AS 060.400 - Imagining Education: 1800-1915

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Johns Hopkins University

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In a recent edition of Harper’s, Mark Slouka fears the vanishing role of the humanities in the university: “By downsizing ... the deep civic function of the arts and the humanities, we’re well on the way to producing a nation of employees, not citizens. Thus is the world made safe for commerce, but not safe.” Slouka questions the role of a liberal arts education in today’s world. How are the humanities and the sciences meant to relate to one another? What kind of individuals are we producing from a liberal arts education? How have capitalism and globalization changed the nature of education, and what role should education play in nation-building? This course traces the origins of our present-day educational debates in nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. We will read poetry by Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, novels by Dickens, Bronte, Hardy, and Lawrence, and a variety of historical and philosophical texts. As a writing-intensive course, students will develop their own opinions in weekly one-page response papers, as well as in two longer essays. Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.jhu.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 516-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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