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1st | Term

Overview

We provide below a preview of our study during the first term of the Third Year in the CIVICS Core, where we attend to Conversations on Ideas and Values in Civil Societies.

In | August

— First Week

First Week; August. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels (1795-1829), “Prometheus” (1789) and Faust (1790-1832).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of Nations (1776), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Second Week

Second Week; August. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels (1795-1829), “Prometheus” (1789) and Faust (1790-1832).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of Nations (1776), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Third Week

Third Week; August. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), Lord Byron, “Prometheus” (1816) and Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text on galvanism, vivisection, and grave digging for cadaver dissection in medical schools].

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; August. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) or George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation and Selected Writings (1817-1824), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

In | September

— First Week

First Week; September. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) or George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation and Selected Writings (1817-1824), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Second Week

Second Week; September. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) and Benito Cereno (1855).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), GWF Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1863) and Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835-1840) and WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Third Week

Third Week; September. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) and “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) and DW Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), GWF Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), the US Emancipation Proclamation(1863) and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835-1840) and WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; September. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866) and Notes from Underground (1864).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

In | October

— First Week

First Week; October. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866) and Anton Chekhov, Ward No 6 (1892).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Second Week

Second Week; October. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) and Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya (1899) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (1790), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Third Week

Third Week; October. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (1790), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert].

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; October. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865-1869).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and Leo Tolstoy, A Confession (1882) and The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, assigned above, along with associated science research.

In | November

— First Week

First Week; November. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865-1869) and “Master and Man” (1895).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and Leo Tolstoy, Confession (1882) and The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, assigned above, along with associated science research.

— Second Week

Second Week; November. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865-1869) and The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and Leo Tolstoy, A Confession (1882) and The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism(1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, assigned above, along with associated science research.

— Third Week

Third Week; November. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to HG Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898), Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress” (1897) and Heart of Darkness (1899), WB Yeats, “The Second Coming” (1919), Lu Xun, Call to Arms (1923), Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) and Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now Redux (1979).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797), Ernest Renan, “What Is a Nation?” (1882) and the General Act of Berlin at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Writings (1843-1894) and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Snow, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1849, 1855), Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), Gregor Mendel, “Experiments on Plant Hybridization” (1866) and Patrick Manson, “The Necessity for Special Education in Tropical Medicine” (1897), along with material on eugenics and alien, artificial and state intelligence and technologies.

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; November. Our course of study moves into the reading and review period, prior to finals in December.

In | December

— First Week

First Week; December. Our course remains in the reading and review period, prior to finals later this December.

— Second Week

Second Week; December. Our course remains in the reading and review period, prior to finals later this December.

— Third Week

Third Week; December. Our course moves into finals period, where all final assignments and exams are due.

2nd | Term

Overview

We provide below a preview of our study during the second term of the Third Year in the CIVICS Core, where we attend to Conversations on Ideas and Values in Civil Societies.

In | January

— First Week

First Week; January. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927), TS Eliot, “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” (1915) and James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Second Week

Second Week; January. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, I-III (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Third Week

Third Week; January. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, IV-VII (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; January. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, VIII-X (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

In | February

— First Week

First Week; February. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XI-XII (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Second Week

Second Week; February. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XIII-XIV (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Third Week

Third Week; February. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XV-XVI (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; February. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XVII-XVIII (1922).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935) and Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

In | March

— First Week

First Week; March. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1922), William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929) and TS Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1945).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above,, along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society (1893), Le Suicide (1897) and The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Second Week

Second Week; March. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1915), “In the Penal Colony” (1919), The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927) and David Fincher and Madonna, Express Yourself (1989).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) and Economy and Society (1950), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) and Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), along with research on consciousness, cognition, communication and their manifestation, processing and representation in the body, brain, language, media, page, relations, society, and states.

— Third Week

Third Week; March. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924) and Bertolt Brecht, Man Equals Man (1926) and The Threepenny Opera (1928).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” (1935) and Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) and Economy and Society (1950), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text on Koch, germ theory, tuberculosis, colonial and tropical medicine and science].

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; March. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924) and Bertolt Brecht, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930) and Mother Courage and Her Children (1939).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” (1935) and Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) and Economy and Society (1950), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text on Koch, germ theory, tuberculosis, colonial and tropical medicine and science].

In | April

— First Week

First Week; April. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (1947) and The Periodic Table (1975) and Elie Wiesel, Night (1960).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1947), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon or the Inspection-House (1787), Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944), Theodor Adorno, “Cultural Criticism and Society” (1949, 1955) and with Max Horkheimmer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Vivien Spitz, Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (2005).

— Second Week

Second Week; April. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus (1947), Bertolt Brecht, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (1938) and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon or the Inspection-House (1787), Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944), Theodor Adorno, “Cultural Criticism and Society” (1949, 1955) and with Max Horkheimmer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Vivien Spitz, Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (2005).

— Third Week

Third Week; April. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus (1947), Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szechwan (1943) and Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will (1935).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon or the Inspection-House (1787), Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944), Theodor Adorno, “Cultural Criticism and Society” (1949, 1955) and with Max Horkheimmer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Vivien Spitz, Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (2005).

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; April. Our course of study continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Lecture and seminar, with attention to George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945), Ninety Eighty-Four (1949) and “Why I Write” (1946).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and Václav Havel, The Garden Party (1963) and The Memorandum (1965), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon or the Inspection-House (1787), Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944) and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (1988), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

In | May

— First Week

First Week; May. Our course moves into the reading and review period, prior to finals later this May.

— Second Week

Second Week; May. Our course remains in the reading and review period, prior to finals later this May

— Third Week

Third Week; May. Our course remains in the reading and review period, prior to finals later this May

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; May. Our course moves into finals period, where all final assignments and exams are due.

Academe, Minnesota, USA (Ricky Turner)

Sum | Term

Overview

We provide below a preview of our study of Writing and Rhetoric in the Traditions, the WRIT Core, during the summer after Third Year.

In | June

— First Week

First Week; June. Our reading series begins as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Introductory video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on the Epics of Bani Hilal and T’heydinn and Naguib Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi (1959).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

— Second Week

Second Week; June. Our reading series continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on Naguib Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi(1959) and Cairo Trilogy (1956-1957).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

— Third Week

Third Week; June.Our reading series continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo Trilogy (1956-1957).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; June. Our reading series continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo Trilogy (1956-1957).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

In | July

— First Week

First Week; July. Our reading series continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo Trilogy (1956-1957).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

— Second Week

Second Week; July. Our reading series continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Introductory video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on the Epics of Bayajidda, Eri and Oduduwa, DO Fagunwa, The Brave Hunter in the Forest of 400 Deities (1938) and Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

— Third Week

Third Week; July. Our reading series continues as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1990).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.

— Fourth Week

Fourth Week; July. Our reading series concludes as follows:

Week’s Focus
Modern conversations in ideas and values — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern conversations in arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants studying and writing on Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1990).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others studying and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated artifacts and sites.
Calendar University

Core Course (Year 3 Alt)

The Third Year of the Core Curriculum (in development stage and subject to change)