FYP Archives
1995-96 First-Year Program

Theme: In a world bounded by convention, how then shall we live?

Common Readings

• Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
  
  
• Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea
  
  
• Sophocles, Antigone
  
  
• Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford, Freedom on My Mind
  
  
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Brian DePalma, Casualties of War
  
  
• Art Spiegelman, Maus and Maus II and Christopher Merrill, The Old Bridge

Fall Courses

• Space and Place: A Social Science Approach, Part 1 (Charles Euchner, Political Science)
  
  
• Space and Place: A Humanistic Approach, Part 1 (John Mayer, English)
  
  
• Soul or Body (Predrag Cicovacki, Philosophy)
  
  
• Measuring the Universe: Conventions of Science (Bob Garvey, Physics)
  
  
• Measuring the Universe: Conventions of Mathematics (Margaret Freije,
  Mathematics)
  
  
• Growing Up in the U.S.: Latino Autobiography (Isabel Alvarez-Borland, Modern Languages)
  
  
• A World Upside Down: Jesus, Judaism, and Radical Ethics (Gary Phillips, Religious Studies)
  
  
• The Tradition of Authority in East Asia (Mark Lincicome, History)
  
• Courting Convention: Movies and Social Structures (Steve Vineberg, Theatre)

Spring Courses

 

• Space and Place: A Social Science Approach, Part 2 (Euchner)
  
  
• Space and Place: A Humanistic Approach, Part 2 (Mayer)
  
  
• Soul and Body (Cicovacki)
  
  
• Realigning the Boundaries of Science (Garvey)
  
  
• Realigning the Boundaries of Science (Freije)
  
  
• From Cuba to Cuban-America: Exiles, Immigrants and Ethics (Alvarez-Borland)
  
  
• Scripture and Story (Phillips)
  
  
• The Authority of Tradition in East Asia (Lincicome)
  
  
• Beyond Convention: Movies and Social Structures (Vineberg)

 

For the 1995-1996 calendar of common events go to 1995-1996 events.