FIRST
YEAR SEMINAR: THE SELF IN THE WORLD
The
First-Year Seminar invites students to reflect on how writers and thinkers past
and present
have grappled with the question of how the self relates to other people and to
the wider community. The year-long course is underpinned by two narratives of
discovery and (self-)exploration: Homer’s ancient
Greek epic, the Odyssey, and its latter-day adaptation, the
Afro-Caribbean epic poem Omeros by Derek
Walcott (1990). The class also reads—slowly and carefully—a series of
touchstone works that grapple with this central question of the self in the
world from a wide range of perspectives: from the fragments of Sappho to the
autobiography of Frederick Douglass, and from Dante’s Inferno to
Rabindranath Tagore’s classic Bengali novel, The Home and the World. The
readings in these core works are illuminated by companion texts from Genesis
to Marx and Freud. Seminar-style discussion and writing-rich assignments
ask students to consider how ideas about “citizenship,” both broadly and
narrowly defined, have emerged over the centuries as responses to the complex
relations between the self and the wider world, providing then with a
foundation for their work at the College and for life beyond Bard. In addition
to work in the classroom, the whole first-year class comes together in regular
forums to engage creatively and critically with the ideas of the course.
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FSEM II SK |
12012 |
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Th |
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8:30 am |
9:50 am |
OLINLC |
208 |
Kufner, Stephanie |
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FSEM II JB2 |
12025 |
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Th |
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10:10 am |
11:30 am |
BITO |
210 |
Brudvig, James |
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FSEM II BD |
12010 |
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T |
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Th |
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10:10 am |
11:30 am |
OLIN |
308 |
Dixon, William |
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FSEM II DG |
12015 |
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T |
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Th |
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10:10 am |
11:30 am |
OLIN |
307 |
Grover, Donna |
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FSEM II CM |
12021 |
M |
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W |
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10:10 am |
11:30 am |
OLIN |
310 |
McIntosh, Christopher |
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FSEM II PR |
12052 |
M |
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W |
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10:10 am |
11:30 am |
OLIN |
304 |
Rosenblum, Peter |
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FSEM II MFD |
12011 |
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T |
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Th |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
OLIN |
306 |
Felton-Dansky, Miriam |
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FSEM II CW |
12475 |
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T |
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Th |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
OLIN |
303 |
Watson, Cecelia |
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FSEM II MGW |
12017 |
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T |
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Th |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
HEG |
201 |
Williams, Mary Grace |
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FSEM II LC |
12016 |
M |
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W |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
OLINLC |
208 |
Curtis, Lauren |
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FSEM II ZD |
12008 |
M |
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W |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
OLIN |
304 |
Dallal, Ziad |
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FSEM II DM |
12589 |
M |
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W |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
OLIN |
310 |
Daniel May |
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FSEM II OS |
12491 |
M |
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W |
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11:50 am |
1:10 pm |
OLIN |
308 |
Stephano, Oliver |
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FSEM II JB |
12023 |
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Th |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLIN |
310 |
Burns, John |
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FSEM II NEM |
12078 |
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T |
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Th |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLIN |
308 |
Ersoy McMeekin, Nesrin |
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FSEM II CH |
12018 |
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Th |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLIN |
107 |
Heinowitz, Rebecca |
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FSEM II KM |
12018 |
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T |
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Th |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLINLC |
118 |
Miller, Kassandra |
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FSEM II FB |
12004 |
M |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLIN |
306 |
Baldasso, Franco |
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FSEM II OC |
12003 |
M |
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W |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLIN |
304 |
Cheta, Omar |
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FSEM II DT |
12001 |
M |
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W |
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1:30 pm |
2:50 pm |
OLIN |
308 |
Thompson, Drew |
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FSEM II PG |
12014 |
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T |
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Th |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLIN |
303 |
Gadsby, Peter |
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FSEM II LK |
12024 |
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T |
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Th |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLIN |
310 |
Krueger-Chandler, Elizabeth |
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FSEM II KT |
12006 |
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T |
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Th |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLIN |
304 |
Tabb, Kathryn |
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FSEM II MA |
12007 |
M |
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W |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLIN |
308 |
Amos, Matthew |
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FSEM II EK |
12002 |
M |
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W |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLIN |
309 |
Kaufman, Erica |
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FSEM II AM |
12009 |
M |
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W |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLIN |
303 |
Moody, Alys |
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FSEM II OS2 |
12587 |
M |
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W |
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3:10 pm |
4:30 pm |
OLINLC |
118 |
Stephano, Oli |
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FSEM II BW |
12022 |
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Th |
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4:40 pm |
6:00 pm |
Blithewood |
Conf |
Walker, Willis |