GROUP III

The following sections share the core texts. For more information please read the individual descriptions printed below each box.

FSEM I JB First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92220

Professor: J. Brudvig

Time: M W 10:30 am - 11:50 am LC 208

Additional texts: Gould The Mismeasure of Man; Descartes Discourse on Method.

FSEM I BC First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91926

Professor: B. Clough

Time: Tu Th 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm OLIN 308

Beside the "core" texts, we will be exploring themes relating to encounters between "Non-Western" (i.e. Asian and African) and Western modes of education. Following Plato's Republic, we will read The Question of King Milinda, an extended dialogue from the 2nd century BCE between an Ionian Greek king, well-versed in Greek philosophical discourse, and an Indian Buddhist monk, expert in the teaching of his own religion's doctrine. Later in the course, we will focus on issues of social and economic development in the colonial and post-colonial periods, especially as they pertain to the education of women and other oppressed peoples in the "Third World". For this part of the course, we will be reading several illuminating background articles on the subject, as well as the autobiography of a 19th century Indian woman entitled The Education of a High Caste Hindu. Finally, if time permits, we may also read Ambiguous Adventure, the prize-winning African novel which tells the story of a young, traditionally educated Muslim man who is sent to Paris to study philosophy.

FSEM I BC First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92222

Professor: F. Hammond

Time: Tu Th 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm OLIN 306

The class will discuss modes of knowing, learning, and teaching and then consider education for specific purposes: the citizen, the ruler, the artist, the working-person, the education of women. In addition to the core texts, readings for the course will include selections from Aristotle, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Vives, Descartes, Wordsworth, and Ruskin; The Fragility of Goodness, a study of the idea of fortune in Greek literature, by Martha Nussbaum; Voltaire's Candide; J.S. Bach's Little Keyboard Book for his son; and--for the adventurous--Push by

Sapphire.

FSEM I BC First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91901

Professor: G. McCarthy

Time: Tu Th 1:20 pm - 2:40 pm OLIN 307

Beside the "core" texts, we will be exploring themes relating to encounters between "Non-Western" (i.e. Asian and African) and Western modes of education. Following Plato's Republic, we willread The Question of King Milinda, an extended dialogue from the 2nd century BCE between an Ionian Greek king, well-versed in Greek philosophical discourse, and an Indian Buddhist monk, expert in the teaching of his own religion's doctrine. Later in the course, we will focus on issues of social and economic development in the colonial and post-colonial periods, especially as they pertain to the education of women and other oppressed peoples in the "Third World". For this part of the course, we will be reading several illuminating background articles on the subject, as well as the autobiography of a 19th century Indian woman entitled The Education of a High Caste Hindu. Finally, if time permits, we may also read Ambiguous Adventure, the prize-winning African novel which tells the story of a young, traditionally educated Muslim man who is sent to Paris to study philosophy.

FSEM I JR First-Year Seminar I CRN: 91897

Professor: J. Rosenberg

Time: M 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm OLIN 306

W 9:00 am - 10:20 am OLIN 306

This section will give attention to nonliterate educational modes such as the visual arts, music--notable Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, fairy tales, street theatre, speeches, illustrations. The issue of modern means of communication and the extent to which ideology affects education will also be discussed. Additional texts: Sophocles Antigone; Selections from the Talmud; Averroes and Martin Luther; Various Fairy Tales; Rousseau Discourse on the Arts and Sciences; Voltaire Candide; Mozart The Magic Flute (film); Brecht Galileo; Nietzsche The Future of Our Educational Institutions.

FSEM I TW First-Year Seminar I CRN: 92221

Professor: T. Wolf

Time: Tu 7:30 pm - 8:50 pm OLIN 301

Th 9:00 am - 10:20 am OLIN 301

Additional texts: Excerpts from John Dewey; Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House