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1st | Term

Overview

We provide below a preview of our study during the first term of the Fourth 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 Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1939), The Tragedy of King Christophe (1963), A Season in the Congo, (1966) and A Tempest (1969).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Alain Locke, “The New Negro” (1925), CLR James, World Revolution (1937) and The Black Jacobins(1938), Jean-Paul Sartre, “Orphée Noir” (1948), Aimé Césaire, “Poetry and Knowledge” (1944) and Discourse on Colonialism (1950), Léopold Senghor, “What the Black Man Contributes” (1939) and “Negro-African Aesthetics” (1956), Léon Damas, “Introduction” to Poètes d’expression française (1947), Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse (1981) and Roberto Fernández Retamar, Caliban (1989), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), 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 eugenics, phrenology, Nazi inquiry into the workings and applicability of Jim Crow system in Germany].

— 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 André Gide, The Immoralist (1902) and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795) and the Covenant of the League of Nations as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Albert Camus, The Plague (1947) and The Fall (1956).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943), and the Charter of the United Nations (1945).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations inn human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Franz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism (1959), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Albert Camus, The Plague (1947) and The Stranger (1942).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943) and the Constitution of the World Health Organization (1946).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Franz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism (1959), 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 | 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 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arrow of God (1964) and Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides (1973) and Death and the King’s Horseman (1975)..
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure (1961) and Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1966).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) and Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1976), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Bessie Head, A Question of Power (1973) and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1988).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Bessie Head, A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings and A Gesture of Belonging: Letters (1965-1979), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) and Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1976), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya (1938), Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (1983), Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (1984), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) and Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1976), 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 | 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 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952) and “Sound and the Mainstream” from Shadow and Act (1964) and James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (1957).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001) and the Belmont Report (1978), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, James Baldwin, “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (1953) and The Fire Next Time (1963), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Susan M Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths (2000) and Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy (2009) and Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006).

— 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 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001) and the Belmont Report (1978), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Martin Luther King, Jr, “My Trip to the Land of Gandhi” (1959) and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963) and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Susan M Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths (2000) and Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy (2009) and Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006).

— 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 Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977) and Yusef Komunyakaa, Dien Cai Dau (1988).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001) and the Belmont Report (1978).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Martin Luther King, Jr, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (1967), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Susan M Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths (2000) and Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy (2009) and Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006).

— 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 Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) and Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Martin Luther King, Jr, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (1967), the Belmont Report (1978), John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother (2007), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006) and Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis (2010).

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 Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001) and the Belmont Report (1978), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Henry K Beecher, Ethics and the Explosion of Human Experimentation (Beecher Papers, 1965) and Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis (2010).

— 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 Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001) and the Belmont Report (1978).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Martin Luther King, Jr, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (1967), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Henry K Beecher, Ethics and the Explosion of Human Experimentation (Beecher Papers, 1965) and Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis (2010).

— 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 Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Justice as Fairness (2001) and the Belmont Report (1978).
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Henry K Beecher, Ethics and the Explosion of Human Experimentation (Beecher Papers, 1965) and Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis (2010).

— 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 Fourth 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 Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (1940-1962) and Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World (1949) and Explosion in a Cathedral (1962).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Octavio Paz. The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (1999), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Pablo Neruda, Canto General (1950).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (1999) and [insert on Chile TRC], along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Octavio Paz. The Labyrinth of Solitude (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].

— 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 Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Pablo Neruda, Canto General (1950).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (1999) and [insert on Chile TRC], along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Octavio Paz. The Labyrinth of Solitude (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].

— 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 Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Pablo Neruda, Canto General (1950).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (1999) and [insert on Chile TRC], along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Octavio Paz. The Labyrinth of Solitude (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].

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 Rabindranath Tagore, “The Living and the Dead” (1892) and Sacrifice(1917) and Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (1981).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule (1909), Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism (1917), John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (1992) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, basic science research on identity, migration, and self and social reformation.

— 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 Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (1981).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (1992), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, basic science research on identity, migration, and self and social reformation.

— 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 Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (1992), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, basic science research on identity, migration, and self and social reformation.

— 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 Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (1992) and Homi Bhabha, Location of Culture, “Introduction” and “Dissemination” (1994), along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, basic science research on identity, migration, and self and social reformation.

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 Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat and Selected Haiku (1903-1905), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, “Rashōmon” (1915) and “In a Grove” (1922) and Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1959) and “Voices of the Fallen Heroes” (1966).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Yukio Mishima, The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy (1969-1971).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Yukio Mishima, The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy (1969-1971).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, [insert text].

— 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 Yukio Mishima, The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy (1969-1971).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999) and The Idea of Justice (2009), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, 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 | 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 Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990), “A Far Cry from Africa” (1962), “Names” (1976) and “The Schooner Flight” (1979).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History” (1974) and Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (1993), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, basic science research on alienation, creativity, identity, and self and social reformation.

— 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 Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990), “A Far Cry from Africa” (1962), “Names” (1976) and “The Schooner Flight” (1979).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History” (1974) and Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (1993), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, basic science research on alienation, creativity, identity, and self and social reformation.

— 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 currently 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 JM Coetzee, Disgrace (1999) and The Lives of Animals (1999).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, Antje Krog, Country of My Skull (1998) and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness (1999), along with associated law and regulation.
Wednesday, Social Sciences
Modern conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to 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 conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to assigned above, along with basic science research on human trauma and reparation, animal consciousness, suffering, and veganism.

— 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 currently 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 Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005).
Tuesday, Civics, Ethics
Modern conversations in civics and ethics. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, 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 conversations in human and social sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to above assigned, along with associated studies.
Thursday, Natural Sciences
Modern conversations in formal and natural sciences. Lecture and seminar, with attention to 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).

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 remain 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)

Mid | Terms

Overview

The following are short periods of break from instruction expected to occur during (“amid”) the course of each term.

In | First

First midterm is to occur on the third week of the third month, October.

In | Second

Second midterm is to occur on the third week of the third month, March.

In | Sum

Sum midterm consists of 1-2 day extension of July 4th holiday.

Calendar University

Core Course (Year 4 Alt)

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