FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR: 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. 

 

Mandatory Symposium Workshops will be held on Mondays, 4:45 – 6:00, see syllabus.

 

 

FIRST YEAR SEMINAR SCHEDULE:

In addition to the time below all students will be required to attend events every Monday from 4:45 – 6:15

 

SECTION:       DAYS:          TIME:               ROOM:        PROFESSOR:

 

FSEM II SK    .  T  .  Th   .   8:30 am - 9:50 am OLINLC  206  Kufner, Stephanie

 

FSEM II OC    M  .  W       .  10:10 am -11:30 am OLIN    107  Cheta, Omar

FSEM II NM    M  .  W       .  10:10 am -11:30 am OLINLC  120  McMeekin, Nesrin

FSEM II DT    M  .  W       .  10:10 am -11:30 am OLIN    308  Thompson, Drew

 

FSEM II SE    .  T  .  Th   .  10:10 am -11:30 am OLIN    107  Egan, Sarah

FSEM II JL    .  T  .  Th   .  10:10 am -11:30 am OLIN    301  Luzzi, Joseph

FSEM II TVP   .  T  .  Th   .  10:10 am -11:30 am OLIN    304  vonPrittwitz,Tatjana

 

FSEM II MFD   M  .  W       .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm OLIN    306  Felton-Dansky,Miriam

FSEM II HG    M  .  W       .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm OLIN    304  Gibbs, Helena

FSEM II NL    M  .  W       .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm BITO    210  Lewis, Nicholas

FSEM II CM    M  .  W       .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm OLIN    107  McIntosh,Christopher

FSEM II AM    M  .  W       .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm OLIN    308  McKim, Allison

FSEM II RW    M  .  W       .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm HEG     201  Weston, Robert

 

FSEM II HH    .  T  .  Th   .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm HEG     300  Huang, Harrison

FSEM II JL    .  T  .  Th   .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm HEG     106  Luzzi, Joseph

FSEM II MR    .  T  .  Th   .  11:50 am - 1:10 pm HEG     201  Rodriguez, Miles

 

FSEM II NEM   M  .  W       .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN    304  McMeekin, Nesrin

FSEM II PLG   M  .  W       .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm HEG     308  Lopez-Gay, Patricia

 

FSEM II B/H   .  T  .  Th   .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN    201  Botstein, Leon/ Hudson, Jennifer

FSEM II ME    .  T  .  Th   .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN    306  Endo, Mika

FSEM II JGA   .  T  .  Th   .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN    305  Green-Armytage,James

FSEM II PK    .  T  .  Th   .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm HEG     300  Kemerli, Pinar

FSEM II AS2   .  T  .  Th    .  1:30 pm – 2:50 pm ALBEE   ANNEX Seaton, Ann

FSEM II AS    .  T  .  Th   .   1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN    107  Stroup, Alice

 

FSEM II RD    M  .  W       .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN    307  Dachille-Hey,RaeErin

FSEM II TD    M  .  W       .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLINLC  208  Davis, Timothy

FSEM II BH    M  .  W       .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLINLC  210  Hale, Benjamin

FSEM II AM2   M  .  W       .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm ASP     302  Maione, Angela

FSEM II RN    M  .  W       .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN    305  Namdar, Reuven

FSEM II AS3   M  .  W       .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN    307  Stroup, Alice

 

FSEM II MA    .  T  .  Th   .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN    107  Amos, Matthew

FSEM II SR    .  T  .  Th   .   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN    308  Rogers, Susan

 

FSEM II BC    .  .  W       F   3:10 pm - 4:30 pm OLIN    101  Chilton, Bruce

 

FSEM II BW    .  T  .  Th   .   4:40 pm - 6:00 pm OLIN    301  Walker, Willis

FSEM II TW    .  T  .  Th   .   4:40 pm - 6:00 pm OLINLC  118  Wild, Thomas