7:20 pm OLIN 107

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche The Future of Our Educational Institutions.

FSEM I PS First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92183

Professor: P. Sourian

Time: M 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm ASP 302

W 9:00 am - 10:20 am ASP 302

Additional texts: Homer The Odyssey; Stendhal Red and the Black; Rousseau Emile; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

FSEM I KS First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91712

Professor: K. Sullivan

Time: Tu Th 10:30 am - 11:50 am OLIN 107

Additional texts: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise; Jean Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses; Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; George Eliot The Mill on the Floss; Nietzsche The Future of Our Educational Institutions.