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1996-97 First-Year Program

Theme: In a world with diverse views on what is Right and Good, Beautiful and True, how then shall we live?

Common Readings

 

• Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
  
  
• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  
  
• The Book of Job
  
  
• E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
  
  
• Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
  
  
• Igor Stravinsky, A Soldier's Tale
  
  
• Cynthia Ozick, ``The Shawl'' and ``Rosa'' and Jon Blair, Anne Frank Remembered

Fall Courses

• Medieval Renaissances (Lorraine Attreed, History)
  
  
• The Creation of Nature (Bob Cording, English)
  
  
• Mathematical Modelling (David Damiano, Mathematics)
  
  
• God Answers (Alice Laffey, Religious Studies)
  
  
• Music and Narrative: The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful (Carol Lieberman, Music)
  
  
• Tragedy and Heroism: Freedom, Fate, and Truth (Bill Morse, English)
  
  
• Cell Wars (Mary Morton, Biology)
  
  
• ``The Vision That I Heard'': Jesus and the End of Time (Gary Phillips, Religious Studies)
  
  
• Crime and Conscience: Stories of Violence, Theft and Deceit (Victoria Swigert, Sociology and Anthropology)

Spring Courses

• The Past Is a Foreign Country: Creating and Re-creating History (Attreed)
  
  
• Being in Nature (Cording)
  
  
• Modeling Mathematics (Damiano)
  
  
• God Questions (Laffey)
  
  
• Music and Narrative: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (Lieberman)
  
  
• The Hero in Myth and Society (Morse)
  
  
• Emerging Viruses/Emerging Threats (Morton)
  
  
• ``The Word That I Saw'': Gospels and Parables (Phillips)
  
  
• Crime Control: Mending the Moral Fabric (Swigert)

 

For the 1996-1997 calendar of common events go to 1996-1997 events.