THE GREAT CONVERSATION

Fall 1999

 

University Studies 210-220: Section #92270

5:05P-7:35P T Hoskins 215

 

Bruce MacLennan, Ph.D.
Alvin G. Burstein AP 303E 974-3348

 

• Freedom/social responsibility
• Mind/body
• Law/justice
• Inspiration/reflection
• Evolution/repetition/chaos
• Tragedy/futility
• History/myth

Students will be responsible for active participation in the discussion of assigned readings. This is a writing emphasis course. Students will be expected to make weekly posts to a course web page of at least 100 words commenting on the readings and answering questions posed by other students and the faculty. Students will also complete a 2000-word paper during each semester on topics approved by the faculty

By petition, the sequence can satisfy Part I of the Arts and Sciences Humanities requirement (two course package in literature or philosophical perspectives).