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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 Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone (?-1791).
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 Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone (?-1791).
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 Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone (?-1791).
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].

— 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 Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone (?-1791).
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].

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 Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone (?-1791).
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; 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 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795), “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; 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 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, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), 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; 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 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855-1892).
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) and Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852), along with the United States Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850).
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].

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 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855-1892).
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) and Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852), along with the United States Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850).
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].

— 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 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, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), GWF Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852), along with the United States 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].

— 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 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, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), GWF Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), the United States 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; 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 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).
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, 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 | 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 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).
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, 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; 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 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and Perpetual Peace (1795), 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].

— 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 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Morals (1797) and Perpetual Peace (1795) 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].

— 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 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, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1863), 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; 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 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), 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; 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 Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics (1874), 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; 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 Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics (1874), 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 | 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 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865-1869) and Anton Chekhov, Ward No 6 (1892) and The Seagull (1896).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, 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; 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 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865-1869) 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, 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.

— 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 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865-1869), The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) and “Master and Man” (1895).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, 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.

— 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 Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress” (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904) 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.

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 Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) 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; 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 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; 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 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; 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 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 | 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 Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XI-XIII (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; 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 Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XIV-XV (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; 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 Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) and James Joyce, Ulysses, XVI-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, 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; 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 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1922), William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929) and TS Eliot, “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922), “The Hollow Men” (1925), Ash Wednesday (1927) 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.

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 constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Introductory video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932) and The Church (1933).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with the Covenant of the League of Nations as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, along with associated studies.

— Second Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Introductory video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1947), Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (1947) and The Periodic Table (1975) and Elie Wiesel, Night (1960).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with the Charter of the United Nations (1945), the Nuremberg Charter and Judgment of the International Military Tribunal (1946) and the Nuremberg Code (1946).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Introductory video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above and Vivien Spitz, Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (2005).

— Third Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, along with the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (1923), the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (1948), the Israeli Declaration of Independence (1948) and the Basic Laws of Israel (1958-).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above and Vivien Spitz, Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (2005).

— Fourth Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Albert Camus, The Plague (1947) and The Fall (1956).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), along with the Constitution of the World Health Organization (1946).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above and Vivien Spitz, Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (2005).

In | July

— First Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Antje Krog, Country of My Skull (1998).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness (1999), along with the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith (1974), the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (1996) and the Constitution of South Africa (1997).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, Mahmood Mamdani, “Amnesty or Impunity: a Preliminary Critique of the TRC of South Africa” (2002), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above.

— Second Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on JM Coetzee, Disgrace (1999) and The Lives of Animals (1999).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness (1999), along with the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith (1974), the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (1996) and the Constitution of South Africa (1997).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, Mahmood Mamdani, “Amnesty or Impunity: a Preliminary Critique of the TRC of South Africa” (2002), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above.

— Third Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Kgebetli Moele, Room 207 (2006) and The Book of the Dead (2009).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos, “Rethinking Medical Ethics: a View from from Below” (2004), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, Jonny Steinberg, Sizwe’s Test (2008), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, Paul Farmer, “Chronic Infectious Disease and the Future of Health Care Delivery” (2013), along with basic science research on immunology and HIV treatment.

— Fourth Week

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

Week’s Focus
Modern constitutions — as they developed and are later studied, known — from the perspective of the arts, civics, ethics, humanities, and sciences.
Monday, Arts, Humanities
Modern constitutions via arts and humanities. Continuing video and conversation, with you and other participants speaking and writing on Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern constitutions via civics and ethics. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the civic and ethical import of assigned above, Leon Kass, “The Wisdom of Repugnance” (1997) and Martha Nussbaum, Love’s Knowledge (1990), Upheavals of Thought: the Intelligence of Emotions (2003) and From Disgust to Humanity (2010), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern constitutions via human and social sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the social and societal aspects of assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern constitutions via formal and natural sciences. Continuing video and conversation, with you and others speaking and writing on the scientific aspects of assigned above, Dolly, the Cloned Sheep (1996-2003); the CRISPR sequence, system, and technology (1987-2012); and the Case of first genetically edited, HIV-resistant human embryos and babies (2018).
Calendar University

Core Course (Year 3)

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