Theme: How then shall we live? Questions we should ask but often choose not to.

Common Readings

 

• Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
  
  
• Plato, The Apology of Socrates and The Crito
  
  
• Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine
  
  
• John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
  
  
• Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
  
  
• Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

Fall Courses

• Non-Traditional Performance: Stretching the Limits (Lynn Kremer, Theatre)
  
  
• Cinema and Humanism, Part 1 (Charles Baker, Modern Languages)
  
  
• Leaving Home (Richard Carson, English)
  
  
• Philosophy as a Way of Living (Predrag Cicovacki, Philosophy)
  
  
• The Mathematics of Order (John Little, Mathematics)
  
  
• Introduction to the New Testament: Self and Other in Early Christian Community (Gary Phillips, Religious Studies)
  
  
• Prison: Image and Reality, Part 1 (Philip Rule, English)
  
  
• Starting with an Idea: The Question of Object-Making (Marion Schouten, Visual Arts)

Spring Courses

 

• Creating an Original Performance Work (Kremer)
  
  
• Cinema and Humanism, Part 2 (Baker)
  
  
• Finding Home (Carson)
  
  
• Truth and Freedom (Cicovacki)
  
  
• The Mathematics of Chaos (Little)
  
  
• Scripture and Literature: Reading and/or Raiding the Bible? (Phillips)
  
  
• Prison: Image and Reality, Part 2 (Rule)
  
  
• Art and the Community: The Question of the Personal versus the Cultural (Schouten)

 

For the 1994-1995 calendar of common events go to 1994-1995 events.