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1999-2000 First-Year Program

Theme: When self encounters other, how then shall we live?

Common Readings

  • Bone, by Fae Myenne Ng

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself, by Frederick Douglass

  • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, by Karl Marx

  • The Tempest, by William Shakespeare and The Pleasures of Exile, by George Lamming

  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

  • Between Vengeance and Forgiveness : Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence by Martha Minow



Faculty and Seminars:

  • Prof. Patricia Bizzell, of the Department of English

    • The American Self(Fall) and The Self Among Others (Spring)


  • Prof. Noel Cary, of the Department of History

    • Europa, Europa(Fall) and Century's Ghosts, Century's Heirs (Spring)


  • Prof. Aldo Lauria-Santiago, of the Department of History

    • The United States and Latin America: Conflict and Cooperation Across the Americas(Fall) and Latin America in the United States: Becoming Latinos (Spring)


  • Prof. David Damiano and Prof. Margaret Freije of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

    • Conflicting Goals: Competing Strategies(Fall) and Common Goals: Cooperative Strategies (Spring)


  • Prof. Ambroise Kom of the Frenh Section of the Department of Modern Languages

    • African Writing and the (post-)Colonial Experience(Fall) and Education and Underdevelopment in Africa (Spring)


  • Prof. Karsten Stueber of the Department of Philosophy

    • Self and Society(Fall) and Understanding the World/Understanding Other Minds (Spring)


For the 1999-2000 calendar of common events go to 1999-2000 events.

For pictures click on Class of 2003 Photos

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