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1997-98 First-Year Program

Theme: In a world of contradictions, how then shall we live?

Common Readings

 

• Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land
  
  
• Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
  
  
• David Gutterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
  
  
• James Carroll, An American Requiem
  
  
• William Shakespeare, King Lear
  
  
• Plato, Socrates'The Crito

Fall Courses

• The Human Condition (Donald Brand, Political Science)
  
  
• Self and Selves (Hilde Hein, Philosophy)
  
  
• Art and Community (Virginia Raguin, Art History)
  
  
• Myths About Equality (Edward Thompson, Sociology/Anthropology)
  
  
• Asian Experiences in America (Karen Turner, History)
  
  
• From Epic to Novel (Margaret Wong, English)
  
  
• Shakespeare, the Loyal Rebel (Helen Whall, English)

Spring Courses

• Tyranny and Revolution (Brand)
  
  
• Philosophical Constructions/Self (Hein)
  
  
• Art and the Self (Raguin)
  
  
• Men, Women and Medicine (Thompson)
  
  
• Vietnam's American War (Turner)
  
  
• Memoir and Make Believe (Wong)
  
  
• 20th Century Shakespeare (Whall)

 

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