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Uniting the liberal arts : core and context : selected essays from the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses / edited by Bainard Cowan, Scott Lee.
Van Pelt Library LB2361.5 .A88 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Association for Core Texts and Courses. Conference (5th : 1999 : New Orleans, La.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--Curricula--United States--Congresses.
- Universities and colleges.
- Curriculum planning--United States--Congresses.
- Curriculum planning.
- Universities and colleges--Curricula.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 202 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : Association for Core Texts and Courses ; Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
- Contents:
- Practically Educated: The ACTC Director's Address / Stephen Zelnick xiii
- On Education
- Uniting Students' Learning / Eva Brann 1
- Waiting for Herot to Burn: The Core Vision of Beowulf / Gregory Marks 11
- The Rewards of Reading Copernicus / Dana Densmore 17
- (Re)discovering the Rationale for a Liberal Arts Core: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in Interdisciplinary Context / Lucy Melbourne 23
- Knowledge, History, and the Creation of Human Nature / Michael Hinz 29
- Teaching Students to Ask Questions About What They Read / Robert McMahon 37
- Educating the Educators: Core Curriculum and Peripheral Faculty / Harvey Shulman 41
- From Wandering to Journeying with Core Texts in an Honors Curriculum / James F. Walter 47
- Acts of Reading
- Euclid Through Ages of Reason / Joan L. Richards 55
- The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading: Introduction to the Inferno as a Humanities Text / William Franke 75
- Prospero and the Times of Reading / Dennis L. Sepper 83
- Character and Reading: The Absent Speaker's Presence / Virginia L. Arbery 89
- Texts as Gathering Points
- At the Core of the Social Sciences: Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws / Catherine H. Zuckert 97
- Teaching the Bhagavad-Gita in a Traditional Great Books Program / Philip Freeman 113
- Confucius in Dialogue with the West and Today's Students / Stephen Varvis 117
- History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Intellectual History / Jeff Bell 125
- What the Classics of Science Can Teach Us: Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine and Erwin Schrodinger's What Is Life? / Philip R. Sloan 131
- The Ethical
- Tragedy, History, and Rhetoric in the Core: Sophocles and Thucydides / J. Scott Lee 141
- Adam Smith's Other Great Book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments / James R. Otteson 149
- Questioning "Our Western Tradition." / Margaret Heller 157
- Core Events as "Core" Context: The Holocaust as a Test Case / Peter C. Brown 167
- The City
- The Holy City / James D. Hardy, Jr. 175
- Dante and the Synthesis of the Medieval City / Christine N. Cowan 179
- Shakespeare's Cities / Gale H. Carrithers, Jr. 185
- Unraveling the City: "Bartleby" and the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Bainard Cowan 191
- The City in Toni Morrison's Paradise / Carolyn M. Jones 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0761821600
- 0761821619
- OCLC:
- 48176937
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