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1.00 Credits
During this eight-week career exploration seminar, students complete interest and personality assessments, learn how to find information about different careers and develop interviewing, networking and résumé writing skills. Students then conduct informationalinterviews with professionals in their fields of interest. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
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4.00 Credits
The first-year course sequence investigates narratives of the self. Among the topics that students will consider are a variety of fictional and philosophical constructions of the self, the relationships of memory to personal identity and the disjunction or harmony between public and private selves. The authors considered in the courses may include Homer, Socrates, St. Augustine, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Cervantes, Lao Tsu, Nietzsche and Toni Morrison.
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4.00 Credits
The first-year course sequence investigates narratives of the self. Among the topics that students will consider are a variety of fictional and philosophical constructions of the self, the relationships of memory to personal identity and the disjunction or harmony between public and private selves. The authors considered in the courses may include Homer, Socrates, St. Augustine, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Cervantes, Lao Tsu, Nietzsche and Toni Morrison.
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4.00 Credits
The appreciation of music begins with an understanding of the creative process as a means of self-expression and the artist's relationship to the world. Using primary sources, guest lecturers and artists, this course examines the styles, trends and developments of Western and international music from early civilizations through the 20th century. Study and discussion begin to develop an understanding of how music and the cultural arts reflect and affect societal trends and values.
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4.00 Credits
Through the study of art this course will help students understand the basic chronology of Western culture, lay the groundwork for broad cultural literacy and look at how art reflects the human condition. The course explores content, formal elements and historical context of the art of Western and non-Western cultures from ancient to modern times. Four basic themes will prevail: Art and Religion, Art and Power, Art and Nature and Art and the Personal.
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4.00 Credits
The sophomore course sequence focuses on the relationship between individuals and communities, examining the extent to which the "good life" can be pursued within the confinesof any social order. These courses investigate issues such as the nature of human excellence and virtue, the character of justice, the origins and sources of social order and the status and legitimacy of political power. How can we obtain an accurate description of humans as social beings? What is the good society and how may it be realized? Students in this course are invited to become more thoughtful, self-conscious and self-critical members and citizens of the society and polity in which they live. Authors such as Aristotle, Locke, Smith, Tocqueville, Marx and Weber are read.
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4.00 Credits
The sophomore course sequence focuses on the relationship between individuals and communities, examining the extent to which the "good life" can be pursued within the confinesof any social order. These courses investigate issues such as the nature of human excellence and virtue, the character of justice, the origins and sources of social order and the status and legitimacy of political power. How can we obtain an accurate description of humans as social beings? What is the good society and how may it be realized? Students in this course are invited to become more thoughtful, self-conscious and self-critical members and citizens of the society and polity in which they live. Authors such as Aristotle, Locke, Smith, Tocqueville, Marx and Weber are read.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores several major modern mathematical developments and helps students to understand and appreciate the unique approach to knowledge which characterizes mathematics. The mode of inquiry employed is reason. This is not to be confused with the approach used, for example, in the natural or social sciences. It is, rather, reason divorced from anything empirical. As T. H. Huxley remarked, "Mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation." The course is organized around three or four major mathematical ideas that have emerged since the time of Newton. These ideas will be drawn from such fields as calculus, set theory, number theory, probability theory, modern algebra, logic, topology and non-Euclidean geometry.
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4.00 Credits
The junior year sequence constitutes an historical examination of human experience in response to some of the themes and issues raised in the first two years of the Core. Drawing on a variety of perspectives from both the humanities and the social sciences, the course strives to reconstruct the histories of significant periods in human history. The first semester focuses on the rise and fall of civilizations from antiquity through the Renaissance. The second semester concentrates on the problems of modernity, such as the rise of the modern state, nationalism, revolution and globalization. Both courses examine the ways in which significant moments have become essential parts of our historical consciousness, enshrined in myth and religion, tradition, culture and institutions. Through careful analysis of current scholarship and original sources, students are invited to consider the complex relationship between history, cultural traditions and the social and political institutions derived from them.
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4.00 Credits
The junior year sequence constitutes an historical examination of human experience in response to some of the themes and issues raised in the first two years of the Core. Drawing on a variety of perspectives from both the humanities and the social sciences, the course strives to reconstruct the histories of significant periods in human history. The first semester focuses on the rise and fall of civilizations from antiquity through the Renaissance. The second semester concentrates on the problems of modernity, such as the rise of the modern state, nationalism, revolution and globalization. Both courses examine the ways in which significant moments have become essential parts of our historical consciousness, enshrined in myth and religion, tradition, culture and institutions. Through careful analysis of current scholarship and original sources, students are invited to consider the complex relationship between history, cultural traditions and the social and political institutions derived from them.
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