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1993-94 First-Year Program

Theme: In a world with conflicting views of well-being and the good life, how then shall we live?

Common Readings

  • Lydia Minatoya, Talking to High Monks in the Snow
  • Plato, The Apology of Socrates and The Crito
  • Albert Camus, The Plague
  • Charlotte Gilman, Herland
  • Igor Stravinsky, A Soldier's Tale
  • Mary Glendon, Rights Talk


Fall Courses

  • Social Foundations of the Self (Royce Singleton, Sociology and Anthropology)
  • The Art of Persuasion: The Use and Abuse of the Power of Words, Part 1 (Ann Batchelder, Classics)
  • The Science of Pollution (Bob Garvey, Physics)
  • To Act Justly: Ethical Dimensions of Judaism and Christianity (Alice Laffey, Religious Studies)
  • From the Black Death to AIDS: Environment, Disease, Medicine (Theresa McBride, History)
  • America's Health: What's It Worth?, Part 1 (Nick Sanchez, Economics)
  • Worlds of Music: Search for Meaning (Shirish Korde, Music)


Spring Courses

  • Self Appraisal (Singleton)
  • The Art of Persuasion, Part 1 (Batchelder)
  • Modern Technology and the Good Life (Garvey)
  • To Challenge the Status Quo: Counter-Cultural Religious Movements (Laffey)
  • History of Health and Fitness (McBride)
  • America's Health: What's It Worth?, Part 2 (Sanchez)
  • Structure and Meaning in Music and Art Since 1945 (Korde)

For the 1993-1994 calendar of common events go to 1993-1994 events.

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